Getting screwed by your ISP

[avram]

My long-ago contributions to the Everything website weren’t anywhere near this interesting — Penises have higher bandwidth than cable modems:

Putting these together, the average amount of information per ejaculation is 1.560*10⁹ * 2 bits * 2.00*10⁸, which comes out to be 6.24*10¹⁷ bits. That's about 78,000 terabytes of data! As a basis of comparison, were the entire text content of the Library of Congress to be scanned and stored, it would only take up about 20 terabytes. If you figure that a male orgasm lasts five seconds, you get a transmission rate of 15,600 tb/s. In comparison, an OC-96 line (like the ones that make up much of the backbone of the internet) can move .005 tb/s. Cable modems generally transmit somewhere around 1/5000th of that.

(Via Boing Boing)

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[batyatoon]

For some reason I am reminded simultaneously of Snow Crash and Neuromancer, but for completely different reasons.

My brain hurts.