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Public Interest In Great White Shark Devours Research Site's Servers

Posted by Soulskill on from the we're-gonna-need-a-bigger-load-balancer dept.

Lucas123 writes: Katherine, a 14-foot, 2,300lb. Great White Shark, has become so popular with visitors to a research site tracking her daily movements that the site's servers have crashed and remained down for hours. The shark, one of dozens tagged for research by the non-profit global shark tracking project OCEARCH, typically cruises very close to shore up and down the Eastern Seaboard. That has attracted a lot interest from the swimming public. Currently, however, she's heading from Florida's west coast toward Texas. OCEARCH tags sharks with four different technologies to create a three-dimensional image of a shark's activities. "On average, we're collecting 100 data points every second — 8.5 million data points per day."

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  1. They should have wanted shark servers... by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...with frigging optical fiber connection!

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    Ezekiel 23:20
  2. What?! by Extremus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And how posting this in Slashdot is going to help?

  3. Poor server by sosuke · · Score: 2

    I love sharks and marine biology, but I think posting a link on Slashdot to a server that has already been crashing is like beating a dead horse.

  4. Re:A news story about a crashed server? by barlevg · · Score: 3, Informative

    Presumably they didn't want to pile the Slashdot Effect on top of their server woes. But a quick google search turns up: http://www.ocearch.org/profile/katharine/

  5. Slashdot? by mfh · · Score: 4, Funny

    I know we don't push the traffic we did in the old days, but so when a site goes down, you think, "Let's Slashdot it too!"

    Sharkdotted.

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    The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
    1. Re:Slashdot? by GoodNewsJimDotCom · · Score: 2

      Just as sharks are known to prey on the wounded and weak of the ocean, Slashdot is always on the look out for weak servers of the Internet so we can hit them when they're down.

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      God spoke to me
  6. You're going to need a bigger... by Bongo · · Score: 4, Funny

    boat?

  7. This headline... by Dega704 · · Score: 2

    would have been much more interesting minus the first three words.

  8. Re:Poetry by MRe_nl · · Score: 2

    Dear Mr. Korbulon from Vogon,
    Welcome to Earth
    Please don't demolish it
    We would be in dearth.

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    "Kill 'em all and let Root sort 'em out"
  9. Re:in = as, far more interesting by dragon-file · · Score: 4, Funny

    One byte at a time.

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    Whenever a player quits EVE to go play WoW, the Average IQ of both games increase.