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Just poking this thread. Wondering where the MSM fit into this tiered structure. A few years ago now I did a lot of research into firbre optic networks. Specifically big ones. Ones that might cover a whole continent. This was maybe 8 years ago. The capacity of these networks was..... lets say impressive. That was then. We might say, thats not surprising if that network was say, NASA or maybe the Defence guys. So what? we would say. What if it wasn't a government network? Would we be surprised they had access to this level of network capability? You hear of facilities that easily store the whole library of something like congress. Storage is one thing. What if you could move that archive from one side of the continent to the other in a matter of a couple hours. What other organisations might want to transmit rather large volumes of data in a matter of a couple hours or less! I'm asking questions I know the answers to but sometimes it pays to be oblique.
How much data can you transmit via satellite? Is it as much as fibre optic? |
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yeah the deep deep stuff. It used to be easier. Back 15 and a bit years ago. Just on the edge where we flipped over into www and hyper text markup language world (HTML). Before that/this system came into existence there were other techniques and methods of interneting. Bulletin boards and that kind of thing. Before things like forums they were called bulletin boards. They are still there. You just need other tools to access them. Early on you could get to them in a web browser (netscape 2.0). Probably many can still be accessed this way, so long as the protocols are still supported. I don't know. I don't dabble any more. Newsnet, gopher, telnet, lynx, IRC are appropriate tools Many have overlays on them so they look like modern windows applications. The underlying protocols are still there. So this deeper web type of thing is probably more accurate to describe as Older Web. Like a city that builds on top of ruins from an earlier time and you end up with layer after layer and an archeologist would dig through those layers looking back into time. The internet is much the same. There are some dark places out there. I spent a bit of time shining the light around so LEO could see what was going on. Had a few successes. Some despicable people got sorted. Some got protected. Messing with kids is wrong.
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most people don't know this, but every microsoft product embeds your mac address in to the file. that copy of office xp you downloaded off pirate bay? yeah, every document you create has your mac address in it. the save file from whatever microsoft game you downloaded? yep, it's i there as well. i imagine other publishers do this as well, i can only vouch for the microsoft knowledge. they know you "stole" it. I remember about the intel chip id, thought that sucked at the time... Wouldn't trust any program I downloaded to clear me enough to go to those depths. Not that its too tempting to me. |
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There is a "SirBonzo" in that thread.
That's a bit weird. |
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