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Net Traffic Shocks Mimic Earthquakes
belphegor writes "Technology Research News is running an article describing research linking the similarties between Earthquakes and Internet traffic. By pinging hosts across the network, researchers 'were able to measure frequent changes in Internet congestion...results showed that the Internet, like the earth's network of faults, exhibits criticality -- a condition of sudden and drastic change. "Sudden drastic congestion leads to a large value of the round trip time of the ping signal, which is identified with a main shock," said Abe. The researchers referred to these sudden, drastic traffic changes as Internetquakes.' They also saw 'aftershocks' that can be mathematically described in a similar manner to the seismic ones more familiar to many Californians."
maybe we'll get lucky and if we ping the .NET side enough it will fall into the ocean! :)
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I'm surprised that it isn't mentioned in the article. They are probably trying to patent it, I'm sure.
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Our company's webmaster has managed to exactly duplicate the San Andreas fault then. That box is shakier than California... oops, here comes another tremor now. Yup, reduced to rubble one more time.
One of these days I'll find some way to get the URL posted to Slashdot and I can see if computers really do burst into flame and shoot out showers of sparks like on the old Star Trek....
This would, of course, make /. the san andreas fault of the internet world. Causing havoc and destruction to small, unprepared villages up along the faultline.
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Is it just me or is this crap really stretching it. I think with 10 years and a good budget, I could write a convincing enough paper describing how cow feces is similar to chocolate.
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and the obligitory Windows Joke(tm)....
I guess that means all the WinNT servers represent the fault lines?
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Internet, Aug. 27, 2002 - The Technology Research News (www.trnmag.com), which recently wrote an article on how Net Traffic mimics earthquakes, experienced an earthquake that shattered their networks, and brought down their servers. The earthquake measure 8.4 on the CmdrTaco TEBCF scale (time elapsed before complete failure).
News Correspondent Kimberly Patch had this to say via her cell phone connection: "one minute we're up and working, next thing you know everything just went crazy. People were screaming and running out of the building. I tried to keep calm, but at one point, knowing the magnitude of things, I paniced and ran out of the building screaming bloody murder!"
A representative from OSDN was quoted as saying: "heh.. heh.. umm.. heh heh.. nice huh?".
Calls to slashdot.org were not immediately returned.
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(Score: +1 Funny, +1 Interesting, +1 Too Much Time on Hands)
perhaps a large upswing in the volume of people sending out useless ICMP traffic to measure this "phenomenon"? ;^)
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You know- I am so glad we dont have that technology- Imagine how many people get telefragged in a flash crowd.... Argggghhhh....
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