Just ask yourself, why would games be written in C++ ? The true answer to your post is, It depends on what you want to program... You won't program true artificial intelligence in c++ You won't program web in c++ either... But C++ is certainly the language prefered by many for many reasons. Either you learn Java or C++ if you wan't a real knowledge base of programming. yep that's right...

yep we're lucky here in America the network infrastructure is wide so it was easy to divert most of the attack to "free un-used networks" soo we didn't felt most of the load ... but go talk to south and north Coreans (70% of pop. connected), their access was almost completely shut down cause their were no place to send the attack loads... :)