The top or the bottom?

But not an attack

They designed the system to handle 1,000,000 submissions per hour

Trouble is, 70% of the population live on the east coast, and I'm guessing many people decided to do their civic duty after dinner

So, several million people all tried to log on at the same time from different location, this is distributed - causing catastrophic failure as the system was overloaded - a denial of service

Government claim the "switched off" the site down to protect the data, (although they also say the data was never at risk). They also say that they wouldn't be bringing it back up that night - yet, less than 3 hours after the failure, I managed to log on successfully - on a site the government said was "switched off"

Politicians lie - in other breaking news, the sky is blue, water is wet and Phelps wins a gold medal.

"I tried every tincture and poultice and tonic and patent medicine there is, and all I really needed was the blood of a young boy" - C.M. Burns

100 years, surely

Uhmmm bytes/sec will NEVER = bits/sec * 8 ( or 9 or 10 or 13? or 14?)

Bytes per second = bits per second / 8 (or 9 or 10 or 13? or 14?)

Geez