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US Navy drops all-caps communication requirement
- MartinMcGirk 13y agoI read a comment on here a fortnight or so ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5761783 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5761783) about how all-caps messages send faster over slower systems. I thought it was interesting that the US navy has recently dropped this requirement.
- astrodust 13y agoCommunications technology has advanced to the point where most systems have the bandwidth to handle streaming video, even on submarines in the middle of the Pacific. All-caps over long-wave, low-bandwidth connections will probably be a back-up method of communication at this point. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_with_submarines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_with_submarines)
- chiph 13y agoI guess this means that Baudot is finally dead.