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Electoral-vote.com Under Heavy Load; Attack?
An anonymous reader writes "Electoral-vote.com (and mirrors electoral-vote2.com through electoral-vote8.com) seem to be very slow at the moment. Votemaster ( A. Tanenbaum) just posted 'All the servers appear to be under attack now, also DNS. I added another large multiprocessor but it doesn't seem to help much. I don't this is going to work. Sorry.' Massive attack or just a large flash crowd? Anybody up for some mirroring so votemaster can concentrate on the polls?"
Reader fishwack writes with word that as of 3:46GMT (10:46 PM Eastern time in the U.S.) "the Federal Electoral Commission's Web site is down."
I got to the FEC with no problem. electoral-vote.com seemed fine too.
I was just there and kept refreshing and everything was working fine....stop crying wolf
Same here. The site's actually responding faster for me now than it was last night.
http://www.electoral-vote3.com/
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http://www.electoral-vote8.com/
If one doesn't come up, use another.
He updates the site maybe once a day, and based upon a wide number of polls. He's not doing hourly updates as the results come back from different precincts.
Inconceivable!
Mirroring helped
Aljazeera was also down, per Netcraft
I've blogged live about Internet Load all day on my blog today
It was updated based on the latest polling data, not actual election returns this evening...
Stop by my site where I write about ERP systems & more
CBS is giving Bush Ohio; which is BS when Cuyahoga and Hamilton counties (Cleveland and Cincinnati) have only reported 30-50% of their precincts. Cuyahoga currently shows a significant margin for Kerry, if that trend continues, that's another 100,000 or so Kerry votes in Ohio when it hits 100%. We're going to see the same thing we saw 4 years ago where one network will call a particular state and then find out 4 hours later that a certain place heavy to one side wasn't in yet and it changed the results. At least this time they waited until every poll but Alaska was closed.
What?
Nebraska's splits their EV's by area. Thus the votes can be split between the candidates. CNN is only calling four out of the five electoral votes.
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Don't worry, I had the same question. You just have to drill into the numbers to figure it out.
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He specifically put up the mirrors because his servers were getting attacked before. It's not just from mass visitation.
Actually, he had promised real-time updates tonight with actual results. You can see this at the bottom of the current front page of the website, I believe... but it deosn't seem to have come about, perhaps because he's been so focused on dealing with these attacks.
Go here and you can see the states getting called by each of the networks as it happens. It's been my favorite site to follow tonight...
Stop by my site where I write about ERP systems & more
http://www.mirrordot.com/ will cover this site right?
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Currently:
- Hamilton is at 50% reported, with a 52%/48% split for Bush.
- Cuyahoga is at 90% reported, with Kerry 200k votes ahead.
Ohio overall has Bush ahead by 100k with 87% reported. Looks like they called it correctly.
Bush far from has Ohio; there are countless absentee ballots, plus still many votes in heavy Democratic areas not yet counted. Same goes for Florida on the absentees. Don't expect this to be final for at least a week.
What?
Election returns.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
In the case of a electoral tie, the currently sitting House of Representatives picks the President, the Senate picks the Vice President; yuor talk about the Supreme Court doesn't come into play.
What?
Actually in this case its a good thing since he wants the data on massive usage to figure out ways to work around it. Those crazy academics. Makes me think this whole ``election'' thing may have been a ruse to get us to all go to his website.
So why am I a happy camper? We survived an unprecedented triple flash crowd and logged it all. As it turns out, two of the faculty members in my Dept., Maarten van Steen and Guillaume Pierre, are doing research on coping with flash crowds. The research issues include how many replicas to set up, where to place them, how fast to deploy them, and how to do it automatically, in real time, and at minimum cost. To simulate proposed algorithms, you need data about real flash crowds and real attacks, preferably at the same time. And boy oh boy do we have data now. Students interested in this and other areas of computer systems might want to check out the English-language Masters program I am running at the Vrije Universiteit.
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George W. Bush
The White House, USA
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE LAW ENFORCEMENT: I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine in 1976 for driving under the influence of alcohol. I pled guilty, paid a fine, and had my driver's license suspended for 30 days. My Texas driving record has been "lost" and is not available.
MILITARY: I joined the Texas Air National Guard and went AWOL. I refused to take a drug test or answer any questions about my drug use. By joining the Texas Air National Guard, I was able to avoid combat duty in Vietnam.
COLLEGE: I graduated from Yale University. I was a cheerleader.
PAST WORK EXPERIENCE: I ran for U.S. Congress and lost. I began my career in the oil business in Midland, Texas in 1975. I bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas. The company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock. I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money. With the help of my father and our right-wing friends in the oil industry (including Enron CEO Ken Lay), I was elected Governor of Texas.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS GOVERNOR: I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and oil companies, making Texas the most polluted state in the Union. During my tenure, Houston replaced Los Angeles as the most smog-ridden city in America. I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas treasury to the tune of billions in borrowed money. I set the record for the most executions by any Governor in American history. With the help of my brother, the Governor of Florida, and my father's appointments to the Supreme Court, I became President after losing by over 500,000 votes.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT: I invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost of over one billion dollars per week. I spent the U.S. surplus and effectively bankrupted the U.S. Treasury. I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in U.S. history. I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period. I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the U.S. stock market. I am the first president in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record. I set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any one year period. After taking-off the entire month of August, I presided over the worst security failure in U.S.history. I am supporting development of a nuclear "Tactical Bunker Buster," a WMD. In my State Of The Union Address, I lied about our reasons for attacking Iraq, then blamed the lies on our British friends. I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by a U.S. president. In my first year in office over 2-million Americans lost their jobs and that trend continues every month. I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period. I appointed more convicted criminals to administration than any president in U.S. history. I set the record for least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television. I presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption involving the oil industry was revealed. I presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history. I have cut health care benefits for war veterans and support a cut in duty benefits for active duty troops and their families-in war time. I have set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously protest me in public venues (15 million people) shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind. I've broken more international treaties than any president in U.S. history. I'm proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in U.S. history. My "poorest millionaire," Condoleeza Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker named after her. I am the first president in U.S. history to order an unprovoked, pre-emptive attack and the military occupation of a sovereign nation. I did so against the will of the United Nations, the majority of U.S. citizens, and the world community. I created th
You mean MINIX?
Yeah, he means MINIX, the microkernel based O.S. developed by Andrew S. Tanenbaum. As far as I can tell, Minux is a small Linux distribution developed by Roland Wehren.
Tanenbaum is the owner of electoral-vote.com.
Since you mention this topic, I remember seeing this in someone's signature months ago.
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A quote in the article:
An interesting note to end this article:
As of January 2004, the United States fulfills all fourteen points of fascism and all seven warning signs are present. But we're not alone. Israel also fulfills all fourteen points and all seven warning signs as well. Welcome to the new republic, redefined, revised and spun. It is not too late to reverse this in either country, but it will be soon. The first step is realizing it. The second step is getting involved. As the propaganda slogan disguising our current war goes, "Freedom isn't free." But our war for freedom isn't abroad, it's here at home.
The plan is to renounce it though it takes a lot of work and time to get new citizenship. If you don't renounce it you have to keep paying taxes to the U.S. government once you pass the exemption limit on foreign income. If you pay taxes that means you are supporting and endorsing the insanity the current American government is perpetrating in your name and will apparently be perpetrating for a really long time.
The other obvious advantage to ditching the U.S. passport is Americans are now so increasingly and universally despised in the rest of the world that packing a U.S. passport is just asking for trouble and not any kind of plus anymore.
I'd think you would be kind of sad that your citizenship makes you hated by most of the world now. It wasn't that way just a few years ago before you know who came to town and Americans had the collective frontal lobotomy.
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