For part of yesterday, Dakota Today, and TypePad management page were unavailable. The TypePad Status page indicated a DNS attack on Typepad. Denial of Service generates a lot of rear-end pain.
I would much prefer our big brother government would go after the Techno-Terrorists who vandalize web sites instead of trying to store every phone message of every citizen for whatever mindless reason; or, for going to the armpits of the world with religious and political fanaticism related to thousand year old wars, etc.
And while speaking of the thousands of square feet of government buildings devoted to storing telephone messages from here and the rest of the world, perhaps a bit of those billions of storage bytes could be devoted to real-time recording of commercial plane flight data so that after crashes, survivors and rescuers or salvagers don't have to first find a pinging device in the bottom of the ocean in order to know about that crash or prevent similar crashes in the future. (Sorry about that aproximately 75-word sentence). Or perhaps a floating radio transmitter could be popped out of a plane if it lands with a thud on land or sea.
Of course, that might reduce the time CNN would be able to devote to the plane crash. As of yet, the only real news in that story is : 1. Plane Disappeared, 2. Plane is found. Everything between 1 &2 is speculation and often conflicting irrelevant speculation.
Enough of this.
*** Stay tuned and tell your congress critter to go after the Techno-Terrorists--- Doug Wiken
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