Throttling does not affect packet latency. At the router level, it generally involves selectively discarding packets. Data is not drip-fed at the bit level or byte level.

In order to intentionally affect latency, it would have to do a lot more work by buffering them for a period of time before forwarding onwards.

Now throttling can affect latency of logical messages within a TCP stream depending on the size of those messages, due to the retransmissions required, but does not affect the latency of UDP packets as stated.

I'm not sure that net-neutrality would help this. ISPs are blocking high volumes of UDP packets, and they'll claim it's to protect users from DDoS attacks. They may even be telling the truth.

The summary is also badly composed by following the latency complaint with a quote about blocking traffic. That is, unless you consider a blocked packet to have infinite latency. The letter is much more vague about what their actual latency complaint is, other than, you know, latency is bad.

Anyone else read it as entrails?

The milk is supposed to be left for Santa, not by Santa.

So kids with a crush on Santa are definitively deciding the naughty or nice question by slipping him some rohypnol.

I almost thought your typo was intentional. :)

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/31/scamville-the-social-gaming-ecosystem-of-hell/

Very depressing.

+1 nfmtv

For what it's worth, most people are playing Borderlands online now using GameRanger for exactly this reason, because it eliminates all these problems. Gearbox has unofficially recommended it as a solution as well.

It's a space station.

So they can counter their critics by saying they had a positive public beta, yet with a carefully controlled group, to ensure pesky real-world situations don't damage their hype for gaining investors.

At least it makes sense for the Labs to eat their own dog food.

CLucene is faster, and uses less memory, from what is basically a direct port. The README includes some benchmarks:

Far more likely to be because of the choice of algorithms and the resources behind the project. Would be interesting to see how CLucene performs.

Using two layers is the most secure. That's why I encrypt all my important data with ROT-13 twice.

I hold my phone to my left ear with my left hand, despite being right-handed, and probably always have. This is no surprise as it leaves my right hand free to navigate the mouse or type on the keyboard. Not rocket science.