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Building the Interplanetary Internet
sighted writes "Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, now a Google VP, is leading a NASA effort to create a permanent network link to Mars within the next two years. As Cerf outlined in a recent talk, the 'InterPlaNet' protocol is designed to handle the delay caused by interplanetary distances. A signal traveling between the Earth and Mars can take up to 20 minutes."
... need online pr0n too.
This is my opinion. To make sure you don't steal it, it's covered by the DMCA.
Martian porn takes too long to download.
My parents recently moved my family to Mars. I'm an avid gamer, but I'm now having a hard time playing online games as my ping is frequently 20 minutes or more. I've added 8 CPUs to my network card, but it hasn't helped the situation any. I'm wondering if anyone has found any solutions to this problem? I'm looking into using wormholes or possibly bending space-time in some other way, but I'm just not sure where to direct my efforts. I really miss playing Doom XV online, and I hear Duke Nukem Forever will be out soon, so any help would be appreciated.
Forget Sealand, build a torrent server on Mars and see what the MPAA does :)
--I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.
I have a feeling they're going to title this protocol: RFC 1149-I (I for Interstellar / Interplanetary)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carrie
Adeptus
No trees were killed in the making of this post; however, many trillions of electrons were horribly inconvenienced.
A 40 minute ping really sucks for gaming and means no one is going to let you play.
Hey, hey, hey! There is NO higher priority than posting to slashdot!
That's why no work is getting done in my office right now.
Developers: We can use your help.
With dual Quantum-Nano processors, just open the holo-window dialog box and set the video refresh to -20 minutes. Make sure you avert your eyes from the dialog box when making the change, however, since once it's measured, it ceases to exist.
A goal is a dream with a deadline
OHHHH!....that makes me VERY ANGRY!!! (huff huff huff)....Very Angry INDEED!!!!
A goal is a dream with a deadline
InterPlaNet? When the time comes is Pluto going to get shafted again?
We can test it by using it on the moon first, and use it to download porn of Amazon women. I bet there will be plenty of volunteers to test that out.
"All great wisdom is contained in .signature files"
I hear that Google is already getting sued by the Martians over copyright violations.
Lab of the year... Bah! Total suck lab!
500 dollar reward for tip(s) leading to the arrest of the person(s) who stole my sig.
ATTN: The President/Ceo
From: Martian Barrister Bob N'g'w'll'ac
Utopia Planitia Law Firm
Legal Practitioners
Mars.
Confidential Proposal/Investment Assistance.
Greetings and love to you in the name of the most high Xenu from my beloved planet Mars. I am sorry and I solicit your permission into your privacy. I am Martian Barrister Bob N'g'w'll'ac, lawyer to the late Prince Grunthor eldest son of the late former Emperor of Mars late Warlord Xandor.
My former client late Prince Grunthor died in a plane crash in the year 2094. Upon the death of my former client and unknown to the family that is currently under house arrest and undergoing prosecution in the hands of the present administration as a result of human right violation and looting of the planet's treasury by the late head of state Warlord Xandor.
Before the death of my client he had deposited 90,000,000.00 Martian Mega-bucks with a secret security firm in two trunk boxes in my name, and I am the only authority to this fund which he was to transfer off world few days after he died in a plane crash.
This fund was deposited with the security firm in my name because my client stole this fund from the planet's treasury and he did not want anyone to know that he is associated with the fund in question not until the fund is successfully moved off world.
The security firm does not know the actual content of the trunk boxes, my client and I told them that the boxes contains old Martian artifacts to be delivered to a client off world via Interplanetary Courier Services. For now it is only you and I that is having knowledge of this fund, and the only assistance I require from you is to help me receive this fund in either Amsterdam, London or Spain depending on our country of agreement and possibly invest it abroad in your area of advice.
This fund shall be disbursed accordingly as follows: 25% for the recipient (you) from the total sum(90MMMB). 2% for the courier officer in the country where you shall receive the trunk boxes. 5% set aside from the entire sum for expenses incurred by both parties in due course of executing this transaction (home and abroad). 68% for me.
If you are not satisfied with the percentage sharing of the fund feel free to let me know. In compliance with this you are to immediately forward to me by mail the following: Your full names and address Confidential space phone and space fax numbers.
With this information I will immediately commence all necessary documentation for a successful shipment of the first trunk box to your country of choice as all the modalities have already been worked out by me. I will also give you full details of this whole transaction which I have already perfected in due course.
Please note that you are to treat this with utmost confidentiality willing or not willing to assist me in this transaction as nobody knows about this fund and I am still an active lawyer in this country.
THE CHOICE IS YOURS, IF I WERE YOU I WOULD, BECAUSE IT WILL COST YOU LITTLE OR NOTHING TO ACHIEVE THIS AND THE BENEFIT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOREVER.
Remain blessed in the name of XENU.
Yours faithfully Martian Barrister Bob N'g'w'll'ac
You are attempting to read sigs. Cancel or Allow?
Don't underestimate the bandwidth of a transporter beam full of tapes !
Sigh. ok, this is tech support.
./qemdriver.scr and hit enter. You -did- save it to your home directory, didn't you?
It sounds like your system is reverting to radio frequency transmission, you need to get your QEM up and running correctly before you can play real time. Didn't you RTFM?
Do you have your QEM (quantum entanglement modulator) correctly connected? Is it plugged in?
Go from the K symbol to Utilities to Hardware. Now, see if you can find if your QEM has been detected by your system. If not, you are doing to have to download the driver from Sourceforge the old-fashioned way. You can use this time for a snack break. The connection will take 35 minutes to set up day, at our current distance. And then you have the download to wait for.
Once you have it, you will have to open a terminal and type
Assuming you have no dependency issues, it should install. At this point, you need to reboot.
During the start-up screen, look to see if it loads correctly and your QEM is correctly identified.
When you are fully booted, you need to go to K ->Utilities->QEMConfig, and follow the wizard carefully. This is important. If you do not follow the directions exactly, you may end up sending information into the past when you try to use your InterPlaNet connection. This has been known to happen from time to time. Some historical researchers have found that some of these incidents were taken as April Fool's jokes back on Earth in the old days. You really don't want to do that, it is embarrassing.
Ok, if that doesn't work, call again.
Goodbye.