It sounds like Twitter, Facebook and LJ are under a DDOS attack: [link]
Gwen: Demon, OK? The whole nine—cloven feet and horns and teeth. He wasn't wearing lamé though. Lorne: Yeah, the evil ones can't pull it off. It gets camp.
'Harm's Way'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Tom Scola - Aug 06, 2009 6:36:04 am PDT #2361 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 06, 2009 6:41:47 am PDT #2362 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Happy Scrappy Birthday!!!
msbelle - Aug 06, 2009 6:41:48 am PDT #2363 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
what is DDOS? I read Denial of service - what does that mean?
I can't twitter or fb from work so no matter to me.
tommyrot - Aug 06, 2009 6:42:33 am PDT #2364 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
what is DDOS?
Distributed Denial of Service. When they use many computers (sometimes thousands).
eta: Probably the first example of a DOS attack was the Ping of Death - where a computer would ping a site thousands of times a second, causing the site to crash. In general, a DOS attack just floods a server with garbage, rendering it unable to function normally. A DDOS is much harder to defend against - a single attacking computer can be blocked, but thousands of attacking computers is much more difficult to defend against.
erikaj - Aug 06, 2009 6:45:15 am PDT #2365 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
I just read my Lj Friends just fine...didn't write anything yet, but...
Gudanov - Aug 06, 2009 6:45:35 am PDT #2366 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
The top five songs my shuffled playlist today,
Spy vs. Spy - Poets and Pornstars
Daylight Dancer - Lacuna Coil
Come Together - Beatles
In the Blood - Better than Ezra
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
No Scandinavian bands among them this time.
Kat - Aug 06, 2009 6:47:15 am PDT #2367 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I just read my Lj Friends just fine...didn't write anything yet, but...
Me too. Hmmm... odd.
tommyrot - Aug 06, 2009 6:48:53 am PDT #2368 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I just read my Lj Friends just fine...
A huge site like LJ would have many servers. So it depends on whether you end up on a server that's been brought down by the DDOS or not.
erikaj - Aug 06, 2009 6:50:13 am PDT #2369 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
that makes sense, of course. weird that I'm lucky then.
Scrappy - Aug 06, 2009 7:06:32 am PDT #2370 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Thank you all for the birthday wishes! The day has started wonderfully with reading all of your words and then my assistant gave me a necklace with NANCY DREW on it. Does it get any cooler than that? I get to go out to lunch with friends and then to a romantic restaurant for dinner with Mr. Scrappy.
I am very proud to share my b-day with the redoubtable Emaryn.