On 5/1/13 9:54 AM, glen e p ropella wrote:
This Is the Most Detailed Picture of the Internet Ever (and Making it
Was Very Illegal)
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/this-is-most-detailed-picture-internet-ever
"The resultant map isn't perfect, but it is beautiful. Based on the
parameter's of the researcher's study, the map is already on its way to
becoming obsolete, since it shows only devices with IPv4 addresses. (The
latest standard is IPv6, but IPv4 is still pretty common.) The map is
further limited to Linux-based computers with a certain amount of
processing power. And finally, because of the parameters of the hack, it
shows some amount of bias towards naive users who don't put passwords on
their computers."
at least one of his maps seems to conflict with the XKCD gripe:
http://xkcd.com/1138/
about "heat maps" and normalization.
But (s)he also references XKCD as the source of his "Hilbert Map".
I *told* you that XKCD is becoming an important source of reference
information!
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