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Re:Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You? by jamesaguilar on Friday November 26, 2010 @11:33AM (#1942665)
Also, as a technical point, the amount of total internet utilization caused by the fetching of http web pages is so small that I doubt this practice could significantly harm any other traffic.
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Re:Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You? by chollida1 on Friday November 26, 2010 @03:42PM (#1943243)
> that I doubt this practice could significantly harm any other traffic.

I agree with you, but whenever I see something like this the back of my mind always chimes in with "famous last words".

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Re:Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You? by jamesaguilar on Friday November 26, 2010 @06:30PM (#1943682)
They're only famous when they are the last words said. But they are said far more often and wind up being proved correct.
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Re:Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You? by chollida1 on Monday November 29, 2010 @10:19AM (#1950518)
I think you're reading too much into this:)

It's just an expression, who's meaning has moved away from it's literal translation to now mean something like: "How bad could it be" or "I know this is going to bite me in the ass someday"

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