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[ZokesPro]

Screw you then ya hippy! (j/k)

Edit: That's what i say to my friends when I offer them soemthing and they refuse politely, it's just a little running joke we have.

[GNEP]

Fairy 'nuff! - Thanks all the same Zokes!

[ZokesPro]

Your quite welcome.

[Gurm]

Of course what all the "Project Echelon" people fail to tell you is that the sheer processor power that would be necessary to filter all the Internet traffic that goes by in realtime... doesn't exist.

That's right. There aren't enough chips on the entire planet to do that much filtering.

*shrug*

But hey, who needs math when they have paranoia?

- Gurm

[ZokesPro]

And even if they had the porcessing power they couldn't possibly have enough time to sifter thorugh all that info anyways!

[GNEP]

Don't they just hire trained pigeons from Google?

[thop]

Of course what all the "Project Echelon" people fail to tell you is that the sheer processor power that would be necessary to filter all the Internet traffic that goes by in realtime... doesn't exist.

or that's what they'd like you to think.

[Joel]

or that's what they'd like you to think

Hey thop, Have you been hanging out with Hpar_ and Liquid Memory lately???

Joel

[Gurm]

Thop,

By all means do the math. Honestly. Then ask yourself if Quadzillahertz chips really exist, but the government has been "hiding" them from us.

Intel can't even get past a couple gigahertz reliably.

Use your brain, man.

- Gurm

[thop]

the NSA has Alien Technology with which everything is possible.

[Wombat]

Of course what all the "Project Echelon" people fail to tell you is that the sheer processor power that would be necessary to filter all the Internet traffic that goes by in realtime... doesn't exist.

Sure it does, and it has little or nothing to do with processor speed. You certainly wouldn't use a general purpose processor to do it though. Fill a box with a bunch of DSP chips and you've got something more powerful than hundreds of processors.

[Gurm]

Wombat,

Yeah, but we're talking about packet filtering trunk lines here. Seriously... it's a lot of work.

- Gurm

[ZokesPro]

Originally posted by Gurm
Wombat,

Yeah, but we're talking about packet filtering trunk lines here. Seriously... it's a lot of work.

- Gurm

I agree with Gurm oh this one.

[Marshmallowman]

These things are not boxes sitting a corner.
These systems take up(several) multi story buildings of custom DSP stuff...

[ZokesPro]

Yeah but filtering everything? There so much garbage out there that no one could possibly want to read all of it. I mean is it worth looking through so much stuopid and useless text just to find that one message that could probably but very unlikely lead to terrorism? Even if it means it takes you many many month's of searching through such mind-numbing crap?