If you'd like more: I'm a professor at CMU, and my office is currently offline because someone decided to throw 5gbit/sec at my machine starting last Thursday.

If you'd like more: I'm a professor at CMU, and my office is currently offline because someone decided to throw 5gbit/sec at my machine starting last Thursday. CMU's response - which I can't really fault, given that my office is not geo-distributed - was to filter inbound traffic at our upstream provider. No Internet for me; I'm back on the wifi. :)