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Pigeon Turns Out To Be Faster Than S. African Net
inject_hotmail.com writes "The results are in: it's faster to send your data via an airborne carrier than it is through the pipes. As discussed Tuesday, a company in South Africa called Unlimited IT, frustrated by terribly slow Internet speeds, decided to prove their point by sending an actual homing pigeon with a "data card" strapped to its leg from one of their offices to another while at the same time uploading the same amount of data to the same destination via their ISPs data lines. The media outlet reporting this triumph said that it took the pigeon just over 1 hour to make the 80km/50mile flight, whereas it took over 2 hours to transfer just 4% of that data."
Dear Sir
I'm contacting you in the name of the office of the Ministery of Transport, Pidgeons and Communications of South Africa. Recently, the former minister has been abducted by aliens and therefore considered Missing In Action. He has left a huge fortune that is to be placed in a bet in a pidgeon running against a telecom. For that, we come asking for your help, as we need a second bank account to transfer the money, since we are unable to do it directly because the minister used strange passwords. I kindly request your account number so we can the amount needed. In the process, you will receive 10% of the amount, making you a turkish millionaire.
In WEB we believe. Best regards.
(PS: yes, I know "turkish" and "South Africa" have nothing to do with each other.)
Onda Technology Institute
These guys have no sense of humor. Since when making a joke about the context of the story is offtopic? Besides, pidgeons can carry 419 spam too.
Onda Technology Institute
The european swallows what?
Loads.
Your mom is European?
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