Under the 60 Gigs post, Pascal posted:
Use a homing pigeon, it's more efficient than the internet.
Really, it is.
A computer company in South Africa tried to send 4GB of data simultaneously through ADSL and in a memory key carried by a homing pigeon, to about 100 km away. The pigeon arrived and the memory stick was plugged and set after 2 hours. Meanwhile, the ADSL had only transmitted 200MB.
Pigeons are hi-tech!!!
They're also used to send blood samples to labs in case of some emergencies.
Not bad for "winged rats", eh?
(And the pigeon could easily carry an SD card, that means at least 32GB at the moment.)
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Latency vs. bandwidth: "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway".
I can just see a made for TV film where a pigeon carrying medical samples of a rare plague is caught on the outskirts of the metropolis and served up as dinner in a shanty town, next thing everyone at the chemical factory will be going sick, workers and management, as plague spreads through the city, teh chemical plant goes "critical" and contaminates half the country.
Meanwhile a team of plucky US marines are trying to stop an unnamed Arabian country gettin hold of either teh virus or chamical weapon from that factory.
Oh, I miss made for TV movies.
Captcha :- crocheat
There exists an entire internet protocol for this purpose. It's called IPoAC (IP over Avian Carriers), and it's proposed by RFC 1149.
It was also implemented by Norwegian Linux user group in 2001. Read more here: http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149
"trying to stop an unnamed Arabian country gettin hold of either teh virus or chamical weapon from that factory."
Why not both? Think of the tie-in videogame: you need to have two parallel scenarios for Splinter Cell co-op mode.
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