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Snails Edge Out ADSL

Posted by timothy on from the little-tiny-station-wagons dept.

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."

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  1. Snails? by PunkOfLinux · · Score: 5, Funny

    So... we can expect new snail-mail any day soon?

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    1. Re:Snails? by tomhudson · · Score: 5, Funny
      I'm ready for mine - got the garlic butter and everything.

      Guess you all will have to put up with significant "carrier losses".

  2. African VS European giant snails by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. But of course... by Tuxedo+Jack · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nothing beats the sheer bandwidth of a 767 filled with dual-layer DVDs sent hurtling at some destination.

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    1. Re:But of course... by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: 5, Funny

      Nothing beats the sheer bandwidth of a 767 filled with dual-layer DVDs sent hurtling at some destination.

      That's how they slashdotted the WTC back in '01.

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    2. Re:But of course... by RaguMS · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's how they slashdotted the WTC back in '01.

      That's not cool, man. Some of those people lost a lot of data.

  4. I don't know about you... by 0x461FAB0BD7D2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just don't trust anything that starts with "Dear Sir" from Africa, especially when it concerns something quite unbelievable.

  5. Re:Today is April 26th by SuneSpeg · · Score: 5, Funny

    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).

  6. THAN, for the love of... THAN! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dear Editors:

    Faster THAN. Faster THAN. Faster THAN.

    Same as:

    Smarter THAN. Better THAN. Other THAN. Fatter THAN. Uglier THAN. Costs more THAN. Performs better THAN. More difficult THAN. Takes more effort THAN. Tastes better THAN. Prints more clearly THAN. More structured THAN. More anonymous THAN. More cowardly THAN. More falsely THAN.

    Basic idea:

    THAN - used in comparison statements.
    THEN - used to demonstrate cause-and-effect