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Morse Code Enters The 21st Century
N8TWJ writes "The International Telecommunications Union has decided to bring
Morse Code into the 21st century by adding the loved (or hated?) - at (@) symbol. Lets hope the spammers don't start sniffing 20 meters for da-dit-da-dit-dah-dit..." According to the article, Paul Rinaldo, chief technical officer for the American Radio Relay League, says: "It's a pretty big deal... there certainly hasn't been any change [in Morse Code characters] since before World War II."
Now I can just plug my relay right into my ISP and just surf the web and get email through Morse code!
Playing ut2003 will be a pain though. Hopefully ut2004 will have a "Morse" input option.
"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it." - John Lennon.
I was going to 'First Post!' in morse but the lameness filter won't let me. Dang now I'll just get modded to hell and back.
Morse will truly have arrived in the 20th century when you can :) ;) and :)~
-G
It's not my fault! It was this way when I got here.
Well, given how illiterate today's generations of texters and emailers are becoming we can presumably look forward to ship bound soses such as ...
'OMG! U sUnK mY BatT13sH1p U Camp1ng fAg! Plz snd he1p! GG'
Great news for all fans of morse code. This now means that when we send an SOS we can supply an email address to let us know help is on its way!
...-....-.
Just picture the scene, its the middle of a major terrorist attack, the control centres can only communicate via morse code, and suddenly...
Reading from piece of paper "Get The Cheapest Viagra now!"Oh dear, spam hit an all time low.
Even more robust than UUCP !
Finally I can start making my IPv6toMorse translator. And all Morse users can become part of our cozy internet community!
I want my karma, and I want it now!
... that refuses to die: MIDI
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
The International Telecommunications Union has decided to bring Morse Code into the 21st century
All those morse code operators who have been unable to find it in this century can now breathe a sigh of relief! Morse code has made it to the 21st century, just four years late.
I recently saw it used in a movie...
I demand those insensitive clods make a new Euro code. It is vital now that I communicate with my stock broker by rapping morse code with my mug on the prison bars. Oh, and they had better reserve a code for the upcoming "Afro" currency too. Ta.
Being bitter is drinking poison and hoping someone else will die
Does that mean that nowadays the Titanic should have to write to support@whitestarline.com instead of sending CQD or SOS? Hmm... I'd be willing to bet that some spammers would answer with messages like 'Get your extra lifeboats at special prices! hghgxgx'. Damn.
The problem with Slashdot memes is that YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD!
Since there is a hypen and a period in Morse, you can send Morse Code over Morse Code.
You know, er, just to be stupid or something.
graspee
The @ symbol you say? Well if you wouldn't mind helping me leaf through the papers in this draw I think you'll find a patent for "Expressing the typographical symbol commonly known as "at," through the method of representing it as a sequence of "dots" and "dashes" and especially through the medium of sound or electricity.
They say that every computer program attempts to grow until it can read mail.
I guess that's going to be true for technologies too! Or your refrigerator...
...before the server gets dash-dotted?
from all you whippersnappers. You don't know nuthin'
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We were talking across the world and making friends with strangers before Al Gore was a twinkle in his father's eye, and we were doing it for free. Not only did we invent 133t speak, we but we refined it
We had to deal with inteference from the neighbor's electronic organ, changing band conditions, sloppy handkeying, line interference, nests on the antennas, having to make our own equipment, the massive russian woodpeckers equipment problems that we had to fix ourselves, and having to log our operations.
And we were grateful
NA7E
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
dot at dot at dot at dot at.
Of course, interesting it is!
;-)
Morse code - binary, it is!
-- "May the Source be with you!"
Oh great, the first new Morse symbol in almost 100 years and it turns out to be short for "Anonymous Coward."
Someone you trust is one of us.
The first thing I thought of was that they were going to start sending XML down the line.
Imagine that horror:
<message sender="Titanic">
<word>
<char>dot</char>
<char>dot</char>
<char>dot</char>
<char>space</char>
<char>dash</char>
<char>dash</char>
<char>dash</char>
<char>space</char>
<char>dot</char>
<char>dot</char>
<char>dot</char>
</word>
</message>
Thanks,
--
Matt
3 dots, 4 dots, 2 dots, dah
Radio, Radio RAH, RAH,RAH
.. and now all they need to do anymore is to add a Windows button.
-el
Of course it's distinguishible from 'atatat'. What you typed is morse for 'www'.
*Cough*
But then again, I could be wrong.
Breaking news from www.telegraph.co.uk:
World Wide Morse Conference in Oxford
By Harold Banfry in Oxford
Filed 19 February 2004
World Wide Morse Consortium begins a week-long meeting today in Oxford. The distinguished but beleagurered coterie of academics from around the world will discuss the apparently dim future of Morse, its public perception, and paths for its future.
One of the most exciting developments planned for Spring 2005 is the roll-out of Morse Unicode, to accommodate the requirements of the international developer community. Each dot ("dit") or dash ("dah") in the previous scheme will be replaced with four dots or dashes.
"This enhancement is long overdue," says Dr. Davit Dannaugh. "Now we can represent any letter uniquely in any language. With the increasing availability of dedicated broadband Morse lines, there will be no practical impediments."
Also in the limelight for the Oxford meeting are Morse cryptography, Morse security, and Voice over Morse.
- rabs
I need a tilde, damnit! My unix-hosted web page address has a tilde! There go my hopes of reaching new audiences via morse...
I am Jack's witty signature line
At least there's still no code for "!", which should discourage most Morse spam.
Okay, now I'm all dizzy.
Oh, now I get it. That Police song, All they wanted to say to you was 'SO'
Dogma - "let's just say we'd like to avoid any empirical entanglements."
...I expect that my royalty checks will start rolling in soon. If not, I may have to claim a patent on this incremental new advancement so that I can charge users a licensing fee.
My lawyers will be contacting you shortly...via Morse code, of course.
"You done taken a wrong turn."
-Bill McKinney, in Deliverance