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How To Communicate Faster-Than-Light

Posted by Unknown on from the tiny-wormholes-of-course dept.

higuita writes "With faster technologies showing up everyday, people need to prepare in advance the problems of faster-than-light communication. The main problem is that packages will arrive to the destination before they are sent, forcing a huge redesign of most protocols. Read here the first draft RFC. Any network expert is free to help fine tune this draft."

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  1. April fools again? by donscarletti · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is there some tradition in some parts of the world to make an ass of oneself on the second of April too?

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    1. Re:April fools again? by mooingyak · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It's still 1/4 in the states.

      Well, no. In the states it's 4/1.

      All of Europe should be on 2/4 by now though.

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    2. Re: April fools again? by Nodsnarb · · Score: 5, Funny

      There's a world outside the United States? Do they have Baconaise too?

    3. Re:April fools again? by thegarbz · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Quite frankly I'm surprised Slashdot is able to get April Fools articles out at all.

      I come here every year expecting to hear about {insert Google joke of the year} on April 3rd after every other news outlet had published it, and then again a dupe on April 5th.

    4. Re:April fools again? by isorox · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's still 1/4 in the states.

      Well, no. In the states it's 4/1.

      All of Europe should be on 2/4 by now though.

      See, if the US switched to metric, we wouldn't have these miscommunications...

      I can believe FTL communication, even FTL travel, but the US moving to metric? April fools are meant to be believable.