After a brief heyday several years ago, push fell out of favor because companies like PointCast were sending people more news and information than they wanted, while corporations complained that a glut of pushed data was clogging up their networks.
"There are fast-developing leads as we speak," Mr. Freeh said of the search for those who barraged the computer systems of companies like Yahoo, eBay and Amazon.com with meaningless data to clog the paths of customers trying to reach the sites.
If their nagging pop-up presence were not bad enough, these unwanted applications often running silently in the background can harm the host they infect, by cluttering its memory, grabbing crucial processor cycles, clogging data channels and draining the battery.
The predictions of the model agreed well with data from several clogging experiments for which various operating conditions were used, i.e., different collector's diameters, particulate materials or superficial velocities.
It leads in supplying data storage devices that connect to host computers via optical fibre networks to transmit masses of data over long distances without clogging up other operations.
By bombarding the country's Web sites with data, attackers can clog not only the country's servers, but also its routers and switches, the specialized devices that direct traffic on the network.
My only worry is that if the iPad is a success, it could further overwhelm AT&T's already clogged data network.
A two-stage para-statistical model relating antecedent storm moisture to apparent pervious concrete infiltration was developed to identify temporal trends in the data and to detect the clogging processes with relatively simple parameterization.
Our study used small volumes of stool for testing, as use of larger volumes led to failed Xpert assays (data not shown), possibly due to clogging of filters in the Xpert cartridge.
