Remember how hackers were hot in the late '90s, and would-be dot-commers flooded computer-science classes everywhere?
We need to have a serious debate about tactics such as the Distributed Denial of Service – flooding computers with bogus requests so that they can't be reached – which some have compared to sit-in demonstrations.
The drill also involved "denial of service" attacks, in which hackers flooded a computer connected to the Internet with so many messages that it could not handle the load.
Denial-of-service attacks flood computer networks with requests for information until they shut down.
Sinister hacktivists flood computer servers with denial-of-service attacks, while old-fashioned spamming is blocked by address munging, "modifying one's e-mail address in such a way that computers can't read it but humans can".
Windows run along the walls, flooding the computer zone with natural light during the day, creating a fishbowl effect for those inside looking out, and for passers-by, who frequently stop and stare at the tableau.
The stalker also threatened to flood the computer networks of MicroPatent clients with information pilfered from the company, overwhelming the customers ability to process the data and thereby shuttering their online operations a surreptitious digital attack known as distributed denial of service, or D.D.O.S.
As personal computers flooded onto the market in the 1980s, calculators, pocket-sized and otherwise, seemed steadily less appealing.
GrapeCity found its building and its computers flooded when it rained heavily the day after it moved into its new home in the Xian office park.The fragmentation of China's domestic outsourced-services sector does not help.
Mr Patel said they used distributed denial of service, or DDoS, which flooded the targets computers with enormous amounts of online requests.
Problems affecting the update to WoW were exacerbated by a distributed denial of services (DDoS) attack, which flooded Blizzard's computers with internet traffic last week.
