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Submission + - How to crash the Internet

rudy_wayne writes: We know you can take down Web sites with Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. We know that a country, like Egypt, can shut down a country’s entire Internet access. And, we thought we knew that you can't take down the entire Internet.

It turns out we could be wrong.

In a report from New Scientist, Max Schuchard a computer science graduate student and his buddies claim they've found a way to launch DDoS attacks on Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) network routers that could crash the Internet.

Comment Re:lulwut? (Score 1) 426

Actually, Nintendo published games are usually compatible with both hands, but 3rd party developers just ignore lefties. Even such a large developer like EA "forgot" to include a left handed option in EA Sports Active. It was one of the best selling games and it got significant criticism from lefties. In the next game EA Sports Active More Workouts, this issue was corrected and a left-handed option was added, however it was a just a small tweak and the game still felt awkward while playing with my left hand. In Wii Sports, I never feel awkward because of my left hand usage, though. Blame 3rd party developers who just focus on game development, not the user experience.

Comment Re:Isn't this just DRM in little pieces? (Score 1) 462

Team Fortress 2 is a nice example. They offer new content and updates totally for free. (They indicate that the game cache size double over two years with additional content.) Although it's been released long ago, people still purchase the game because it's kept alive with these updates. And since the updates are free for current users, they do keep their current customers satisfied. Instead of making the current users pay for additional content, they prefer to increase their customer base. I wish all game developers adopt a similar model.

Comment Install Win 95/98 on Dosbox and use Dosbox scaling (Score 1) 367

The games you are asking work well in Windows 98 so you can install Windows 98 on Dosbox just like any other dos application and then install Starcraft, Diablo, etc. on this "virtual Windows" and let Dosbox do the scaling for you. For Dosbox, it's just only another app so I don't expect any problems with the scaling. I am not sure about the performance but it's worth a try. (You can also try this with windows 95 for better performance.)

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