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Comment Re:This is your run of the mill CDN (Score 1) 138

Absolutely not. You don't need to differentiate packet based on content, source or destination to provide CDN services.

You just need to build a CDN, i.e., caches, mechanisms for content replication close to its destinations etc etc.

Akamai does not need Telcos to differentiate packets for its CDN to work. Similarly Telco CDNs do not imply that Telcos differentiate packets.

If I am still not understood, here is the wikipedia definition to make it easier for you.

"A content delivery network or content distribution network (CDN) is a system of computers containing copies of data, placed at various points in a network so as to maximize bandwidth for access to the data from clients throughout the network. A client accesses a copy of the data near to the client, as opposed to all clients accessing the same central server, so as to avoid bottlenecks near that server."

Comment This is your run of the mill CDN (Score 5, Interesting) 138

Similar to those deployed by Akamai and Limelight for their customers, and by Google and Microsoft for themselves.

A typical case of a Telco moving into an additional market.
Arguably, it does allow BT to offer multi-tier services. But it is not packet-level differentiation
in the network, which is the issue at the heart of the net-neutrality debate.

If Content Distribution Networks violate net neutrality and the /. crowd thinks so, then
we should be blasting Akamai and Google long time before we started blasting the Telcos.

Submission + - Are 89% of BitTorrent files illegal? (delimiter.com.au)

An anonymous reader writes: A university in Australia has come up with some interesting research. After looking at more than a million BitTorrent files, they've come to the conclusion that 89% percent of the files infringe copyright on one level or another. However, it looks like people are mainly downloading a small core of content — just 15,000 torrents (4 percent or so) were responsible for 90 percent of seeders. The full report is available online for downloading, and contains a lot of interesting insights about the BitTorrent universe. It looks like they mainly analysed files through the Torrentz.com meta-search engine, which can search a bunch of different BitTorrent sites.

Comment Re:Are we mature enough as a species for this ? (Score 1) 295

"You wonder if our technology is developing faster than our enlightenment? We already have enough weapons to kill everybody on the planet 100 times over, and our top priority is watching "Jersey Shore"... does that answer your question?"

Slightly off topic, but according to this article your "100 times over" assertion is incorrect: http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/nuclearwar1.html

Comment Because ISPs in EU sell secured router/modems (Score 1) 274

It is very simple really. ISPs in the densely populated EU quickly figured out that if they don't restrict internet
access to the paying customers, many other users from the nearby apartments/townhouses will free-ride.

So, they simply sell the model and the wireless router as one package, with a passcode that is setup by the ISP
and printed on the back of the router.

It is not that European users or ISPs are more aware of security. It is because ISPs want to make sure people
do not free-ride on their services, and that the users do not have to set up themselves the security of their wireless router.

Comment Re:Execs, etc (Score 1) 189

So this is a list that gives credit only to business people for the success of Open Source ...

You are missing: Linus Torvalds (Linux creator), Eric S. Raymond (Open Source advocate), Bruce Perens (started Debian Linux and coined the term “Open Source”), Richard Stallman (Free Software Foundation spiritual father),

If you were aiming to credit people with substantial influence in the business part of IT, then why did you omit:
Bob Young & Marc Ewing (Red Hat founders) and Larry Page & Sergey Brin (Google founders).

This is just a list of nobodies (OSS-wise) that at some point in their life decided to use OSS in their business ... This is insulting really. Please no more
of these self-validation articles!

Comment Short answer (Score 1) 1040

Of course it has been a factor.

As a non-US citizen I have experienced the frustration of long border controls in US and Canada
too many times, and from now on I will try my best to minimize them.

The Olympics is a celebration of peace and freedom. Please oh please no more overpoliced olympics!

So not really a short answer :)

Rio was the best for 3 reasons:

a) Infrastructure and preparation. Recall that they have two main events to organize within 2 years.
If the World cup is successful, no doubt they will organize an equally successful Olympics.
Even if it fails, they will have enough time to fix all the problems, which they will
have learned first hand, thus it is more likely they will absorb the lessons of failure.

b) Not a main target for terrorists etc. Face it, the US is a prime target and policing
events on the mainland is a nightmare. Also some countries are less likely
to be attacked simply because they have not pissed off as many people
as the US. So was Greece in 2004, and so will be Brazil in 2016.

c) Latin America. The Olympics should go there at some point ... and where
better than the magical city of Rio, in one of the most vibrant economies in the world?

Comment Re:absolutely, definitely a scam (Score 1) 165

hate to reply to my posts, but this is funny:

"What is the RIPPER?

RIPPER is an acronym for the Robotic Interplanetary Prospector Excavator and Retriever. It is an automated two-stage spacecraft and Earth Reentry Capsule (ERC) designed to land on and return samples from the smaller extraterrestrial bodies in the Solar System. This includes the moons, the asteroids, and the comets."

"Ripper"... how appropriate ...

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