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Morse Coders Beat SMSers

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the wheel-reinvented dept.

dgnicholson writes "Jay Leno did a text off between two text messengers and two Morse coders. The Morse coders handily beat the young whippersnappers with time to spare. It might be a fun phone app to make a Morse code messenger, if you kept your headset in and had an external sender, could be interesting. Perhaps a Morse code Skype device."

6 of 483 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Dupe by 1u3hr · · Score: 0, Troll
    If you really have nothing to add to the discussion and are just going to whine, why post at all?,

    Take your own advice.

  2. Re:Dupe by Breakfast+Pants · · Score: 0, Troll

    Who really cares if a [post] is a [complaint about a]dupe? You are not forced to read it, just skip it and go on to the next one. People that feel the need to point out [the idea that complaints about] dupes [add nothing to the discussion] are just as useless as the grammar/spelling nazis. If you really have nothing to add to the discussion and are just going to whine, why post at all?

    It cuts both ways.

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    WHO ATE MY BREAKFAST PANTS?
  3. Re:Dupe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This comment being modded upto +5 is enough for me to believe that some of the mods on this site are fucking /. hivemind morons.

    Christ, the GP was trying to enquire about improving this site, the parent however doesn't add anything to the conversation. It's been said a couple of times that there is hundreds of thousands of people who come here to read the site and only a few thousand post. If that is the case well then the PARENT and THE MODS are in the fucking minority. The MAJORITY of the people who read this fucking site are the ones who would be pissed because that's what they came here for ORIGINAL stories not fucking commenting with each other nor the discussion from the same idiots who post the same shit each time.

  4. Re:Well, yeah. by Ann+Elk · · Score: 0, Troll
    Personally, I just don't understand the appeal of text messaging.

    Text messaging is for those people who fear the commitment of an actual conversation.

  5. Re:Well, yeah. by Ann+Elk · · Score: 0, Troll

    OK, who moderated my previous message as a troll? I was just stating a fact. I know a lot of people who prefer to use text messaging with people they don't know very well. It's a little less personal, and there is less commitment.

    But troll? Moi?

    Ja cie dam troll.

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    There. Now you can mark me as a troll.

  6. Re:Dupe by 1u3hr · · Score: 0, Troll
    If you really have nothing to add to the discussion and are just going to whine, why post at all?

    Take your own advice.

    Some asshole modded the original "troll"; so here it is again.