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...enough about the issue to take the time to find the poll and pick a side, and they're dead-on scientific about that... until robots attack. "The more popular the poll, the more trouble we have defending it from hackers," says Time Inc. New Media applications developer Anthony Martino...
...Martino breaks down TIME.com poll popularity into three categories of voting results: the thousands, the tens of thousands, and the hundreds of thousands (and up). It's simple statistical penetration: How many web users come to a posted poll before one of them happens to be a serious -- and seriously skilled -- hacker? A mild-mannered TIME Daily poll such as "No more Independent Counsels?" fell into the first category -- fewer than 2,000 votes in its first week -- and it tantalized no intruders...
...They couldn't change the tallies," says Martino. "They weren't hackers. But they did have a server." The assault came from a Turkish university, and students were armed with a CPU to match TIME Daily's -- the university's powerful server. The bots were identified and blocked by the IP and cookie-based defenses, but they churned out so many voting attempts that defending against them overwhelmed TIME Daily's own server. Access slowed to a crawl until the tech team was forced to ban the computers of the entire university from accessing our site...
...questions, Are writers and artists equally influential? Is a TV host as important? Could there be a second writer whose influence outweighs, say, Bart Simpson, your choice as cartoon character? You effortlessly sidestepped these questions. And so again an interesting idea is dumbed down for an impatient society. PETER MARTINO Roxbury, Conn...
...MARTINO Frank Lite. Known less for his singing [2] than for playing Johnny Fontaine, the Sinatra-inspired character in The Godfather...