[92782] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Broadband ISPs taxed for "generating light energy"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Wed Oct 11 14:17:29 2006
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:16:05 -0400
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Joseph S D Yao <jsdy@center.osis.gov>
Cc: Joe Loiacono <jloiacon@csc.com>, nanog@nanog.org,
owner-nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20061011175717.GA32219@core.center.osis.gov>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:57:17 -0400, Joseph S D Yao <jsdy@center.osis.gov>
wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 11:36:41AM -0400, Joe Loiacono wrote:
> > Notice the date: October 10. That is the Indian equivalent of our April 1.
>
>
> Ah. Culture clash. Therefore the story can be relegated to the same
> coop as the IP-carrying pigeons.
>
> The sole justification for asking this is to help us all remember this
> for any further similar postings that might otherwise cause lengthy and
> weighty discussions on something so lightweight.
>
> Why is 10 October their 01 April?
>
It's 10/10, which if viewed as the binary number 1010 is 10 base 10.
Surely that has to mean something! (Well, I just made it up, but it
sounds goodd....)
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
