The Tiger Effect and Internet DDoS

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."

Comments

Re:Israel we bless thee HEIL HITLER

[KernelMuncher]

What's with all these nazi and gay posts on slashdot lately ? Mods should start banning left and right.

Re:Israel we bless thee HEIL HITLER

[Kjella]

I guess it depends on what you want modding to be like. When I get mod points I drop to -1, look for moderator abuse and spent most of my points shooting fish in a barrel by modding down trolls which usually burns my points in 10-15 minutes. I'd rather comment than moderate discussions, but I'm happy to help take out the garbage.