Abstract: An architecture is provided for a widely distributed security system (SDI-SCAM) that protects computers at individual client locations, but which constantly pools and analyzes information gathered from machines across a network in order to quickly detect patterns consistent with intrusion or attack, singular or coordinated. When a novel method of attack has been detected, the system distributes warnings and potential countermeasures to each individual machine on the network. Such a warning may potentially include a probability distribution of the likelihood of an intrusion or attack as well as the relative probabilistic likelihood that such potential intrusion possesses certain characteristics or typologies or even strategic objectives in order to best recommend and/or distribute to each machine the most befitting countermeasure(s) given all presently known particular data and associated predicted probabilistic information regarding the prospective intrusion or attack.

Abstract: A board game facilitates learning about other cultures by asking the game players to answer questions about different aspects of foreign cultures during the course of game play. The game board is a map of international routes of pilgrims, traders, missionaries, merchants, and inter and transcontinental oceanic voyages and journeys, as well as the route of modern trade travel of natural resources. The game board is navigated during the course of play by answering questions about the countries along the route. An electronic device is used as a game accessory to enhance game play by running one or more software applications that provide supplemental sources of information that are flexible, convenient, on-demand and in a highly appealing format for the players.