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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?"
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.
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.
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
sarchasm - the gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
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