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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.'"
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
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.
Digg no longer has any tiger teams, however they do have a very scary looking LOLcat team.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
Ignore all stories from: Idle.
And you're done.
I'm glad that the people at Amazon think their outage is so humorous.
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.
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.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Wtf is this crap. Am i on cracked.com now?
I don't understand the troll mod. This article is both stupid and nearly unfunny enough to be a Cracked.com story!
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)