Yeah the scary bit are the 8-dayer folks tha over-complicated their "shutdown" process to the point that they couldn't restore the service by 8:01 am local time.

Agreed... not very honest of poster to compare removing temporary redirects to that of bringing in a new crew to evaluate, repair & optimize the hardware and software components of a website like healthcare.gov.

Those are your CIO's that need to be promoted (or terminated, depending on the actual intent of the government these days) :(

Anyway.. notice on TFA how most of the sites are restored after 8am. Lazy bastages! :)

for fscks sake.

Been there, done that: http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/09/24/1922221/fda-will-regulate-some-apps-as-medical-devices ...and technically (regulation wise), I'd support any software aiming or proclaiming to treat or cure should have some scrutiny applied as a "medical device". Unchecked, it's only a matter of time before the penis/breast enlargement industry figures out a way to hop on the software-based-medicine bandwagon.

Uh... come on folks, this is /. after all. When you [x] Post Anonymously, it's anonymous. Basically, when you click that anonymous button, it does a reverse traceroute and auto-roots every server and network device you've traveled across to get here. From there, it modifies server and device logs to substitutes your IP with the IP of [famous coffee shop] farthest from your actual location. Only post anonymously when you're absolutely sure you need to. ;)

... and I suppose the FDA potentially could have been challenged and/or lobbied to have better testing & controls around things like this by the insurance industry (who pay for the treatments). Increased regulation typically comes re-actively from our government as a result of people screwing up, or getting screwed.

Comes to mind.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofeedback

Methinks his wife is the victim to the world's most complicated scheme to get your mate to delete his/her facebook account. :)

Kudos, sir! Bravo!

:sent using Houdini Network Browser at 300bps:

true story?? I couldn't find anything confirming this (maybe I'm too gullible)

you've got everything you need.

Maybe it's all part of the (Adecco) promotion. Way too much artificial drama days .

...they said the same about YouTube.

Same thoughts here. I routinely contract developers to bring my ideas to life. I pay them for this. The code is not the developers, and neither is the credit (unless I agree, as others suggest through providing a letter of reference of some sort). There would be no misunderstanding of "original author" or copyright holder. Neither developer owns the copyright to the works I commission you for. Of course you could say you worked on the code for project X, and you should be able to demonstrate through contacts, SOW, payments, etc. that you did.

I'm pretty sure with billions involved, the Amish will think of something. After all, somehow they got themselves hooked into that electric Amish heater infomercial. I mean, that's all kinds of amish-wrong.