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."

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Re:Thanksgiving day turkey!

[Clover_Kicker]

Are the editors trying to be funny or are they just that fucking lame?

Sweet, Sweet Jesus

[renec]

I never post, really. but this is insane.

The dupes here are absolutely INSANE. ITS STILL ON THE FRONTPAGE.

THE FRONTPAGE!!! How fscking hard would it be for every editor to be REQUIRED to make a hardcopy of every topic for the last month and reference that? AT LEAST?! Or maybe you cannot be employed by slashdot unless you ACTUALLY READ THE WEBPAGE.

Obviously computers are too complicated for these people. ARlkjalkajsdflkajdlfkajfd

Re:The human ear

[Banjonardo]

profoundness profoundity? alert!

Wait, so if we found the answers to our questions within ourselves, we wouldn't really NEED God? We would have become so advanced to, in fact, KILL God? So us that have realized there's no need for God, we could call ourselves... I know! "Free Spirits." That sounds good. So our philosophy is that there's no God, no rhyme or reason, we just kind of exist. How interesting!

Nice to meetcha/I'm Friedrich Nitzsche.