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DARPA Network Challenge Lasts All of 9 Hours
stillnotelf writes "A team based at MIT has won the DARPA Network Challenge. DARPA notes: 'The Challenge has captured the imagination of people around the world, is rich with scientific intrigue, and, we hope, is part of a growing "renaissance of wonder" throughout the nation,' said DARPA's director, Dr. Regina E. Dugan. 'DARPA salutes the MIT team for successfully completing this complex task less than 9 hours after balloon launch.' PDF with (scant) details. Hit the first link above for a map with the locations. How many did your team find?"
They asked Fark for help.
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
We found them all within fifteen minutes but we sold the information about this secret DARPA project to China for $400,000. I'm posting anonymously for obvious reasons.
How many times has that guy had angioplasty?
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
Right. Get off slashdot. Now. Thank you.
Blearf. Blearf, I say.
Come on, couldn't they have a least made it 99 red balloons? Was DARPA afraid they might accidently start a nuclear war?
I sure do hope there's some irony in your post I'm not caching.
Irony typically has a short TTL; you're better off not caching it.
It required communication between different members of a group, to cover a bigger area.
MIT used the pyramid scheme. You don't have to find a balloon, just get 5 people under you to find 5 people and so on.
It's not MIT tactics... It's AMWAY tactics...
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
And obviously slashdot has readers who don't know about TCP/IP.
And obviously slashdot has readers who don't know about TCP/IP.
So that's how the Internet works! I always thought it was a series of tubes.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. - Terry Pratchett
...but wasn't this a joint DARPA/MIT project? And an MIT won the challenge? How does this apparent conflict of interest satisfy the "rich with scientific intrigue" tag? This is a non-starter, and I'm disappointed that DARPA would even have wasted their time with this.
As a teacher, my level of concern continues to rise with what passes for "science" these days, especially from institutions that should know better. This wasn't a science experiment. It was an advertising gimmick. Shame on DARPA, and shame on MIT. (No shame on /., because after 12 years, I've come to expect this type of editorial slackness.)
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That was too fast . . .
I think they should use more balloons to make it harder
99 Red Balloons would have been better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14IRDDnEPR4
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