My guess would be that the machine that launched the attack was simply spoofing its IP.

I'm curious if the researchers have any data about the "red" and orange spots on the map. Specifically in the middle latitudes in Canada. There is almost a horizontal bar of cooling in the middle north of canada, south of the arctic circle. What's that about?

my guess would be the worms came from soil that came with plants from the south.

Canada? sure. but in the USA? in ohio? I don't think so.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_colonization_of_the_Americas

In the video, shuttleworth goes on about how ubuntu is this revolutionary way to have the same software on your phone and desktop. Umm, did he miss the memo about windows 8? I mean I know Windows 8 sucks and all, but ignoring the big gorilla in the room just makes him seem out of touch.

Yes, Jobs did something, but by equating Apple with Jobs, you are ignoring the contribution of 500,000+ Apple employees in the US alone. That's ridiculously insulting to everyone who has worked for Apple.

All due respect, but now that the man is deceased, can we finally stop equating everything related to Apple Inc with its former figure head?

Good lord, this entire article is based on one tweet - 107 characters. Surely we could have waited for Carmack to say something more detailed than this??

I still remembering being grumpy when FreeBSD upped the memory requirement from 4MB to 6MB, rendering it uninstallable on my 486 laptop. I win.

You might have a point if the packet was lost in their network. But the packet can also be lost on your wifi, or on someone else's network.

So yes, you probably should be.

Just thought of two more:
- (UDP) DNS traffic
- differing definitions of kilobyte (1000 vs. 1024)

and I'm sure there are still more.

Grossly inappropriate? Please. If you are selling bandwidth, you are going to measure it the way it comes out highest. Not because you are a thieving jerk, but because a) that's what your salespeople want and b) all of your competitors are doing it. Looking at the level 3 bandwidth usage is an error. It fails to account for - at minimum:
- TCP headers
- IP traffic that is hidden from the TCP level (retransmits, dupes, ICMP, etc.)
- session setup and teardown (SYN - ACK - SYN/ACK)
- Physical layer overhead (for example ATM requires multiples of around 50 bytes IIRC)
- PPP overhead (this is DSL after all)
- And certainly other things I've forgotten.

If you've ever looked at an ethernet level dump, it's not surprising in the least that that adds up to about 20-30%.

seriously, though, what does it run? the article doesn't say except to use the nebulous term "open source". or are they planning on schlepping off the initial software development to the open source community too? (good luck with that)

exactly this. what is the point of having a small narrow hot spot of very fast speed? are people really too lazy to plug in a cable when they need to transfer tons and tons of data quickly? what use case is there for cutting the wire but forcing the wifi device to be in the same small area?