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Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and state Senate boss John Sampson, supine before New York's all-powerful teachers unions, tossed a chance for $700 million in federal school aid down an Albany sewer yesterday — and then went home.
The contemptible display came just hours after Gov. Paterson presented a new $134 billion budget, calling for (among other things) $1.1 billion in school-aid cuts — economies that might have been mitigated by the federal cash.
As if Silver, Sampson and the legislative knaves and dwarves who answer to them care about such things.
They care only about themselves and their masters — in this case, the teachers unions who found the price of the federal money too high.
Modest education reforms, including an expansion of New York's brilliantly successful charter-school initiative.
Had the Legislature agreed to up the number of charter schools allowed in the state from 200 to 460, as Paterson wanted, New York this morning would be in the running for the cash.
Alas, the teachers unions — tired of having their dismal union-run schools repeatedly embarrassed by high-performing charters — wouldn't permit it.
Now, legislators will turn their attention to the budget — and treat Paterson's comparatively restrained proposals with their usual open contempt.
The gov wants to hold state-funded spending growth to just under 1 percent, while hiking taxes and fees by about $1 billion.
It's not a perfect plan — far from it.
Paterson would have done well not to concede a penny in spending growth — indeed, to have demanded billions in outright cuts — and then to have begun the discussion from that base.
As it stands, the governor seems to be proceeding on an assumption that he soon will be negotiating with honorable men and women — and nothing could be further from the truth.
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"Oberlin today could benefit greatly from a re-introduction to the "real" Finney, who would enter eagerly into the lively diversity of religious experience and conversation of the campus. "
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I was very interested in the letter to the editor in the Fall issue that referred to the Summer article about religion on the Oberlin campus. As one writer notes, "Charles G. Finney, the prime evangelist of the 1800s, left his indelible mark on Oberlin." True as that is, I believe it would be quite fair to say that the nature of that mark has often been misunderstood, not only at Oberlin but generally. For a great many "evangelicals," among them other writers of the response letters, Finney represents "the good old-time religion" identified today with fundamentalism, or at least the intense and often quite emotional "conservative" form of Christianity. This representation of Finney, the portrait in the minds of so many who still see him as an evangelical hero, actually distorts the man and the powerful movement he stirred and embodied.
Having grown up in the Oberlin community, worshiped often in Finney's First Church (though a Methodist myself), and having eventually gone into the Christian ministry, I have always been interested in Finney. My own faith journey took me into a "liberalism" that seemed much at odds with Finney's evangelical message and style--until I had the opportunity to read his memoirs. There I discovered a very different kind of person than I had imagined, a man fearlessly combining spiritual devotion and fervor with powerful intellectual evaluation of traditional Christianity. Indeed, Finney made such radical departures from the traditional Presbyterianism of his day that he almost didn't get ordained. His "new-school Presbyterian" theology, also known in that day as "Oberlin theology" got him into a lot of hot water. He was widely excoriated by many for his challenges to traditional doctrines of the day. In this he was much like Harry Emerson Fosdick a couple of generations later, the favorite whipping boy of the fundamentalists in the early 20th century.
Oberlin today could benefit greatly from a reintroduction to the "real" Finney, who, I believe, would enter eagerly into the lively diversity of religious experience and conversation of the campus.
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Before I get to the point of this letter, let me say that I thoroughly enjoy the Oberlin Alumni Magazine. It is both attractive and informative. And refreshingly free from typos! (I happen to work as a technical writer.)
Now to the point. I guess it all depends on your perspective. The news that Barnes & Nobel has been retained to manage the store that was formerly the Co-op Bookstore is profoundly sad. Why so? Aren't the needs of the town and college going to be served? Isn't it better to have a bookstore than not?
The answers to these question are, of course, yes and yes. And yet, as a writer and as someone who believes in the importance of a diversity of voices in the mass media, I believe it would have been far better to have searched for and found an independent bookstore that would have been willing to operate the store. Barnes & Nobel is one of the behemoths of the bookstore industry in the United States, opening stores all over the country and taking away business from the struggling independent booksellers.
Just yesterday I was listening to NPR's Alternative Radio show and heard media critic Ben Bagdikian pointing out how a handful of corporations control the mass media--newspapers, magazines, television, radio, movies, videos, and books--that most of us are exposed to. By having Barnes & Nobel run what was previously an independent bookstore, one more independent outlet has been snuffed out. We are all the poorer for that.
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A member of the Hitchcock family found a collection of letters in a trunk in the attic of his family farm in Pittsford, Vermont. Among them was a letter from Henry Chapman Hitchcock to his grandparents, dated May 24, 1850, when Henry entered Oberlin. Here are excerpts your readers might find interesting.
Dear Grandfather and Grandmother, In noticing the date you do not find the long word Fredericktown but in its stead a trisyluble and now I imagine I hear you thus solyoquise. "Oberlin! Why, where is that?" Now to save your calling to memory the days when you studied Geography, I will tell you where it is: vis in Lorain Co. N.E. part of the state of Ohio. Mother has occasionally sent you a paper called the "Oberlin Collegiate Institute" now called "Oberlin College." And it is hither that I have resorted to acquire that knowledge so essential to a youth of the present generation...
This is a beautiful village of the New England order and mostly N.E inhabitants. I room at Rev. James H. Fairchild's--Prof. Of Mathematics--which gives me superior advantages. He is an excellent man. The institution is congregational and antislavery and all the inhabitants of this section of country vis "Western Reserve" are all abolitionists and congregationalists. The institution educates the Negros, which makes it unlike any other institution in the U.S. Several are in my class and they fully equal the foremost of the class. My studies are the Greek and Latin Languages and Orating.
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Q: Overloading operators in typedef structs (c++) I want to make a typedef struct called pos (from position) that stores coordinates x and y. I am trying to overload some operators for this struct, but it does not compile.
typedef struct {
    int x;
    int y;

    inline pos operator=(pos a) {
        x=a.x;
        y=a.y;
        return a;
    }

    inline pos operator+(pos a) {
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    }

    inline bool operator==(pos a) {
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       else
          return false;
    }
} pos;

I also wanted to know the difference between this:
inline bool operator==(pos a) {
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       return true;
      else
       return false;
}

And this:
bool operator==(pos a) const {
      if(a.x==x && a.y== y)
         return true;
      else
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}

A: Instead of typedef struct { ... } pos; you should be doing struct pos { ... };.  The issue here is that you are using the pos type name before it is defined.  By moving the name to the top of the struct definition, you are able to use that name within the struct definition itself.
Further, the typedef struct { ... } name; pattern is a C-ism, and doesn't have much place in C++.
To answer your question about inline, there is no difference in this case.  When a method is defined within the struct/class definition, it is implicitly declared inline.  When you explicitly specify inline, the compiler effectively ignores it because the method is already declared inline.
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A: try this:
struct Pos{
    int x;
    int y;

    inline Pos& operator=(const Pos& other){
        x=other.x;
        y=other.y;
        return *this;
    }

    inline Pos operator+(const Pos& other) const {
        Pos res {x+other.x,y+other.y};
        return res;
    }

    const inline bool operator==(const Pos& other) const {
        return (x==other.x and y == other.y);
    }
 };

A: *

*bool operator==(pos a) const{ - this method doesn't change object's elements.

*bool operator==(pos a) { - it may change object's elements.

A: The breakdown of your declaration and its members is somewhat littered:
Remove the typedef
The typedef is neither required, not desired for class/struct declarations in C++. Your members have no knowledge of the declaration of pos as-written, which is core to your current compilation failure.
Change this:
typedef struct {....} pos;

To this:
struct pos { ... };

Remove extraneous inlines
You're both declaring and defining your member operators within the class definition itself. The inline keyword is not needed so long as your implementations remain in their current location (the class definition)

Return references to *this where appropriate
This is related to an abundance of copy-constructions within your implementation that should not be done without a strong reason for doing so. It is related to the expression ideology of the following:
a = b = c;

This assigns c to b, and the resulting value b is then assigned to a. This is not equivalent to the following code, contrary to what you may think:
a = c;
b = c;

Therefore, your assignment operator should be implemented as such:
pos& operator =(const pos& a)
{
    x = a.x;
    y = a.y;
    return *this;
}

Even here, this is not needed. The default copy-assignment operator will do the above for you free of charge (and code! woot!)
Note: there are times where the above should be avoided in favor of the copy/swap idiom. Though not needed for this specific case, it may look like this:
pos& operator=(pos a) // by-value param invokes class copy-ctor
{
    this->swap(a);
    return *this;
}

Then a swap method is implemented:
void pos::swap(pos& obj)
{
    // TODO: swap object guts with obj
}

You do this to utilize the class copy-ctor to make a copy, then utilize exception-safe swapping to perform the exchange. The result is the incoming copy departs (and destroys) your object's old guts, while your object assumes ownership of there's. Read more the copy/swap idiom here, along with the pros and cons therein.

Pass objects by const reference when appropriate
All of your input parameters to all of your members are currently making copies of whatever is being passed at invoke. While it may be trivial for code like this, it can be very expensive for larger object types. An exampleis given here:
Change this:
bool operator==(pos a) const{
    if(a.x==x && a.y== y)return true;
    else return false;
}

To this: (also simplified)
bool operator==(const pos& a) const
{
    return (x == a.x && y == a.y);
}

No copies of anything are made, resulting in more efficient code.

Finally, in answering your question, what is the difference between a member function or operator declared as const and one that is not?
A const member declares that invoking that member will not modifying the underlying object (mutable declarations not withstanding). Only const member functions can be invoked against const objects, or const references and pointers. For example, your operator +() does not modify your local object and thus should be declared as const. Your operator =() clearly modifies the local object, and therefore the operator should not be const.

Summary
struct pos
{
    int x;
    int y;

    // default + parameterized constructor
    pos(int x=0, int y=0)
        : x(x), y(y)
    {
    }

    // assignment operator modifies object, therefore non-const
    pos& operator=(const pos& a)
    {
        x=a.x;
        y=a.y;
        return *this;
    }

    // addop. doesn't modify object. therefore const.
    pos operator+(const pos& a) const
    {
        return pos(a.x+x, a.y+y);
    }

    // equality comparison. doesn't modify object. therefore const.
    bool operator==(const pos& a) const
    {
        return (x == a.x && y == a.y);
    }
};

EDIT OP wanted to see how an assignment operator chain works. The following demonstrates how this:
a = b = c;

Is equivalent to this:
b = c;
a = b;

And that this does not always equate to this:
a = c;
b = c;

Sample code:
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

struct obj
{
    std::string name;
    int value;

    obj(const std::string& name, int value)
        : name(name), value(value)
    {
    }

    obj& operator =(const obj& o)
    {
        cout << name << " = " << o.name << endl;
        value = (o.value+1); // note: our value is one more than the rhs.
        return *this;
    }
};

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{

    obj a("a", 1), b("b", 2), c("c", 3);

    a = b = c;
    cout << "a.value = " << a.value << endl;
    cout << "b.value = " << b.value << endl;
    cout << "c.value = " << c.value << endl;

    a = c;
    b = c;
    cout << "a.value = " << a.value << endl;
    cout << "b.value = " << b.value << endl;
    cout << "c.value = " << c.value << endl;

    return 0;
}

Output
b = c
a = b
a.value = 5
b.value = 4
c.value = 3
a = c
b = c
a.value = 4
b.value = 4
c.value = 3

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A10 Blog / Network Security / Five Most Famous DDoS Attacks and Then Some
Five Most Famous DDoS Attacks and Then Some
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are now everyday occurrences. Whether you're a small non-profit or a huge multinational conglomerate, your online services—email, websites, anything that faces the internet—can be slowed or completely stopped by a DDoS attack. Moreover, DDoS attacks are sometimes used to distract your cybersecurity operations while other criminal activity, such as data theft or network infiltration, is underway.
… we saw an increase of over 12% in the number of potential DDoS weapons available on the internet, with a total of approximately 12.5 million weapons detected. – A10 State of DDoS Weapons Report for H2 2020
DDoS Attacks Getting Bigger, More Frequent
The online threat landscape continues to evolve at an accelerating pace with hackers launching more distributed denial of service attacks than ever before, taking aim at new targets, and creating new botnets. Yes, cybercriminals had a busy year in 2020, with rapidly increasing numbers of DDoS weapons, widespread botnet activity, and some of the largest DDoS attacks ever recorded.
One of the biggest factors in 2020 DDoS attacks was the COVID-19 lockdown, which drove a rapid shift to online for everything from education and healthcare, to consumer shopping and office work, giving hackers more targets than ever before. Because of the haste of this transition, many of these businesses and workers turned out to be significantly under protected from attacks due to the difficulty of maintaining cybersecurity best practices in an emergency scenario.
At the same time, the demand for solutions for a wide range of business needs and the rollout of 5G technologies has accelerated the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) around the world, creating a huge pool unsuspecting and under protected new recruits for botnet armies used to launch attacks on massive scales.
In our ongoing tracking of DDoS attacks, attack methods, and malware activity, A10 Networks has observed a steady increase in the frequency, intensity, and sophistication of these threats, most recently in our State of DDoS Weapons Report for H2 2020.
During this period, we saw an increase of over 12 percent in the number of potential DDoS weapons available on the internet, with a total of approximately 12.5 million weapons detected. The good news is that proven methods of DDoS protection continue to be effective even as threat levels rise.
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A Brief History of DDoS Attacks
The first known distributed denial of service attack occurred in 1996 when Panix, now one of the oldest internet service providers, was knocked offline for several days by a SYN flood, a technique that has become a classic DDoS attack. Over the next few years DDoS attacks became common and Cisco predicts that the total number of DDoS attacks will double from the 7.9 million seen in 2018 to something over 15 million by 2023.
Total DDoS Attacks
Figure 1. Cisco's analysis of DDoS total attack history and predictions.
However, it's not just the number of DDoS attacks that are increasing. Threat actors are creating ever bigger botnets – the armies of hacked devices that are used to generate DDoS traffic. As the botnets get bigger, the scale of DDoS attacks is also increasing. A distributed denial of service attack of one gigabit per second is enough to knock most organizations off the internet but we're now seeing peak attack sizes in excess of one terabit per second generated by hundreds of thousands or even millions of suborned devices. For more background about what's technically involved in a distributed denial of service attack, see our post What is a DDoS Attack?, and our video WHO, WHAT, WHY, WHERE of DDoS Attacks.
The Cost of DDoS Attacks
Given that IT services downtime costs companies anywhere from $300,000 to over $1,000,000 per hour, you can see that the financial hit from even a short DDoS attack could seriously damage your bottom line. To understand what impact a distributed denial of service attack could have on your organization and your cybersecurity planning, please see our white paper How to Analyze the Business Impact of DDoS Attacks.
The Top-Five Most Famous DDoS Attacks (for Now)
To provide insight into what these attacks are like "in the wild," we're going to take a look at some of the most notable DDoS attacks to date. Our choices include some DDoS attacks that are famous for their sheer scale, while others are because of their impact and consequences.
1. The Google Attack, 2020
On October 16, 2020, Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) posted a blog update concerning how the threats and threat actors are changing their tactics due to the 2020 U.S. election. At the end of the post, the company snuck in a note:
in 2020, our Security Reliability Engineering team measured a record-breaking UDP amplification attack sourced out of several Chinese ISPs (ASNs 4134, 4837, 58453, and 9394), which remains the largest bandwidth attack of which we are aware.
Mounted from three Chinese ISPs, the attack on thousands of Google's IP addresses lasted for six months and peaked at a breath-taking 2.5Tbps! Damian Menscher, a Security Reliability Engineer at Google, wrote:
The attacker used several networks to spoof 167 Mpps (millions of packets per second) to 180,000 exposed CLDAP, DNS, and SMTP servers, which would then send large responses to us. This demonstrates the volumes a well-resourced attacker can achieve: This was four times larger than the record-breaking 623 Gbps attack from the Mirai botnet a year earlier.
2. The AWS DDoS Attack in 2020
Amazon Web Services, the 800-pound gorilla of everything cloud computing, was hit by a gigantic DDoS attack in February 2020. This was the most extreme recent DDoS attack ever and it targeted an unidentified AWS customer using a technique called Connectionless Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (CLDAP) reflection. This technique relies on vulnerable third-party CLDAP servers and amplifies the amount of data sent to the victim's IP address by 56 to 70 times. The attack lasted for three days and peaked at an astounding 2.3 terabytes per second.
Why the AWS Attack Matters
While the disruption caused by the AWS DDoS Attack was far less severe than it could have been, the sheer scale of the attack and the implications for AWS hosting customers potentially losing revenue and suffering brand damage are significant.
3. The Mirai Krebs and OVH DDoS Attacks in 2016
On September 20, 2016, the blog of cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs was assaulted by a DDoS attack in excess of 620 Gbps. Krebs' site had been attacked before. Krebs had recorded 269 DDoS attacks since July 2012, but this attack was almost three times bigger than anything his site or the internet had seen before.
The source of the attack was the Mirai botnet, which, at its peak later that year, consisted of more than 600,000 compromised IoT devices such as IP cameras, home routers, and video players. The Mirai botnet had been discovered in August that same year but the attack on Krebs' blog was its first big outing.
The next Mirai botnet attack on September 19 targeted one of the largest European hosting providers, OVH, which hosts roughly 18 million applications for over one million clients. This attack was on a single undisclosed OVH customer and was driven by an estimated 145,000 bots, generating a traffic load of up to 1.1 terabits per second. It lasted about seven days. But OVH was not to be the last Mirai botnet victim in 2016.
Why the Mirai Krebs and OVH Attacks Matter
The Mirai botnet was a significant step up in how powerful a DDoS attack could be. The size and sophistication of the Mirai network was unprecedented as was the scale of the attacks and their focus.
Video: What is Mirai and How do You Protect Yourself Against it?
4. The Mirai Dyn DDoS Attack in 2016
Before we discuss the third notable Mirai botnet DDoS attack of 2016, there's one related event that should be mentioned. On September 30, someone claiming to be the author of the Mirai software released the source code on various hacker forums and the Mirai DDoS platform has been replicated and mutated scores of times since.
Figure 2. A map of internet outages in Europe and North America caused by the Dyn cyberattack October 2, 2016 / Source: DownDetector (CC BY-SA)
On October 21, 2016, Dyn, a major domain name service (DNS) provider, was assaulted by a one terabit per second traffic flood that then became the new record for a DDoS attack. There's some evidence that the DDoS attack may have actually achieved a rate of 1.5 terabits per second. The traffic tsunami knocked Dyn's services offline rendering a number of high-profile websites including GitHub, HBO, Twitter, Reddit, PayPal, Netflix, and Airbnb, inaccessible. Kyle York, Dyn's chief strategy officer, reported, "We observed 10s of millions of discrete IP addresses associated with the Mirai botnet that were part of the attack."
Why the Mirai Dyn Attack Matters
Mirai supports complex, multi-vector attacks that make mitigation difficult. Even though the Mirai botnet was responsible for the biggest assaults up to that time, the most notable thing about the 2016 Mirai attacks was the release of the Mirai source code enabling anyone with modest information technology skills to create a botnet and mount a distributed denial of service attack without much effort.
5. The GitHub Attack in 2018
On Feb. 28, 2018, GitHub, a platform for software developers, was hit with a DDoS attack that clocked in at 1.35 terabits per second and lasted for roughly 20 minutes. According to GitHub, the traffic was traced back to "over a thousand different autonomous systems (ASNs) across tens of thousands of unique endpoints."
The following chart shows just how much of a difference there was between normal traffic levels and those of the DDoS attack.
Figure 3. Chart of the February 2018 DDoS attack on GitHub. Source: Wired
Even though GitHub was well prepared for a DDoS attack, their defenses were overwhelmed. They simply had no way of knowing that an attack of this scale would be launched. As GitHub explained in the company's incident report: "Over the past year, we have deployed additional transit to our facilities. We've more than doubled our transit capacity during that time, which has allowed us to withstand certain volumetric attacks without impact to users … Even still, attacks like this sometimes require the help of partners with larger transit networks to provide blocking and filtering."
Why the GitHub Attack Matters
The GitHub DDoS attack was notable for its scale and the fact that the attack was staged by exploiting a standard command of Memcached, a database caching system for speeding up websites and networks. The Memcached DDoS attack technique is particularly effective as it provides an amplification factor – the ratio of the attacker's request size to the amount of DDoS attack traffic generated – of up to a staggering 51,200 times.
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Other Notable Distributed Denial of Service Attacks
6. A European Gambling Company, 2021
In February, Akami announced that they had dealt with "three of the six biggest volumetric DDoS attacks" the company has ever recorded. The DDoS attacks were attempts at extortion. The hackers launch a DDoS attack the target can't help but notice and then demand payment not to do it again and at an even greater scale. In this case the threat attack weighed in at 800Gbps.
Why the Gambling Company Attack Matters
This attack was notable not just for its scale but also for its novelty. The attackers used a previously unseen DDoS attack vector that was based on a networking protocol known as protocol 33, or Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP). This attack was volumetric and by abusing protocol 33, the exploit was designed to bypass defenses focused on traditional Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) traffic flows.
7. Occupy Central, Hong Kong DDoS Attack in 2014
The multi-day PopVote DDoS attack was carried out in 2014 and targeted the Hong Kong-based grassroots movement known as Occupy Central, which was campaigning for a more democratic voting system.
In response to their activities, attackers sent large amounts of traffic to three of Occupy Central's web hosting services, as well as two independent sites, PopVote, an online mock election site, and Apple Daily, a news site, neither of which were owned by Occupy Central but openly supported its cause. Presumably, those responsible were reacting to Occupy Central's pro-democracy message.
The attack barraged the Occupy Central servers with packets disguised as legitimate traffic. It was executed using not one, but five botnets and resulted in peak traffic levels of 500 gigabits per second.
Why the Occupy Central Attack Matters
Although, it was reported that the attackers were probably connected to the Chinese government, there has never been conclusive proof and, perversely, the attack could have been intended to make the Chinese government look bad. The attack may have also provided cover for hackers who managed to extract Occupy Central staff details from a database to mount an extensive subsequent phishing campaign.
8. The CloudFlare DDoS Attack in 2014
In 2014, CloudFlare, a cybersecurity provider and content delivery network, was slammed by a DDoS attack estimated at approximately 400 gigabits per second of traffic. The attack, directed at a single CloudFlare customer and targeted on servers in Europe, was launched using a vulnerability in the Network Time Protocol (NTP) protocol, which is used to ensure computer clocks are accurate. Even though the attack was directed at just one of CloudFlare's customers, it was so powerful it significantly degraded CloudFlare's own network.
Why the CloudFlare Attack Matters
This attack illustrates a technique where attackers use spoofed source addresses to send fake NTP server responses to the attack target's servers. This type of attack is known as a "reflection attack," since the attacker is able to "bounce" bogus requests off of the NTP server, while hiding their own address. Due to a weakness in the NTP protocol, the amplification factor of the attack can be up to 206 times, making NTP servers a very effective DDoS tool. Shortly after the attack, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness team explained NTP amplification attacks are, "especially difficult to block" because "responses are legitimate data coming from valid servers."
9. The Spamhaus DDoS Attack in 2013
In 2013, a huge DDoS attack was launched against Spamhaus, a nonprofit threat intelligence provider. Although Spamhaus, as an anti-spam organization, is regularly attacked and had DDoS protection services already in place, this attack—a reflection attack estimated at 300 gigabits of traffic per second—was large enough to knock its website and part of its email services offline.
Why the Spamhaus Attack Matters
The cyberattack was traced to a member of a Dutch company named Cyberbunker, which had apparently targeted Spamhaus after it blacklisted the company for spamming. This illustrates that companies or rogue employees can mount DDoS attacks with immense brand damaging and serious legal consequences.
10. The Six Banks DDoS Attack in 2012
On March 12, 2012, six U.S. banks were targeted by a wave of DDoS attacks: Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, U.S. Bank, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, and PNC Bank. The attacks were carried out by hundreds of hijacked servers from a botnet called Brobot with each attack generating over 60 gigabits of DDoS attack traffic per second.
At the time, these attacks were unique in their persistence. Rather than trying to execute one attack and then backing down, the perpetrators barraged their targets with a multitude of attack methods in order to find one that worked. So, even if a bank was equipped to deal with a few types of DDoS attacks, they were helpless against other types of attack.
Why the Six Banks Attack Matters
The most remarkable aspect of the bank attacks in 2012 was that the attacks were, allegedly, carried out by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas organization. Moreover, the attacks had a huge impact on the affected banks in terms of revenue, mitigation expenses, customer service issues, and the banks' branding and image.
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The Crypto Games: Meet the man who wants to make NFTs fun
From kittens to NBA highlights, Roham Gharegozlou's Dapper Lab is bringing non-fungibles to the masses.
Nicole Goodkind
July 29, 2021 5:16 AM EDT
The early-aughts titans of tech, masters of the digiverse, envisioned an online world that mimicked our physical reality. Operating under Westphalian sovereignty, the would-be technocrats shepherded consumers into distinct and insular borders, defending market share as one might defend his or her own territory.
This walled-off approach has permeated our digital lives for the better part of a generation, but familiarity can breed contempt, and contempt can breed opposition.
Enter Roham Gharegozlou, the 35-year-old cocreator of digital trading-card games NBA Top Shot and CryptoKitties and an oft-heralded anti-Zuckerberg. Gharegozlou is more of an open-borders guy. He believes a rapid proliferation of blockchain platforms, cryptocurrencies, and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) will bring an end to the data monopolies that fuel the success of Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet, and Apple.
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Ironically, his proclaimed antidote to the Four Horsemen of the tech world has gained him a following among members of the same Silicon Valley investor class who funded our current predicament. Dapper Labs, the company he cofounded in 2018, has raised funds at a valuation of $7.6 billion with investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures, Venrock, Samsung, and even Google Ventures.
"I love finding founders that are really passionate about this much bigger vision," says Zynga founder Mark Pincus, an early investor. "They want to see it happen as much or more than they want to see their single product happen."
Gharegozlou says that he has long felt the tension of our digital borders and the way they have hindered innovation. Crypto and blockchain ease that strain.
He has also felt the strain of physical borders. Gharegozlou was born in Dubai, went to high school in Paris, then college at Stanford, followed by a stint at the Rising Tide Fund in Silicon Valley. He moved to Vancouver in 2012 to start his own accelerator, Axiom Zen. That's four countries in less than four decades.
Those borders, and the problems they caused, have long informed his philosophy. In 2000, as a freshman in high school, Gharegozlou began creating online city guides speckled with affiliate links that generated extra cash. But because he wasn't based in the United States, he found that the money he had earned was often inaccessible.
When his cofounder Dieter Shirley, now the CTO of Dapper Labs, introduced Gharegozlou to Bitcoin in 2013, he saw an instant solution to that problem. The pair worked together to build apps on top of the coin, and when Ethereum, a decentralized, open-source blockchain, was introduced in 2015, they envisioned an entirely new digital economy. One without national borders.
They realized that this would be a hard sell.
"People don't even know the alternative," says Gharegozlou. The current crop of developers came up learning there was only one way to write an app, and that paying a "tax" to Apple or Google was inevitable. Consumers purchase items, like songs on iTunes, that they don't fully own. They don't know where their data is going, either. "You just press checkboxes, you press 'Accept.' That's the world we live in," says Gharegozlou. "No one has provided an alternative—that's what we're trying to make."
Photograph by Ryan Young
That's where the non-fungible token comes in, which Gharegozlou describes as an "Internet native asset that can move between places," or a micro of the macro society he envisions. The NFT proves ownership of a unique item, a piece of art, a sports highlight, even a tweet. The proliferation of these tokens, he says, and the platforms they live on, will break us out of our current web paradigm by allowing independent programmers and artists to work and get paid free of corporate restrictions.
Dapper Labs put these heady concepts to the test through a profoundly lighthearted project. In September 2017, Shirley drafted a paper called the "Non-Fungible Token Standard," the first protocol for standardized assets on Ethereum. A month later Shirley and Gharegozlou launched CryptoKitties, a blockchain-based game that lets players adopt, breed, and trade virtual cats. Each cat comes with a unique number and 256-bit distinct genome producing different traits. It was whimsical, childish, and an instant hit.
"We ran an alpha test at the first Ethereum event," explains Gharegozlou. "We put pictures of cats on Pokémon cards to get the idea across that these are digital cats, but they're collectibles." The concept was so well-received that upon his return, Gharegozlou tripled the size of his team. The resale value of some CryptoKitties also shot up to deep six-figure territory.
Gharegozlou went all in. His brother took the helm at Axiom Zen, and Roham spun his project into Dapper Labs with a $15 million round of funding led by Andreessen Horowitz.
CryptoKitties soon became the busiest address on the Ethereum platform, often congesting the network.
It was an intentional choice to use cute cats to obscure serious work and technological innovation, says Gharegozlou. It never hurts to hide the vegetables in the pasta sauce. "We wanted to make a project that was doable, using the technology at the time, to let people play with all of these ideas that folks were talking about," he explains.
Pincus, whose company is behind games like FarmVille and Words With Friends, inspired Gharegozlou to craft his company's thesis: People will become more interested in new technology if you show them something fun that they can't do with the old technology. Gaming drove the adoption of PCs in the home, and for a long period of time the majority of Facebook's noncollege sign-ups came through social games like FarmVille.
In October 2020, Dapper Labs tested its thesis once more with NBA Top Shot, a blockchain-based program that lets basketball fans buy, sell, and trade numbered versions of officially licensed game highlights. Why just watch a compilation of Stephen Curry's three-point shots when you can own it too?
Forging the partnership with the NBA was a lengthy but surprisingly simple process. Gharegozlou had already connected with players who wanted to invest in his vision (current investors include Spencer Dinwiddie, Michael Jordan, Kevin Durant, Klay Thompson, Thad Young, Khris Middleton, and Udonis Haslem, to name just a few), and so gaining permission from the National Basketball Players Association didn't take long. The NBA franchise owners, which include Mark Cuban and former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, were won over after a full year of pitching and negotiating. For every Top Shot that is transacted, there's a 5% seller's fee, and that revenue is distributed among Top Shot, the NBA, and NBPA. Gharegozlou predicts about $150 million in revenue this year.
Like CryptoKitties, NBA Top Shot blew up, and quickly. Instead of potentially crashing Ethereum again, Gharegozlou and Shirley decided they would need to create their own platform, a blockchain designed specifically for the extensive scaling of NFT marketplaces and crypto-based games.
Their solution was Flow, which was designed from the ground up to be able to handle NBA Top Shot's 1 million users and nearly $600 million market cap. Where Bitcoin and Ethereum show that crypto can make finance more open and less opaque, says Gharegozlou, Flow does the same for entertainment and culture.
Total market cap of NBA Top Shot "moments" as of July 21
Warner Music Group, UFC, and even Dr. Seuss Enterprises have already partnered with Flow for NFT-based ventures of their own, and more intellectual property partnerships are to be announced. "We're barely scratching the surface of even our current market," notes Gharegozlou.
Flow coin, the exclusive token for all transactions on the network, has nearly tripled in value since its debut this year.
But Shirley says that Flow wasn't built to generate revenue, "at least not directly." Dapper is protective of its platform right now, he says, but only because the code is maturing. Eventually the company wants to make Flow more autonomous, open, and less closely controlled. "Our value proposition to our customers is giving them experiences and assets that they own and have full control over," he says.
Crypto-critics might write Gharegozlou off as another evangelist for an industry that's overhyped and overfunded.
NFTs use scarcity as their main determinant of value, but because they represent an item and are not the item itself, token holders have to rely on the word of creators and issuers that they won't mint more of the same in the future.
There's also intellectual property theft: Some artists have had the rights to their works stamped into NFTs without their permission, and they have gained none of the proceeds. Unlike the instance of a stolen painting, there is little recourse for the artist.
"We're in the first phase of NFTs, and the current version is reminiscent of Napster," says Tarun Chitra, a crypto booster and cofounder and CEO of Gauntlet, a financial modeling platform for blockchains. But he insists that change is coming and that IP is an issue the tech can solve.
It's also a challenge that seems trivial in the scheme of Gharegozlou's larger plans. He imagines a near future where people live in the metaverse, a world that combines the digital and physical.
It's not about opening borders, it's about creating a new realm where there are no borders to begin with.
Dieter Shirley, cofounder and CTO of Dapper Labs
It sounds like a sci-fi film, but "when it comes to the concept of living in a mixed reality world, we're already there," he says. "We text our friends and use Zoom to conduct meetings." Fortnite's 350 million registered users already interact in a 3D type of metaverse.
Previous attempts like Google Glass failed, says Gharegozlou, because there was no shared ownership of assets. "Let's say I have a digital painting in Google Glass, and you have a pair of Microsoft glasses. I want you to be able to see that same painting, and right now that isn't possible," he says.
NFTs could allow both companies to build on the same blockchain out of the box, without sharing any sensitive or proprietary information. "Once the world is ready for a full mixed reality experience, the assets will be ready for that too," he says. "The possibilities are endless."
But with great success comes great market share. And if Flow is the platform that leads us into this metaverse, Roham Gharegozlou might wake one morning to find himself transformed into one of the tech barons he is rallying against.
It's a real fear, and one that he's long reckoned with. But he says that the mechanics of blockchain prevent him from getting greedy about market dominance: He's unable to block third-party sites from looking at the data; he can't close the blockchain because he doesn't run the nodes; and the software is open-source.
"Flow is a computer that doesn't belong to anyone," says Shirley. "There is no single company, not even Dapper Labs, that can pull the plug. It's not about opening borders, it's about creating a new realm where there are no borders to begin with. Where the core rules are securely baked into the system, and its operation is fully verifiable and predictable."
Google's founding motto was "Don't be evil," but with an open-source blockchain, says Gharegozlou, you can't be.
This article appears in the August/September 2021 issue of Fortune with the headline, "All work and all play."
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Krzysztof Paweł Spałek (ur. 15 marca 1970 w Ozimku, zm. 10 grudnia 2019) – polski botanik, popularyzator nauki i fotograf przyrody.

Absolwent liceum ogólnokształcącego w Zawadzkiem z 1989 r. i biologii na Uniwersytecie Wrocławskim z 1994 r. W tymże roku został pracownikiem naukowym Uniwersytetu Opolskiego, na którym pracował do śmierci. Doktorat uzyskał na Uniwersytecie Wrocławskim w roku 1999.

Opublikował przeszło 150 prac naukowych i około 250 popularnonaukowych. Głównym tematem jego badań naukowych była roślinność Śląska, zwłaszcza Śląska Opolskiego i jej ochrona. Był współredaktorem "Czerwonej księgi roślin województwa opolskiego.

Odkrył stanowisko paleontologiczne w Krasiejowie w czasie nauki w liceum w 1985, a zebraną tam przez siebie kolekcję skamieniałości kostnych podarował naukowcom. Materiał ten nie został jednak opublikowany, a wstrzymanie eksploatacji górniczej warstw kostnych nastąpiło dopiero w 1993, w wyniku niezależnego, powtórnego odkrycia tego stanowiska w 1993 r. przez zespół profesora Dzika, co doprowadziło do rozpoczęcia wykopalisk paleontologicznych na szeroką skalę i pierwszej publikacji naukowej w roku 2000.

Był także fotografem przyrody, indywidualna wystawa jego prac została przygotowana przez Fotoklub Opole i Wojewódzką Bibliotekę Publiczną w Opolu i wystawiona w Opolu na przełomie 2019/2020.

Uhonorowano go Nagrodą im. Karola Miarki (2006) i tytułem ,,Zasłużony dla Gminy Ozimek" (2010 r.).

Życiu i pracy Krzysztofa Spałka poświęcona jest książka "Przerwany lot barwnego motyla" (red. T. Kudyba) wydana w 2020 r. Pochowany został na cmentarzu w Krasiejowie.

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Michael L. Hall, 80 of Kenna, passed away March 14, 2019 at Eldercare of Ripley following a long illness.
Mike was born August 12, 1938 in Syble, WV, a son of the late George and Christina Martin Hall. He was a 1957 graduate of Ripley High School, served in the US Army Reserves and retired from Ravenswood Aluminum. He was a member of the Goodwill Community Church at Kenna.
Mike helped shape the lives of many young men while coaching Midget League Football. All of his players remember him as a coach who cared for them and gave them a great foundation to play football in the future and live productive lives.
He is survived by his wife of almost 60 years, Ethel Irene Rhodes Hall; daughter Crystal Cunningham and her husband Tim; son Michael Hall Jr. and his wife Dianne; son-in-law Rickey Crihfield; sister, Jane Wheeler; sister-in-law Susie Hall and nine grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. He is also survived by many nieces and nephews.
In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by a daughter, Miki Crihfield; brothers Herm, Charles, Elmer, Jim and Curtis Hall; sisters Frances Sheets, Virginia Miller, Delphia Lanham and JoAnn Rhodes.
Funeral service was held 3:00 pm Sunday, March 17, 2019 at the Waybright Funeral Home, Ripley with Pastor Aaron Melhorn officiating. Burial with Military Rites provided by the Jackson county Honor Guard was in the Fairplain Cemetery, Ripley. Friends called from 1:00 pm until the time of service on Sunday at the funeral home.
The funeral home will be producing a picture video for the family and wanted to invite anyone who may have old team photos or group photos to email them to ronwaybright@hotmail.com so they may be added to the video.
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"Move it or lose it, you know, so I'll keep using it," said Tim Bramer while on his daily walk around Traverse City's Central Neighborhood on Wednesday. Bramer, who turns 80 next month, said he has been walking two and-a-half to three miles daily on weekdays for decades, always carrying a rosary in his hand to combine the spiritual with the physical experience. "Two for one," he said.


As I was pulling together the 2010 slideshow of all of the adorable children (and beautiful adults too!) that I have photographed this year I thought it might be fun to do a contest and have everyone vote on who 2010's cutest child was.
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OMG, if this isn't picture perfect I dont know what is you guys look great. Congratulations!!
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These are more of the research photos I took last summer. I'm not sure I'm actually going to need these in my next novel, but it was too fascinating not to photograph.
Seeing the steps of the process laid out like that (the yarn, the spinning wheel, etc.) is really very fascinating, and visually appealing. Even if you don't actually use it, it'll still be a thematic you'll have in mind, perhaps, to help set the place and mood for yourself.
Yes, I believe that things like this are never wasted. Perhaps it will show up in a poem someday.
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Nigerian singer, John Ighodaro better known as Johnny Drille has made an awesome announcement on social media.
The Mavins record label signee took to his official Twitter page on Thursday, 4th of February to announce his debut album.
According to the sonorous singer, he has been recording the album for 5 years and is now ready to drop the album he referred to as his 'precious baby' anytime soon.
His tweet reads, "Today, at exactly 3:24PM I finished recording the last song on my album.
"5 years of labor of love, and here we are. My precious baby is about to be birthed, finally" he added.
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Johnny Drille was signed by Mavins boss, Don Jazzy, in 2015 after he released a cover 'Awww' by fellow Mavin act, Di'ja.
The Edo-State born singer has hit songs such as 'Hallelujah', 'Count on You', 'Finding Efe', 'Something Better', 'Mystery Girl' and so on.
Meanwhile, Johnny Drille in a reply to a post by Big Brother Naija star, Vee, stated that he would like to have a collaboration with the London-raised singer. Read More
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Michaela Hutchison of Soldotna made history wrestling guys, but her legacy will be against gals. That's because the 121-pound Alaskan—who five years ago became the first girl in U.S. high school history to win a state title against boys—is proving to be nearly unbeatable verses her gender. Hutchison, of Skyview High fame, improved her season… Read more »
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Just because the Denver Broncos didn't make the playoffs doesn't mean Chris Kuper isn't tuning in to watch. He just looks for different things than we do. "I watch them as both a player and a fan," the fourth-year guard from Anchorage told me. "I try to follow the game as a fan would, but… Read more »
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Alaskan Talisa Rhea created her own thunderstorm Saturday for Oregon State University. With her team facing its arch rival in the University of Oregon, Rhea delivered the only bright spot in an 86-71 loss with a 30-point, 7-3-pointer performance in the Civil War. "I looked at a lot of films and we tried to do… Read more »
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Linda Tucceri Cimini si approccia fin da giovanissima al mondo del calcio tesserandosi con la Lazio all'età di soli 10 anni. Con le biancocelesti segue tutta la trafila delle giovanili arrivando a disputare il Campionato Primavera.

Nell'estate 2007 decide di accettare l'offerta dell'Aquila, società che in quel periodo è iscritta alla Serie B la quale, dopo aver raggiunto il quarto posto nella stagione appena conclusa, la 2006-2007, punta al raggiungimento del successivo livello del campionato italiano di calcio femminile, la Serie A2 (secondo livello). Con le aquilane rimane due stagioni, le quali patiscono già alla prima (2007-2008) la retrocessione in Serie C.

Il salto di categoria le viene offerto dalla dirigenza del Cervia che, contattatala nell'estate 2009, la convince a firmare un contratto per giocare in Serie A2. La società è tra le protagoniste del campionato 2009-2010 e con la maglia gialloblu Tucceri Cimini riesce a conquistare il quarto posto giocando 18 partite.

Al termine del campionato la società decide di fondersi con la Dinamo Ravenna per dare origine alla Riviera di Romagna ereditandone i colori sociali. Tucceri Cimini è tra le atlete che vengono scelte per vestire la nuova maglia della società, che rimante sempre con la sede a Cervia. Con il Riviera di Romagna disputa le successive tre stagioni collezionando 6 gol su 65 presenze in campionato e riuscendo, al termine della stagione 2011-2012, a conquistare il vertice del campionato nazionale, la Serie A.

Nell'estate 2013 decide di firmare un contratto con la Torres; con la società sassarese, che aveva concluso la stagione con la conquista del settimo Scudetto, approda per la prima volta ad un torneo internazionale, l'UEFA Women's Champions League 2013-2014, dove raggiunge i quarti di finale. Le vicende societarie influiscono nella decisione di lasciare le rossoblu dopo una sola stagione, concludendo la sua parentesi isolana con 27 presenze e un gol realizzato.

Nell'agosto 2014 viene annunciato il suo ritorno in terra romagnola dopo l'accordo che la farà vestire la maglietta gialloblu delle cervesi con cui aveva già disputato tre stagioni. Sotto la guida del mister Enrico Buonocore rimane solo la stagione 2014-2015, alla cui fine la squadra viene retrocessa in Serie B dopo i play-out con il San Zaccaria, congedandosi dalla società con un tabellino personale di 7 reti su 21 presenze, suo record personale di marcature in una sola stagione.

Durante il calciomercato estivo 2015 Tucceri Cimini coglie l'opportunità di rimanere in Serie A accordandosi con il San Zaccaria, che la inserisce in rosa dalla stagione 2015-2016 sotto la guida del mister Marinella Piolanti, già sua compagna di squadra nel Riviera di Romagna.

Nell'estate del 2018 viene ingaggiata dalla società rossonera del Milan.

Il 12 gennaio 2023, dopo 4 stagioni e mezza con la maglia rossonera, con cui ha collezionato 102 presenze – diventando la terza giocatrice a raggiungere la tripla cifra in presenze con il Milan dopo Laura Fusetti e Valentina Bergamaschi – e 10 reti, viene ufficializzato il suo trasferimento alla .

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Il commissario tecnico Antonio Cabrini la seleziona per la rosa delle atlete della Nazionale italiana che il 28 maggio 2015 incontrarono in una partita amichevole il Giappone, formazione che al Mondiale di Canada 2015 conquisterà il secondo posto, venendo sconfitta per 1-0. In quell'occasione, Tucceri Cimini scende in campo da titolare.

Il suo debutto in una partita ufficiale avviene il 14 aprile 2016, al Mapei Stadium - Città del Tricolore di Reggio Emilia, in occasione delle qualificazioni all'europeo 2017, quando l'Italia, inserita nel gruppo 6, vince l'incontro per 3-1 sulle avversare dell'Irlanda del Nord.

Nel novembre 2016 viene nuovamente convocata da Antonio Cabrini per far parte della selezione che partecipa al "Torneo Internazionale Manaus 2016", in programma dal 7 al 18 dicembre 2016.

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Presenze e reti nei club
Statistiche aggiornate al 14 maggio 2022.

Cronologia presenze e reti in nazionale

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