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...took a 7-year-old to tell us what it was. We thought it was just some type of new tagger.' JEFF SUTTER, captain of the Wauwatosa, Wis., police department, after a Harry Potter fan vandalized 80 local traffic signs to make them read stop voldemort...
...Because DDoS utilizes multiple computers from multiple locations - and because hackers may use their network for only a single attack - there's no way to protect against a seemingly random array of computers suddenly going rogue. Once the attack begins, websites can try to trace the sudden flood of traffic back to the source computer and filter it out, but even that's a complex process. Internet service providers say they're rarely able to identify the master computer behind a DDoS attack...
...Nesson's speech was characterized by an anecdotal account of one of his first experiences with the court system (as a young man, he appealed a ruling for a traffic violation), a concluding allegory about a wise old man and a bird ("the bird is in your hands," he told the jury), and a portion during which he intended to have jurors listen to a song (quashed by Gertner in the interests of time...
...seeing encouraging signs that consumer confidence is building and more consumers are considering purchasing a new vehicle," said Peter Fong, the lead executive for Chrysler's reorganized sales organization. The automaker's total sales dropped 9% for July, but dealer inventories declined significantly and retail sales grew as consumer traffic more than doubled in the last week of the month, Fong said...
...growing traffic in "death tourism" is an indictment of a health-care system that seems to incentivize everything except the peaceful death to which we all aspire. But I'm not sure the solution is to invite Dignitas to open a clinic down the street from every hospital. Advances in palliative care mean that those last years of life do not have to be a moral, medical and financial nightmare. I respect Sir Edward's right to make what his manager called a "typically brave and courageous" choice. I just wish he'd had better choices...