[109358] in Cypherpunks
RE: PC Computing Online: Bombshell
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Sat Mar 20 14:32:29 1999
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 23:54:35 -0800
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <A5ECBED1A258D2118F1100105A0205BD0296D3@thumper.cognex.com>
Reply-To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
At 12:08 PM 3/18/99 -0500, Adam Wagman wrote:
>Before anyone goes ballistic over that article:
>It's an April fool's joke (as you'll find if you follow the links).
Decent voice compression can get you to ~5kbps per second,
which is 1.8MB/hour. Not that Win95 doesn't randomly suck down
30MB of swap space when you just try to start Outlook, but
you'd still notice 40MB/day of disk vanishing.
Of course "They" could suck that down the Ethernet and hide it on the
disk and copy to tape drive without you noticing,
but any organization that did that could do a competent job of
running backups, unlike our corporate PC admin staff at work :-)
And besides, the Computer Freedom Foundation would get on their case....
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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