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P2P Hard Disk System Warns of Tsunamis
An anonymous reader writes to mention an article on NetworkWorld about a free software application that detects Tsunamis by listening for vibrations in the hard drives of computers. The peer-to-peer network uses the technology that allows HDDs to keep read-write heads on track, and passes the information to a network for analysis. From the article: "If an earthquake that could lead to a tsunami is detected, the supernodes inform the other nodes. Computers running the client software and connected to the peer-to-peer network can then warn of such events. The software is able to provide such warnings because the seismic waves produced by earthquakes travel at about 5,000 kilometers per hour, while tsunamis move much slower at 500 to 1,000 kilometers per hour"
Whoops, misread TFA!
This should end the need for wasting countless millions on professional seismic research stations. Once again, free software triumphs.
If everybody in China jumped off of a 1 foot step ladder at the same time, would there be a sudden drop in P2P data that might indicate the event?
(of course I didn't RTFA, I'm just trying to avoid work this afternoon by wandering around making incoherent posts)
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
CAn any of you honestly say you would kick a few hard drives just to pis the thing off?
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Why don't you just tell him the truth? You have a time machine. You went into the future to after this story was posted, copied the text of the first post (which was from a real subscriber!), then went back in time until right before the story went live, and pasted the comment and claimed it as your own. Unfortunately, in doing so you altered the timeline, thereby caused an irreparable tear in the space-time continuum, resulting in the imminent destruction of the universe.
Come on man, it's not like we haven't all played little tricks like that and accidentally destroyed the entire universe. Just own up to it.
In the name of Science, of course.
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There's an earthquake every 5 minutes in Queens under the 7 train!
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You like it in principal?
What the hell is going on at your school?
Do you know how many false alarms my wife will set off when she's stomping through the house to yell at me? (you never said anything about not letting the kids play with Mr. Chainsaw, dear)
Or how many my coworker will generate as he shakes the freaking floor when he walks around?
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it'd be really nice if it gave some sort of feedback to the user to show it was actually operating
No problem- keep an eye on your bank account and credit card statements.
This will work well until a few idiots playing with "MacSaber" make me have to flee town due to the forth coming Tsunami!!
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No, it will cause it.
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let's coordinate a global jack-off date/time and watch the alerts go out.
By suggesting that free software isn't "professional" software (and that the creators/suppliers of free software, since they don't get paid for it are amateur rather than professional) you've invited a firestorm from the FOSS weenies; they'll be along any minute to roll a nine-sided die and lay a +4 smack down on you quicker than you can say "flux capacitor"!!
Seems to me they could run the algorithm backwards a couple of times using a known seismic event along with a few machines in a known location and find where you are.
Oh no... something else to be paranoid about.
Hell, if the porn sites know where I live, I'm sure this guy can figure it out too.
Hooray for triangulation!
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Well folks, it's either 180 degrees Farenheit in Boston, or one of our ABC(TM) Action-News(TM) WeatherSpotters(TM) is crunching a lot of data on his laptop right now.
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