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Faster P2P By Matching Similiar Files?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the something-doesn't-jive-here dept.

Andreaskem writes "A Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist says transferring large data files, such as movies and music, over the Internet could be sped up significantly if peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing services were configured to share not only identical files, but also similar files. "SET speeds up data transfers by simultaneously downloading different chunks of a desired data file from multiple sources, rather than downloading an entire file from one slow source. Even then, downloads can be slow because these networks can't find enough sources to use all of a receiver's download bandwidth. That's why SET takes the additional step of identifying files that are similar to the desired file... No one knows the degree of similarity between data files stored in computers around the world, but analyses suggest the types of files most commonly shared are likely to contain a number of similar elements. Many music files, for instance, may differ only in the artist-and-title headers, but are otherwise 99 percent similar.""

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  1. hear my words..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In order to understand what is really going on with this war in the middle east you need to understand a bit about history..

    in particular the battle that has been going on between Judaism + Christianity VS Muslim Savages since the time of the original Mohammed...

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    what you are really dealing with here is the battle of the 'civilized man' to take over the world and eradicate the 'savages'

    The great Christian crusades were part of this but it goes much further back than this..

    back to the original goals of the roman empire... back to the times of the great Greek gods...

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    the crusades never ended..

    the war still goes on..

    the ultimate goal is to KILL ALL THE SAVAGES and make the world civilized..

    that is what is happening in the middle east..

    and the goal of the savages is to kill all the gentiles before they kill them!

    It is presented to the general public in one guise or another over time in order to get them to participate in the great cleansing, but it was decided long ago by learned men that the savages on this planet MUST BE ELIMINATED and that same goal is as alive and well today as it was thousands of years ago..

    take it for what you will but that is the truth