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Comment by sp332

8 years ago

With everyone's phones receiving and parsing that, batteries would die very quickly.

Pagers parse every single page. They only alert you when it's to your address. /napkin is just that, if you designed the protocol this would be very doable. The receiver can passively listen quite cheaply energy wise. This is nothing like decoding a video stream.

  • And ethernet and 802.11 receive every frame, whether it's addressed to the equipment or not.