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Fire knocks Internet2 offline
The internet is based on a decentralized model. If one server goes down, the system reroutes traffic and nobody notices.Internet2, on the other hand, is a much smaller system right now. And the high-speed system that could be the future of the internet is much more vulnerable to network outages.
This week a homeless man in Boston knocked out all service between Boston and New York by tossing a cigarette that accidentally lit a bridge on fire.
The fire also interrupted subway service, but subways can't travel at 9.08Gbps anyway.
Have you ever thought about what you'd build in place of the Internet if you could start over from scratch? No TCP/IP requirements, no backwards compatibility, just a full-on global network designed from the ground up to be global. A Stanford University research program, dubbed "Clean Slate", is dreaming of exactly that, and they're asking for help from students and Post-Doctorate researchers. 
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
