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Morse Code Migrating To The Net
Rosco P. Coltrane writes "With Morse code slowly disappearing off the air, there seems to be a growing number of people who carry out conversations in Morse over the internet. Several Windows and Linux clients using VoIP or special protocols, such as EchoLink, EchoLinux, MorseMail, CW Communicator or CWirc exist for Morse lovers worldwide to pound brass and make contact with one another. Could the next must-have computer input device be a morse key ?"
Dear Mr Morse
Unfortunately your patent application for a serial binary code device (RFC 1) has not been accepted, as a company called SCO claim prior art.
Humorous signatures are over-rated.
So computer geeks have finally found a way to make the internet appeal to the older generations!
SecondPageMedia - Wha
Ryan T. Sammartino
"Ancora imparo"
I am at a loss for words. Why? Sure, I can see the "fun" in it. But, its like towing your car with a horse.
Just f'n IM the dude man.
The next big thing: horse hitch accessories on the front of cars!
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
mmm... yeah... You see, we're putting the cover sheets on all TPS reports now before they go out...
.. MoIP?
Has a ring to it.
Could the next must-have computer input device be a morse key?
Something wrong with any randomly selected key on the keyboard?
Of course, the real danger is that net.poseurs will use ASCII-to-Morse translators with programmable semi-random delays to simulate mad Morse skillz.
Hey, I hear cuneiform is dying out. Will the next must-have computer input device be a slab of wet mud?
Proud member of the Weirdo-American community.
Wouldn't a morse key describe the Apple's mouse?
So SCO walked into a bar, and ...
:)
Nah, I think it still works.
Entering morse code sounds like it would be worse than trying to type on my cellphone.
I guess that's why it's not my hobby.
-Zipwow
I don't know which is more depressing, that 2/3 didn't care enough to vote, or that 1/2 of those that did are crazy.
VRML smoke signals
Now somebody just has to implement IP over Morse, and we come full circle. I expect the RFC to come out sometime in April.
Did anyone know that slashdot has a filter to prevent me from posting in morse code??!?! The irony is striking.
Praise be to our "step backwards" regime, for today, in 2008, a brand new technology has been revealed to us, the people of the world.
It has been discovered that by using a sheet, or other covering, disruptions can be made in the smoke that comes from burning uncured/wet materials. These distruptions, when agreed upon in a certain format, can be used to communicate messages great distances.
The Berkely campus was set ablaze today by techno geeks attempting to create the first "smokey net". MIT students held a joyful party claiming "It's the first method created that you HAVE to let the smoke out to use!"
Of course, being an emerging retro technologie, it is not without it's limitations. Currently there is no capability for P2P or Secure networks, shy of committing genocide on a grand scale.
SCO International Dominion Corporation, in response to this announcement, stated "That's actually OUR wireless communications system, and we want royalties. As our evidence will certainly show, we introduced the genetic make up of trees, and it was US, not prometheus, who gave fire to the masses. Of course, we will not disclose this evidence at the time. But it's mine... gimme!
krystal_blade
It will be easy to motivate our fellow man; there is hardly anything people treasure more than not being annihilated.
Dotdadotdotdot...etcetc
E-N-L-A-R-G-E
Y-O-U-R
P-E-hey!!!
You know somebody's gonna try it...
... is the Morse-Code column (after the oct, dec and hex columns) in the UniCode docs. We need Morse encodings for at least utf-16.
Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
dash dot
dash dash dash.
Just raise the taxes on crack.
Personally, I prefer to send my SOS to the World in a hundred billion bottles.
Of course the coast guard is mad at me 'cause my hundred billion bottles tend to wash up on the shore.
Every idea has its Sting.
The apprentice types morse, referring to a guide for each letter.
The journeyman types morse fluently from memory.
The master codes perl in morse.