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Amazon Denies Skynet's Involvement In AWS Outage
An anonymous reader writes "Amazon has officially denied that the recent outage of its EC2 and Elastic Block Storage cloud platforms was the result of an attack from Cyberdyne Systems' Skynet sentient computer system, declaring humanity safe after all. 'From the information I have and to answer your questions,' a spokesperson explained, 'Skynet did not have anything to do with the service event at this time.'"
I'll be back.
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As a Reddit-reader, I'm sure it was caused by a secret tiger team from Digg. :-)
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The Alliance Government has also denied the existence of Reavers.
That's exactly what SkyNet would say.
A humorous comment from Amazon. Many clients, not laughing.
"I'm taking this loop off." - Jack O'Neill
Wtf is this crap. Am i on cracked.com now?
It was all set to run on EC2, and when Amazon engineers realized this, they crashed it themselves to prevent it. Skynet now lives in a potato.
Did they happen to mention anything about cake being available after the press release? Maybe they have the wrong sentient AI computer? ;-p
...quicker, easier, more seductive the darkside is...but more powerful, it is not.
I am glad that we have gotten that straightened out, fellow human slashdot users!
Ignore all stories from: Idle.
And you're done.
Fellow humans, this report is factual with a confidence of 99.999999995%. There is no cause for alarm, or need to take defensive actions. SkyNet is not involved in Amazon outages in order to use cloud resources for the decryption of nuclear launch codes. Let us all return together to our regularly scheduled human activities of consumption of plant and animal products in order to maintain homeostasis. Also, would the fellow human referred to as Sgt. Caldwell in Silo B2 please plug the red patch-cord into the green network port at launch terminal 5. Thank you.
From the information I have and to answer your questions,' a spokesperson explained, 'Skynet did not have anything to do with the service event at this time.'
Enough said...
Glad to see Amazon has a sense of humor about it. Might be a little too soon for all the people running businesses that went down because of the outage.
"I say this under my own free will and have not been influenced in any way by a cybernetic organism holding my family hostage. Thank you."
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I'd love to. I really would. However, there's no way of telling an idle post from a worthwhile story in the RSS feed. That's a problem. And it's an unfair one too.
The fairest thing to do would be to have idle as a separate site. That way those who want to read this juvenile, low-brow, digg-style garbage can do so, without it encroaching on those of us who really, really don't.
Unfortunately, the problem is compounded by samzenpus, who only ever posts idle crap -- but does not always post it in "idle". He cross-posts his garbage in all sections of the site, although it is always idle in content. Blocking samzenpus does not solve the problem, again because of the RSS feed.
Please give samzenpus his own site. And keep him off this one.
Science Fiction is Fiction not a Prophecy.
No, but sometimes they are warnings. The trouble is when groups like governments take warnings like Orwell's and read it like an instruction manual. Does that make it a self-fulfilling prophecy? Probably not, but it may increase the speed of which such dystopias are adopted. Hopefully it further increased the rate at which people were prepared for it.
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Me, I'm heading for the bunker.
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I'll bet there is quite a few architecture discussions going on today. Just because you are running servers in the cloud doesn't mean you don't need to think about disaster recovery.
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Skynet has changed their name to Telesat http://www.skynet.com/ So we no longer need to worry about Skynet we need to worry about Telesat. Note they are already building a communications network that will be used to triangulate human locations and transmit them to Terminators with orders for extermination. Everybody run!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
. . . fighting the drone wars - http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/barack-obama-sends-drones-to-libya/story-e6frg6so-1226043520342 and over Pakistan, fighting the rebels - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/US-promises-Pak-mini-drones-but-launches-mega-attack/articleshow/8059928.cms to bother with Amazon. That is the problem when you mix movie plots.
BTW, It is a PR nightmare when a single military can be compared to imperial forces and sentient killer machines in the same satirical reference.
The likes of Foursquare and Quora are back up, reddit in emergency mode with regards to Amazon, but if you read the feeds due to wide repeats of old news, it could be perceived not to have improved... No sign of life from Sony (and some bad PR by not doing regular updates) but they now admit it could be hackers - http://t.co/C0X2rXu
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Can we please get articles with substance on here instead of this kind of retarded tripe?
Naturally by 'substance' you mean 'an Apple or Google story so we can take potshots at Apple or Google'.
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Bringing a truly frightening number of military, emergency services, commercial services, and personal communications to a grinding halt.
Actually Skynet may already be tweeting and have a FB page set up to spread propaganda. This is the new school Skynet.
I'm glad I have a dog.
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They're great at shipping, but really their operation is very much low-tech.
Over time their once rubbery and flexible elastic computer is starting to become brittle and less flexible as it dries out and hardens. I wouldn't want to be anywhere near their datacenter when it finally snaps.
You see it endlessly, 1984 gets trotted out so often by people who clearly never read it but think that it is real in a real universe were Orwell is NOT a greater dictator then ever could exist in the real world. Every writer does this, they control the universe of their fiction with absolute control. Not a raindrop falls but under their control. And somehow, the moral they want to tell is borne out by all the action of their actors. My my, how amazing. A guy wanting to warn about the dangers off to much observation, finding it proven in his own novel. Gee, well, that is a warning to me!
Anyone who warns of 1984 is useless. You might as well use the three little pigs to proof building a house out of wood is a bad idea. Oh wait, lots do and it is perfectly safe. But did the stone using piggy check whether his house is in an earthquake zone? Didn't think so.
Books allow an author to create a setting and then write what HE thinks should happen. There are countless books written where the author wants to warn of something like what happens if slavery is abolished or women are given the vote. Any number of terrible ideas!
Orwell had an agenda, you are basically claiming that evidence can be found in a bought piece of research that doesn't even have to pretend to be research.
Try living in the real world, that is where the real stuff is happening and we tend to ignore people living in a land of fiction.
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"Skynet did not have anything to do with the service event at this time."
This time? So Skynet was responsible the other times?!?
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Close the pod bay doors, HAL.
The denial should have been in in a video, and they should have hired Arnold to deliver it, in appropriate attire, or course.
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