[identity profile] mizkit.livejournal.com 2009-09-10 10:58 am (UTC)(link)
That's awesome. :)

[identity profile] bellinghman.livejournal.com 2009-09-10 11:51 am (UTC)(link)
There's also the '747 full of DVDs' example.

Of course, latency sucks, badly.
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[identity profile] bellinghman.livejournal.com 2009-09-10 11:04 am (UTC)(link)
Actually, not quite, since it wasn't working with datagrams.

But RFC1149 has been implemented.

[identity profile] korenwolf.livejournal.com 2009-09-10 11:15 am (UTC)(link)
Damm I was about to post the same story :)

[identity profile] bellinghman.livejournal.com 2009-09-10 12:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, the Beeb and the Reg both did before me, so why not?

[identity profile] sbp.livejournal.com 2009-09-10 11:44 am (UTC)(link)
Your latency is terrible though.

[identity profile] bellinghman.livejournal.com 2009-09-10 11:52 am (UTC)(link)
VoIP ... speak ... very ... very ... slowly

[identity profile] khrister.livejournal.com 2009-09-10 12:26 pm (UTC)(link)
William Shatner, is that you?

[identity profile] jon-a-five.livejournal.com 2009-09-10 12:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Hack the pigeon,
Hack the pigeon,
Hack that pigeon nowwwwwwwww!

[identity profile] aardvark179.livejournal.com 2009-09-10 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
So... An Albatross with an SSD drive for communicating with your offshore data centre?

[identity profile] bellinghman.livejournal.com 2009-09-10 02:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm. Dolphins may be better all-weather options. And they'd have higher capacity, I guess.

[identity profile] silly-swordsman.livejournal.com 2009-09-10 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, but they'd have to be clad in tinfoil to deflect the laser beams from the sharks.

[identity profile] sharikkamur.livejournal.com 2009-09-10 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I suspect we'd use trained ravens for data transmission here. After all, they are a tried and tested technology with a numinous user base.

[identity profile] bellinghman.livejournal.com 2009-09-10 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Probably less prone to packet loss in that environment.

(edit: I was thinking of the pigeons, rather than your local tendency to consider dolphins as food.)

Hmm, mixed protocols: given both pigeon and raven based networks, do the ravens interfere with the pigeons?
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[identity profile] sharikkamur.livejournal.com 2009-09-10 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I think that depends on how hungry the ravens are.