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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?"
Team Nerdfighter found 9/10 balloons
http://twitter.com/hankgreen/status/6392128271
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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.
I sure do hope there's some irony in your post I'm not caching.
DARPA is an acronym standing for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
It is an agency of the US Department of Defense it develops tech for the army.
It's predecessor ARPA gave us the internet amongst other things(too condensed a statement).
They like to issue challenges and geeks of all trades either like to participate in them for the sport and/or are picked from the crowd and given jobs at DARPA to develop new cutting edge technologies.
Well reading the previous article about MITs solution to this challenge would be a good start.
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
Here's the answer. I was wondering the same thing myself. It appears that the solution was very low tech: just get a bunch of people, and when they see a balloon, send a message to the group. Instead of splitting the 40k among the group, they donated it to charity. Reward for MIT? Bragging rights.
"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish"
Albert Einstein
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.
So how was this a technical challenge, and not just a boyscout fox hunt ?
Religion is what happens when nature strikes and groupthink goes wrong.
nah, the RIAA would have sued them
Is this some kind of bizarro version of the ignorance normally attributed to stupid North Americans (USians)? Stereotypically, US citizens are characterized as deeply ignorant of history and current events outside of the US. In this case people outside of the US, on a forum as technologically current as Slashdot, can claim justified ignorance of one of the entities that gave rise to the Internet?
The mind, it has to boggle.
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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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