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BitTorrent Servers Under DDoS Attacks
jZnat writes "CNet News.com reports that popular BitTorrent tracker hosts such as Suprnova and LokiTorrent underwent DDoS attacks on Wednesday (I'll bet you noticed). The culprits are primarily unknown, but these sites were flooded beyond control from the attack. This appears to be striking an interest in revising the BT protocol and Suprnova's interest in making their own protocol."
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by End The Occupation 6:15am Fri Dec 3 '04
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Since October, when families first began fleeing Fallujah, temperatures in central Iraq have fallen from around 30 degrees Celsius to 2 degrees Celsius and sometimes colder overnight.
More than 200,000 people who fled Fallujah ahead of the US attack have yet to return and many are in desperate need of aid, with temperatures in Iraq heading towards freezing, a new UN emergency report says.
Figures compiled by the International Organisation for Migration show that 210,600 people, or more than 35,000 families, have taken refuge in towns and villages around Fallujah.
Nearly all those people remain outside the city, where the population was estimated at 250,000-300,000 before the attack.
US militia are maintaining a cordon around Fallujah as sporadic fighting continues.
US/Iraqi militants are preventing refugees from returning, saying they want to stagger the return so that basic facilities can be restored before people go home?
Most areas of the city remain without power, water, sewage and other basic services.
It is expected to take much longer than previously thought to start reconstruction as hundreds of buildings are completely destroyed?
"The return to Fallujah may take a matter of months rather than days, as was previously suggested by multi-national forces," the document said?
But try decades after the Coalition of the Killing destroyed the city.
The report, entitled Emergency Working Group - Fallujah Crisis, has been compiled by various aid agencies.
It says access to the camps for internally-displaced people is sporadic due to insecurity and military operations.
Some sites have received assistance, whereas others... are reportedly difficult to access even by the US/Iraqi Health Ministry.
It describes shortages of fresh food and cooking oil, and says there is serious concern about the cold.
Since October, when families first began fleeing Fallujah, temperatures in central Iraq have fallen from around 30 degrees Celsius to 2 degrees Celsius and sometimes colder overnight.
Many families fled with the clothes they were wearing and a few personal items, unprepared for the change in weather.
"The temperature has dropped, underscoring an urgent need for winterisation items and appropriate shelter," the report said.
The only aid agency that has managed to get into Fallujah to help the people who remained during the furious two-week offensive is the Iraqi Red Crescent Society.
It arrived with three truck loads of food and medical supplies, eight ambulances and several doctors, about 10 days ago and is working from offices in the city centre.
The attack on Fallujah was designed to kill resistance fighters who lived there and to take more control of Iraq including its massive oil reserves. All because the US Empire needs to maintain its status quo.
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It is impossible to fool all the people all the time. And it is impossible to silence everyone. Since the Afghanistan and Iraq invasions there have been many expressions of disgust and disenchantment concerning the actions of the (CoW) Coalition of the Willing. Dissent has been aired in the few remaining pockets of a free press, on the Internet, from the stage, and on the streets.
Here are a few examples.
* "The US and British governments have dragged us into a mess that will last for years. So far, the liberators have succeeded only in freeing the souls of the Iraqis from their bodies. Saddam Hussein's troops have proved less inclined to surrender than they might have anticipated, and the civilians less prepared to revolt. But while no one can now ignore the immediate problems this illegal war has met, we are beginning, too, to understand what should have been obvious
I know this is just a troll, but even MagicOS (tm) is going to have trouble when all of its upstream bandwidth is saturated.
second post is cooler than first
hey, moderator-IMBECILE, yes, I'm talking to yOU! mod me down, CRETIN
I still believe abortion is wrong... it's still taking of a human life, that was created knowing the consequenses. It can be seen as murder.
as for the rape aspect, the descion has to be left with the victim. But resposibility lies with the purportrator, not the victim.
Have a nice day!
Can anyone explain the torrent principle ? I still dont know what it means.. I tried to look it up but didnt really find a real explenation. xcept that its a small programm that locates the closest program you are lookin for and downloads it ? am i right ... ?
why do they attack torrent servers ?
greetz
Rendier
Man: So are you for or against abortion?
Woman: AGAINST! It's wrong, it's taking life, and is the same as murder! Any instance of it is WRONG! Put it up for adoption, or take some responcibility!
Man: So you are saying that if the young woman was raped so badly, that she should have the child from the instance regardless of the future psychological damage it would have on her? And even if having the child would, if the circumstance brought it up, kill her?
Woman: Well.. um
That one doesn't work so well, I've tried it before... Try this one for most entertainment value:
Man: So are you for or against abortion?
Woman: AGAINST! It's wrong, it's taking life, and is the same as murder! Any instance of it is WRONG! Put it up for adoption, or take some responcibility!
Man: So you are saying that if you could have the baby surgically implanted in your womb to carry it to term for the next nine months, you would do so to prevcent the abortion from taking place?
Woman: Well.. um