On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Scott Sullivan <scott@ss.org> wrote: <snip>
Anyone else got some good hardcore comp-sci hummor?
NACK, NACK. Who's there? ATM. ATM who? NACK, NACK. "NACK" is a "negative acknowledgement", a very old communications protocol for "I don't understand". NACK usually forces a resynchronization or renegotiation between end points. ATM is "Asynchronous Transfer Mode"; a couple of decades ago it was a relatively high-speed packet technology that lost out to other technologies. - via <http://stackoverflow.com/a/1590009/773209> ... The TCP joke is a personal favourite: "Hi, I'd like to hear a TCP joke." "Hello, would you like to hear a TCP joke?" "Yes, I'd like to hear a TCP joke." "OK, I'll tell you a TCP joke." "Ok, I will hear a TCP joke." "Are you ready to hear a TCP joke?" "Yes, I am ready to hear a TCP joke." "Ok, I am about to send the TCP joke. It will last 10 seconds, it has two characters, it does not have a setting, it ends with a punchline." "Ok, I am ready to get your TCP joke that will last 10 seconds, has two characters, does not have an explicit setting, and ends with a punchline." "I'm sorry, your connection has timed out. Hello, would you like to hear a TCP joke?" ... There's a few good one-liners over at <http://attrition.org/misc/ee/protolol.txt>