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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."
Slashdot has bowled three strikes today...err duplicates:
1. Duplicate Original
2. Duplicate Original
3. Duplicate Original Happy turkey slashdot!
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*
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!)
PP..SS.. DDoonn''tt ffoorrggeett ttoo ttuurrnn oonn llooccaall eecchhoo!!
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
We don't need no steenking flux capacitor.
Sigs are bad for your health.
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 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
It shouldn't be too hard to add some dupe prevention code to Slash. It seems that you could snag all URLs out of a story and compare them to URLs from the last 60 days or so and if there is a match, present a warning to the editor.
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.