Posts by Richard Green

Disabling rather than enabling

If ISPs were smarter, they could quite easily remove the BitTorrent 'problem' altogether. If each ISP invested in their own all-encompassing server that proxied ANY bittorrent request, it would VASTLY reduce the amount of data going out over their internet trunk and keep the traffic within their own network. This improves the efficiency of their own network no-end, and would be considerably cheaper than the investment they make in all this traffic-shaping nonsense.

Now if *I* were an ICBM-wielding country...

The first thing I'd do before firing my nukes? Use my own ground-based lasers or missiles to take out those darn 747s. Sounds like they got some mightily explosive stuff going on inside them - should be a doddle to take out! :o)

The pro-terrorism bus..!

It's barely been a few years since the bomb-on-a-bus incident in London, and now they're proposing to make the buses explodable themselves...?

Dear god, all the terrorists would need now is a sniper rifle and an incendiary bullet.

Great plan, Ken!

I for one will NOT be travelling on these buses.