Distributed Denial of Service attack. They get a bunch of bots to hit the site thousands of times a second to take it down. It's what Anonymous used against the Scientologists, among other things.
Buffy: He ran away, right? Giles: Sort of, more. turned and swept out majestically, I suppose. Said I didn't concern him. Buffy: So a mythic triumph over a completely indifferent foe? Giles: Well, I'm not dead or unconscious, so I say bravo for me.
'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
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.
Consuela - Mar 30, 2011 12:36:38 pm PDT #957 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Vortex - Mar 30, 2011 12:38:38 pm PDT #958 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Suzi, has she/you looked into Wells Fargo? I used PLATO, which they bought, when I needed a late loan to go to France for summer school.
Kathy A - Mar 30, 2011 1:16:20 pm PDT #959 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Theodosia - Mar 30, 2011 1:18:26 pm PDT #960 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Heh. One of those is my current desktop picture.
Steph L. - Mar 30, 2011 1:22:31 pm PDT #961 of 30001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
ION, apparently someone's launched a DDOS against LJ.
I had trouble getting into LJ all day, until mid-afternoon.
Jesse - Mar 30, 2011 1:51:51 pm PDT #962 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, and I was glad to learn at one point this morning that it was, in fact, Down For Everyone and not just me.
Hil R. - Mar 30, 2011 2:10:12 pm PDT #963 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Is anyone here watching parenthood? Cause last night nearly killed me.
I watch it. The past few episodes have resolved or at least talked about a lot of the issues I've been having with Max's storyline.
Lee - Mar 30, 2011 2:13:14 pm PDT #964 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Did anyone watch Body of Proof last night? How was it, if so?
Vortex - Mar 30, 2011 2:19:03 pm PDT #965 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Perkins, we're talking about it in Procedurals.
Lee - Mar 30, 2011 2:30:10 pm PDT #966 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
But that's all the way over there...
Okay.
eta: Though I was really asking in a general sense, since I haven;t seen it yet, and don't really want to get spoiled before I watch it.