On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 07:23:37AM -0500, wmaton@ottix.net wrote:

http://www.ccs.uottawa.ca/connect/why-internet-slow.html

ironically, it took more than 2 minutes for this URL to fully render for me. while waiting for it to pull in icons(?) or other stuff to decorate the page, i was able to read the full text. i suspect this is related to a packet-sniffer mandated by the UAE government to find and stamp out skype->phone sessions and other VoIP type activities, while not interfereing with Skype->Skype and other P2P activities. the article fails to mention delays that are introduced when Homeland Security mandates that everyone going in and out of Quickie-Mart needs to be strip searched looking for weapons of mass destruction. -- [ Jim Mercer jim@reptiles.org +971 50 436-3874 ] [ I want to live forever, or die trying. ]