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July 7 - Dale Earnhardt Jr. wins the Pepsi 400 in the first NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series race at the Daytona International Speedway since the death of Dale Earnhardt. Teammate Michael Waltrip ran second, blocking for Jr., an exact mirror of the Daytona 500 where Jr. blocked for Waltrip en route to his first '500 win.
July 7-8 - The Manningham Riots take place in Manningham, Bradford, UK after clashes in the City centre between National Front members and members of the local Asian community.

 

An average of over two Americans died in Iraq during the my month.

 

# Trial of Saddam Hussein
* Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is convicted of crimes against humanity by a Baghdad court and sentenced to death by hanging. Two senior Ba'ath party officials from Hussein's regime are also sentenced to death, one is jailed for life, three are jailed for 15 years, while a seventh is acquitted.

 

The Northeast Blackout of 2003 was a massive widespread power outage that occurred throughout parts of the Northeastern and Midwestern United States and Ontario, Canada on Thursday, August 14, 2003, at approximately 4:15 p.m. EDT (UTC-4). At the time, it was the second most widespread electrical blackout in history, after the 1999 Southern Brazil blackout.[1][2] The blackout affected an estimated 10 million people in Ontario and 45 million people in eight U.S. states.

 

March 1999-

The Roth 401(k) is introduced by U.S. Senator William V. Roth, Jr..

Serbs launch an offensive in Kosovo.

US pro-euthanasia doctor Jack Kevorkian goes on trial for murder in Pontiac, Michigan. He is later convicted of second-degree murder


NATO launches air strikes in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia which was refusing to sign a peace treaty. This marks the first time NATO attacked a sovereign country

The Melissa worm attacks the Internet.

A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man (the incident was videotaped and aired on September 17, 1998 edition of 60 Minutes)

For the first time, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10000 mark at 10006.78.

The Matrix, first episode of the Matrix trilogy movies, is released in theaters.

 

This is my second account my first one was deleated back in 2004. When I started the first account it was in 99 I was in Germany and wanted to keep up with the Rockets from overseas. The NBA just finished their lockout and I was getting really heated at a game against the Heat when Cutino Mobelykept taking bad shots and Rudy called a time out and the only thing spoken was Rudy saying I had to wate a damn timeout to tell you to pass the damn ball to Olajuwon.

This account came when Van Gundy was named head coach.

 

How would I know what happened one week ago?

 

Moscow Theatre Siege: Approximately 50 Chechen terrorists and 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the terrorists during a musical performance three days before.

 

I signed up on April Fools Day 2006.

Golden. :grin:

* 2006 Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards were on.

*Expeditionary Air Wings (EAWs) were formed at nine of the RAF's Main Operating Bases.

*Mass war protests in Atlanta.

*2006 Mens World Curling Championships began.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_1999

 

May 18, 2003

* The Guardian reporter Andrew Meldrum, the last foreign journalist in Zimbabwe, is forcibly deported after covering the country for the last 23 years.
* In Belgium federal elections take place. The main winners are the social-democratic cartel SP.a-Spirit and the extreme right wing Vlaams Blok. The biggest losses are for the green party Agalev.
* A nationwide referendum on record nine issues takes place in Switzerland. Abolishment of nuclear power is rejected. Reduction and modernization of army is approved. It ends requirement of nuclear bunker in every home and famous bicycle brigade. [20], [21], [22]
* Indonesian president Megawati Sukarnoputri declares martial law in the breakaway republic of Aceh.
* In Slovakia, voters approve a referendum on joining the European Union. The referendum is only advisory, the decision is in the hands of the national legislature, but it is expected to be approved.

 

My original registration date: 10-26-2000

The PS2 was released in North America - obviously I didn't buy one of the first ones.

 

I had another name before this back in 2002, but forgot the password after the basketball season was over.

Anyway, I worked a graveyard shift at the time so I was probably just trying to stay awake. I don't even remember how I found this site.

 

doh, that's what I get when I only skim the post

 

I just realized that I hit a decade here yesterday.... :grin:



Strikes on eBay, Amazon, CNN.com follow Monday Yahoo! attack

February 9, 2000
Web posted at: 9:56 a.m. EST (1456 GMT)



ATLANTA (CNN) -- A series of cyber-attacks Tuesday left some of the Web's most high-profile sites staggering under the weight of tens of thousands of bogus messages.

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Background: Denial of Service Attacks
A denial of service attack is a merciless stream of information sent to a target with the intention of flooding it until it crashes or can no longer take legitimate traffic. Unlike most other "hacks," it does not involve the attacker gaining access or entry into the targeted server. The information frequently is sent in the form of "pings" -- small packets of data used as a signal between computers. If the pinger lies about its real address, the target computer can't return the ping to make the connection. In that case, the target waits and finally gives up. In great amounts, this can overwhelm a server.

More on denial of service hackers


The targets included retail giant Amazon.com, electronic auction house eBay, discount retailer Buy.com and CNN Interactive.

The "denial of service attack," where hackers jam a Web site with useless messages that tie up the site's computers, slowed the news site's operations for nearly two hours, CNN.com spokeswoman Edna Johnson said.

"We were seriously affected. We were serving content, but it was very inconsistent and very little," Johnson said in a written statement. "By 8:45 p.m., our upstream providers had put blocks in place that are shielding us, and we are now serving content."

FBI expected to investigate strikes
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, which followed a similar strike on the portal Yahoo! on Monday. The FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center is expected to investigate the attacks to try to determine their origin, a senior law enforcement official told CNN late Tuesday.

The tactic used is similar to phone lines being tied up by too many calls, allowing no callers through. At Amazon.com, the premier e-commerce site, spokesman Bill Curry said their site was hit between 8 and 9 p.m. EST.

"Users who tried to log on to Amazon.com experienced slower load time for Web pages, but Amazon was still able to process orders," he said. "A large amount of junk traffic was directed to our site, resulting in degraded service for an hour."

Buy.com -- which had its initial public offering earlier Tuesday -- was down for about three hours. While the site experienced increased traffic as a result of the IPO, a company spokesman said it was not the cause of the Web site's crash -- hackers were.

At the hacked eBay, officials said a preliminary investigation shows that users were unable to view certain pages, like those describing items for auction.

Tactic 'difficult to address'
The attacks sent ripples through the Web world.

"This happens by some malicious people writing a computer program that send too, too many requests to a Web site," said Gene Shklar, with Keynote Systems, which measures Web site performance.

The attack on CNN Interactive marked the first major hack on the site since it launched in August 1995. Both CNN and CNN Interactive are owned by Time Warner Inc.

"What better Web site to attack than the Web site of the TV network that's doing news about this very occurrence?" Shklar said.

Richard Power, an official of the Computer Security Institute, said tools have been in place "for a while" for hackers to orchestrate such attacks.

"There have been attacks before, but these are the first highly publicized ones," he said. "Denial of service is one of the most difficult challenges in terms of securing the Internet that we face, actually, and it will be one of the most difficult things to address."

 

The 6 billionth person in the word was born.

Payne Stewart died in an airplane crash.

Yankees beat the Braves for the World Series title.

EgyptAir Flight 990 crashed killing all crew and passengers aboard.

 

I don't remember when I first signed up. It was probably some time in 1998.

 

The first time I signed up it was 2000 and the big news was Dream playing his last game as a Rocket.

I resigned up back in the summer of 2007 and the big news then was Hillary Clinton was the presumptive Democrat nominee for president and Rudy Giuliani for the Republicans.