Bit Torrents Sites Blocked By Ict

[cclub75]

www.torrentspy.com is blocked by ICT.

But not, isohunt.com for instance.

Thank you Sitthichai.

By the way, excellent article on him in International Herald Tribune...

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/11/asia/thai.1-72949.php

He invented the meter for the thai taxis... plus a suicide machine. He loves gun (he owns a large collection) and keeps one always on him. And says "YouTube is not a very essential Web sit. Is it ?"

And of course, he's the Telecoms minister.

[samran]

bit rough on him there?

OK, he blocked you tube...whopdie doo. But, he invented a Taxi meter and he doesn't support restrictons of foreigners owning land.

Given that he invented the taxi meter, he has already made my job a a moderator much easier....we'd be flooded with posts each day from sad punters being 'ripped off' ten baht.

As for foreigners owning land, why aren't the whingers not holding this bloke up as the next PM? There would be nothing to whinge about then I guess.

[Phil Conners]

Why are you whinging so much about the whingers? Doesn't that make YOU a whinger?

Anyway I doubt it was a Thai who invented the taxi meter.

[Mid]

Anyway I doubt it was a Thai who invented the taxi meter

stand bye , the envelope please ...........................

and the winner is ,

ancient Rome

Edited June 15, 2007 by Mid

[samran]

Why are you whinging so much about the whingers? Doesn't that make YOU a whinger?

Anyway I doubt it was a Thai who invented the taxi meter.

You got me.

we all have our needs...

and you are right, but he did make the meter acceptable.

[A_Traveller]

To be fair, the process was to design a meter which would reflect reasonably accurately the balance between moving and stationary traffic and provide the driver with an equatable fare based upon it. I don't think, reading the article, he suggested he invented the taxi-meter but developed it for usage in Bangkok's singular traffic.

However, on the subject, if a torrent site offers a link to banned product here [King & I for example] then the ICT may block it. However, as has been said before such blocking is often discretionary or more accurately arbitrary. One other issue is that p2p sites account for about 5% of requests but 45% of traffic world-wide on the net and increasingly ISPs are faced with the issue of how to manage that bandwidth discrepancy. Here they use {badly} traffic shapers and other throttling software to achieve these ends. There is simply not enough bandwidth to go around here with contention ratios, in my opinion of 50/1.

Regards

/edit typo //

Edited June 15, 2007 by A_Traveller

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