A Wi-Fi/VoIP Phone Booth In the Burning Man Desert 214
Brad Templeton writes "I,
(of EFF/ClariNet/rec.humor.funny) along with
Brent Chapman
(Majordomo/Building Internet Firewalls) and the satellite dish of
John Gilmore (EFF/Cygnus/Cypherpunks/etc.)
put together an engaging hack -- a battery-powered free phone booth using
802.11,
VoIP and a satellite IP uplink. This was placed in the desert at
the Burning Man arts festival deep
in the remote Nevada Black Rock playa, exactly where you wouldn't expect
a working phone booth to be. With cheap VoIP people were able to call
all over the world. The reactions of people to such incongruous
technology were great fun and emotional as well. There's a
page about the phone including
details of
building it and
live experiences including totally non-gratuitous photos of naked people using technology. (There, that ought to stress-test my new server!)"
Jerry Maguire (Score:5, Funny)
Mmmm, you had me at naked.
Free porn? (Score:5, Funny)
Never underestimate the power of horny nerds.
But I gotta ask... would this lower my 1-900 bills?
As if... (Score:5, Funny)
As if photos of naked people could ever be gratuitous to Slashdot readers!
damn you all (Score:3, Funny)
congrats (Score:5, Funny)
Results of new server stress-test: (Score:5, Funny)
Not convenient for me (Score:5, Funny)
Mirroring (Score:1, Funny)
I swear! I don't want to just look at the pictures!
Do the Math (Score:5, Funny)
Burning Man Website Down. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Free porn? (Score:5, Funny)
Because one major thing the Internet lacks is unlimited access to free pornography. Just this morning I was thinking to myself: "Self... wouldn't it be cool if some entrepreneur put pictures of naked women on the Internet? Then we wouldn't have to visit those skanky adult bookstores in the seedy district anymore."
Who am I kidding though... if pornography was available on the Internet, how would we keep children from gaining access to it? Our entire society could collapse.
Sick Bastard (Score:5, Funny)
Douglas Adams, where areyou now? (Score:5, Funny)
Just asking for trouble... (Score:4, Funny)
CB
Just need number 3 (Score:1, Funny)
2. Phone booth
3. ???
4. Prophet!
Re:Jerry Maguire (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Nice but, (Score:5, Funny)
Working on AI nanotech, are we?
Another good (but inaccessible) story... (Score:4, Funny)
"GERLACH, NV -- The Burning Man festival, a prominent artistic and countercultural event that draws tens of thousands of people to the Nevada desert annually, is in danger of cancellation this week because "no one had their shit together enough to even make it," organizers said Tuesday. "Jesus Christ, this is pathetic," said event coordinator Ethan Moon as he angrily gestured toward the empty Black Rock Desert basin expanse, known as the playa. "We've been promoting this thing all year. You can't start panhandling quarters for gas the week before the festival and expect to make it here in time, man."
Moon listed some of the most common no-show excuses, among them oversleeping, forgetting to request time off work, faulty van-borrowing arrangements, a shortage of ochre body-paint, and the last-minute realization that transportation to the Burning Man festival requires money.
...Hippies were not the only counterculture group to miss the Burning Man festival. Portland-area Linux user and self-described cyber-conceptualist "Free" Lance Kaegle explained his absence in an instant message from his studio.
"I was organizing this boss techno-art project called 'Off The Grid,'" Kaegle wrote. "We were going to set up computer terminals in various parts of the playa and have people use them. Then we'd feed the binary data from those terminals into this fractals program that [Silver Lake, CA software designer] Ricky [Thomas-Slater] wrote. Those fractals would be sent, on the fly, to a group of exiled Buddhist monks I befriended online. The monks would transform the fractals into a temporal sand painting, the making of which we would webcast live to everyone on the playa."
Added Kaegle: "But I had to stop working on the monk thing to finish up this Pam's Country Crafts web site I'm working on. I really need the money..."
Well that isn't going too well... (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Jerry Maguire (Score:1, Funny)
Re:A Phone booth in the Middle of nowhere? (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah...duh...wires?
Re:Nice but, (Score:1, Funny)
But your post doesn't have a child...