> > Dunno about that, the S/N ratio on slashdot seems to get into the kB's
> > somedays.
>
> I'm not sure what parallel universe you live in, but I'm
> pretty damn sure that mine doesn't have 10000 times more
> signal than noise on slashdot ;)
>
> An S+N/N of one kB is 40 dB...
<pedantic>
dB is decibel, kB would be kilobel, so one kB is 10000 dB
a kilobel works out to a signal to noise ratio of 10^1000, which is pretty big,
and definately a bit bigger than the slashdot signal to noise ratio :)
</pedantic>
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