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The Tiger Effect and Internet DDoS

Posted by timothy on from the aka-the-kenn-starr-steamroller dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Many US and Canadian ISPs thought they were under a massive denial of service attack yesterday — traffic spiked by hundreds of gigabits across North America. Turns out that the traffic was due to live streaming of the U.S. Open and Tiger Woods nail-biting victory."

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  1. naming this effect? by COMON$ · · Score: 4, Funny
    tigerd

    Tigerdotted

    I Got wooded?

    ok /.ers you can do better. I need to update my ids logs to take this into consideration ;)

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    1. Re:naming this effect? by belgar · · Score: 2, Funny

      Opened?

      /got nothing

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    2. Re:naming this effect? by Doddman · · Score: 2, Funny

      Tigerslashwooddot effect

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    3. Re:naming this effect? by Mordok-DestroyerOfWo · · Score: 5, Funny

      What does Final Fantasy 3 have to do with this? You leave that ragtag crew out of it!

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    4. Re:naming this effect? by oldspewey · · Score: 2, Funny

      Fourputted?

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  2. You learn something new every day by spun · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who knew that there was a professional nail-biter's competition, let alone that Tiger Woods won it?

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  3. Not Firefox? by truthsearch · · Score: 4, Funny

    You mean it wasn't due to Firefox downloads? Guess it's not yet as mainstream as I'd like it to be. :)

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    1. Re:Not Firefox? by truthsearch · · Score: 5, Funny

      Joke --------> *whoosh*
                O <--- You
              --|--
                |
              / \
       

      (Credit and credit)

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    2. Re:Not Firefox? by antdude · · Score: 4, Funny

      Ouch, the guy's poor legs.

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  4. Re:Israel we bless thee HEIL HITLER by Broken+scope · · Score: 3, Funny

    All that an you couldn't even bother to do a "first post" quote.

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  5. Tiger effect? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Haven't most users updated to Leopard by now?

    1. Re:Tiger effect? by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

      Haven't most users updated to Leopard by now?
      Oh, FSCKING JEBUS. Why does some nitwit have to make everything about Apple?!

      Hint to Steve Jobs genuflecting tards: No, life is not all about Apple. No go outside and get some fresh air. Now.
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    2. Re:Tiger effect? by bobdotorg · · Score: 4, Funny

      Haven't most users updated to Leopard by now?

      Oh, FSCKING JEBUS. Why does some nitwit have to make everything about Apple?!

      Hint to Steve Jobs genuflecting tards: No, life is not all about Apple. No go outside and get some fresh air. Now.


      Wow. Get some air. You're right. And it's a really nice day out. Head on out and get some air.

      You just gave me an excellent idea. I'll just pop out to the Apple Store and get a MacBook Air.
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  6. Re:Well that doesn't explain... by superphreak · · Score: 3, Funny

    7-9mbps down, 512up, $30 :D Cox, Oklahoma City (although the city itself is terrible)

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  7. Oops. by WK2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    traffic spiked by hundreds of gigabits across North America.

    Oh sorry, that was me. I downloaded several seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Seriously, hundreds of gigabits across North America is a problem? 500 gigabits is approximately 62 GB.

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    1. Re:Oops. by Da+Fokka · · Score: 5, Funny

      The kiloclit

  8. Nail-biting victory? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I find it hard to believe that there's anything that can possibly be nail-biting about watching golf.

    1. Re:Nail-biting victory? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Did you recently receive a raise and a comfy office?

    2. Re:Nail-biting victory? by mgblst · · Score: 2, Funny

      ...and they're almost exclusively in high definition.

      I don't know about you, but if I don't like something, seeing it in HD isn't exactly going to help much.

    3. Re:Nail-biting victory? by drew · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, you don't get it. By watching in HD you can actually watch the grass grow while watching the golf game, so you get double the enjoyment.

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  9. firefox by mattwarden · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just thought of something. Was mozilla.org hosting US Open highlight clips yesterday or something? Because that would explain a lot.

  10. Re:Office bandwith by corbettw · · Score: 4, Funny

    there seemed to be a lot of people with comfy offices a lot of bandwidth and a love of golf back then. Really? You don't say?
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  11. Re:Wow! Could Thse ISPs be in Trouble!? by maxume · · Score: 3, Funny

    It isn't real clear that he started out fitting into society...

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  12. Re:Better Days... by maxume · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's actually quite healthy to like yourself just a little bit less than that.

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  13. Re:Wow! Could Thse ISPs be in Trouble!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now he doesn't really fit in with society any more and spends time in and out of prison. Does he really fit in there? In [Soviet] prison, the question is what fits in you?
  14. Re:Jennifered? by Matt+Perry · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now, where can I find this Jennifer and, most importantly, is she still doing it?
    She took down her site, but you can call her at 867-5309 and ask if she has some DVDs.
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  15. Re:Jennifered? by CopaceticOpus · · Score: 4, Funny

    victoria secret's first streamed show had issues.
    Luckily, most of these issues were caught by tissues!