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Vint Cerf Talks About The "Interplanetary Internet"
Uncle Humph1 writes "There's an interesting article at NewsForge by Robin (Roblimo)Miller about Vint Cerf giving a presentation to NOVALUG about the Interplanetary Internet and having lunch with them afterward. An interesting read. One of the quotables by Vint with regard to security reads 'We're building in security from end to end,' he says, 'because we don't need headlines saying, '15-year-old takes over Mars.'" Here is some more information about the interplanetary Internet.
so now i can truly say they'll have broadband on mars before i get it.
Well, accoring to this one documentary I saw, TCP/IP is already in use on at least one other planet.
Interplanetary Internet means intergalactic porn. The triple breasted whore of eroticon six will have her poor web server slashdoted.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
C:\>ping www.marsrover.co.mars
:)
Pinging marsrover.co.mars [68.179.57.159] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 68.179.57.159: bytes=32 time=12100ms TTL=4300
Reply from 68.179.57.159: bytes=32 time=12000ms TTL=4300
Reply from 68.179.57.159: bytes=32 time=11000ms TTL=4300
Reply from 68.179.57.159: bytes=32 time=12000ms TTL=4300
Ping statistics for 68.179.57.159:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 11000ms, Maximum = 12100ms, Average = 11700ms
Won't be playing UT with these guys anytime soon...
Just wait till the RIAA goes inter-galactic.
Now we can just /. all the approaching asteroids.
You think the lag time to third world countries is bad? Try third world PLANETS.
Whenever I play quake against guys from Mars, its always the same: they just stand there, and I frag 'em. They must have a latency of several minutes, at least! Other planets are even worse. I once waited all night just to download a 1k faq on Plutonian mining operations, and I can't even COUNT how many connections I've lost completely with servers on Jupiter.
Who could hack those anyway? Of course, it would take forever. Plus, as we all know (having seen Independence Day), servers in space run MacOS (otherwise how would the guy have easily uploaded a virus with his iMAC), which is a bit difficult to hack anyway.
I don't think they have anything to worry about. Except Uranus. I hear they're using unpatched IIS servers there.
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-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
. . . the MIME types suggested in RFC1437?
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1437.html
FTL Travel is probably never going to be a reality - meaning all those green alien women will just have to pine away for Captain K's hot man love.
However, FTL Communications are probably possible, so we can hope that our overweight, velour wearing descendents might at least talk dirty with some green alien women.
Of course, based on today's internet, those green alien women would probably be fat, balding green alien men and green alien FBI agents on green alien sting missions against the sexually deviant human race.
Unfortunately, this proposed FTL method requires you to ship the quantum-coupled-er...thingies from place to place FIRST, which means we'd have to exchange ambassadors with the green aliens FIRST... meaning Captain K is back in the shag house, big time.
And then, the quantum communications might be a bit, well, odd, as you might recieve cryptic messages like this:
Reply from 68.179.57.159: qubits = 256 95% confidence -11fs<time<-4fs, measured from point of transmission, 95% confidence -14fs<time<-6fs, measured from point of reception.
Which is a reply to the following command:
Pinging hotbabes.co.vulcan [68.179.57.159] with 256 qubits of data.
Which you had not yet actually run. Anyone want to suggest changes to TCP/IP that would allow you to handle when acks arrived before the message they acknowledge has been sent? Just asking.
The good and new comes from no quarter where it is looked for, and is always something different from what is expected.
I guess the birds will need tiny spacesuits and rocket packs to make it back and forth.
Incoming interstellar hen!
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the tighter they grip - the more interplanetary internet warez sites will slip through their fingers.