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I just tried to access my Paypal account, and apparently it is down.
Companies including Twitter, Netflix, PayPal and eBay appeared to have their websites broken. And other services like PlayStation Network appeared to be hit by a major outage:
Update: Internet service appears to stablize after waves of cyber attacks
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How many QA engineers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
3: 1 to screw it in and 2 to say "I told you so" when it doesn't work.
(Score: 2) by PinkyGigglebrain on Friday October 21 2016, @11:59PM
Russians?
Given that the US elections are in just over 2 weeks did anyone else think this might be a "false flag" operation?
Whats that old saying? Never let a good crisis go to waste?
Any bets on how the candidates and media are going to play this up?
"Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 22 2016, @04:10AM
> Whats that old saying? Never let a good crisis go to waste?
Can we put that one to bed already?
You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before. I think America as a whole in 1973 and 1974, and not just my view but obviously the administration's, missed the opportunity to deal with the energy crisis that was before us. For a long time our entire energy policy came down to cheap oil. This is an opportunity, what used to be long-term problems, be they in the health care area, energy area, education area, fiscal area, tax area, regulatory reform area, things that we have postponed for too long, that were long-term, are now immediate and must be dealt with. This crisis provides the opportunity, for us, as I would say, the opportunity to do things that you could not do before. The good news, I suppose, if you want to see a silver lining, is the problems are big enough that they lend themselves to ideas from both parties for the solution.
— Rahm Emmanuel, 2008
http://www.factcheck.org/2011/01/bum-rap-for-rahm/ [factcheck.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 22 2016, @04:52PM
are you seriously putting up a defense of rahm emmanuel, the fucking criminal and Israeli spy that wanted to mandate a US civilian brown shirt army? This whole capitalizing on a crisis thing is a theme with these elitist controller types. just because he tried to wrap it in an less creepy, non false flagish way doesn't mean shit. His buddies are still behind false flag ops and he is just on the front end of the op instead of the back end. shove your stupid snopes and shit where the sun don't shine.