Re: [LINK] RFI: Boomerang Traffic

2014-04-29 Thread Frank O'Connor
Mmmm, In theory the any given data path should correspond with the lowest hop-count, but this rarely applies in today's modern and private networks. I used to note that my traffic to the US and Europe got routed through West Australia and the Indo-Chinese/Japanese routers when I was with

[LINK] Flash drives in the sea?

2014-04-29 Thread Stephen Loosley
YESTERDAY, the aerial search for floating debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was called off, and an underwater search based on possible locator beacon signals was completed without success. Although efforts to find the missing aircraft have not been abandoned, Angus Houston, the man in

Re: [LINK] Flash drives in the sea?

2014-04-29 Thread Jan Whitaker
At 08:42 PM 29/04/2014, Stephen Loosley wrote: When so much is connected to the Internet, why is the aerospace industry using technology that predates fax machines to look for flash drives in the sea? Good question. Answer: the same reason they didn't switch to long-life batteries after the

Re: [LINK] Flash drives in the sea?

2014-04-29 Thread Jim Birch
On 29 April 2014 20:42, Stephen Loosley step...@melbpc.org.au wrote: The more than 50-day operation, which the Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott, calls “probably the most difficult search in human history... Probably one of the more ridiculous bits of hyperbole to be emitted from the

Re: [LINK] Flash drives in the sea?

2014-04-29 Thread Chris Maltby
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 09:48:10AM +1000, Jim Birch wrote: John Franklin's search for the North West Passage when the entire ships crew perished after two years despite resorting to cannibalism doesn't rate? The search for the great south land? ... The search for evidence of the fate of the

Re: [LINK] Flash drives in the sea?

2014-04-29 Thread Jim Birch
On 30 April 2014 12:47, Chris Maltby ch...@sw.oz.au wrote: Lasseter's reef? The Higgs boson? (Like 40 years and €7.5B) ___ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link

Re: [LINK] Flash drives in the sea?

2014-04-29 Thread Bernard Robertson-Dunn
On 30/04/2014 1:31 PM, Jim Birch wrote: On 30 April 2014 12:47, Chris Maltby ch...@sw.oz.au wrote: Lasseter's reef? The Higgs boson? (Like 40 years and €7.5B) Noah's ark? Of course it might not exist, in which case the search will probably go on and on and on -- Regards brd Bernard