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Regional Broadcast Using an Atmospheric Link Layer

Posted by Soulskill on from the fired-up-about-new-tech dept.

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 grande may be unusable for a lengthy period, during which alternate arrangements must be made.' Additionally Bombastically Subtractionally Yo , 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' "

26 of 41 comments (clear)

  1. I love 4/1 on Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:I love 4/1 on Slashdot by Victor_0x53h · · Score: 1

      I can't even enjoy the joke articles. These drop downs cause me to read through this non-sense as if I were taking a serious test.

    2. Re:I love 4/1 on Slashdot by Amouth · · Score: 1

      pick - drop downs or PINK PONIES

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    3. Re:I love 4/1 on Slashdot by ZosX · · Score: 1

      guilty as charged! :)

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    4. Re:I love 4/1 on Slashdot by david_thornley · · Score: 3

      And today I got five mod points. I spent them primarily on people talking about spending mod points on April 1. It seemed appropriate.

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    5. Re:I love 4/1 on Slashdot by Amouth · · Score: 1

      Bad form but i correct my self - it was OMG PONIES

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  2. Frist! by hellkyng · · Score: 2

    First comment compliant with RFC 6217, seriously go look...

  3. real news by aztrailerpunk · · Score: 1

    The whole world paused today in honor of April 1st. There is absolutely no real news to post today.

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  4. What about 2D codes? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:What about 2D codes? by jonbryce · · Score: 1

      Also, I live in an area where atmospheric concentrations of dihidrogen monoxide are very high most of the time, which makes this unusable.

    2. Re:What about 2D codes? by e9th · · Score: 1
      From the RFC:

      Additionally, solar radiation conditions affect transmission in a predictable, cyclic manner. Depending on latitude, the medium may be unusable for a lengthy period, during which alternate arrangements must be made.

      Yes, the RFC's method has definite flaws. We set up a test network, then waited patiently until 3:06AM for perfect wind & cloud conditions before beginning our benchmarks. Nobody ever received a damned thing. Not one bip [binary puff]. We finally gave up an hour later.

    3. Re:What about 2D codes? by onemorechip · · Score: 1

      Spongebob, is that you?

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  5. Re:Off Topic by captinkid · · Score: 1

    I think they are quite funny and educational, and I for one welcome our pulltown textbox overlords.

  6. Bravo! by rgbatduke · · Score: 1

    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"...

    rgb

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  7. RSS feed by mmmmbeer · · Score: 1

    But can I get my RSS feeds delivered to me over RFC 6217?

  8. Holy shit I got slashdotted by Aviewanew · · Score: 1

    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 /.

    1. Re:Holy shit I got slashdotted by mcmonkey · · Score: 1

      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 /.


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  9. Additionally... by vlueboy · · Score: 1

    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.

  10. Now, more on topic... by vlueboy · · Score: 1

    1) Solar-powered electricity fails on cloudy days.
    2) IP-over-the-cloud fails on sunny days
    3) ?????
    4) Profit!

  11. Dropdown box by swebbx · · Score: 1

    Is lions, tigers and bears a reference to The Hyperion Cantos?

  12. When am I going to get it? by kyrio · · Score: 1

    I just want my achievement!

  13. Lain is your goddess by 10101001+10101001 · · Score: 1

    Well, this little plan was already tried in Serial Experiments Lain. And we all know how that worked out.

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  14. Alternative physical layer by ssfsx17 · · Score: 1

    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.

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    1. Re:Alternative physical layer by grcumb · · Score: 1

      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.

      Yep. I hacked one of these onto my cockatoo to provide fault tolerance for my IP Over Avian Carrier Network.

      Unfortunately, it's not safe from crackers.

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  15. Divisible by the sum of the integer of the quotien by Tisha_AH · · Score: 1

    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!

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  16. Re:Off Topic by igreaterthanu · · Score: 1

    I think it would be much better if they changed it for everyone, live. Perhaps only 1 in 1000 people would have rights to modify them.

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