Revision3, a large and popular entertainment firm (hosting such shows as Diggnation, Tekzilla, etc) recently had massive downtime over the holiday Memorial Day weekend due to a Denial of Service attack. Rev3 uses a BitTorrent tracker to distribute (legally) their shows, because the BT protocol greatly reduces the amount of bandwidth necessary to distribute files. [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Revision3 gets DoS’d… but not by who you’d expect.
May 29, 2008
YouTube displays Demographics
May 16, 2008
We knew it wouldn’t be long before Do-No-Evil became Try-Not-To-Do-Much-Evil, but that day came and went a loooong time ago. Google buying YouTube wasn’t even that big of a deal, and now it’s just “how things are.” Though now… perhaps we were a bit hasty letting everything go unmentioned. YouTube will now show you demographic [...]
Gay Marriage Upheld in California
May 15, 2008
Taken from CBS News:
The long-awaited court decision stemmed from San Francisco’s highly publicized same-sex weddings, which in 2004 helped spur a conservative backlash in a presidential election year and a national dialogue over gay rights.
….Today’s ruling by the Republican-dominated court affects more than 100,000 same-sex couples in the state, about a quarter of whom have [...]
