Meshing costs, the price of RAH's battery

Tyler Durden camera_lumina at hotmail.com
Sat Apr 10 16:27:57 PDT 2004


"A car is not what's meant by "mobile".  Think handsets, laptops, PDAs
with self-contained power."

Yes, of course. I assumed that was obvious. And of course, with a car the 
PDA could be powered off of the cigarette lighter. Those weren't really 
germane to my point.

-TD


>From: "Major Variola (ret)" <mv at cdc.gov>
>To: "cypherpunks at al-qaeda.net" <cypherpunks at al-qaeda.net>
>Subject: Re: Meshing costs, the price of RAH's battery
>Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 10:36:28 -0700
>
>At 11:32 AM 4/10/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
> >"So, get a clue.  When your battery runs out, you
> >get *zero* benefit from the mesh.  Or even your local
> >device *sans network*."
> >
> >Well, as usual I don't think I'm understanding you here. In my example
>I'm
> >imagining I'm a livery cab driver or something. In that case,
>instantaneous
> >micro-traffic-conditions can be very valuable in NYC.
>
>A car represents abundant power.  RF issues aside, may as
>well be fixed & mains powered.
>
>A car is not what's meant by "mobile".  Think handsets, laptops, PDAs
>with self-contained power.
>
>
>

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