Iran Curbs Internet Before Possible New Protests (reuters.com) 21
Iran's authorities have restricted mobile internet access in several provinces, an Iranian news agency reported on Wednesday, a day before new protests were expected to kick off following calls for demonstrations on social media. Reuters: Social media posts, along with some relatives of people killed in unrest last month, have called for renewed protests and for ceremonies to commemorate the dead to be held on Thursday. State media, meanwhile, said intelligence ministry agents had seized a cache of 126 mostly U.S.-made guns smuggled to the central city of Isfahan from abroad. The protests were initially sparked in November by hikes in gasoline prices but demonstrators quickly expanded their demands to cover calls for more political freedom and other issues. The government, which launched the bloodiest crackdown on demonstrators in the 40-year history of the Islamic Republic, blamed foreign enemies for stoking tensions.
That headline requires non-autist common sense. (Score:2)
As in: Getting that obvioulsy, Internet access in Iran is meant.
Anti-Disruption. (Score:5, Interesting)
Change in social norms in the last 100 years has come so fast that the world is bound to rebel. Never before have so many people been exposed to so many ideas across so many spectrum's in so many places. The human experience has never had to process the sheer volume of information that exists today. People's communities have never been this large.
Iran cutting of the internet is just the beginning. This will soon become a defensive maneuver that every country will require as part of their defense posturing. We are watching information warfare play out in front of us. This is what you call disinformation nuclear warfare. The real question is, who are the current war-profiteers?
The genie is out of the bottle. We are a the beginning of this game.
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A favoured US backed Marxist political-militant organization is ready for some CIA support in Iran.
A new look CIA Bay of Pigs attempt with a local Communist feel for Iran
The Marxist troops are waiting in uniform.
The CIA and MI6 are ready.
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Iran cutting of the internet is just the beginning.
So there is no "routing around the damage"?
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your machine god was never real.
Guess we'll have to make one then.
it cannot self-repair.
Really? [theenginee...ojects.com]
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Just wait until someone really perfects machine translation. All hell breaks loose then.
That takes full *actual* AI. (Score:3)
People never seem to realize, that translation requires a mind that fully grew up in the culture. Not just the words. But the whole world of memories and memes (in the neuro-psychological sense) behind them.
You can and will never achieve full translation with an oversimplified "perfectly spherical horse on a sinusoidal trajectory" neural net like we use today.
You will never achieve it just from reading text in the two languages. Period.
Unless your system actually lived the culture(s)... no dice.
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Perfect translation isn't needed, though. Just good-enough and, more importantly, so convenient people don't have to explicitly seek it out or even turn it on. Just automatic.
Alright, explain yourself moderator coward. (Score:2)
What triggered you?
Cause I don't see anything unreasonable in there.
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Iran cutting of the internet is just the beginning. This will soon become a defensive maneuver that every country will require as part of their defense posturing.
"Every" country?
Iran is a dictatorship - a real dictatorship; I know that is probably a hard concept to grasp, when it's so often just a label used against your own political opponents.
When is MsMash going to write about India. (Score:1)
Thatâ(TM)ll stop it (Score:3)
After all before the internet riots and revolutions never happened.
Discuss: How to run your own independent Internet. (Score:3)
I figure, meshed wifi routers are a start, to enable independent communication in cities.
"Rogue" 4G hotspots might be too easy to shoot down for the cops.
Does 2/3/4/5G offer some sort of peer to peer connectivity? A la OLPC?
Could it he done on a rooted phone? As in: Is the hardware capable of doing it at all?
What about that link to the outside? I guess only satellites could help there....
That bad government against freedom. (Score:2)
But we trust our government (Score:2)
Example #418 why government should not have an "emergency" Internet kill switch.
The switch only has to be conceptual (Score:2)