Regional Broadcast Using an Atmospheric Link Layer

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What about 2D codes?

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The proposed method is very inefficient and does not describe any error correction mechanism. While it does have the advantage of human readability, the use of encryption under this proposal appears to be limited to single letter substitution ciphers. We need a presidential task force to design a handicapped accessible, multi-cultural sensitive, environmentally friendly alternative.

I propose using patterns of depressing the vegetation in various artistic patterns in agricultural fields.