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Comment Low-level DDOS (Score 3, Interesting) 61

One of my clients is an umbrella organization for a few local community health centers, and there has been a steady stream of empty POST submissions to their website -- at the rate of about 2/second -- for about 4 straight months now. Virtually every hit is from a unique IP address, so the spoofing is either great, or the botnet is enormous. This is normally a VERY low-traffic site, so the attack constitutes about 99% of their traffic at this point.

I'm assuming that the timing of the start of the attacks -- just as the Affordable Health Care Act came into effect -- is not a coincidence. It's a brain-dead attack, and easy to mitigate, but I'm a bit dumbfounded that it continues to this day, despite having no effect on the accessibility of their site at all.

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Justice Not As Blind As Previously Thought 256

NotSoHeavyD3 writes "I doubt this is much of a surprise but apparently Cornell University did a study that seems to show you're more likely to get convicted if you're ugly. From the article: 'According to a Cornell University study, unattractive defendants are 22 percent more likely to be convicted than good-looking ones. And the unattractive also get slapped with harsher sentences — an average of 22 months longer in prison.'"

Apple Orders 10 Million Tablets? 221

Arvisp writes "According to a blog post by former Google China president Kai-Fu Lee, Apple plans to produce nearly 10 million tablets in the still-unannounced product's first year. If Lee's blog post is to be believed, Apple plans to sell nearly twice as many tablets as it did iPhones in the product's first year."

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