RE: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA
One might be able to fab computers at small scale (FPGA, organic transistors via inkjet, whatever), but it will be tough to create global networks using just overlapping patches of wireless. Especially, if rogue wireless will be rather illegal.
UUCP will work as long as people can talk over telephone and there are modems available. The harder and more inconvenient it becomes to connect the higher average IQ of participants will be. There is hope. Just imagine the absence of short-attention span morons that find uucp too complicated. Ask around. ===== end (of original message) Y-a*h*o-o (yes, they scan for this) spam follows: Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com
On Saturday 03 August 2002 05:12 pm, Morlock Elloi wrote:
UUCP will work as long as people can talk over telephone and there are modems available. The harder and more inconvenient it becomes to connect the higher average IQ of participants will be.
There is hope.
Just imagine the absence of short-attention span morons that find uucp too complicated. Ask around.
But if WorldCom disolves in bankruptcy, will UUNet still be the center of the bang-path universe? More seriously, I think many of us old-timers long for the time when a certain level of wizardry was required to get on the net. (before Prodigy and the September that Never Ended) -- Roy M. Silvernail [ ] roy@scytale.com (formerly uunet!comcon!cybrspc!roy) DNRC Minister Plenipotentiary of All Things Confusing, Software Division PGP Key 0x1AF39331 : 71D5 2EA2 4C27 D569 D96B BD40 D926 C05E Key available from pubkey@scytale.com I charge to process unsolicited commercial email
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