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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.
Things Americans do care about: sucking the entitlement teat.
And they won't stop until they get their hands on our Social Security and Medicare. Communists every last one of them,
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
The servers weren't overloaded because there was too many people checking them out, they just didn't create good websites. They probably didn't test them because they were behind schedule because that's how government always is, but they had to release on the deadline, ready or not. At least one site showed error messages that later changed into "busy" messages.
And it's pretty stupid to disable all these websites. They only would have saved money if they had actually powered down the machines, which they obviously didn't do. So, it was just pointless politicking.
So you stole cable TV all your life but the people working for the government are the parasites? Interesting interpretation.
'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."
And Apple can't put us in jail for not buying their product. Although I'm sure they'd like to.
If I don't like Apple's bugs or capacity problems, I have the option to never pay for another Apple product. I don't have the option to opt out of ObamaCare.
Love it, taxation without representation. Your tax dollars on furlough.
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
So the Government can send a few billion on a server farm in Utah for the NSA, but heaven help they send money on servers to handle 3 million people trying to log in at once.
I am going to give the benefit of the doubt that there are smart people who set this up and even they could not anticipate the initial load factor. So the republicans tried everything in their power to make people afraid of the ACA and the result was overloaded systems. Perhaps that says something about the population as a whole. IT is easy to pull something down when you think you're not effected, but when you need it,real bad, then it becomes the most important thing to have.
Anyway, the DBAs and Admins will figure this all out, the process will continue and within a week this will fade as the debt limit looms next.
Life is a great ride, the vehicle doesn't matter
This must be exactly how "small government" feels like, exactly what they're always asking for. Only absolute essential government tasks (running wars in faraway countries and spying on civilians are notable examples) are still being performed.
Thats nothing new. Where was the representation before? There are 300 million people represented by about 600. Representation is a joke and has been for a long time. You don't institute a single non-transferable vote system because you want to represent people, you do it to manufacture consent for what you were going to do either way.
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
Shutting down websites is mostly political grandstanding. What does it cost to leave a website up, let it run on autopilot for a while, and not update any content? Just bandwidth and electricity. The new healthcare sites got over 1 million hits, but most of the time, most sites are nowhere near that busy. Probably cost more to have their website administrators change the sites to throw up a "sorry, we're closed" page. Saves a little on bandwidth. Doesn't save much on electricity.
When Wikipedia and other majors sites went dark for 1 day, they didn't give us any bull about why. They said it was all about SOPA and PIPA, and they meant exactly what they said.
Intellectual Property is a monopolistic, selfish, and defective concept. It is "tyranny over the mind of man"
How can Obama possibly negotiate? Repubs are demanding he kick his grandest achievement to the curb or they won't negotiate. Sorry. Obama is the not the villain here.
Because the greedy rich assholes make it impossible for an honest normal person to even run for office.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Repubs are demanding he kick his grandest achievement to the curb or they won't negotiate.
Republicans are asking for a one year delay for the individual just as Obama himself asked for a one year delay for corporate entities. Republicans grant Obama his wish, now Obama wants to play hardball on a system that the very people who passed it into law are admitting isn't ready for prime time.
Who's the villain here?
You're a victim of partisan nonsense that by the admission of those at its core is flawwed. Thanks for being a zombie.
It might help if you understood how the government works before throwing stones at it. It is written into law which parts of government stay open and which close. Claiming some arbitrary website staying open won't cost the government much is entirely beside the point. Yes, you say, but then the law are not very good. Yes, I say, but no matter how you sliced it, some things you think are inessential are considered essential to others and vice versa. Hence we have legislators write them for us because having 300 million people *helping* to write laws is silly.
Ah. So it's political grandstanding written into law.
Amazingly large difference there. {rolls eyes}
Considering the fact that I was never paid for the pole in my front yard or their adding of wires to it. I tend to see it in a rather bleak light. They have too many rights already. I do not subscribe, nor do I steal it, but I can see where the poster is coming from. They did reduce transmitter power to let cable work better, they do have rights of way they should not, and they both charge for the service and show commercials.
They might have a right to protect their assets, but those assets are ill gotten gains.
I have to wonder how much of the crush was due to the Randians, the Baggers, and Koch Whores trying to overwhelm the site
As of two days ago, about a third of the USA (population: 300 million people) had no healthcare. When the whistle blows and they are all at once allowed to get coverage, only a moron wouldn't expect the largest server slashdotting in history. Even if they wanted to, malicous parties would have trouble generating a DDOS that would be more than noise compared to that.
If you intentionally sent wingnuts to congress to screw up the government, you're a big part of the problem. They're currently trying to change how government works, making it completely dysfunctional when an extremist subgroup of a minority party can hold the country hostage. The remaining sane Republicans need to slap these morons into line before their ignorance and arrogance destroys the economy.
To help a wingnut understand, imagine if the Republican theocrats managed to ban abortion and controlled the presidency, senate, and nearly half the house. The Democrats then refuse to fund the government until women's reproductive rights are reinstated, completely bypassing the legislative process like the teabaggers are trying to do now. Someone like you would go completely bonkers, and in that case, unlike all the wingnut fake controversies, you'd actually be right to go berserk.
Republicans are asking for a one year delay for the individual just as Obama himself asked for a one year delay for corporate entities.
Okay, let's say Obama took them up on that and game out what would happen. The individual mandate is delayed for a year, which removes much of the incentive for people without immediate health problems to sign up for health insurance (because why bother when you could save money by just waiting until you're sick?). The people who are sick (or likely to become sick), on the other hand, still have a big incentive to sign up for insurance, and the insurance companies are obligated to sell it to them. So with only expensive customers in their risk pool, the insurance companies are forced to greatly raise their premiums, which means that healthy people become even less willing to sign up, because now the premiums are too expensive. The ACA enters a death spiral, at the end of which it ends up as a system that offers only unaffordable insurance that nobody can buy. Everyone loses, except for the Republicans, who can now gloat about the "inevitable failure" of the ACA.
No, I can't see Obama going for that, unless he's an idiot.
Who's the villain here?
I'm pretty sure it's the 30 or so Republicans who are holding the rest of the nation hostage, against the wishes of 80% of the American public.
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.