basically a website gets flooded with random traffic in order to prevent it from being able to respond to legitimate requests.
"The RIAA has shown a certain disregard for the creative people of the industry in their eagerness to protect the revenues of the record companies." -- Frank Zappa
"That's the trouble with political jokes in this country... they get elected!" -- Dave Lippman
"That's the trouble with political jokes in this country... they get elected!" -- Dave Lippman
It feels like we're on the Titanic here
12/04/2013 03:46:53 PM
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It looks like we're being DOS'd.
12/04/2013 04:27:50 PM
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I literally laughed out loud at this.
12/04/2013 04:41:53 PM
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Me too. Very bizarre. A disgruntled wotmaniac maybe? Lol *NM*
12/04/2013 04:44:33 PM
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Maybe it's Mike himself!
*NM*
12/04/2013 04:46:17 PM
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Or TOR, angry about lackluster aMoL reviews
*NM*
12/04/2013 05:03:23 PM
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half the DOS is a2k hitting refresh every 2 seconds to be the first to post when it comes back up
*NM*
12/04/2013 06:38:25 PM
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Or Joel spamming the site... *NM*
12/04/2013 09:52:08 PM
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What is that? *NM*
12/04/2013 06:24:34 PM
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Denial Of Service attack
12/04/2013 06:39:34 PM
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Ha beat you to it! *NM*
12/04/2013 06:40:48 PM
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i think you mean to say: JINX! you owe me a soda
*NM*
12/04/2013 07:13:58 PM
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"Soda"?!
13/04/2013 04:44:09 PM
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