Comment Re:It is summer here, you insensitive clod! (Score 1) 199
I thought national lasagna day was June 19th! (since 1978...)
I thought national lasagna day was June 19th! (since 1978...)
...and allow us to acquire the solution in a dramatically more efficient manner!
Now, I should emphasize that such an approach is purely theoretical. So far, no one has been able to accomplish such constructions, yet..
Whenever I try to convert part-15 geeks into part-97 geeks, they're interested in high power, they're interested in DIY equipment, they're interested in satellites, they're interested in propagation, and as soon as I mention that you can't swear or encrypt, they walk away.
"If I can't send useful traffic over it, why would I bother?"
Ham radio is losing a generation of geeks who've grown up on a more-free network and aren't interested in a restricted one. Should we just let them go?
While much of Manhattan's traditional communications infrastructure was literally a smoking crater after 9/11, the Ricochet mesh network was alive and well, built to barely notice the loss of individual nodes.
The company had recently gone bankrupt, but all the hardware was still in place, so some ex-employees drove from Denver to NYC with a bunch of modems and laptops, to bring mobile connectivity to the recovery effort.
Mesh works in this case because MCDN uses geographic routing -- the packet header literally contains a packed lat/long for the destination, and nodes make their routing decisions by angle and distance. There's a layer of name-to-geo resolution which makes that all work, and in the Ricochet days it was centralized, but I believe it could be made to operate with DHT like torrent networks do now.
Yeah, I know Rotomotion has been doing this for years. Their YouTube channel is pretty badass.
I remember discovering the animated treats within Dead Winter, on the 100's. Link goes to 199, so you can read a bit of the story before clicking Next to hit 200. (Story is violent and text in strip 200 is definitely NSFW.)
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You already replied to Myself two posts up...
Here's the index of the July-August 1978 issue where the whole series of articles appears. Better format than the search above.
Several issues of the Bell System Technical Journal tell the story of UNIX, in their own words. This one in particular is interesting.
"No matter where you go, there you are..." -- Buckaroo Banzai