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by zbisch 10y ago
(I tried to be vague to avoid spoilers but now fear my post makes no sense) One of my favorite things about the twists though is that I feel like they actually lay a lot of groundwork and foreshadow them very well. For example, I think the
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by zbisch 12y ago
I took a look at the slides/paper and you are completely correct (I thought the same thing). The plot is essentially saying that if you compare the "average household" to the households of Netflix and Hulu subscribers, custom
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by zbisch 14y ago
Residential networks are actually part of my current research, and, although I don't know the full details of every technology, I am familiar with the basics of how DSL and DOCSIS networks work. Yes, there is a cost (in terms of performance
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by zbisch 14y ago
Yeah I can't believe this works for them. So I assume Comcast pays Tata, right? I was under the impression at some point that was their primary provider (paid transit). They keep these links so congested [1], that in order to actually prov
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by zbisch 14y ago
Ah, very good point. The last thing I read on the Level3/Comcast spat story lead me to believe Comcast was paying Level3 for the peering. I apologize. However, this line lead me to believe the author had a misunderstanding of the costs of
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by zbisch 14y ago
I'm sorry to sound very negative on the author, but I don't know how you could have the knowledge to write this article, but not have the knowledge to understand the basics of costs on the Internet. A few points that are horribly wrong FTA
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by zbisch 15y ago
I believe there is a similar story used in statistics courses (based on a true story) of a possible case of gender discrimination. The university (or universities) basically appeared to be discriminating against females (maybe lower overal
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Regional Impact of the Japan earthquake, seen through the eyes of BitTorrent(aqualab.cs.northwestern.edu)
3 points by zbisch 15y ago|0 comments
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by zbisch 15y ago
Yeah, that sounds very awesome and like exactly what I want. Is this using the MLB streaming service? I really wish I could do the same thing with hockey games. I just really despise the idea of either paying a chunk of money and not being
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by zbisch 15y ago
I don't mean to sound critical but why do you think networks get sports right? I actually feel like this is one of the worst offenders. Say I want to watch every Chicago Blackhawks game this season (or any other hockey team). Well, then I
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Who pays for your P2P habit? ISPs or you?(gigaom.com)
1 points by zbisch 15y ago|0 comments
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by zbisch 15y ago
I think that's also a very reasonable point of view. However, at the same time, I its also reasonable to say that there is a group that could include people we would consider non-hackers that use this type of application (e.g., those with
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by zbisch 15y ago
The reason that people are annoyed is because the title of the article is misleading. Yes, this guy may be a "hacker" in the sense of the word that we all like to use (he's a programmer). The issue is that the article is titled "Why you do
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by zbisch 15y ago
I believe I had even read somewhere in an interview that the reason Netflix had "Net" in it was because of their long term plans to move towards streaming, not because users selected movies on a website. In other words, it sounded like the
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by zbisch 15y ago
I'm actually doing some research on this topic right now in grad school. I think there is definitely a lot more that can be done in this area; we're looking at things like time-of-day congestion, traffic management policy, actual applicati
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by zbisch 15y ago
I think most people don't realize that a lot of what IPv6 fixes means you don't need to deal with the IP address directly so often. Also, any program that converts an IP address to an integer (or goes the other way) would require a new look
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by zbisch 15y ago
Your point reminds me of Colbert's speech at Northwestern this year. Towards the end (the more serious part) he says something along the lines that, you don't really "win" at life. I'd say more, but Colbert says it better: http://www.you
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by zbisch 15y ago
You're spot on. When I first saw Google Wallet, I thought, "haven't Japanese cellphones been doing this for a while?" Also, I have an electronic dictionary, a DS with a dictionary game, and a phone with a dictionary. I still prefer to us