since you're sending packets down this connection in a identifyable manner (the VPN does not disguise traffic paterns unless you're running other traffic down it), they could detect this as easily as they could detect encrypted BitTorrent.
Not really. The ISP could tell that you were running a lot of data over a VPN, but it couldn't identify this as bittorrent traffic, since the data would all be traveling to and from a single IP, the VPN gateway, instead of to dozens of peers. This would be indistinguishable from Joe Q. Corporate transferring massive datasets from work to his home office over vpn, which presumably comcast would want to allow, since blocking that would piss off users who have a leg to stand on.
yeah, seems it's more complicated than the msttcorefonts packages. Unzip doesn't work either. Wine won't run it because it says visual studio needs to be installed, which I imagine is an issue on windows as well.
Nope. When you send data through a web browser, you're still the client, you're just making a very, very large POST request, which is still a client activity. Unless you think that you're "serving" your POST to google when you search. Web uploads are, unfortunately, a total hack on HTTP, which was not designed for them.
thousands of connections? maybe in aggregate over a long period, but bittorrent typically maintains under 100 established connections. I rarely see more than 20-30 according to netstat. Granted this is more than the average network program, but bittorrent certainly does not connect simultaneously to every peer in the swarm as you seem to claim. that's what the tracker is for. At any given time you're connected to a small subset of the total peers.
Interesting. At my parent's house they have a vanilla Comcast connection. I've tested bittorrent there and it seems to work fine still. I can upload pretty fast, like 150 kbps while downloading at full speed (have seen 2mbps from well-seeded torrents). Seeding does not seem to be affected.
It seems to me like Comcast's rationale for this is not the illegitimacy of the data, but the sheer magnitude of it. Like if everyone started downloading from youtube 24/7, they'd probably find an excuse to throttle that as well.
Yeah. Knock on wood, but I visit Chicago about once a month and this does not seem to be active yet there, at least as of about 2 weeks ago. Thankfully where I live, the cable company is way too incompetent to do something like this.
Incorrect. The Sandvine appliances that comcast uses do not need to inspect the packets to classify them as Bittorrent, they can do so by other methods e.g. pattern and timing analysis. Not many network protocols generate packets the way bittorrent does; it's a dead giveaway. As long as they can identify your usage as bittorrent, the RST trick still works. Of course, you could change set your client to open a very conservative number of connections, possibly thwarting traffic analysis, but then you'd be throttling yourself worse than comcast.
The only permanent solution to this hack is end-to-end encryption, ie. setting up a VPN for each torrent, or even between each peer, so the traffic is indistinguishable from corporate-style vpns, which Comcast would never dare block.
If you're using a decent client like uTorrent, Azureus, KTorrent, or Deluge, just check the options.
encryption is useless in this case, however, since bittorrent traffic is obvious to an intelligent packet shaper such as the Sandvine systems that Comcast uses. Bittorrent usage generates a very distinctive signature even if you just look at the volume ant timing of packets. Once it figures out you're using bittorrent, it just needs to send the RST packet, which will have the same effect regardless of encryption: Your client will think that the remote peer closed the connection.
Gutsy is the first version of ubuntu that has worked flawlessly on my laptop (dell e1405). I didn't even have to set up ndiswrapper for the broadcom wireless, the restricted drivers manager made it relatively easy to use fwcutter with the 43xx module. Suspend also works without any effort whatsoever, as does the memory card reader. I was also quite surprised at not having to set up 915resolution to get full resolution on the onboard graphics. This is the first time on any laptop I've been able to use my laptop almost immediately after installing a new distro. I've installed gutsy on several other (dell) laptops with similar results.
Oh, please. I'm just making a point. Assuming that anyone who disagrees with you is part of some cabal is somewhat schizophrenic. Anyways, I think my post was closer to number 4; Windows is definitely not my OS of choice.
In theory, to keep art free as in freedom, you want it as cheap and unrestricted as possible.
At least with software, libre necessarily implies gratis, since anyone with a copy can freely distribute it (obviously the converse is not true). I assume that art libre would be the same. The problem is it's difficult and complicated to get a million people to collaborate on a play or a painting, and one man will have a hard time living on something he can't sell.
I know this is an 8 day old thread, but ++. A $500 set of headphones sounds better than a $5000 stereo imo, because of the reasons you mention. I have a fairly nice stereo, but when I really want to listen to an album, I pull out the cans.
Speaking as someone who has been windows-free (besides games) for three years, I wouldn't bet on linux on the desktop gaining any footholds yet. Hardware support is getting better, and old stuff like your soundblaster is totally covered, but printer and scanner support sucks, and wireless cards often require ndiswrapper. I've attempted linux evangelism in the past, and poor hardware support was usually one of the bigger problems that made people turn back.
IMO, the biggest barrier is that people simply don't like change. Most computer users are used to doing things the windows way, some to the point of memorizing by rote the steps required to accomplish an task, and Linux disrupts that, because it's different. What exactly is grandma tilly going to do when an update messes up X and she's stuck in console mode until she runs dpkg-reconfigure or fixes her modelines or some such. Ubuntu is certainly doing the best work in this area, but it's not ready yet. Unbundling windows would certainly give it a foothold, but I wouldn't hold my breath on that.
That's what I'm saying. Assuming they're not incredibly intrusive, I'll sit through some ads for free stuff. Don't expect me to ever act on them, though. Google is pretty good at making advertising palatable, and chances are, we'll be able to use our devices more fully if google has its way. Anything has to be better than the current mobile landscape. The US wireless industry is in the dark ages, it needs something to give it a good kick.
Boxing Helena was directed by another no-talent daughter, Jennifer Lynch. As far as wikipedia or Google know, the Coppolas had nothing to do with it. It was a godawful movie, though. How can any serious movie end on "just a dream?" Deus ex Machina was already old 2,000 years ago.
Yet, with TCP, the OS forces as least some congestion control, something that game programmers typically completely disregard. TCP has a lot more than congestion control and packet size that makes it a poor choice for games. It's overhead includes acknowledgements, error correction, and things like guaranteed packet order and retransmission of lost packets. For a game, especially a FPS, you want to fully utilize available bandwidth. If a packet has to get retransmitted, or held because it's not in order, it's going to be stale by the time it arrives, so you might as well ignore it. UDP's connectionless nature means that clients can just spew packets as fast as their link allows.
This is a non-story. The ability to ask google about phishing has existed since 2.0, and was disabled then as well. Not that telling google every site you visit is a good thing.
Funny that the title is "scroogled," that's the name of a prominent anti-google site that runs the Scroogle Scraper, so you can search google without having your entries put in your database. It's nice for doing searches that you'd rather not have in your search profile that google keeps for you. If you use their other services like gmail, they can basically know you intimately. I'd rather they didn't, but can't give up gmail. So it's easy to modify firefox to use scroogle instead of google for searching, and if you adblock adsense, and their urchin.js script, or just google-analytics.com/* they can't see what sites you visit either. It's sad that you have to work so hard to hide your movements from a company that "does no evil" but I guess that's the information economy for you.
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Viewing the entire web in comic sans is bound to have some effect on your mental health...
yeah, seems it's more complicated than the msttcorefonts packages. Unzip doesn't work either. Wine won't run it because it says visual studio needs to be installed, which I imagine is an issue on windows as well.
Nope. When you send data through a web browser, you're still the client, you're just making a very, very large POST request, which is still a client activity. Unless you think that you're "serving" your POST to google when you search. Web uploads are, unfortunately, a total hack on HTTP, which was not designed for them.
thousands of connections? maybe in aggregate over a long period, but bittorrent typically maintains under 100 established connections. I rarely see more than 20-30 according to netstat. Granted this is more than the average network program, but bittorrent certainly does not connect simultaneously to every peer in the swarm as you seem to claim. that's what the tracker is for. At any given time you're connected to a small subset of the total peers.
Interesting. At my parent's house they have a vanilla Comcast connection. I've tested bittorrent there and it seems to work fine still. I can upload pretty fast, like 150 kbps while downloading at full speed (have seen 2mbps from well-seeded torrents). Seeding does not seem to be affected.
It seems to me like Comcast's rationale for this is not the illegitimacy of the data, but the sheer magnitude of it. Like if everyone started downloading from youtube 24/7, they'd probably find an excuse to throttle that as well.
If it's anything like the microsoft fonts used by msttcorefonts you can just treat the exe as a cab file and cabextract it.
I agree that consolas is nice, but wtf is that gross Candara font? It has a faint stench of Comic Sans MS about it.
Yeah. Knock on wood, but I visit Chicago about once a month and this does not seem to be active yet there, at least as of about 2 weeks ago. Thankfully where I live, the cable company is way too incompetent to do something like this.
Incorrect. The Sandvine appliances that comcast uses do not need to inspect the packets to classify them as Bittorrent, they can do so by other methods e.g. pattern and timing analysis. Not many network protocols generate packets the way bittorrent does; it's a dead giveaway. As long as they can identify your usage as bittorrent, the RST trick still works. Of course, you could change set your client to open a very conservative number of connections, possibly thwarting traffic analysis, but then you'd be throttling yourself worse than comcast.
The only permanent solution to this hack is end-to-end encryption, ie. setting up a VPN for each torrent, or even between each peer, so the traffic is indistinguishable from corporate-style vpns, which Comcast would never dare block.
see http://torrentfreak.com/comcast-throttles-bittorrent-traffic-seeding-impossible/
If you're using a decent client like uTorrent, Azureus, KTorrent, or Deluge, just check the options.
encryption is useless in this case, however, since bittorrent traffic is obvious to an intelligent packet shaper such as the Sandvine systems that Comcast uses. Bittorrent usage generates a very distinctive signature even if you just look at the volume ant timing of packets. Once it figures out you're using bittorrent, it just needs to send the RST packet, which will have the same effect regardless of encryption: Your client will think that the remote peer closed the connection.
Gutsy is the first version of ubuntu that has worked flawlessly on my laptop (dell e1405). I didn't even have to set up ndiswrapper for the broadcom wireless, the restricted drivers manager made it relatively easy to use fwcutter with the 43xx module. Suspend also works without any effort whatsoever, as does the memory card reader. I was also quite surprised at not having to set up 915resolution to get full resolution on the onboard graphics. This is the first time on any laptop I've been able to use my laptop almost immediately after installing a new distro. I've installed gutsy on several other (dell) laptops with similar results.
Oh, please. I'm just making a point. Assuming that anyone who disagrees with you is part of some cabal is somewhat schizophrenic. Anyways, I think my post was closer to number 4; Windows is definitely not my OS of choice.
I know this is an 8 day old thread, but ++. A $500 set of headphones sounds better than a $5000 stereo imo, because of the reasons you mention. I have a fairly nice stereo, but when I really want to listen to an album, I pull out the cans.
Speaking as someone who has been windows-free (besides games) for three years, I wouldn't bet on linux on the desktop gaining any footholds yet. Hardware support is getting better, and old stuff like your soundblaster is totally covered, but printer and scanner support sucks, and wireless cards often require ndiswrapper. I've attempted linux evangelism in the past, and poor hardware support was usually one of the bigger problems that made people turn back.
IMO, the biggest barrier is that people simply don't like change. Most computer users are used to doing things the windows way, some to the point of memorizing by rote the steps required to accomplish an task, and Linux disrupts that, because it's different. What exactly is grandma tilly going to do when an update messes up X and she's stuck in console mode until she runs dpkg-reconfigure or fixes her modelines or some such. Ubuntu is certainly doing the best work in this area, but it's not ready yet. Unbundling windows would certainly give it a foothold, but I wouldn't hold my breath on that.
That's what I'm saying. Assuming they're not incredibly intrusive, I'll sit through some ads for free stuff. Don't expect me to ever act on them, though. Google is pretty good at making advertising palatable, and chances are, we'll be able to use our devices more fully if google has its way. Anything has to be better than the current mobile landscape. The US wireless industry is in the dark ages, it needs something to give it a good kick.
"It was a million to one shot, Doc. Million to one."
Once again, the pirate community says "you're welcome"
Boxing Helena was directed by another no-talent daughter, Jennifer Lynch. As far as wikipedia or Google know, the Coppolas had nothing to do with it. It was a godawful movie, though. How can any serious movie end on "just a dream?" Deus ex Machina was already old 2,000 years ago.
This is a non-story. The ability to ask google about phishing has existed since 2.0, and was disabled then as well. Not that telling google every site you visit is a good thing.
I think he's going for 'he got welsh'
BBSpot is like The Onion for low-functioning autistics.
Funny that the title is "scroogled," that's the name of a prominent anti-google site that runs the Scroogle Scraper, so you can search google without having your entries put in your database. It's nice for doing searches that you'd rather not have in your search profile that google keeps for you. If you use their other services like gmail, they can basically know you intimately. I'd rather they didn't, but can't give up gmail. So it's easy to modify firefox to use scroogle instead of google for searching, and if you adblock adsense, and their urchin.js script, or just google-analytics.com/* they can't see what sites you visit either. It's sad that you have to work so hard to hide your movements from a company that "does no evil" but I guess that's the information economy for you.