And the computers are ridiculous, unable to send e-mail or access the Internet or to search for two words together, like "aviation" and "school".
They consist of floods of nuisance traffic, which slows or crashes the victims' websites, leaving them offline, unable to send e-mail, process orders, make bank transactions or (for governments) run the country.Teenage pranksters in the 1990s used DDoS attacks to boot enemies from internet chat rooms.
The turn of the millennium found Mr Galliano so removed from reality that he was unable to send an e-mail or use an ATM.
Online postings by users indicated that they were unable to send or receive e-mail, and many found that Web browsing was either slow or impossible.
The bureau's computers were so inadequate that after the Sept. 11 attacks, the bureau had to send photographs of the hijackers by overnight mail because they were unable to e-mail them.
Nor does the system offer an outbound mail server, which will leave many users unable to send messages.
I'd already missed a deadline the previous day when I was unable to e-mail a magazine story I had promised to an editor.
After several more calls, she was unable to persuade Mail Online to insert her name.
Jonathan, his younger brother, is a compulsive hoarder of objects, unable to resist mail-order catalogues, who fills his home with items bought on credit which are constantly being repossessed, since he never keeps up the payments.
That proved to be Russell, Majors and Waddell's signal accomplishment, although it was short-lived: despite the unprecedented speed with which the Pony Express delivered mail, the firm was unable to make the service profitable, and creditors grew increasingly uneasy as the year progressed.
