Editing 190: IPoD
Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
The edit can be undone.
Please check the comparison below to verify that this is what you want to do, and then save the changes below to finish undoing the edit.
Latest revision | Your text | ||
Line 4: | Line 4: | ||
| title = IPoD | | title = IPoD | ||
| image = ipod.png | | image = ipod.png | ||
− | | titletext = For smaller numbers he has to SAVE lives. The birthrate channel is even more of a mixed bag. | + | | titletext = For smaller numbers he has to SAVE lives. The birthrate channel is even more of a mixed bag. |
}} | }} | ||
==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | {{w|Internet Protocol|IP}} is one of the main protocols of the Internet | + | {{w|Internet Protocol|IP}} is one of the two main protocols of the Internet - the other being {{w|Transmission Control Protocol|TCP}}. |
− | + | [[Black Hat]] (and other statisticians) are using demographics as IP packets to send data. In order to adjust the death rate to encode the header, Black Hat plans to travel to New Jersey and go on a killing spree with a crossbow, instead of merely hacking the census bureau's computers. Such antics could only be used to ''increase'' | |
+ | the death rate, decreasing it would require saving lives instead as mentioned in the title text. Also as mentioned, birth rates would be trickier to maanipulate. | ||
− | + | Crossbows were also mentioned in [[564: Crossbows]]. | |
− | [ | + | ==Transcript== |
+ | :[Character 1 - wearing a black hat - sits at a computer. Character 2 stands behind Character 1] | ||
+ | :Character 1: You see, statisticians communicate using IPoD -- IP over Demographics. For example, the header of the next packet I send will be encoded into the New Jersey death rate. | ||
+ | :Character 2: So you're going to hack the census bureau and change the number of reported deaths? | ||
+ | :Character 1: Guess again. | ||
+ | :Character 1: Hey, have you seen my crossbow? | ||
− | |||
− | |||
− | |||
− | |||
− | |||
− | |||
− | |||
− | |||
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
+ | <!-- Include any categories below this line--> | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Black Hat]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Black Hat]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
− | [[Category:Crossbows]] | + | <!-- [[Category:Crossbows]] uncomment when created --> |