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Canada's main immigration web site, www.cic.gc.ca, has been crashing, according to The Globe and Mail and USA Today. The latter published an article called "How to move to Canada" after the problems began to manifest themselves. When I tried to connect, I received the message:
Server Error
500 - Internal server error.
There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed.
Canada's immigration Web site is crashing.
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Today is the first day of the rest of the mess.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by khallow on Thursday November 10 2016, @09:51AM
(Score: 2) by canopic jug on Friday November 11 2016, @07:37PM
Did you check www.cic.gc.ca with Netcraft [netcraft.com]? It turns out they were neither running a proper web server nor a reliable OS. No wonder it fell over. The load could have been millions but given the info Netcraft tells us, the load could have just as well been dozens.
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Friday November 11 2016, @09:42PM
Going by what Netcraft says, it seems likely they were running IIS 7.5 during the previous U.S. presidential election (in 2012), and changed to 8.5 this year—belatedly, since IIS 8.5 became available in October 2012. The latest Netcraft entry says "unknown" but I checked myself and it's still IIS 8.5 behind a Big IP load balancer.
A CBC story in the Soylent News queue [soylentnews.org] says there were 100,000 or 200,000 visitors.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Saturday November 12 2016, @07:15PM
Every election cycle the usual suspects threaten to move out if the evil, vile, racist Republican wins. It never actually happens, the threat is just their way of virtue signaling to peers and fans that they are indeed morally superior people.
And how many time can they cry wolf anyway. Bush I was an evil racist hater. Bob F'in Dull^WDole was, you guessed right, an evil racist. Bush II? Yup. As was McCain, who is almost indistinguishable from a Democrat so he might BE a racist. :) Romney might not have made the best POTUS possible, but racist, sexist, hater? And yet still they hurled the same insults at him and threatened to flee the country. And now they are shocked that they did it yet again and we all said, "whatever."
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Saturday November 12 2016, @10:40PM
I can imagine Americans taking in the election returns among friends, and saying "It's time to move to Canada; let's find out how" as a way of virtue signalling. However I feel that it's more likely that there was, at least, curiosity motivating the Web traffic. How much purposefulness/intentionality there was to it, we may infer from future immigration statistics. I suppose it could have been someone with a botnet playing a prank.
During his campaign Mr. Trump made remarks about Mexicans and Muslims that are clearly bigoted. I don't know whether he is actually racist. He did, however, hesitate to renounce the support of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. Duke is claiming credit for Trump's electoral victory, and a KKK chapter in North Carolina will be holding a parade to celebrate Trump's election.
Trump declined repeated invitations from CNN host Jake Tapper to criticize Duke and the KKK.
-- http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/02/28/donald-trump-david-duke-ku-klux-klan-cnn-state-of-the-union/81073572/ [usatoday.com]
Former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke celebrated Donald Trump's win on Twitter on election night.
-- http://www.businessinsider.com/david-duke-kkk-trump-election-2016-11 [businessinsider.com]
While one report of Ku Klux Klan activity in North Carolina following Donald Trump’s election as president was debunked, the real KKK has announced a rally in the state.
Trump, a Republican, was officially endorsed by the KKK [...]
Details on the rally celebrating Trump’s victory are scarce. It’s being held by The Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which is based in Pelham [North Carolina]
-- http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/under-the-dome/article113915898.html [newsobserver.com]
As far as I know, such things didn't happen with the other politicians you mentioned. I'm actually not aware of the allegations of racism or misogyny against them. Certainly such charges are more justifiable against Mr. Trump. I think they've been taken seriously in most quarters--even among traditional Republicans--when made against him, contrary to what Aesop would lead us to expect.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday November 13 2016, @12:46AM
He said: "Yes, everything was fine until thousands of clicks came, with referrer theglobeandmail.com and usatoday.com. Then, later, your fucking soylentnews.org joined in, too. May systemd be upon you all".
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