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BBC on Website Slow Downs
HiveMaster writes "The BBC is carrying a report about the impact on websites as people try to get news regarding the war in Iraq. It talks of a report from Keynote Systems, which tests the reponsiveness of websites, which shows that the BBC news site has shown a fourfold increase in response times. However, Government sites in both the US and the UK are being hit, with the US Army site taking over 80 seconds to load at peak times." Also, here is a press release this. You can also read My journal where I've talked quite a bit about what Slashdot has done in preperation for traffic bursts.
Actually, it is the only place you would have heard the fact that Dick Cheney is still on the Halliburton payroll. Halliburton owns Brown & Root who won contracts to rebuild Iraqi infrastructure. Absolutely unreported in the States. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, FoxNews had to admit in court that they fabricate stories. Who to trust?
Comparing it to Windows will be a moot point, since El Dorado is going to have a 40% larger code base than XP.
What was weird about Scorpia was the way she wore perfume. She'd wear something normal like Chanel and her internal chemistry would weirdly transform it into this odd, highly-enriched attractor. None of us could keep our eyes off Scorpia on account she smelled so good.
Damn, dude. That's the weirdest off-topic story I've *ever* read on Slashdot.
I have no idea if you're making that up, but you creeped me out for the rest of the day.
Bizarre.
This is proof of why Slashdot rocks.
your story reminds me of mulholland drive
Of course, Bobby was pretty rank, so everytime he'd go back on the set, we'd ask Scorpia to come out with her Chanel and her wacky body chemitry to defumigate the hallway.
:)
My vote for "Top 10 Weird Slashdot Sentence."
You've been reading too much Thomas Pynchon, though.
I learned these when I was like 8 and still can say them pretty good. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood? A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood. I thought a thought, but the thought I wasn't the thought I thought. If the thought I thought was the thought I thought, I wouldn't have thought such a thought. They are much harder to type than say.
Understanding is a three-edged sword. -- Kosh Naranek
Sorry about the previous post. I learned these when I was like 8 and still can say them pretty good. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood? A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood. I thought a thought, but the thought I wasn't the thought I thought. If the thought I thought was the thought I thought, I wouldn't have thought such a thought. They are much harder to type than say.
Understanding is a three-edged sword. -- Kosh Naranek
I once new a woman named Scorpia Marscopone who would have loved to set her ample peepers on a fucking pepper. Scorpia acted in a variety of porno flicks and one night after a shoot accidentally walked in front of a freight train.
/. tongue-twisters that were posted earlier.
I'm not sure why this is mod'd as off-topic. I mean, it's a *little* off-topic, yeah. But it's a true story. And it it's directly tied into the
Moderation here troubles me. I think one requirement for moderation would be "sense of humor".
Now, to move this back on-topic, let me add my two cents: http://www.agonist.org remains *the* best site for the current crisis. The dude running the site is posting almost (but not quite) minute-by-minute updates from a variety of sources. It's clearly a "top blog" for GWII, and it doesn't yet seem to be suffering from excessive load.
Very nice site, Agonist.
I've been on a small campaign to add an equal and opposite moderation to the mod system, eg: for +1 Funny, there would be a -1, Not funny. -1 Troll, +1 Not a troll.
I know that this is offtopic, but does this sound like a good idea?
Overrated / Underrated : Moderation