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		<title>The real purpose behind Net Neutrality is anything but honorable</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of use suspected that there were ulterior motives behind Net Neutrality regulations, but we never thought it would be this blatantly underhanded.  I had a chance to speak with one of the biggest experts on Internet peering William Norton and it was an eyeopener for me.  The resulting article below has some very interesting revelations. FCC NPRM [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debunking the hype that the new BitTorrent protocol is &#8220;network friendly&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The story that the new BitTorrent client uTorrent 2.0 is “network friendly” is making the top headlines on the Web and mailing lists.  The only problem with this story it that it has no actual data to back up its assertions.  I took the time yesterday to run some tests on the new uTorrent 2.0 beta [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GAO says flu will bring down Internet</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The GAO concluded that just 40% of the workforce staying home from illness would lead to severe Internet congestion, but what happens every day after school and after work when everyone is home?  That’s just one obvious hole in the GAO report but the draconian conclusion it draws about the need to block recreational services, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comcast to warn botnet infected computers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Broadband]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comcast has announced that they will begin to test a new monitoring system called Comcast Constant Guard that looks for botnets on their network.  Infected customers will get a “service notice” that pops up messages on the subscriber’s web browser telling them they are infected with resources (mostly preventative solutions) to help clean the computer. Read the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Animated presentation explaining the need for a prioritized Internet</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Broadband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Networking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quality of Service (QoS) Network prioritization is a very complex technology that is often misunderstood and maligned. Because it is difficult to explain in words and pictures alone, I’ve created a 7 minute animated presentation that attempts to simplify the concept for non-engineers. The first few slides are mostly text so you can skip ahead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FCC 5th principle must allow for reasonable discrimination</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Broadband]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As most of us have heard by now, the FCC announced yesterday their intention to create a new “5th principle” of nondiscrimination on the Internet. While there are some serious questions as to whether this is a wise mandate for wireless Internet services, such a principle applied to wired Internet services could be a good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More organic farming insanity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Broadband]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An organic farmer Lenny Levine in Nova Scotia just blocked his rural community from having broadband access by convincing the Kings County Council to block the construction of a microwave tower several hundred meters from his farm. Levine cites his unfounded fear that the microwave radiation would mutate the DNA in his organic crops. Read rest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does gaming support need to be a requirement for broadband?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m not exactly sure why a debate over whether broadband should be capable of online gaming erupted, but it appears to be a misunderstanding in which some entertainment software executives were needlessly upset. The whole furor came about as AT&#38;T made mention of the word “gaming” once in their FCC filing on how broadband should be defined. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A rational discussion on the state of American broadband</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Ou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Broadband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was getting tired of hearing all the exaggerated dire claims of how behind the U.S. is in terms of broadband deployment, so I wrote this article to put things into better perspective.  While there&#8217;s no question that improvement needs to be made, we need an accurate assessment of the current situation and we need [...]]]></description>
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