Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/08/02/trebinje.html
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Tantalizingly vague about what happened to the pigeons, there.
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At the very least they could set up a fancy pigeon program/club. Even if the pigeons wouldn’t be used to deliver post pigeons are/can be used to “race” (ie: releasing them away from their home and timing how long it takes them to get back).
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Someday, pigeons may be a necessity to avoid censorship. Fortunately the data standard has already been published: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149
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Wouldn’t it be funny to get a paper letter reminder from your internet provider, asking you to sign up for electronic billing statements, delivered by carrier pigeon? I think it would be worth it just for that.
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Maybe if you don’t remember to pay your bill. If you didn’t get your bill electronically, maybe they can try more old school methods to contact you.
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We take for granted that if we were sent 100 years into the future, many things would be weird and catch us off-guard. I think we may actually be more shocked, if we were transported 100 years into the past.
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If security is among your concerns, better use the IPv6 version: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6214
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Those poor villagers could get porn delivered by pidgeon on a thumb drive.
http://www.piattoforte.it/fileadmin/processed/csm_crop_43_piccioni-ripieniImg6888_df5eb4e8ea.jpg
I have an idea.
I have eaten roasted pigeon once. it was enough for me
Not for me. They’re not very substantial.
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Everyting old is new again, from time to time at least: https://blog.fieldnotesontheweb.com/2009/09/classic-software-engineering-and-mighty.html compares the bandwidth of pigeon vs. broadband, with pigeons winning in some cases.
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Hmm, I like squab, but it has to be properly prepared. Roast it like a chicken, and it’ll be horribly dry. At the very least bard it with some sort of fat (lean bacon will do) because a squab has a lot less fat than a chicken. And avoid overcooking the thing, which is tricky with little birdies. If you go by internal temperature, remember that the internal temperature will continue to rise for a short while when the birds are out of the oven.
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Pidgeon porn, it’s not what you think.
As in L.P. Hartley’s famous quote “The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.”
Although Douglas Adams in the Hitchhikers’ books had time travel leading to the spread of anachronistic technology and said “The past is a foreign country. They do things exactly the same there”.
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And let us say, they HOME in on their target. They do not HONE in on a target. How often do we hear that error? So often. Very bad.
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How does this mitigate the inevitable ddos attacks by falconers?
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“I did not shoot and eat this delicious, plump-breasted pigeon.”
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More pigeons. The other alternative is dynamite.
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The OP talked about censorship. IPv6 does not cure all security risks. Okay, so we need a pigeon loadbalancer. I guess this will introduce even more latency…
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