Actually, if you knew Morse code you would know that it is SOS, an in-band signal consisting of ...---... not the letters S-O-S.
As far as being trapped in a building, any regular pattern of bangs is going to be picked up and acted on. On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Jorge Amodio <jmamo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <hal...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> +1 >> >> Since nobody was using teleprinters 500 years ago the introduction of >> them here as a point of difference is ridiculous. >> >> And the idea that HTML is any less stable than the hacks people have >> developed to make non-ASCII characters work in ASCII is totally >> absurd. We can reasonably expect that within the next ten, twenty >> years, handwriting recognition will render such hacks obsolete and the >> memory of them will be as obscure as Morse code is today. > > I'd love to see you trapped in a basement after an earthquake with > only a stick trying to remember how to tap S-O-S. > > Hard to believe but Morse is still in use and required for certain > classes of radio operators. > > Cheers > Jorge > -- -- New Website: http://hallambaker.com/ View Quantum of Stupid podcasts, Tuesday and Thursday each week, http://quantumofstupid.com/ _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
