project: one off

As reported by Gizmodo, Comcast has spilled the beans on it’s network management practices. It appears they were throttling P2P protocalls buch as BitTorrent and Gnutella.

Will the technique target P2P or other applications, or make decisions about the content of my traffic?

No. The new technique is “protocol-agnostic,” which means that the system does not manage congestion based on the applications being used by customers. It is content neutral, so it does not depend on the type of content that is generating traffic congestion. Said another way, customer traffic is congestion-managed not based on their applications, but based on current network conditions and recent bytes transferred by users.

I suppose I’ll just have to only download the newest linux ISO build every other day rather than nightly =/

If you see someone using the name “thepriceisright” or “tpir”, it’s me. It has to do with my job, and unfortunatly it’s an inside joke that only I get.

With each twist more surprising than the last, the stream of news about the financial state in the US is sounding more like a nightmarish soap opera that only CNN Money and C-SPAN could think up.