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+ - GoDaddy Goes Down, Anonymous Claims Responsibility

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An anonymous reader writes "A member of the Anonymous hacktivist group appears to have taken down GoDaddy with a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS). The widespread issue seems to be affecting countless websites and services around the world, although not for everyone. Godaddy.com is down, but so are some of the site’s DNS servers, which means GoDaddy hosted e-mail accounts are down as well, and lots more. It’s currently unclear if the servers are being unresponsive or if they are completely offline. Either way, the result is that if your DNS is hosted on GoDaddy, your site may also look as if it is down, because it cannot resolve."

Comment: Re:Why do you need machines? (Score 1) 500

by MonkeyOfRage (#41290013) Attached to: Election Tech: In Canada, They Actually Count the Votes
Sure they know, but will they be honest about it? One factor in 2008 exit polling was that a lot of people didn't want to admit to having voted against Obama. One reason was that anyone with anything against him was cast as a racist, and people didn't want to be seen as such. Personally, I've never been exit polled, but I would lie my ass off. My district is just about politically homogeneous, and I'd just rather not declare in possible earshot of my neighbors that I'd voted against them. There's a name for these tendencies for people to lie in exit polls http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shy_Tory_Factor

Comment: Re:Electronic gadgetry used wrong (Score 1) 568

by MonkeyOfRage (#39559449) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't Schools Connected?

Plenty of charter and private schools provide better education at the same class sizes and half the cost of public schools.

I think one component of that is that students whose families just want to dump them into a free day care wind up in public school, and families who are engaged in the student's education try to get them out of public school. These play a role in the educational outcomes, but there's still no good reason that the lesser option should cost so much more.

And as for the "poor teachers" spiel, save it. It got old decades ago. There aren't a lot of 4 year programs you can walk out of starting at 30k/year with full state benefits and working 9 months out of the year. A friend's sister just retired from public teaching making 6 figures, and now has a pension in the mid-80's. Yeah, when they work they do work hard, it's not an easy job (if they're any good at it - I'm sure it's a cake walk if you don't really care), but they aren't on food stamps.

Comment: Re:Perhaps Not Defamation (Score 2) 183

by kiddailey (#34859716) Attached to: RapidShare Threatens Suit Over Piracy Allegations

As someone who manages a fairly large and growing database of user-created gaming content and visits Rapidshare, Megaupload, et al. regularly to grab recent releases, I can assure you that there are quite a few GBs of perfectly legitimate content on those file hosting sites. ... at least, until the files get deleted due to download inactivity :/

There. Now you've heard about many people using it for legal means.

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