| Researchers at the University of Colorado should be FIRED!! Although Comcast had gotten alot of bad press lately, these "researchers" must had done it on purpose. NAT table overloading is a bunch of crap, it's easily diagnosed, PHd researchers can't find out the problem? UoC should be sued, the researchers, and have their credentials revoked. UoC CS department has such low standards when dealing with ethics, and/or research. Is it so difficult to research one's sources before publishing? Journalists got fired and had their careers destroyed because of things like this! The names of the "researchers" should be published and the national press should get a hold of this story. |
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 Doctor FourMy other vehicle is a TARDISPremium
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Dallas, TX | You have to wonder if those so-called researchers ever took
any IT classes, like the basics of NAT and so on. |
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| My guess is that the "researchers" were really just a couple of computer science grad students who hoped to garner brownie points by jumping on the Comcast-bashing and ISP-bashing bandwagon. They posted their "results" online in a blog rather than in a refereed journal and submitted them to Slashdot. They were probably hoping that the campus papers would report record traffic to the site where they described their "brilliant" "research."
In the meantime, small ISPs such as the one I operate (and NO ONE ELSE has made an investment in bringing broadband to many of the areas I cover) are set to be strangled by rules stimulated by alarmism related to such bogus claims. The "Save the Internet" loonies are even claiming that throttling back bandwidth hogging P2Pers is somehow denying free speech -- as if preventing kids from downloading pirated pornographic videos would do that. The fact is that it's P2P mitigation and blocking that's saving the Internet from being crippled by these bandwidth hogs. |
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 gaforcesUnited We Stand, Divided We Fall
join:2002-04-07
Santa Cruz, CA | reply to Jack2131
And what about the legal and licensed content providers using BT that lost customers because they were not able to provide service because of forged packets, AYE?
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There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country. ~ Joseph Addison |
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