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DARPA Network Challenge Lasts All of 9 Hours

Posted by timothy on from the now-they-can-buy-more-warm-clothes dept.

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?"

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  1. Re:That was pretty fast... by smithberry · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

    Mod the parent up!

    If I had mod points I'd mod you up - can't believe folk have modded this down. Perhaps they didn't see the typo introducing the idea if caching irony.

  2. Re:Wait a second... by pongo000 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    s/an MIT/an MIT team

  3. Re:Interesting results by easyTree · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Interesting that you have everything backwards. Your own politicians are the demagogues and by "set up stable governments" you presumably mean set up puppet governments. Also the source of most of the world's terrorism is the US, even when enacted by Israel - as it's been for the last few decades.

    Yah yah, I know, it's not that everyone hates a hypocritical warmongering terrorist state but that everyone is 'jealous' of amerikkka.

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    Requiem for the American Dream