On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Samuel Lelievre
<[email protected]> wrote:
>> including a historical introduction with a story about how he accidentally
>> unplugged the internet for the entire country of Colombia when he was
>> a grad student. You can watch the video of the talk here:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j_HxD4iLn8
>
> NB: The unplugging anecdote is from 0:11:20 to 0:14:12 in the video.

Minor correction, I was still finishing undergrad at the time, before
I moved to the US for grad school.

Disconnecting your country from the internet: real-world evil
dictators like Mubarak or Gaddafi can't do it, but benevolent open
source ones can :)

Cheers,

f

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