French boffins: Regard, our record-breaking long, fat, wet pipe Boffins have designed a new underwater network pipe which can transmit data at record-breaking speeds. Researchers at Alcatel-Lucent claim their new cable is three times faster than the "most advanced underwater cables currently in use". Working at Alcatel-Lucent’s Innovation City campus in Villarceaux near Paris, boffins …
"If we assume the average 15 minute, low-res blue movie is about 100 megabytes in size, this would mean the new cable could speed 40,632 naughty flicks across the Atlantic every second, enough for 423 days and nights of non-stop porn viewing - in just one second."
...or you'll get one hell of a cramp.
Steven R
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I don't have any objection to this whole (optional) porn and violence filtering drive IN PRINCIPLE. Perhaps a bit surprisingly as I'm generally of a rather liberal bent. The old interwebs can be a bloody gruesome place and the IDEA of protecting the kiddywinks form the worst of it seems rather worthy. Bit of a bugger for the ISPs to achieve though, I'd imagine... and I rather hope that a bit of a bugger for the ISPs doesn't translate into a thumping great price hike for the poor plebs at the end of the wires who (always) pick up the tab.
I also can't imagine it being terribly effective.
So it'll all probably amount to nothing more than another ineffective PR stunt resulting in higher bills. Wicked.
I'm concerned there's something insidious and rather evil lurking behind these sort of initiatives though. Once in place, we're all protecting the children. Fine. As far as it goes. All optional, at the bill payer's discretion. Lovely jubblies. Then... oh noes!.. The wee rascals are being groomed into using anti-censorship tools to corrupt themselves. The poor wee souls are exposing themselves to filth and badthink despite our wholesome filtering. We must outlaw these obscure and depraved programs immediately. Think of the children.
Suddenly we're all trapped in Whitehall's walled garden nirvana and the government once more has full control of the public media. Just a couple of little twiddles with the not-so-optional "national security" bits of those child protecting filters....
Leaving kids unsupervised on the net is the online equivalent to letting them play in busy traffic in a seedy downtown are.
The filters are about the equivalent of a low "safety fence" - kids can see straight through it and bored ones will vault over it.
There is zero substitute for parental supervision.
According to analysis from Extreme Tech, one major smut site funnels out filth at a rate of 100 gigabytes per second, or 800Gbps. This means that the new underwater pipe could handle about 40 top-ranked grumble merchants at any given time.
...is linked to this:
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/96827-the-secret-world-of-submarine-cables
Perhaps this was the intended destination?..
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/123929-just-how-big-are-porn-sites
I bet Paris Hilton knows a thing or two about distributing porn.
Excellent Magritte reference, so have an upvote. But, to be fair, Magritte was not French but Belgian. And I know a lot of Belgians, even in the French speaking part, that would not like to be thrown in with the French...
@andy : excellent suggestion. I propose nfps (naughty flicks per second) and NFps (for the HD variety), to stay in line withthe mbps/MBps/MB/MiB/etc crowd.
...if it weren't for a lot of sad lonelies (who will now downvote this post), I'd be surfing at lightning fast speeds?
P.s. Just to anticipate and reply to the one person who smugly wants to "point out the obvious" and say that porn users are the reason why speeds are so high: you're wrong.
Nothing your partner likes more than to have you need porn around as well! Or are you AC because it's the other way round? :)
Or, if you're talking about watching it with your mates then I would still class that as sad lonelies. Although at least from a global bandwidth point of view it's better than you doing it individually.
I can even imagine who makes switches that can pump and parse that kind of throughput (Vint's dream of switching with lenses - literally colored traffic - not really here yet). I suspect the real story here is that Alcatel has discovered Cthulu's undersea city and are using it's power to be able to route/switch at that bandwidth level.
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