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- GOVERNMENT SO BROKE WE CAN’T AFFORD EMAIL ANYMORE: Wonkette tipster Scott writes: “I was just speaking with a friend on the House side who says they have no e-mail anywhere on the Hill since yesterday?”
NEXT THEY WILL COME FOR OUR TWITTERS
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10:22 AM
on Fri October 10 2008
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Sara K. Smith
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Damned! I was just taking IT courses with a guy who handles the Whitehouse Exchange servers. Unfortunately his suite of courses ended about two weeks ago so I can’t probe him for info.
Well, doggone it, what about their yahoo accounts?
tinybubbles:
They were all taken over by 12 year-old hackers ages ago! Apparently the “lockout” password on all of them was “they hate our freedoms.”
Verizon strikes back.
Serolf Divad: I should have known. Although a more likely password (less letters to remember) is “terrist”.
Its still down. I heard they had a fire at a server farm or something. Whats not surprising is that after 9/11 and the anthrax thing a gazillion dollars was spent building a totally independent backup system at an “undisclosed location”.
They must be out looking for it right now. (The location, not the dollars. The dollars are long gone.)
First they came for our web mail, but I said nothing because I didn’t webmail.
Then they came for our Crackberry’s, but I said nothing because I was net a crackhead.
They they came for our blog posts, and I looked around and found everyone was on twitter.
All their in-boxes are full and they don’t know how to delete
Have a little patience, folks, it will take a couple of days to get the new carrier pigeons trained and the pneumatic tube system back up and running.
Is the House by any chance on Rackspace? Because they host our Exchange system, and we’ve been down all morning, and I am panicking right now.
I’d love to see what their spam assassin is catching. There’s probably too many personal threats for the FBI to investigate in 1000 years.
First they came for our facebooks, and I did not speak up because I didn’t use facebook anymore
Then they came for our e-mails, and I did not speak up because it meant my mom would stop spamming my account with forwards
Then they came for our blogs, and I did not speak up because I hadn’t updated in years.
Then they came for our Twitter, and I did not speak up because it was more a chore than avocation.
Then they came for me, and there was no medium left for people to find out about it.
NEVER AGAIN.
Gopher:
Interesting. Law enforcement has had its flashlight up the tuchus of the left wing for years, and the real threat comes from the right…
jagorev: “100% Network Uptime Isn’t Wishful Thinking, It’s A Guaranteed Reality” *
* http://www.rackspace.com/whyrackspace/network/index.php
A directive was sent to erase any emails containing Sarah Palin bikini pictures and the ensuing deletions overloaded their server.
Ted Stevens was right fuckers! Those damned clogged tubes…
Sussemilch: Well, they’ve defaulted on that guarantee. I wonder if I can buy Network Uptime CDS from my broker…
I work on the House side…and our emailing is functioning. No more lies Wonkette! <3
ihasasad: Ghod, if only that were true. What a gold mine they would be.
House_Party: Well, thank God people can continue to miscommunicate with each other as before.
Hot_Carl:
Call RotoRooter!
ihasasad: Yeah, they’ve just been printing out the emails and shredding them. What? That’s not the way you do it?
sanantonerose: U teh funni!
Those e-mail stamps are expensive.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
Serolf Divad: Over the summer I took a course with some supposedly important guy who worked at the IT department in Congress. I didn’t quite understand why he needed to learn Flash, which one would think someone as important as him would already know.
And needless to say (but I’ll say it anyway), he was the biggest ass in the class.