The alternative to BSD is not necessarily GPL.

MS could have implemented their own stack, or bought out Trumpet Winsock, or taken any number of alternative paths where (L)GPL could have no effect.

Then they came for the Alans Cox...

There are many, many more students than there are scientists. This matters because many jurisdictions in Europe and Asia require undergraduate students to produce published or publishable work as part of their degree requirements.

...Assuming that the DAC/ADCs between the magnetic and digital signals can keep up, and also that whatever process prods the magnetic domains can do transitions sufficiently rapidly.

> Best indication of a government agency a 24 hour attack rather than a cycling attack.

FTFA: "However, for the last 24 hours the site has been largely inaccessible world wide"

The attack does not appear to have been sustained in a constant way.

> Individual users will still want to use the computers and bandwidth for other things.

*Distributed* denial of service attack. If the attack is successful, each individual user does not need to devote more than a small fraction of whatever broadband access they have, since their victims would not successfully communicate back.

> Even botnet controllers will want to get back to money making spam.

They could also make money by renting out their botnets...

> The only people who can keep it up solid had computers and bandwidth to waste

Or non-government entities such as botnet operators, as you mention, telecommunications companies, multi-national organizations...

> and obviously will want to work the divide and conquer angle.

Successfully taking out one site (even a highly connected one) wouldn't be dividing anything except that site from all the strongly connected others. This attack created no salients against which to deploy any kind of conquering tactic, and this kind of attack cannot possibly do so against such a highly redundant network.

The problem is that Facebook is optimized for narcissistic _self_-promotion through _telling_ your echo chamber how great you are, not for _showing_ others your status even through the usual consumption displays that are required to promote _others_.

Not yet dead? A good /.ing will fix that.

The last few pages appear to be a log of every FB page he viewed. The search history you can grab for yourself from those logs. Requests for /search.php are searches (e.g. on 2009-02-17 19:31:10 shows a search for an individual named tom, and then a minute later for someone named kainlin, both followed by viewing of those individuals' profiles).

On page 5: "Neoprints"

What are neoprints? Google only knows about teenage Asian girl photos adorned with visual clutter bling from Myspace or Geocities, and various local printing companies.

Blark. The active chunk circumference is apparently 21x21, not 16x16: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Chunks