Monday, November 14, 2011

Error Between the Chair and the Keyboard

I call BS. This is the message on United Wisconsin’s website (they are the collection of lefties who want to recall Walker):

A United Wisconsin to Recall Walker

Wow, there sure is a lot of excitement to get the recall going. Due to a surge in traffic we have been forced to scale back our site.

But no worries, recall petitions will be available Nov. 15 2011 at 12:01 am grin

When your site has been crashed due to traffic, it’s very hard to estimate when it will be back up - especially to the minute. I know. I’ve been there. This very site was down for about four days when Janet Jackson flashed her boob at the Super Bowl and we had no idea when it would return. If United Wisconsin’s site was really down due to traffic, there’s no way they would be able to predict that it would be online at 12:01 AM. If they could, then every IT guy in the country wants to know their secret.

I suspect this is just one of many little publicity stunts that they plan to pull over the next few months and the MJS fell for it.

(6) Comments
Posted by Owen at 1801 hrs
Politics + Politics - Wisconsin + Technology

  1. Couldn’t just be hopeful optimism, right?

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on November 14, 2011 at 1940 hrs


  2. So everybody, go check out the site at 12:01. Might need to refresh a few times.  smile

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on November 14, 2011 at 2120 hrs


  3. It’s back up.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on November 14, 2011 at 2129 hrs


  4. Maybe the FBI can figure it out since United Wisconsin has reported their site was under cyberattack and they have reported it to the FBI and Attorney General.  Not sure they will get much help from the AG. It would be ashame if certain Repub types were caught in something like this.  I have a feeling it would be illegal.  Just as pretendimg to be distributing a recall petition, collecting names and destroying it would be a felony.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on November 14, 2011 at 2350 hrs


  5. I made the comment to my wife last night, during the halftime news break in the Packer game, that the site was probably down, not from a cyber attack but rather from a too small pipe and a too big faucet. As usual the libs have bit-off more than they could chew.

    Just to be sure their site crashed, the paper included a direct link to the site in their story. Wanna see somethin’ really scary - mention the url of the site on Rush Limbaugh’s show. It’ll be hours before the site comes back up!

    No cyber attack here, just political stupidity. It’s what we’ve come to expect from the left.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on November 15, 2011 at 0758 hrs


  6. If United Wisconsin’s site was really down due to traffic, there’s no way they would be able to predict that it would be online at 12:01 AM. If they could, then every IT guy in the country wants to know their secret.

    Never attribute to malice ...

    Take it as a given that the guys running UW aren’t technical.  They don’t ‘do’ hard stuff like running servers. 

    Site goes down.  They call the ISP.  Who correctly cites the SLA and tells them ‘back up no later than Y’ where Y is 2011-11-15 12:01 a.m.

    Posted by Brian Dunbar on November 16, 2011 at 0833 hrs


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