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Health Exchange Sites Crushed By Demand; Shutdown Blanks Other Gov't Sites
An anonymous reader writes "The launch of a national health exchange site was marred by overloaded servers in several states around the country. In a White House press conference, President Obama said that by 7 a.m., there were over a million users, and he likened the capacity problems to the glitches that Apple experienced after discovering bugs in their rlease of iOS 7. 'I don't remember anybody suggesting Apple should stop selling iPhones or iPads, or threatening to shut down company if they didn't,' the president argued."
Meanwhile, a number government websites went blank as a result of the shutdown, instead of simply lying dormant until personnel could return. The National Science Foundation, NASA, the FCC, and the Library of Congress are a few examples.
If admins aren't allowed to check log files, what happens if you experience a hack? What if a new zero-day vulnerability is released during the shutdown? What if the server room AC goes out?
The only safe thing to do is shut it down until the Republicans stop trying to negotiate with a gun to everyone's head.
Natural != (nontoxic || beneficial)
A government website? At least 1.2 million per day to have it up. They pay a staff of 20 per website to sit and click on it and say, "Yes it's still up" and then log it into a special government software to track and report website availability.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
I simply don't understand why it's such a big deal for America to fix something that is so obviously broken, your a superpower and your people are sneaking into Canada. It's really a sign that the US political system is so incapable of dealing with important infrastructure issues and the next stop is despotism.
It's the fundamental challenge of governing in the US: how to run an effective government when half the population is stupid. Really stupid, as in anti-science (no evolution, no global warming) gun-loving retards that listen to conservative talk radio and believe every bullshit conspiracy theory they hear. Those same people vote the Plutocracy Party and willingly support any sort a give away to the wealthy or corporations after being distracted by simple slogans.