http://bennettblog.disqus.com/Networking technology and policyenMon, 26 Jun 2006 18:06:07 -0000http://bennett.com/blog/2006/06/botched-experiment-in-citizen-engineering/#comment-2134338<p>Well, it <i>is</i> Cringely you're talking about, so the answer may well be "why, yes, he <i>is</i> high on rock cocaine, why do you ask?".</p><p>Though in fairness he's not smoking them rocks nearly as often as Dvorak, who does it intentionally.</p>SigivaldMon, 26 Jun 2006 18:06:07 -0000http://bennett.com/blog/2006/06/botched-experiment-in-citizen-engineering/#comment-2134337<p>Yes.</p>Richard BennettSun, 25 Jun 2006 16:34:49 -0000http://bennett.com/blog/2006/06/botched-experiment-in-citizen-engineering/#comment-2134336<p>It's not a very good experiment.</p><p> The fact that similar bandwidth contention would have occured without QoS (Except for the fact that the call may have been dropped), but Bit Torrent behavior isn't predictable from session to session and I doubt any attempt was made to verify that he connected to the exact same peers each time. He may have used the same tracker, but I doubt the peers were the same.</p><p>Shouldn't we require sniffer traces from these folks in order to validate their results?</p>maxSun, 25 Jun 2006 13:10:16 -0000