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Federal Government Inadvertently Deleted Ca.Gov

Posted by samzenpus on from the did-you-need-that dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A Network World reader whose brother works for a California state agency forwarded me an e-mail alert that his brother received: "The Department of Technology Services (DTS) has notified us that the Federal Government inadvertently deleted the CA.GOV domain. As the evening progresses you may experience an impact in your ability to access some Web sites and exchange e-mail. DTS is working with their federal counterparts to restore service as quickly as possible but service may not be restored until tomorrow morning.""

7 of 195 comments (clear)

  1. Terrorists .... by snoggeramus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Terrorists we can handle. What really scares is an attack of the stupids.

  2. If only... by feepness · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If only these idiots were running more of my life.

  3. Re:Sorry by Dachannien · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity.

  4. Re:Sorry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How do you accidently delete an entire domain?

    You're grossly over-estimating the competence of the federal government. The only thing surprising about this is that they didn't delete the entire .gov domain.

  5. Re:Why not just use the .ca TLD? by pembo13 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why not use ca.us ?

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    "Thanks for all the money you paid to us. We've used it to buy off ISO among other things" -Microsoft
  6. Re:Sorry by untaken_name · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Malice gets you fired, while stupidity gets excused and forgiven. Which would you prefer your actions to be seen as?

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    http://xkcd.com/386/
  7. Re:Sorry by hawks5999 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.