What's weird is that the IP address resolves to Amazon.com ECS (elastic compute cloud). So I am guessing that it was an attacker using Amazon ECS services to do their dirty work. Hopefully Amazon can track down the abuser and take them off of their system

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Famed scientist Richard Leakey warned that the worldwide credit crisis will be just devastating to scientific research in coming years, as endowment interest income drops and companies cut donations.

A defendant had a hard time facing the music. Andrew Vactor was facing a $150 fine for playing rap music too loudly on his car stereo in July. But a judge offered to reduce that to $35 if Vactor spent 20 hours listening to classical music by the...

New satellite images that will eventually show up in Google Earth and Google Maps are now arriving from the Google-sponsored GeoEye-1 satellite that launched a month ago. GeoEye has just released the stunning image below as a preview of what’s to come..

I know the markets will tank on this one. I mean another 37.8 billion on top of 85... Plus rewarding the baqd behaviour of the execs that went on a $400,000 vacation

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