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Podcast: The Stephen Wolfram Podcast
Episode: Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [January 21, 2022]
Description: Stephen Wolfram answers general questions from his viewers about science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here:Â https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa
Questions include: ​If traceroute was disabled, or if all servers refused to send TTL expirations, would there be a way to trace internet traffic? Or would the internet be untraceable, kind of analogous to a TOR network? - ​Can you describe how packets get dropped? Is there a decision made, a timeout, or some physically-mediated loss? Are there different implementations for routers / servers? - ​Would love to hear about the lim...