Apparently, Comcast is forging packet data to its users when they use file-sharing applications like BitTorrent or Gnutella. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released difficult to use software for users to verify this for themselves. It's a python app, runs from the command-line, requires the pcapy Python library, setting up a tunnel (potentially), WireShark , and worst of all, a FRIEND. Anyway, I'm glad I'm not on Comcast but I might check out Cox to see if they're doing anything as well.

Here's how to create these symbols on your keyboard in OS X:

1. Basic setup; to be done once:
   • Open the International preference panel in System Preferences
   • Under the Input Menu tab, check the Unicode Hex Input box
   • Check the Show input menu in menu bar checkbox. The Input Method Menu Extra will appear as a national flag in the top right of your screen.
2. Click the flag and select U+ Unicode Hex Input
3. Hold down Option while entering the hexadecimal value and the symbol appears

To use these symbols in HTML:

• Prefix a decimal value with &#
• Prefix a hexadecimal value with &#x
• Suffix with a semicolon, ;

To use these symbols in Javascript, prefix the hexadecimal value with u.