Internet Traffic Still Growing Quickly

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Internet Traffic Still Growing Quickly

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday March 1, 2003 @12:47AM from the mostly-files-sent-in-order-to-have-your-advice dept.

linuxscrub writes "I guess the previous articles about internet traffic doubling/[time period] being wrong were wrong? A new IDC report states that internet traffic will nearly double annually until 2007. They even use /.'s favorite unit of capacity/storage, the LOC. They predict that internet traffic will be 64,000 LOC/day! Wow, 64000 LOC, that sure sounds impressive!!"

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and research shows by vosbert · 2003-03-01 00:50 · Score: 5, Funny

it's all due to pr0n and gaming....
they use LOC... by lfourrier · 2003-03-01 00:51 · Score: 4, Funny

but if the Library Of Congress continue initiatives to archive the net, even if all traffic is not new content, the unit is not constant.
Wow, 64000 LOCs... by tunah · 2003-03-01 00:53 · Score: 4, Funny

But what we REALLY need to know is how many helloworld.c's is that?
Every tradition has to start somewhere, right?

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I know why... by CommandNotFound · 2003-03-01 00:54 · Score: 5, Funny

... according to my apache access logs, over half of that traffic is going to be script kiddies trying to run

GET /scripts/../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0

over and over and over... guys, there is no command.com on my system. Give it a rest!
HOW ON EARTH?? by spoonist · 2003-03-01 00:58 · Score: 3, Funny

Okay. So let me get a couple of things straight. LOC = Library of Congress, right? And they're moving 64,000 of these around PER DAY?
THAT'S ASTOUNDING!!! Have you ever been to their main building, the Thomas Jefferson Building? It's freakin' HUGE!
Where'd they find 64,000 of these buildings and just how exactly are they moving them around??
Maybe I should've posted this as a question to Ask Slashdot.
1. Re:HOW ON EARTH?? by TopShelf · 2003-03-01 01:20 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  In the past, they'd have to break down the building into very very tiny pieces in order to fit over the phone lines, where it would travel "bit by bit" (that's a computer term) and be reassembled someplace else, like a travelling road show. But now, with the onset of Broadband Internet, the pieces that can be sent through the net are much bigger, so it takes less time to break the building down and reassemble it on the other side. The magical world of technology has made this and many other wondrous things possible! Support your local scientists!
  
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$4,5000 to read the article! by Andy_R · 2003-03-01 01:07 · Score: 4, Funny

The link is just to a press release for "Worldwide Bandwidth End-Use Forecast and Analysis, 2003-2007: More Is Still Not Enough"

The document itself can be yours for the tiny sum of $4,500, surely an absolute bargain considering is contains an amazing FIFTEEN pages!

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Re:I think I know what the new driver will be. by the_real_tigga · 2003-03-01 01:13 · Score: 4, Funny

Oh yeah, sure! I will then watch Internet TV over my _cable_ connection!

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Re:Nicely written! by chrisseaton · 2003-03-01 01:16 · Score: 3, Funny

How about Bodleians for a change?
64000 lines of code per day? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-01 01:17 · Score: 1, Funny

Your infinite number of monkeys is too small! (That, or the typewriters broke)

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Re:Nicely written! by tsa · 2003-03-01 01:44 · Score: 2, Funny

No no no... this forces people to RTFA.

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Oh NO!!! by warmcat · 2003-03-01 01:58 · Score: 4, Funny

64,000 LOCs/day!?!?!

What happens when it goes past 65,535 LOCs/day!!!

Does IPv6 fix this?
1. RE: Oh NO!!! by Rhinobird · 2003-03-01 02:37 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  the little yellow guy stops munching those packets and the whole thing just freezes up ghosts, fruit, everything. You can't even enter your high score.
  
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Re:Lifetime of thoughts = 37Gb by xigxag · 2003-03-01 02:03 · Score: 1, Funny

Another useful measure is the PoS, which is the amount of meaningless statistical crap dropped on average by each slashdotter per day.

E.G., this post contains one PoS, and so I've fulfilled my quotient.

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Great... by handsomepete · 2003-03-01 02:59 · Score: 2, Funny

"You didn't take into account the amount of visualization (images) a person does during a day. That's thinking too."

So now we have to figure out if we think in jpeg, gif or png?
1. Re:Great... by anicklin · 2003-03-01 03:42 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Actually it's mpeg4. Your folks had to pay the licensing fee as part of the hospital bill when you were born. Unless, of course, you are pirated, in which case you'd better close your eyes before some mean people start coming after you. :-)
2. Re:Great... by zbuffered · 2003-03-01 03:53 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I visualize in .asf -- I have many fuzzy memories that often leave out important data.
  
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should be enough by farnsworth · 2003-03-01 04:13 · Score: 3, Funny

64,000 LOC should be enough for everybody.
*ducks

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Meal stop! by KC7GR · 2003-03-01 04:54 · Score: 2, Funny

Can I get a couple of bagels to go with those LOCs? Onion or blueberry, please...

Thanks!

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Petabit nonsense... by jpetts · 2003-03-01 05:16 · Score: 2, Funny

Everybody knows this is nonsense: it's only two bits, 1 and 0, but moving very , very fast!

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64000LOC? by jrivar59 · 2003-03-01 07:05 · Score: 2, Funny

How many natalie portmans is that?
Re:New much more interesting unit of measurement by RoloDMonkey · 2003-03-01 11:27 · Score: 2, Funny

5.175 petabits is about 1 bit per square centimeter of earth.

So, what do we call that, a terra-bit?

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