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...from their own collections with other users, is considered one of the top music-streaming sites thanks to its huge library of songs, which play with almost zero buffering delay (that annoying choppiness that can make streaming songs - or video or TV shows - particularly frustrating). Add to that the fact that Spotify's basic service is free - advertising pays for artists' royalties - and it's easy to see where it gets its approximately 6 million users...
Adding to the chaos is the fact that the zombie computers often show no signs of being infected. Hackers look for computers with security vulnerabilities and infect them in advance of an attack. When the hackers are ready to launch the assault, the master computer awakens its zombie army, and the attack begins. Because DDoS utilizes multiple computers from multiple locations - and because hackers may use their network for only a single attack - there's no way to protect against a seemingly random array of computers suddenly going rogue. Once the attack begins, websites can try to trace the sudden...
...attendance has dropped at Patagonian ski resorts, and flu fears have crippled the Buenos Aires theater business. Across the region, countries are reporting that H1N1 has become the dominant strain of the flu season. But the most positive development is that the virus has so far not mutated - a fact that makes it possible for scientists to create a vaccine for it. All these developments are being tracked at the White House, where flu meetings happen usually twice a week in the Situation Room and President Barack Obama gets updates in the Oval Office every other...
...guided by cold-blooded realists - diplomats who keep their eyes strictly on U.S. interests. Three successive Administrations - Clinton, Bush and now Obama - have decided the only real goal that matters when it comes to North Korea is getting it to climb off the nuclear ledge. (Whether that, in fact, is a realistic goal, is a separate question.) If Kim, apparently back in the saddle again, told Clinton he wants to talk directly to the U.S. about doing yet another nuclear deal, there's only one answer from President Obama's standpoint that makes sense...
...Experts and rights activists have welcomed the new decree, but are greeting Kibaki's justification with some skepticism. Just as likely a culprit for the inmates' "undue mental anguish" is the fact that conditions in Kenya's prisons are, by most accounts, absolutely horrifying. Rights groups have repeatedly documented cases of death, torture, malnutrition and severe overcrowding within Kenya's prison system. (Read: "In Kenya, Charges of High-Level Conspiracies...