thefuz - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Tyson (Score 1) 799

by thefuz on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @07:57AM (#28688925) Attached to: Tomorrow's Science Heroes?

Huge fan of Neil deGrasse Tyson as well - check out his new show Nova Science Now. It's a little parochial, but I believe it's intended for a younger audience - it definitely has a good fun factor with solid science qualities. Also love seeing him on Colbert. Total riot!

Comment Re:Internet Backbone DDOS in 2002 (Score 1) 289

by thefuz on Monday April 06, 2009 @05:19PM (#27481377) Attached to: Could the Internet Be Taken Down In 30 Minutes?

I would be surprised if it was down for more than 24 hours following that though.

That's the thing... so they take down the Internets within 30 mins. Does it really matter _that_ much if it's just back up again in a day or so (and after that, now the folks trying to figure out who owns all the bots have much more data to figure out the responsible parties)? Doesn't seem like an event of this nature would be more than a bump in the road or yet another reason to sell some "I survived the Internet B0tst0rmz of 2009" t-shirts. Speaking of that:

1) Gather monster-storm of zombie PCs
2) Take down Internets
3) Sell "I survived the Internet B0tst0rmz of 2009" t-shirts
4) Profit

Many Analog TV Watchers Aren't Aware of Upcoming Switchover 440

Posted by Zonk on Saturday December 22, 2007 @07:19AM from the it's-coming dept.

A recent poll of TV watchers shows that many Americans aren't aware the end times are coming for analog broadcast signals. "The survey found that the group most affected by the analog cutoff -- those with no cable or satellite service -- are most in the dark about what will happen to their sets: Only one-third of them had heard that their TVs are set to stop receiving programs. Of course, there are solutions. Congress is subsidizing the purchase of digital television receivers. And the cable TV industry is hoping that this will spur the last holdouts to buy pay TV."

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