WASHINGTON (AP) -- Traffic on many parts of the Internet slowed dramatically early Saturday, the apparent effects of a fast-spreading, virus-like infection overwhelming the world's digital pipelines and interfering with Web browsing and delivery of e-mail.
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www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/01/25/in ... index.html
Internet traffic hit by electronic attack
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Hmmm. maybe that explains why I was running so slow. heh, I cleared my cache and restarted after the third page I was looking at timed out.
"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
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When I got into work on Sunday afternoon they had just revived the computer sytem, it had crashed Saturday from the worm. Not good in a hospital where every patient record from nursing notes to doctor's orders to diets to labs to pharmacy orders/records are all stored/formed electronically. What a mess!!
I am not a violent person, but I think I could punch the hackers in the nose right now. Don't these idiots realize that they can kill people with their crap???
I am not a violent person, but I think I could punch the hackers in the nose right now. Don't these idiots realize that they can kill people with their crap???
Love as thou wilt.
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