Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> But I hear some PhD somewhere managed to make a technology that 
> transfers data using human skin as the connecting medium. As the 
> reviewer put it, "this raises the disturbing possibility that users 
> could transfer data from one to another while having sex".

  I really don't understand what's so disturbing about that.

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>> "this raises the disturbing possibility that users
>> could transfer data from one to another while having sex".
> 
> Huh. And all along, I thought that's what sex was for.

Indeed. The transfer of digital data. (It even has a simple 
error-correction mechanism.)

I wonder what the, uh, "upload rate" is? Taking into account all the 
redundancy in the data, it's gotta be pretty large. (Terribly latency 
though.)

...sorry, what were we talking about?

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Warp wrote:
> Before the digital disc (DVD) there was an analog magnetic tape (VHS),

And between those... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laserdisc

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