ARPANET

The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was an early packet switching network and the first network to implement the protocol suite TCP/IP. Both technologies became the technical foundation of the Internet. ARPANET was initially funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the United States Department of Defense.

Packet switching was based on concepts and designs by Americans Leonard Kleinrock and Paul Baran, British scientist Donald Davies and Lawrence Roberts of the Lincoln Laboratory. The TCP/IP communications protocols were developed for ARPANET by computer scientists Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf, and incorporated concepts by Louis Pouzin for the French CYCLADES project.

History

Packet switching—today the dominant basis for data communications worldwide—was a new concept at the time of the conception of the ARPANET. Prior to the advent of packet switching, both voice and data communications had been based on the idea of circuit switching, as in the traditional telephone circuit, wherein each telephone call is allocated a dedicated, end to end, electronic connection between the two communicating stations. Such stations might be telephones or computers. The (temporarily) dedicated line is typically composed of many intermediary lines which are assembled into a chain that stretches all the way from the originating station to the destination station. With packet switching, a data system could use a single communication link to communicate with more than one machine by collecting data into datagrams and transmitting these as packets onto the attached network link, as soon as the link becomes idle. Thus, not only can the link be shared, much as a single post box can be used to post letters to different destinations, but each packet can be routed independently of other packets.

Gerald Donald

Gerald Donald is a Detroit techno producer and artist. With James Stinson he formed the afrofuturist techno duo Drexciya, and he is the main member of Dopplereffekt.

Biography/career

Donald is notoriously silent on himself and even his involvement with various musical projects. In a 2013 interview, when asked about his anonymity and his work with James Stinson and Drexciya, he said, "I will not directly indicate my involvement in any project. I will leave this question open to observer interpretation. The most important thing has always been the music and concept itself. I adhere to this philosophy. People spend way too much time engaging personalities rather than the music that’s accompanying that personality". Frequently referred to as an afrofuturist, he said he "do[es] not wish to specify any particular ethnicity".

With Drexciya, he made techno music on which an afrofuturist mythology was built, involving the Drexciyans, an underwater race, "the descendants of the African women thrown overboard in the transatlantic slave trade". Their songs had marine and maritime themes and titles; live, they appeared only masked.

Arpanet (The Americans)

"Arpanet" is the seventh episode of the second season of the American television drama series The Americans, and the 20th overall episode of the series. It originally aired on FX in the United States on April 9, 2014.

Plot

After consulting with Arkady and Oleg, and with the promise of coaching from Oleg, Nina tells Stan that she will take the FBI's polygraph test. Oleg suggests a few techniques including that she visualize him in the room as well as clenching her anus. During the polygraph rest, the FBI asks if she knows who killed Vlad. She answers yes while looking at Stan knowingly. After she passes, she declines Stan's offer to get her out of the embassy, saying that she will be able to help him more after she is read into the Illegals Program. Later Nina and Oleg celebrate this triumph by having sex in a hotel room.

Kate relays orders for Philip to bug the ARPANET. Philip recruits the help of Duluth. Posting as a journalist, he first meets with a computer scientist at a university to learn the detail of ARPANET. Later, Philip disguising as a janitor breaks into the university to plant the bug. However, one of the computer workers stumbles on his activities, and it is implied that Philip kills him. Philip later scolds Duluth after Duluth rhapsodizes about "developing a jones for that sort of thing".

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Majesty

by: Warpaint

Majesty Warpaint
When I'll hold your hand
When I held your hand
When I helped you
When I held your hand
You still went the other way
And you wanted me to stay
With my arms stretching away
With my arms stretching away
I coulnd't stand outside
Cause I adore your face
I adore your face
Could it be light harm
The same, could it be
I'm your mirror
Shall we we all those things
That you never wanted to face
So you let me slip away
You just watched me walk away
And I just have to ask
Do you know your fate?
Do you know your fate?
Could it be that
I'm your
Could it be that
You are my
Majesty
When it all comes back
When it all falls into place
Could it be that
I don't want it anyways
Could it be
There was a day we used to laugh
And I wanted you by my side
The perfect match
I don't understand
The perfect match
Could it be that
I'm your
Could it be that
You are my
Majesty
You could have been marquis
You could have been marquis
You could have been marquis




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