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Map the Internet... In One Day?
rjbrown99 writes "There have been numerous stories over the past few years on Bill Cheswick's Internet Mapping Project. The Lumeta folks even created a company out of it. Well, now there is a competitor. A single guy with a single computer is working to accomplish the same feat - within ONE DAY and using open-source tools to do it. The new project is called Opte and can be found at www.opte.org." He's made some progress and is looking for volunteers.
Actually, isn't the internet bigger than just Earth these days? Coulda sworn there was a story a while back about a couple of space probes using TCP/IP ...
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
Well, I guess that map of the Internet has one less location to worry about now.
Where's my lobbyist? Right here.
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We just made his job easier. There is one less web server to map now!
If I had maps of pre-war Iraq and then compared them to today, one could see how badly Iraq was destoryed.
Now is this just some liberal flamebaiting or what?
How would the map of Iraq differ from, say, a map after a major backbone got accidentally severed by a backhoe, or a DDoS against the root nameservers, or a power outage?
I wouldn't be surprised, actually, if there's more internet infrastructure in Iraq today as opposed to prewar, since all the troops are online.
Does every project, comment, discussion have to involve Iraq now?
"How would you like your steak, sir?"
"Saddam Hussein was a great man, and I liked pre war Iraq!"
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!