Re: 'American Idol' Voting Campaign Slammed With DDoS Attack

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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- -- "Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com> wrote:

> > A popular but controversial website that asks fans of the hit US TV show
> > "American Idol" to vote for the least talented contestant each week
> > continues to be slammed by a distributed denial-of-service attack, the
> > site's manager has admitted.

> Glad to see we are in good hands, people are paying attention to the
> things that matter -n- all 'dat schtuff...

Funny factoid: More Americans vote for the silly American Idol
stuff than do participated in the last Presidential election.

- - ferg

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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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