"Cory Doctorow - Liberation Spectrum" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dodd Christina)

And so it went, for all the CogRad crews, who'd never had explicit training in
making friends with the locals on a gig, but who had learned from the example
set by Lee-Daniel and by the middle managers who'd learned it from him.

Elaine gave Mermaid a cheap theodolite with an integrated compass, GPS and
altimeter, and a little booklet on how to use it, and the next time Lee-Daniel
saw her, she was leading a group of even younger girls on a series of
surveying missions around the Indian School. Elaine never had to do near-field
surveys -- she'd always get them free child labor for any settled areas. Lee-
Daniel liked the idea that the people they connected were learning to work
their own gear. He liked the idea that the people they connected were better
for it. "Privacy, please," he said.

"We're standing all the way over here," the Series B man said, from the across
the little table. "How much more privacy do you want?"

Lee-Daniel shook his head in exaggerated disbelief and then MacDiarmid led
them back out to the communal area.

Once they were gone, he opened his phone and logged in to the administrative
overview of all of CogRad's networks. There was the Akwesahsne net, still
thriving. About 20 percent of the terminals were offline, but the remainder
had picked up the slack. He wondered how well camouflaged they were. He
wondered if little girls with toy surveying gear were currently chalking out
new locations for more terminals.

The network was alive with chatter from every corner of the rez, as the
Warriors coordinated with the press who'd come to cover the stand-off.

He called Meatloaf.

"What," he said. In the background, Lee-Daniel heard loudhailer-distorted
speech, choppers, curses, panting.

"The network, it works good?"

"It works good," Meatloaf said. "They're trying to take it down. That must
mean it's the right thing."

Lee-Daniel paced the small dining room. The table was littered with legal
papers, papers that severed him from his business.

"They're taking them down?" Lee-Daniel said.

"Yes, but we're putting them back up. You left behind extras."

"What will you do when those run out?"

"Buy more," Meatloaf said.