Myanmar Orders Wireless Internet Shutdown Until Further Notice (reuters.com) 53
Myanmar's military rulers have ordered internet service providers to shut down wireless broadband services until further notice, Reuters reported Thursday, citing sources. From the report: The instruction to halt wireless broadband services was relayed to employees of one provider in an email seen by Reuters, which did not state a reason for the order. It also said the current mobile internet shutdown would continue and by law it had to comply with the directive.
This is my shocked face (Score:5, Interesting)
Re: This is my shocked face (Score:3)
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L.T. Smash: It's a three-pronged attack: sub-liminal, liminal and super-liminal.
Lisa: Superliminal?
L.T. Smash: I'll show you. (leans out of window) Hey, you! Join the Navy!
Carl: Uh, yeah, all right.
Lenny: I'm in.
L.T. Smash: Now that you know, Lisa, I'm afraid I can't let you leave. (sees Lisa outside, walking away) Oh.
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Don't forget shutting down conservatives to stop their cancel culture. Everything is cancel culture though. Cancel the gays and don't let them get teaching jobs (maybe some here are too young to remember that). Boycott France and French fries. Boycott companies that provide domestic partner benefits (seriously). Boycott lamestream media. The idea of letting people do what they want is abhorrent to both sides of the political divide.
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The west always hated the military, the previous government never had any control over the military.
This is my BLM face (Score:2)
BLM showed the truth can't be hidden. Not in this day and time.
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If BLM used a similar playbook in current Myanmar, they would be mowed down by machine guns by now.
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Except in Myanmar itself where they are the majority ethnic group and the minority groups are very much on the fringe and discriminated against officially.
"People of color" is a ridiculous US-centric term.
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So what you're saying is Myanmar protesters have been using more extreme methods, since they have in fact been mown down by machines guns, and as of yesterday, airstrikes?
But that doesn't make sense from how you phrased it. Perhaps you're just confused, but about what, it's hard to tell. Maybe you can expand on what you were trying to say.
Re:This is my BLM face (Score:4, Insightful)
BLM showed that black shirt and brown shirt tactics can be used out in the open with impunity if the right people are in power.
Elon should aid-drop starlink receivers... (Score:4, Interesting)
Maybe a fund could be started to get Starlink receivers to oppressed nations so they can still communicate to the world...
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Assuming there's no geo-fencing in the satellites themselves. Never mind the signal has to come down somewhere.
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Too easy to find with a radio direction finder. The internet will have to hide in the ambient noise
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It's not likely they have ballistic missiles that can target such tiny satellites outside of their typical range, which is somewhere on the ground. "Continent" is what the C in ICBM stands for.
It would seem easier for them to track the radio broadcasts of anyone uploading to Starlink and send a couple of helicopters to blow up the house they're coming from. Factor in that doesn't involve blowing up any foreign equipment, and the choice is clear.
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LOL Starlink has over 1000 satellites and growing by chunks of 60.
I don't think the US could afford to destroy that many, let alone Myanmar!
But the base stations would be easy to find...
Finally. .. (Score:5, Funny)
Starlink (Score:5, Insightful)
Why in God's name aren't we funding Kepler and/or Starlink? I understand people hate Elon Musk because he's an African American, but at some point we have to say the thing he's building could solve a LOT of the US and world's problems. Biden is giving $100 billion to AT&T, Verizon and telco providers who previously took handouts and all we got was a magic show wherein they disappeared the money in a puff of smoke and nothing else to show for it. Why can't we just give Kepler and Starlink a billion dollars so they can complete their network faster? The rest of the money can be used as broadband vouchers for poor people.That way they are both super incentivized to actual provide the service or leave money on the table.
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Why in God's name aren't we funding Kepler and/or Starlink?
AT&T contributed $1.3M to PACs supporting Joe Biden for president.
Verizon contributed $704k to PACs supporting Joe Biden.
StarLink made $0 in political donations.
Does that answer your question?
Re: Starlink (Score:2)
They are (Score:2)
SpaceX/Starlink got some subsidy money recently.
Link here [cnbc.com]
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ughhh
Has anyone written (Score:2)
an app that takes SMS messages and converts them to packets?
Seems like you could use "unlimited" Text like a slow modem...
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an app that takes SMS messages and converts them to packets?
Seems like you could use "unlimited" Text like a slow modem...
https://lmgtfy.app/?q=data+ove... [lmgtfy.app]
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LOL today I learned lmgtfy is blocked at my work
April Fool's!!!!! (Score:1)
Haha, no way this story is true.
I remember the good old days of Slashdot when *every* posted story was an April Fools joke. In the early days, most were pretty clever. Then they got lame. Now they're gone. Sniff.
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All good things must come to an end, eh?
Yeah, I miss the old days here, too. Good, intelligent discourse...hehehe...better than most anyway... Learned a lot from Slashdot back in the day.
I miss the April Fool's Day jokes, too...
*sigh*
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I posted this April Fool's joke years ago, but not on April Fool's day:
https://slashdot.org/comments.... [slashdot.org]
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We still hate IP and religion so some things haven't changed.
Satellite is unstoppable (Score:4, Interesting)
Take Iran, satellite dishes are banned. In the 1990s they would execute/disappear people for having satellite dishes. Today there are a crazy amount (technically illegally) of them everywhere all over Iran. Why? The elites wanted it. TV shows are too compelling for the rich. So now a lot of people blatantly have them .. they can't crackdown on them .. it would piss off the rich and corrupt people holding power.
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You do realize it's possible for the police to crack down hard on the poor that don't have the means to make "donations", and leave the rich alone, right?
If you think the rich doing shit enables the poor to do the same shit with impunity, you're naive beyond belief.
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I know people who went there recently and they said easily a clear majority of residents have a satellite dish .. including many poor people. Yes, the police can crackdown on the poor -- and every few years they do --- its more for show --- look at the article linked below. Also, YOU are naive if you think some of the top 20% .. rich/privileged kids are going to not want to report things on behalf of the poor if they had Starlink. Look at a lot of the people helping BLM for example, many of them are wealth
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Kill the kill switch (Score:2)
This is why the President, governors, and police should not have Internet or phone network kill switches. The upside is far less important than the downside.
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Lots of shutdowns on the front page today (Score:2)
Apparently April Fools' Day is "everything shuts down day" on Slashdot, and these aren't even jokes!
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Myanmar Orders Wireless Internet Shutdown Until Further Notice
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Crowd source freedom (Score:1)
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Problem is that doesn't sound like get-rich-quick. You've got to do more beyond spend your stimulus check on a few shares. A nonstarter for most of those dudes.
The good news here is that it seems like the people of Myanmar might actually have some kind of leverage. Time will tell if the work stoppages and tribal militias are enough to turn things around. I really don't know that much about Myanmar history, but the fact that they brought the military to the bargaining table once before, not so long ago, look
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Imagine the US social-media-mob trying to bring the military to the bargaining table in their own country... not a chance. Closest they'll get is another Trump who talks about "withdrawing troops" and still increases the military budget by double digits annually.
And now you what them to do what... and where...?
Myanmar = new Syria (Score:2)
Isn't there some way we can stop this shit!?
Almost makes me wish there was an actual place called Hell, so these motherfucking bastards could burn there for eternity.
so the tldr reads (Score:1)
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