OT: Location and GPS

From: vance_at_neurotica.com <(vance_at_neurotica.com)>
Date: Sun Feb 2 03:27:58 2003

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Stuart Johnson wrote:

> > > It's 2003. Can't the government use some lowercase letters for
> > > fuck's sake?
> >
> > BUT THE ALL-UPPERCASE USED IN THESE MESSAGES IS A REMNANT
> > FROM THE DAWN OF THE COMPUTING AND THE USE OF TELETYPES!
> > WHAT SORT OF CLASSIC COMPUTER HOBBYIST ARE YOU, ANYWAY!?
> >
> > HEY JEFF, CAN YOU ADD A RULE TO YOUR DEMIME FILTER TO
> > MAKE IT SO THAT ALL OF THE MESSAGES ARE TRANSLATED INTO
> > UPPERCASE? WE'RE WASTING PRECIOUS BANDWIDTH WITH ALL OF
> > THIS BULKY 7 BIT ASCII CRAP.
> >
> > DAMN KIDS THESE DAYS, WITH THEIR PANSY-ASS-KEY TERMINALS.
> > GET OFFA MY LAWN!
> >
> > -BRIAN.
>
> Brian,
>
> How about we punch all of our messages on to cards and post PNG images of
> the cards for you die-hard types to decode and enjoy? Alternatively, we
> could post messages in Motorola or Intel paper tape format - that might be
> fun for you too!
>
> :-)

How about this: I'll just send my messages as usual, but instead of
ASCII, I'll encode in EBCDIC. It wouldn't be too hard to do. 8-)

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Sun Feb 02 2003 - 03:27:58 GMT