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Hark! I Hear a Dropped Packet!
aarondsouza writes "The New Scientist has an article about Chris Chafe, a cellist and director of the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University in California, who has the idea that one can use sound as an audible measure of the health of an internet connection. By sending a bunch of sound pulses across the line and measuring echo time, an average ping time of 10ms would be heard as a 100Hz tone. The idea is that the human ear is much more sensitive to variations in pitch, and thus "listening" to the connection would be a better indicator of its health. The article is short on technical specs but the project page (SoundWIRE) has more."
atleast wait until it leaves the front page before reprinting the same story
Steve Hayman did something like this 11 years ago...
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we only have enough money to run a story once a day.... seriously, is there something wrong with the slashcode or a virus or something? These dupes are getting out of hand here...
"....sound as an audible measure..."
What other options do we have as an audible measure? Hmmm?
...my ping time is so high only my dog can hear it.
Slashdot has bowled three strikes today...err duplicates:
1. Duplicate Original
2. Duplicate Original
3. Duplicate Original Happy turkey slashdot!
It's GROOOUNDHOG DAAAY
enjoy the trip
trips
tripping
Hmmmm, I guess rms should target God as the largest producer of closed-source software in the Universe?)
We've done a good job of reverse-engineering it for the most part; hopefully He doesn't slap the human race with a DMCA lawsuit.
Methinks Slashdot needs a system to audibly alert the editors when they are about to post a dupe. The closer together, the higher the noise. And if the original is still on the main page, it plays a very load klaxon.
:D
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
--Aristotle
I get it, on April 1st all the stories are false; On Thanksgiving the stories are dupes.
Does consuming gigantic quantities of turkey and dressing cause this -- I demand a study.
...sysadmins will begin carrying metronomes and tuners?
"I'm sorry, but your NIC seems to be running a quarter-step sharp."
*hides*
I don't see any dupes. wtf are you talking about?
--C0D3X
I don't see any dupes. wtf are you talking about?
--C0D3X
I don't see any dupes. wtf are you talking about?
--C0D3X
I don't see any dupes. wtf are you talking about?
--C0D3X
I don't see any dupes. wtf are you talking about?
--C0D3X
Unfortunately it is free-beer, as the source is not available. Hmmmm, I guess rms should target God as the largest producer of closed-source software in the Universe?
As much as I hate RMS, I have to say that he works pretty much the same way God does; compare, for example, the source code to Emacs with the human genetic code. Both are available to anybody who wants to look at them, both are vast, and both are completely incomprehensible without doing a huge amount of analysis, deduction, and plain old guessing.
Maybe RMS is on to something after all. Release the source, but make sure before you do that it's utterly useless to anybody but yourself. After all, if the code were well documented and easy to understand, there'd be no need for the author of it.
(Hmm. If the world were well documented and easy to understand, there'd be no need for God. Uh-oh. Dangerously close to being profound here. Better bail out while there's still time.)
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I nominate Homestar Runner as new slashdot editor-in-chief. Admit it, he'd do at least as good of a job. And I don't care if he's animated and not real!
64 bytes from slashdot.org (66.35.250.150): icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=144 usec
64 bytes from slashdot.org (66.35.250.150): icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=144 usec (DUP!)
64 bytes from slashdot.org (66.35.250.150): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=133 usec
64 bytes from slashdot.org (66.35.250.150): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=133 usec (DUP!)
64 bytes from slashdot.org (66.35.250.150): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=134 usec
64 bytes from slashdot.org (66.35.250.150): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=134 usec (DUP!)
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Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
Not everyone has clever software in their brain. I'm still doing a Search for Terrestrial Intelligence. But maybe /. isn't the place for it.
But at least I try and double-check the data.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
The quark matter/stranglets hitting earth story was covered on May 12, Nov 22, and Nov 25
I'd be real impressed if one of you could effectively argue how a duplicate story has so injustly wronged you so as to demand this sort of wanton, sociopathic outrage. What's more ridiculous than a few duplicate stories is a bunch of duplicate children screaming at mommy for serving the same lunchtime sandwich two days in a row. I'm sure you all work hard and are model citizens in need of fresh news quarter-hourly, but if you don't have anything worthwhile to say, then be a man and shut it.
Patrick
We don't need no steenking flux capacitor.
Sigs are bad for your health.
How about some sort of tone that lets us know the level of duping on slashdot? Then the idiotors^H^H^H^H^H^H^Heditors would be able to tell how many reposts there currently are, and be able to judge appropriately how many more dupes to post.
It's fair game for meaningful posts 'eh?
So - a joke:
At the Miss World Pageant in Nigeria a girl puts on a skimpy bikini and asks her manager "Does this make me look Fatwa?"
Laugh. It's funny...
Cake or Death? Cake Please!
it strunk you? What tense is that?
Don't eat shrimp candy, just a heads up.
When I was just a lad, these Slashdot dupe things where a rare occurance. Boy they were a big occasion! Whole families used to go and see them, it was like a day trip. But now, now you see them everywhere! Whereever you look there are Slashdot dupes! You young folk have it easy. You don't need to remember things anymore, because everything you need to know on Slashdot is duplicated without failure every couple of hours!
I, for one, look forward to the advent of ping music. Ludwig van's been rendered on some pretty fancy instuments, none so expensive as an OC-192.
I can spot a dupe less than a sentence into the summary - because I actually read the summaries on the main page, and I don't even work here. Is it too much to ask the editors to actually READ THE 10-15 ARTICLE SUMMARIES EACH DAY BEFORE SUBMITTING NEW ARTICLES?
/. editor, but I decided against it when they told me I wasn't allowed to read slashdot anymore."
If this happened with articles that were a month old, or happened once a month or something, it might be exusable, but it's happening at least once a week now, and sometimes multiple times per day. That's a pretty shitty success rate for something so easy as remembering an article that's LESS THAN 5 ARTICLES EARLIER!
"I wanted to be a
paintball
Speaking of dupe detection, I should have checked other comments before I posted. It seems that a nearly identical comment was posted by someone else a few hours earlier.
What I really find amusing is that people will take the time to gripe about dupes. After all, those evil editors are taking our precious bandwidth by posting dupes, so we have to make sure we fight the power and complain about it! :P
:)
:D
Yeah, post complaints! Reload the page a few times! Damn the man!
I just find it amusing that we get an entire story of posts saying "dupe!" - as if one post wasn't enough. Nope, just in case I decide to start reading comments at the very freaking middle of the page, there will always be someone there to inform me that this story is, in fact, a dupe! I can't imagine what I would do without that valuable info! Thank you, all 400 of you, that felt the need to uniquely point out that I could have read the same article some 5 articles prior!
The above is not intended seriously, for the humor impaired.
Hey! Your post is a dupe, too! :)
"Destroy science and religion. Science would re-emerge exactly the same; but not religion." - Penn Jillette, paraphrased