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Catherine Rosenberg, a professor with the University of Waterloo’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has written a great synopsis of the Internet for our cousins to the North:
The founding principle of the Internet is resource sharing and hence to deliver an appropriate end-to-end service, some level of co-ordination and traffic control is needed to [...]
Archive for November, 2008
A good synopsis of the Internet
November 30th, 2008 
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Mumbai Massacre
November 29th, 2008 Richard Bennett The terror attack on Mumbai is an outrage, of course; it’s India’s 9/11 and 7/7. The terrorists attacked India’s most open city, entering by boat and killing random people at locations carefully chosen for traffic and impact. Indian security forces and heroic hotel service workers put down the terrorists, restoring order in a few days. [...]
Dancing with the Scientists
November 29th, 2008 Richard Bennett During this period of hiatus for the world’s finest reality competition, please enjoy the Dancing Scientists:
Six weeks ago, the Gonzo Scientist challenged researchers around the world to interpret their Ph.D. research in dance form, film the dance, and share it with the world on YouTube (Science, 10 October, p. 186). By the 11 p.m. deadline [...]
Thirty years of networking brings us to this
November 27th, 2008 Richard Bennett The crowning achievement: cats on a treadmill.
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Regulation and the Internet
November 26th, 2008 Richard Bennett Here’s a little speech I gave to members of the EU Parliament in Brussels on Oct. 14th. The cousins are contemplating a set of Internet access account regulations that would mandate a minimum QoS level and also ban most forms of stream discrimination. This explains why such rules are a bad (and utterly impractical) idea.
The [...]
How fast is Internet traffic growing?
November 25th, 2008 Richard Bennett It depends on whose numbers you like. Andrew Odlyzko claims it’s up 50-60% over last year, a slower rate of growth than we’ve seen in recent years. Odlyzko’s method is flawed, however, as he only looks at public data, and there is good reason to believed that more and more traffic is moving off the [...]
Army loves video games
November 24th, 2008 Richard Bennett This does not surprise me at all: Army to spend $50M on video games
The U.S. Army plans to spend some $50 million over five years on combat video games to train soldiers, according to a report in Stars and Stripes.
Next, the CIA will spend a few million on reruns of 24.
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Nice Internet overview
November 24th, 2008 Richard Bennett The recently-published Nemertes study, Internet Interrupted: Why Architectural Limitations Will Fracture the ‘Net, includes a fine overview of the Internet, explaining public and private peering, content delivery networks, and overlay networks. It was necessary for the study to cover this ground as it had to correct the mistaken picture of Internet traffic that’s been foisted [...]
Incidentally, he speaks well too
November 22nd, 2008 Richard Bennett Obama’s Use of Complete Sentences Stirs Controversy:
According to presidential historian Davis Logsdon of the University of Minnesota, some Americans might find it “alienating” to have a president who speaks English as if it were his first language.
“Every time Obama opens his mouth, his subjects and verbs are in agreement,” says Mr. Logsdon. “If he keeps [...]
My second patent issued
November 20th, 2008 Richard Bennett I wasn’t paying attention, but the Patent Office awarded me a second patent in July, United States Patent #7,394,813 for “Systems and methods for implementing an acknowledgement mechanism for transmission of a real-time data stream”
Systems and methods for implementing an acknowledgement mechanism for transmission of a real-time data stream from a sending system to a [...]
