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    Image of The Curse of Millhaven The Curse of Millhaven
    10/10/09

    In reply to UNICEF's Toy Soldiers To Help Real Kids
    So UNICEF supports the use of child soldiers. That's what I got out of this.
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    Image of ellipsis18 ellipsis18
    10/08/09

    In reply to UNICEF's Toy Soldiers To Help Real Kids
    One of my earliest memories was receiving a care package with a few toys for Christmas in a refugee camp. It came with a small red F1 hot wheels car and you can't believe how valuable and treasured that toy is to me. UNICEF and other humanitarian organizations always have a place in my heart because of it.
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    Image of laxmax613 laxmax613
    10/08/09

    In reply to UNICEF's Toy Soldiers To Help Real Kids
    no guns=fail
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    Image of jakebathman jakebathman
    10/08/09

    @laxmax613: You want kids to have guns?
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    Image of graceless graceless
    09/10/09

    In reply to Bird Beats Broadband! Pigeon Flies 4GBs Faster than South African DSL
    The old ways are still best.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    09/10/09

    In reply to Bird Beats Broadband! Pigeon Flies 4GBs Faster than South African DSL
    RIAA puts tawny eagle on payroll. "WTF" cries file sharers.
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    Edited by Kaiser-Machead at 09/10/09 12:03 PM Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of CaseyG CaseyG
    09/10/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Darn those thieving kids and their Pigeon2Pigeon networks!
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    FigNinja promoted this comment CaseyG was starred CaseyG was unstarred
    Image of DennisLulu DennisLulu
    09/10/09

    In reply to Bird Beats Broadband! Pigeon Flies 4GBs Faster than South African DSL
    Looks like RFC 1149 was finally implemented!
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    FigNinja promoted this comment Joanna Stern approved this comment DennisLulu was starred DennisLulu was unstarred
    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    09/10/09

    In reply to Bird Beats Broadband! Pigeon Flies 4GBs Faster than South African DSL
    worthless expiriment.
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    Edited by Geisrud at 09/10/09 11:34 AM Geisrud was starred Geisrud was unstarred
    Image of Moffitt Moffitt
    09/10/09

    @Geisrud: It's meant to prove a point.
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    Geisrud promoted this comment Moffitt was starred Moffitt was unstarred
    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    09/10/09

    @Moffitt: But does it prove a point? does the company frequently send 4GB file transfers, to that same spot? Is the pigeon reliable (so what if it got there one time, does it have error checking to make sure it gets there every time). What if the distance was twice as far, or 100x as far. Data transfer times would be roughly the same - not so for the bird.

    I can "prove a point" if I want to and create an experiment that will prove it for me.
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    Image of met2art met2art
    09/10/09

    In reply to Bird Beats Broadband! Pigeon Flies 4GBs Faster than South African DSL
    My piegeon-based Birdband connection is great, but it keeps eating my BitTorrent seeds.
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    Image of IronDiggy IronDiggy
    09/10/09

    In reply to Bird Beats Broadband! Pigeon Flies 4GBs Faster than South African DSL
    I wonder what the packet loss is like with pigeonband.
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    Reil: Ignore this approved this comment IronDiggy was starred IronDiggy was unstarred
    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    09/10/09

    In reply to Bird Beats Broadband! Pigeon Flies 4GBs Faster than South African DSL
    Errr....

    Sitting on my 1.5 Mbps connection at home, I'm pretty sure that pigeon would beat my transfer speeds on a distance of sixty miles, too.
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    Image of Canadian Impostor Canadian Impostor
    09/10/09

    In reply to Bird Beats Broadband! Pigeon Flies 4GBs Faster than South African DSL
    What's the old saying? "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of hard drives"?
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    TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment Canadian Impostor was starred Canadian Impostor was unstarred
    Image of TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H. TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H.
    09/10/09

    @Canadian Impostor: Yup. and it's still equally relevant today. With 2TB HDDs you can get a lot of data into a truck.
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    Image of jetRink jetRink
    09/10/09

    In reply to Bird Beats Broadband! Pigeon Flies 4GBs Faster than South African DSL
    Believe it or not, there is a Wikipedia article on this. Proponents of IP over Avian Carriers concede their technology suffers from high packet loss and latency. [en.wikipedia.org]
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    Image of FriarNurgle FriarNurgle
    09/10/09

    In reply to Bird Beats Broadband! Pigeon Flies 4GBs Faster than South African DSL
    HTTP = Hypertext Transfer Pigeon?
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    TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment FriarNurgle was starred FriarNurgle was unstarred
    Image of Homerjay is utterly alone. Homerjay is utterly alone.
    09/13/09

    @FriarNurgle: Looks like your comment has been picked up by FOx.
    [www.myfoxboston.com]

    If that's not good enough for a star, I don't know what is.
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    Image of phunnyballs phunnyballs
    09/10/09

    In reply to Bird Beats Broadband! Pigeon Flies 4GBs Faster than South African DSL
    Does this make anyone else REALLY want a pigeon of their own?
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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    09/10/09

    In reply to Bird Beats Broadband! Pigeon Flies 4GBs Faster than South African DSL
    Does the bird Twitter?
    I’d love to hear it’s Tweets.
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    Image of Homerjay is utterly alone. Homerjay is utterly alone.
    09/13/09

    @Software_Goddess: Looks like your comment was picked up by Fox.
    [www.myfoxboston.com]
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