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Internet Communications While At Sea? 504

ubergamer1337 writes "Next semester I will be participating in a college study abroad program known as Semester at Sea. The gist of it is that over four months 600ish students sail around the world on a converted cruise ship, visiting diverse port cities while taking classes when we are between ports. Debates about its educational merit aside, my internet options while I will be at sea will be severely limited. We get just 100 minutes of internet access for the entire voyage, and once thats gone the only internet access we have is a university email address, which is limited to messages under a megabyte with no attachments. I have been pondering different ways to staying in contact with friends and family back at home without running to an internet cafe in every port, and I have already decided that I want to set up a blog that can be updated by email, but I wanted to ask the collective wisdom of Slashdot if anyone knows of any other ways to transmit more then just your standard message through email. Some things I would be particularity interested in being able to figure out would be a way to send photos (encode them as text?), and a way to get Wikipedia pages etc. emailed to me."

Comment Re:sterling (Score 1) 518

This story wouldn't have run if the inventor wasn't female.

Nor would it have run if the title wasn't the sensational "Solar Cells - Made In a Pizza Oven."

If you're looking for platitudes, continue reading the summary or read TFA itself. There are plenty.

But the only feminism I see is the extra attention she is receiving. She's not created anything worthwhile.

"Crafty chick" would be a bit disturbing if it was in the New York Times or other reputable news source, but Slashdot? Not so much.

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