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Game Theoretic Resistance to Denial of Service Attacks Using Hidden Difficulty Puzzles

Denial of Service DoS vulnerabilities are one of the major concerns in today's Internet. Client-puzzles offer a good mechanism to defend servers against DoS attacks. This paper introduces the notion of hidden puzzle difficulty, where the attacker cannot determine the difficulty of the puzzle without expending a minimal amount of...

Tags: Game, Denial Of Service, Puzzle, Denial Of Service Vulnerability, Game Theory, Defense Mechanism, Security

White papers 2009-07-16

On Domination Game Analysis for Microeconomic Data Mining

Game theory is a powerful tool for the analysis of the competitions among manufacturers in a market. This paper presents a study on combining game theory and data mining by introducing the concept of domination game analysis. The paper presents a multidimensional market model, where every dimension represents one attribute...

Tags: Theory, University Of British Columbia, Analysis, Game Theory, Games, Personal Technology

White papers 2008-09-25

Office 2.0: Creating successful online communities

At the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, panelists discuss how to keep interest in an online community and how to use game theory--rewarding and recognizing exceptional users in the community. Speakers include: Ross Mayfield of Socialtext, Chris Andrasick of Tacit Knowledge, and moderator Robin Carey of Social Media Today.

Tags: Community, Theory, office 2.0, online community, game theory, users, ross mayfield, chris andrasic, robin carey, virtual

Videos 2008-09-05

Additional Resources

How we think, and perhaps lie, about the oil supply

Oil is naturally occurring...Scientist do not understand why oil wells that we'pumped dry' are now full of oil.So in other words, it has been proven to manyscientist oil is naturally occurring substance.It is all about greed and money, if people had commonsense and used their brain instead oflistening to politicians...

Tags: oil, Bakken

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

Hexagonal Chess 2.0 (Windows)

Hexagonal chess is a chess game variant played on a hexagonal board. Of all popular chess variants this is probably the youngest one - game rules, starting positions and game theory were primarily developed in the 20th century. Still, hexagonal chess is one of the most advanced chess game variants...

Tags: Chess, Microsoft Windows, Computer, DriveMind, Games, Productivity, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-03

Let's blame addictive oil

The blame game is getting grimmer as the global warming warnings get more strident. Now comes a book pointing to petroleum as "the devil's excrement." Damn, wish I thought of that epithet. This book is Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil. Says Knopf's marketing text,...

Tags: Oil, Iran, Consumption, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-28

Apple App Store apps top 2 billion; that's 6.6 million downloads per day

amazed with so much crap out therethis is not just for the iPhone, but the iTouch also for those kids who can afford any game, but not a monthly cellphone bill.When will ZDNet jump on the wagon?Where are you guys? Why no ZDNet app? You guys are supposed...

Tags: Smart phones, Zune HD, Apple Inc., Apple App Store app, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

AT&T takes the phone out of iPhone

Funny...Im on the east coast too and live in rural america to boot eastern shore. Verizon has the [b]best[/b] coverage hands down. 100% here - better than VerizonI'm on the east coast and have no issues with my iPhone. Rock solid and reliable. Better than the Verizon NOTwork.RE:...

Tags: Smart phones, Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., phone, Verizon Communications Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-23

Palm tattles on Apple, finds itself in the hot seat instead

Why?Apple has been proven to be far worse then Palm(read: Google Voice App), so what goes around, should come around.Untill Aplle confesses, and discontinue their shenanigans when it comes to apps on their devices, then they have no reason to voice any indignation against those that do the same thing...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple Inc., Palm Inc., USB, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-23

Let the smart grid vendor consolidation begin!

OK everyone, time to get out your betting pool forms to figure out who might be next in the smart grid M&A game. With the market turning at least somewhat positive and federal funds, in theory at least, following into smart grid projections, there are bound to be plenty of...

Tags: Consolidation, Grid, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-22

Washington finally embraces tech; the benefits will be here soon

It's fitting that Washington's top IT administrator, U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra, would come out to Silicon Valley to announce one of the federal government's largest technology initiatives - a cloud computing marketplace for government agencies that's designed to reduce red-tape and allow faster deployment of money-saving, energy-efficient cloud-based software. ...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Washington, Benefit, Sergey Brin, Tech Industry, Government, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Federal Government, Internet, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-16

Can ultrathin laptop David beat the netbook Goliath?

One Apple store customer said"Yeah, I could get something for $200 but if I'm on a business trip I can't use it for everything I need to do. I'm trying to run a business over 'ere, Edith."Wow, dueling anecdotes.Apple can not hold out much longer. Apple CAN charge a...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, iPhone sale, netbook, Apple Inc., desktop, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

OTOY's Jules Urbach: Cloud computing 'threatens' game consoles, Blu-ray, PCs [interview]

Great in theory, not so great in the real worldThe problem allways comes down to the simple fact that even though something can be done with hardware and software, the user is the component not fully addressed.an XBox or Playstation hooked to a 32 inch television in the den or...

Tags: Games, Virtualization, Game players, cloud computing, console, game, OTOY, Blu-ray disc, game console

Discussion threads 2009-09-11

I don't want an MP3 player/camera/ebook reader/gaming device. Do you?

Disagree with your update[i]In fact, Apple almost seemed to be repositioning the iPod Touch as a rival to a full-fledged PC[/i]Nope, Apple is repositioning the iPod Touch as a rival to the 8 year old HP iPAQ running PocketPC.Apps? Check.Browser? Check.Exchange support? Check.Multi-media support? Check.RE: I don't want an MP3...

Tags: E-mail, Digital music, Digital media, Corporate communications, camera, MP3

Discussion threads 2009-09-09

HP to Cut Loose its BPO operations?

Why sell what you just bought? A recent Channel Insider article raised the concern that HP might sell off or shutter some of its outsourcing business. Specifically, the article speculated on the BPO operations that EDS brought into the firm as part of HP’s acquisition of EDS....

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., BPO, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, It Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-09-07

Snow Leopard geared for multicore future

You do realize that...You do realize that GCD is just a combination of 2 technologies that already existed previously on other platforms, right?a) Apple finally added "closures", aka "anonymous methods" or "lambda expressions" to Objective-C. Other languages have had this for many many years, and it is what you need...

Tags: Apple Inc., multi-core

Discussion threads 2009-08-31

Toshiba 55SV670U

At the high end of the LCD TV cost spectrum sits models equipped with LED backlighting. Whether edge-lit or local dimming, these sets command a price premium and deliver somewhat better energy efficiency and markedly better black level performance than standard LCD TVs. But with black levels on par with...

Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Toshiba SV670U, Toshiba Corp.

Product reviews 2009-08-27

Toshiba 46SV670U

At the high end of the LCD TV cost spectrum sits models equipped with LED backlighting. Whether edge-lit or local dimming, these sets command a price premium and deliver somewhat better energy efficiency and markedly better black level performance than standard LCD TVs. But with black levels on par with...

Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Toshiba SV670U, Toshiba Corp.

Product reviews 2009-08-27

Apple's future TV: Can Web-based apps replace "channels," kill cable?

Gene Munster's living room of the future is centered around a Web-connected, iTunes-powered Apple-branded TV - a 50-inch, high-def, wall-mounted iPhone, if you will. And the stuff you'll watch on this "TV set" won't come in via Comcast or DirecTV. It will all stream in from - or be archived...

Tags: Web, Apple Inc., Apple TV, Apple iTunes, Cable, Munster, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-20

Bing gains search share on Yahoo, Google

Strange guesses or hopes?[i]"Advertisers migrate to Microsoft today since it will have the ad platform going forward"[/i]Why? Google makes MS look like a microbe and advertisers want to be where the money is, i.e. where the [b]people[/b] is.What MS has is an effort to copy Google and make money on...

Tags: SEARCH, Yahoo! Inc., Bing, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-18