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Regional Broadcast Using an Atmospheric Link Layer
An anonymous reader writes "RFC 6217 was published
today
yesterday
tomorrow
orally
, enabling one to send messages over a wide area even to
people
lions
tigers
bears
without computers or smartphones. The technology looks promising, but is not without
drawbridges
drawbacks
drawdowns
drawwwwyeah
; 'Additionally, solar radiation conditions affect transmission in a predictable, cyclic manner. Depending on latitude, the
medium
large
small
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may be unusable for a lengthy period, during which alternate arrangements must be made.'
Additionally
Bombastically
Subtractionally
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, while 'The physical layer used is made up primarily of nitrogen and oxygen,' there are concerns that microscopic amounts of residue left over from the transmission may include 'argon,
micropiranhas
carbon dioxide
uranium dioxide
oxygen dioxide
, neon, helium, chloride anions, sulfur dioxide, and other molecules occurring at very low mixtures' "
Few today haven't felt the touch of censorship that is Michael Sims's modus operandi. Anything labelled subversive by this fascist editor is immediately moderated to -1 and its poster's account subjected to all sorts of terrible modifications meant to make it impossible to reveal the truth about Michael Sims. Truth that I, in this exposé, will reveal to you.
Having killed his mother in childbirth, Michael was left with only his father to raise him, a man with well-documented social disorders and sick sexual fetishes.
During his youth, Michael Sr. was known by the nickname “Mikey the Twink,” a reference to his thin, hairless body, and chest that was smaller than his waist, like a young boy's. The crowd Mikey the Twink ran with was more than just a little questionable. How many times would you have been allowed to arrive home at midnight with your clothes torn and semen leaking out of your bruised mouth? Well, this was San Francisco, and evidently Michael Sr. got away with this behavior while he was growing up gay on the mean streets of the Faggot Sex Capitol of the world.
Fast-forward to middle age, and this homosexual cock-lusting faggot is left with a son to rear. No wonder the Michael Sims we all know is so angry and apt to censor!
By the age of 13, Michael Sims had endured years of sexual abuse at the hands of his father and other relatives: let's be frank about this!
Michael was forced to suck his father's erect penis while his “Aunt” Jack would penetrate Michael's anus with his 5" thick throbbing meatpole. All while “Father” O'Reilly (yes, the same publisher Tim O'Reilly of Open Source fame) videotaped the gay orgies with a tripod as he sodomized young Michael's penis with his hot tongue or made Michael eat his hairy Irish asshole out!!!
Occasionally a ruddy streetman named Eric would join in the festivities and rub his crooked dick on Michael's smooth face and cover the lad in cumshot as he dribbled Jägermeister all over himself, singing the praises of Open Sauce and being surprised by cock.
Too many years of cum-baths and anal sex had gotten to Michael. In the wee hours of April 19, 1993, at the tender age of 16, Michael Sims secretly boarded a plane to Germany to join the Hitler Youth, hoping to escape the the excess sodomy in his life while gaining some discipline in the process. Little did Michael know that he was going from the frying pan and into the flames.
Upon entering the Hitler Youth, Michael smiled for the first time in his cock-filled life. He was surrounded by boys of all ages, and his cock-lust — cultivated by years of faggotry at his father's hand — blossomed in the harsh environment of the Hitler Youth. Michael progressed rapidly through the ranks until one day, he was called upon to serve in the elite SS. And then the bottom of Michael's world fell out.
Michael was greeted not by Adolf Hitler (long dead by now) or any other Nazi. Michael Sims was instead greeted by a homosexual face from the past: the insidious, ruddy complexion of ESR, the streetman named Eric that had fornicated him years ago! Yes, ESR was the dastardly Deutsch Gas Baron, and the Hitler Youth was nothing but a faggot recruiting front to satiate the twink-lust of ESR!
For the next six years, Michael Sims was almost constantly involved in some sort of homosexual activity, either sampling the famous gay bars of München, training recruits new to Raymond's Youth Corps (the facade of Hitler having since been dropped), or satisfying ESR's bottomless hunger for gay faggot cum-lusting sex. Michael was even one of the first Germans to contract HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
ESR's stake in Michael increased, as did Michael's lust for ESR's thin erect cock, until finally Michael had been made a general in ESR's diabolic Gas Barony. And it was at this time that Michael was given his very own life-long mission.
ESR needed someone that could take the literary world in their faggot hand and turn it to use f
Is it just my observation, or is eldavojohn an idiot?
Not for the articles: it's for the whiny, anguished comments that don't stop rolling in. So many people stamping their feet and sulking because they want the editors to "just stop. it's not funny" and the editors basically giving the middle finger to the brats and doing it anyways. Every year.
shouldn't affect the logistics of the chosen ones never ending holycost payperview depopulation jubulation mandate?
First comment compliant with RFC 6217, seriously go look...
If I was Gaddafi or Stalin, I'd ban April Fools Day
are trash.
The whole world paused today in honor of April 1st. There is absolutely no real news to post today.
Foot placed squarely in mouth since 1983.
I got most of that, but what the heck is a gas baron?
off topic but I have to say, these pulldowns in the main discussion are fucking annoying as hell. Is it me or does everyone else think theyre a terrible idea? It makes it much less easy to read and is quite a turnoff IMHO.
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.
in Buffoonery.
I have some very startling, very radical—some might say grungy—insights into Newt Gingrich's latest projects. Let me preface my discussion by quickly reasserting a familiar theme of my previous letters: I've known some nonentities who were impressively shallow. However, Gingrich is gormless and that trumps shallow every time. Ostensibly, he does not intend to conspire with evil but, in fact, one of his favorite tricks is to create a problem and then to offer the solution. Naturally, it's always his solutions that grant him the freedom to undermine liberty in the name of liberty, never the original problem.
In case you hadn't noticed, we have a dilemma of leviathan proportions on our hands: Should we bring important information about Gingrich's crass histrionics into the limelight, or is it sufficient to criticize the obvious incongruities presented by Gingrich and his flunkies? The key to answering such questions is to realize that for Gingrich, all roads lead to despotism. I find his demeanor and pomposity downright appalling. An equal but opposite observation is that I admit that I'm not perfect. I admit that I may have been a bit lawless when I stated that I don't think it would be unfair to say that Gingrich is clearly speaking through his hat when he says that he is known for his sound judgment, unerring foresight, and sagacious adaptation of means to ends. Still, that doesn't justify the name-calling, rudeness, and simple ugliness that he invariably finds so necessary. Nor does it justify Gingrich's sacrificing our essential liberties on the altar of political horse-trading. If Gingrich hadn't been shouting obscenities at passers-by, it simply would not have occurred to me to write the letter you now are reading. Why, I might have taken the day off altogether. Or maybe I would have been out making a cause célèbre out of exposing Gingrich's grievances for what they really are. In any case, Gingrich should clean up his act. Sadly, lack of space prevents me from elaborating further.
Didn't Gingrich tell his jackals that he wants to perpetuate myths that glorify radicalism? Did he first give any thought to what would happen if he did? Of course, that question is ridiculous—as ridiculous as his cold-blooded campaigns. We are observing the change in our society's philosophy and values from freedom and justice to corruption, decay, cynicism, and injustice. All of these "values" are artistically incorporated in one person: Newt Gingrich.
I suggest that we declare a truce with Gingrich and commence a dialogue. This right and truthful proposition, practically established, will help us raise several issues about his disgusting nostrums that are frequently missing from the drivel that masquerades for discourse on this topic. I will never give up. I will never stop trying. And I will use every avenue possible to tell it like it is.
Gingrich has been doing "in-depth research" (whatever he thinks that means) to prove that he can ignore rules, laws, and protocol without repercussion. I should mention that I've been doing some research of my own. So far, I've "discovered" that the facts as I see them simply do not support the false but widely accepted notion that superstition is no less credible than proven scientific principles. It would be bad enough if his lickspittles were merely trying to give rise to impudent lunatics. But their attempts to submerge us in a sea of revanchism are just plain repulsive. Is it just me, or do other people also think that Gingrich goes ga-ga for any type of metagrobolism you can think of? I ask because Gingrich has stated that it is patriotic to make a mockery of our most fundamentally held beliefs. That's just pure plagiarism. Well, in Gingrich's case, it might be pure ignorance, seeing that I must ask that Gingrich's surrogates bring meaning, direction, and purpose into our lives. I know they'll never do that so here's an alternate proposal: They should, at the very least, back off and quit trying to infringe upon our mos
Clearly the best, most thoroughly researched article I've ever read on slashdot. Bombastic micropiranhas! It's been a long time since I picked one of those out from between my teeth. Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "bleeding edge technology"...
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Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken. --- Bertrand Russell.
[examines fingernails] ... on second thought...
But can I get my RSS feeds delivered to me over RFC 6217?
I felt like I won the internet when I heard from the RFC Editor, now I feel like I won the bonus stage! Something I've been extremely nervous about is people pointing out the mistakes - I've currently realized two of them, both of them in the shower this morning. No one so far has pointed them out, but if anyone will find them, I imagine it will be /.
Thanks, Fool-slashcode!
I can't wait to add "Subtractionally" to our company's annoying lingo list.
The buzzword-ridden documents they put out couldn't possibly make any less sense as it is.
1) Solar-powered electricity fails on cloudy days.
2) IP-over-the-cloud fails on sunny days
3) ?????
4) Profit!
America is doomed - and I mean the US of A.
The Iron and Bamboo curtain fell and all of us are a commodity - people are a commodity. You see, the capitalists are promoting antiabortion. You know why? Because it promotes a larger and cheaper labor force.
We're all doomed. Got a six figure development job? Or a "software engineering (condescending snicker) job?
When you hit 40, you're a used up piece of shit.
Got a programming job at 50? Good for you! So, what it like programming 'C' on DOS?!? Your days are numbered - you old asshole!
Think about this asshole: what would you rather be: an out of work struggling asshole who's told that if he works harder he"could" get rich?
Or a somebitch in a "socialist country" who's out of work and at least getting something from the Government?
I've work my as off, started two - TWO- companies and worked my ass off 100+ hours a week and got FUCKED! FUCKED I SAY!
We're told a lie: "Work hard and there's rewards!" - NO THERE ISN'T!!! THERE ISN'T!! IT"S a REPUBLICAN LIE!!!
You work hard and you pay taxes to support big business welfare!
To my small business owner colleagues: Republicans are out for only big corporations! Only them!!!
Democrats? Pffft?
We need new parties! Ones that will represent us people - not big corporations!
Is lions, tigers and bears a reference to The Hyperion Cantos?
I just want my achievement!
Well, this little plan was already tried in Serial Experiments Lain. And we all know how that worked out.
Eurohacker European paranoia, gun rights, and h
It is possible to force air through a series of organic apertures in order to cause atmospheric vibrations which can then be interpreted into data. This can be used as the physical layer for a number of existing communication protocols.
"People are easily amused by quotes." - Some guy with a cool-sounding name.
The math all works out. Excessive use of this technology will result in an implosion of our Sun in 1x10-12 years.
THIS IS A TECHNOLOGY THAT MUST BE STOPPED! THE THREAT IS IMMINENT!
Tisha Hayes