Yet another BBC news story ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/africa/8248056.stm
A funny story about a disgruntled broadband customer having a whack at the phone company for providing poor service. Thought I'd share.
They exaggerate the slowness of internet in South Africa a bit. I, and most of my friends, have 1 gig adsl lines and they work fine more than most of the time :D
Could've also strung a 320 gig harddrive around two pidgeon's necks and I'm sure it would have beaten anything ;)
it's slow and expensive. :'(
Welcome back Mordy. :)
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Main problem using pigeons: lots of dropped packets.
And it's vulnerable to a cat-in-the-middle attack.
Of course, you could create a nice P2P (pigeon-to-pigeon) network, given that you have enough seeds and the size of the swarm is sufficient.
They survive routing problems and power shortages though. ;)
Me and a couple of friends thought of doing a similar thing using a bike, from Melbourne to Sydney.
I guess the hot potatoe system could be very effective.
What the---? A pigeon just landed on my window with a message rolled up on his leg.
It says... "Please post two INGAME screenshots or I'm going to lock this thread."
???
LOL
It's been done (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.html) - officially (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2549.html).
Yes, also publiced on a special day ;)
Oooh, the spec talks about built-in worm detection, I'm convinced, I'm switching to pigeons!
Does anybody know of a good pigeon provider (with a friendly API)?