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Taking down an IRC network (assuming DNS is not affected or users have cached list of servers in their client) is incredibly difficult. Yes, but remember that DDoSing individual servers and taking over channels through the resulting netsplits was a favorite pastime of bored teenagers around the world.
That's not so easy to do any more.
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Kind of an unified, explorable map of historical events, in which you can see how the borders looked like, could see various information overlays like trade routes, major wars, events, etc.? It's quite an endeavour but I believe a worthy one, and I hope a project like that will start soon. This could have tremendous effect on people. It's BretVictoresque stuff, things that could expand the space of thoughts we have,…
I toyed with this idea for my senior thesis back in college (and obviously never did it). My idea was to somehow identify specific geographic references in Wikipedia and correlate them with as specific a point in time as is possible, based on the context of the surrounding article, using the links between articles to show how people, events and places were related across time and space, somehow visualizing those conn…
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I'm sure you realize that the Patriot system has been upgraded some in the last 24 years. However, I think one of the brilliant things about Iron Dome is the fact that it doesn't try to shoot everything down. If a missile is determined to not threaten anything, it is allowed to crash on its own. That may not be as big an optimization against opponents with good aim, but the people who fire rockets at Israel are often…
Hmmmm, won't be so brilliant if Russia is to develop a missile that corrects it's course after passing the air defense zone.