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Snails Edge Out ADSL
Anonymous writes "Dear Sirs,
Following our experiment last year, and after long preparations, we have successfully proved that certain gastropods called African giant snails can be faster then ADSL and ... pigeons. The system we have used, called SNAP (SNAil-based data transfer Protocol), uses biological carriers (snails), and, for the first time, taking advantages of the unique merits of the wheel for data transfer. More details can be found here."
So... we can expect new snail-mail any day soon?
Show this to your friends and family that don't know what a real hacker is
Soldier 1- African giant snails CAN be faster then ADSL.
Soldier 2- Oh, yeah, an African giant snail maybe, but not a European giant snail. That's my point.
Yeah but the lag sucks!
I didn't see any snail recipes. Are they cooked French- or African-style? Are there any stores in the U.S. that sell these snails?
/. was turning into the Food Network. :P
I didn't know that
Nothing beats the sheer bandwidth of a 767 filled with dual-layer DVDs sent hurtling at some destination.
Striking fear in the authors of godawful fanfiction, I am here, appearing in darkness, Tuxedo Jack!
The ping on that must suck really bad though.
If you want a really high bandwidth, get a truckload of hard drives.
I just don't trust anything that starts with "Dear Sir" from Africa, especially when it concerns something quite unbelievable.
Wow, Time Warner Cable is right, Road Runner Broadband is much faster than ADSL, especially since snails can outperform ADSL. ;D
He talks about an Australian lawyer who patented the wheel.
"In particular, Mr. John Keogh, a Melbourne lawyer, was issued in 2001 a patent for "a circular transportation facilitation device", more commonly known as a wheel.
And people talk trash about America's patent system. Looks like we're not the only ones with problems.
This guy is way out there
We slashdotted a snail!
In some regions, most notably France, culinary habits may pose a denial-of-service (DOS) risk.
Does it say "dropped packet"?
Yes it will make a transmission error, but due to the nature of tcp/ip it wont be a big problem.
However it means that each time you step on a snail from now on, you will have to pick it up, look at the source adress, and send back an icmp code 11,0 (time to live expired in transit).
Just add a little salt and down goes the network.
I for one welcome our new african snail overloards. But I wonder how the email service you get with our snail overloars would compare to my curent ADSL provider
Just load the same 767 with 500GB Hitachi hard drives.
I think:
"In particular, French users will have to choose whether they want to be served data-ex-cargo or an escargot."
comes near the top of the list.
IBM: The world will only need five snails.
DEC: Nobody wants a snail in their home.
Microsoft: The new Longhorned snail is shipping.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
I can now proudly say that my school's internet connection is literally slower than a snail (10Mbps).
But let's see...
will easily beat that!
my sstream of consciousness
TTL, LOL, good one
That's why you smuggle them in rectally...
Does this mean I've got to learn how to write "shell" scripts to run my mail now? And what a boon to tracking spammers. Just follow that slime back to source.
They posted this article using snails on April 1st, and it arrived today.
And no longer anonymous. :)