One of the reasons I left government contracting for the commercial software development world.
Government is more interested in your CMMI level (another flawed system but I'll leave that for another discussion) and how many PhD's your company has than the quality of your work and agility of your team.
Well I based my post on the fact that the article says they can "detect encrypted bittorrent traffic." So based on that I surmise they must be doing some sort of deep protocol analysis.
At any rate it sounds like they are doing a bit more than just throttling power users (which a lot of ISPs do already).
I suppose the only way they can really do this is by analyzing the high level protocol transactions and by keeping tabs on particular IPs and their behaviors. Pretty flimsy.
All of this could probably be pretty easily foiled by having Bittorrent mask what it's doing by sending noise once in a while to throw these tools off.
University of Virginia - Charlottesville, Virginia
Upside: Utterly ridiculous Internet connection. One former 'Quake 3' player from UVA had a single-digit ping all along the East coast. UVA also has some LAN parties. Downside: Not a terrific location. The odds are that you won't have time for gaming because of a highly-competitive academic schedule.
So this is a reason I shouldn't go to UVA? Because I "won't have time to game?" What a trite article. Maybe you should go to a university because it will give you a competitive education, not because you can ping 9ms to your favorite server?
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Moreso than that, I think it would be grounds for a class action lawsuit.
They could make this agreeable to domain owners by making it opt-in and offering a cut of the profits to the domain owner.
It's like the bouncing yappy dog that won't go away. :)
Damn, no wonder I couldn't find her!
Blast! Foiled again!
You mean this girl?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=4nIUcRJX9-o&feature=related
What my brain looks like when I'm reading Slashdot?
My guess would be the Starship Enterprise flying by, followed by a bunch of sharks with lazers?
So where are they going to put the WoW servers?
Didn't you see Independence Day? They also use TCP/IP!
Oh man I lol'd hard @ Michael Jackson.
I had a Human Warrior in WoW named "Rick James" (after my favorite musician), and everyone kept calling me "bitch." :(
The voting machines. Many votes will be unknowingly altered as Ted roots around for the Jack.
Better keep Ted Kennedy away from those machines, or there will be vote tampering for sure!
One of the reasons I left government contracting for the commercial software development world.
Government is more interested in your CMMI level (another flawed system but I'll leave that for another discussion) and how many PhD's your company has than the quality of your work and agility of your team.
Wouldn't be very effective in third world areas, though.
I wonder how many simultaneous reports it takes to trigger it.
Well I based my post on the fact that the article says they can "detect encrypted bittorrent traffic." So based on that I surmise they must be doing some sort of deep protocol analysis.
At any rate it sounds like they are doing a bit more than just throttling power users (which a lot of ISPs do already).
Of what? Killing innocent people and fueling the media frenzy that violent games create killers?
I suppose the only way they can really do this is by analyzing the high level protocol transactions and by keeping tabs on particular IPs and their behaviors. Pretty flimsy.
All of this could probably be pretty easily foiled by having Bittorrent mask what it's doing by sending noise once in a while to throw these tools off.
So this is a reason I shouldn't go to UVA? Because I "won't have time to game?" What a trite article. Maybe you should go to a university because it will give you a competitive education, not because you can ping 9ms to your favorite server?
NCC?
ZING!
That's anti-matter you nipplehead.
Although AOL represents a certain niche market. i.e. it's heavily skewed towards n00bs.
I wonder if a similar Google sample would show different results or identify other archetypes?
I definitly fall into the "Omnivore" type. I would imagine most Slashdotters do.
Actually, maybe the Basket Case one is a better fit for most Slashdotters.
I, indeed, did not RTFA closely enough apparently. :)
Very true, thanks for pointing that out.
Although at a primitive level, you are getting cancer as a direct result of sexual contact with another person.