Re: Covert Superhighway - the missing component? (fwd)
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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 17:36:13 -0800 Original-From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com> Subject: Re: Covert Superhighway - the missing component?
- CU-SeeMe reflectors are fun, and you can stego a lot of traffic inside your pictures.
The problem here is the processor overhead requied to take advantage of a high frame rate. The startup costs are gonna be a bear.
Adam Back's idea of piggybacking on gaming nets could be among the more interesting approaches, at least for games that don't have a central control system.
The problem here is that most gamers are responce-sensitive. They'll begin to wonder at some point where all that extra bandwidth is going. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make | | violent revolution inevitable. | | | | John F. Kennedy | | | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http://www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage@ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <199801150219.UAA03045@einstein.ssz.com>, on 01/14/98 at 08:18 PM, Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com> said:
The problem here is that most gamers are responce-sensitive. They'll begin to wonder at some point where all that extra bandwidth is going.
Heh, most of them are Win95 users. They should be well accustomed to unexplained degradation of performance by now. :) - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- Tag-O-Matic: Windows is to OS/2 what Etch-a-Sketch is to art. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a-sha1 Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNL1q9o9Co1n+aLhhAQFACwP9ExsGGgrivVAJ+TggfrVCxzSL0i2m6iHH BkOUo5OTTzwGVKxoXi20h+Eympe8jwDGRbl+KJvrkcXq/e4m9nHA9mGvac4pXEzR SjxU89vR3CA9/0GDhqOHEh5VWa4uHsrnhKxXKtVhHxy7Bq1a8QvynXH6MKoCKyN6 vjc7ctcoqzg= =oeyT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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