Keeping an Eye Out When Sites Go Down

miller60 writes "Are major web sites going down more often? Or are outages simply more noticeable? The New York Times looks at the recent focus on downtime at services like Twitter, and the services that have sprung up to monitor outages. When a site goes down, word spreads rapidly, fueled by blogs and forums. But there have also been a series of outages with real-world impact, affecting commodities exchanges, thousands of web sites and online stores."

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How long until calls to NATIONALIZE them?

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A century ago price of gasoline worried very few people. Today there are calls to nationalize oil-companies as "vital businesses" — somehow, they believe, nationalization improves things...

How long until these same Commies (or whatever they'll choose to call themselves, when the label-du-jour gets just as discredited) call for nationalization of Google or Amazon?

The nation can not exist without reliable search-engine, can it? We must nationalize Google to ensure fair and equal access to knowledge for all.

Or: our least-privileged can least-afford to buy the expensive books they need to get ahead. To help the poor with readily affordable knowledge we must have the government take over book distribution by nationalizing Amazon and other book-sellers, whose obscene profits the such-such's Administration refuses to tax!