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...bulk of the strikes involved what are known as Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks, in which computers flood targeted websites with an overwhelming number of requests for information, bringing the sites' underlying networks of servers and routers to a standstill. The scope and coordination were staggering. At the peak of activity on May 10, hundreds of thousands of computers from around the world (likely tricked by malicious downloaded software) were bombarding Estonian targets with thousands of times the normal flow of data...
...That's putting it lightly. It's routine these days to use the Internet to call friends, download music, shop and bank; Web-savvy Estonians even vote and settle their taxes online. So, while Denial of Service attacks typically only target pre-selected websites, if they're the ones we're clicking on most, "we're that much more paralyzed," says Jonathan Zittrain, an Internet governance and regulation expert at the University of Oxford...
Clayton says he believes that the denial of such training to students will in fact predispose students to the same fundamentalism as creationism and the intelligent design movement. He disagrees with the idea that this sort of discussion would weaken science...
...practices employed at Abu Ghraib may be more widespread than the U.S. has acknowledged. Human rights groups and many military experts say the Administration's approach to prosecuting the war on terrorism, including open-ended detention of captives, denial of due process and intense pressure to come up with "productive" interrogations, may have created a climate that fosters abuse. One U.S. official says that some FBI agents were well aware that the military was using "very aggressive" interrogation methods that would not be condoned in the U.S. An Army officer seems to confirm that. Among Arab men, he tells TIME...
...class let out a collective breath of unease. During a discussion on social mobility in America, a girl had offhandedly suggested, “We [Harvard students] are all middle class anyways”. No one dared nod in assent—or shake his or her head in denial...