It’s episode 3, and is that really Hecate that has arrived at school, or just her doppelganger? Also, will Margery Daw finally get off her ass and do something productive for once?
Daily Archives: October 23, 2007
Blue Drop – Episode 03
Comcast talking out both sides of their mouth?
You’ll recall my last post on Comcast clogging the tubes. Comcast responds but, um, isn’t this contradictory?:
But the company confirmed its bandwidth management technologies may slow a peer-to-peer service as part of a technique known in the industry as bandwidth shaping, which is the targeted constraining of delivery pipes. This could delay the delivery of a file but not block it.
For example, the technology could prioritize telephone calls over movie downloads.
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Comcast has repeatedly denied it is favoring any content or data flowing over its network.
Um, isn’t “prioritizing” one type of content or data over the other the same as favoring one type of data over the other? What part of this am I missing?