Awwwwwwww POOR 12 yr olds couldnt be self absorbed for 12 hours. What a tragedy... LOL

Simpson Episode: Itchy and Scratchy and Marge:

Marge: Aren't you going to watch the rest of your cute cartoons?
Bart: Naah. Come on, Li.
Lisa: Maybe there's something else to do on this planet...
-- ``Itchy and Scratchy and Marge''

% The scene is repeated in TV rooms all across town, and (to the strains
% of the first 53 bars of Beethoven's 6th Symphony) the kids step outside,
% rub their eyes, and proceed to do wholesome childlike things.
% Krusty meanwhile, tapes his show.

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This is the episode where Marge gets Itchy and Scratchy (I&S) to become more child friendly. After I&S becomes crap, all the kids decide to play outside with the scene played to the music of Beethoven's 6th Symphony, as noted above.

This is the FIRST thing I thought of when I read this article.
The episode script would be like this for MySpace:

Marge: Aren't you going to [browse the rest of the web]?
Bart: Naah. Come on, Li.
Lisa: Maybe there's something else to do on this planet [other than MySpace]...

You should read the way Softpedia put it:
"The cumulated downtime exceeded 12 hours, a period when the online social lives of its users were put on hold."

I had a good chuckle at that comment. Too bad these dopes who live on MySpace couldn't have MORE downtime. These people need to get LIVES.

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Now to find out where YouTube is located and get that crap shut down for a day as well...make all those video bloggers get a REALLLLLLLLL life.

MySpace has been down from Sat. Night to Monday till late afternoon. Have they ever heard of power generators? Dual data centers, like stick one on the east coast? Any good company would do this. If I owned MySpace I would let the CIO, Web Admins, programmers and Tom go and hire people that can do the job right. I assume Tom would go back to his Asian sites. I could picture it, his steaming videos would stop right in the good part and would error out and not work for 4-5 hours later.

"MySpace was inaccessible for nearly 12 hours beginning Sunday night, as a power outage in its data center crippled the popular social networking site's ability to handle web traffic...."

As opposed to the tens-of-thousands of people in St.Louis and New York who were forced to live completely without any power at all for the past five to seven days.

You'll excuse me if I do not consider the MySpace story to be "news".

Agreed.

Exactly, while all those people are living with no air conditioning, refrigeration and other necessities of life a bunch of emo whiners had to do without their precious MySpace site for a while. Oh the humanity!

A lot of people are without power around the Bay Area in California as well. Going on 5 days now. So MySpace aside, NY and St. Louis aren't alone. We've had record heat around California as well. 117 in LA County, 115 in Stockton, 107 in Napa, etc. In result, we've had 11 deaths or more related to the blackout/heat wave. Still want to talk about people living without air conditioning? The blackout has effected more than MySpace.

RECALL SCHWARZENEGGAR!!

I realise you were joking...or maybe you are serious. Well, either way, for THIS SPECIFIC problem, I don't think SCHWARZENEGGAR is to blame :)

Yea, but he's failed at everything else, and he's an admitted decades-long drug-using felon, why not pile on like the wingnuts did to Gray Davis? If the governor can't get power to his residents, then WHO can? Recall, baby.

This is really quite hilarious.

Myspace having it's home in california and being shut down from a power outage makes all the sense in the world. This is a state that prides itself on getting by without the need for new, stronger, better power generation and distribution.....or maybe they can keep myspace online with a windfarm. Nevermind the "thing" that sites like this ends up doing to so many people. This isn't such a bad thing really. It's not hard to see a great many computers NOT being infected by malicious graphics simply due to myspace being offline.

hhhhhmmmmmm......
Perhaps even a few children were saved from molestation because they could not be accessed by predators.

There is a big problem with things like myspace. It has more to do with the mindset being applied to it. Don't kid yourself, myspace is driven by only two things: advertising and ignorance. As any half way intelligent adult (or parent) knows, children get hurt from things they get into when they do not understand what it really is.

I for one am glad things like this happen. Myspace NEEDS to be takin down.

Its funny beacause it happaned in Cali? Or simply because it happaned? California does not pride itself in its power situation I can assure you, although Im sure its not as ashamed as you are of your state in its entirety. Just so you know in NY people also lost power, so this didn't just happen to those "backward" people in CA.

As for the argument that child predators were kept from kids, this is doubtful. I'm sure they can easily find friendster, xanga, frappr, etc.

The mindset of myspace is that of an individual, not of the site itself. Just like guns dont kill people, myspace doesnt create ignorance, it is simply a tool that can be used to simplify and propagate it.

www.myspace.com will not infect your computer, and neither will most of the sites on there. Unless you call a cookie or cached images and "infection" on your computer.

Now to correct you some more :)

Myspace is driven only by one thing : the community of users. It is your ignorance and that of adults "or parents" ( whom i used to consider adults until now ... but perhaps you were thinking of the multitude of underaged parents that spend there time worrying about myspace ), that leads to hurt children. If the child has a healthy and good upbringing, they will not b wanting to meet a 30-60 year old person from the internet simply because he / she said that they loved them and would treat them well. A good parent / resposible adult would be able to monitor an 8-17 year old child and raise them properly so that they would not fall victim to such things.

If you are glad myspace went down, tell the truth about it.

You are glad simply because all those people that wouldnt add you to their own page are now like you, wirtually friendless ; they are cut off from their virtual friends, and you have none.

Also I belive you wanted to say " Myspace NEEDS to be 'taken" down."

"Don't kid yourself, myspace is driven by only two things: advertising and ignorance."

Perhaps, but it's also driven by people who like to communicate with their friends. I have a lot of friends I hardly see, and/or who don't live in the same town anymore, and MySpace is a means of communicating with them. Ignorance is the people that live on MySpace and hate MySpace. Not everyone on there is emo or a kid that seeks attention.

"I have a lot of friends I hardly see, and/or who don't live in the same town anymore, and MySpace is a means of communicating with them."

So is AIM.

This is the internet.....
Are you going to suggest that myspace is the most viable means of communication known to man?

All I can do is laugh....

Thank you for clearing up that confusing enigma...

Lambs...

Latz, SB

lmao...

Nah, leave it up. That way we know where all the horrifyingly bad websites are and can avoid them more easily. ;)

I admit I've only glanced in passing at a few, but not one of them was at all readable. Photo backgrounds are a "Bad Thing".

It's funny how people put MySpace down, making fun of its users and so forth. Yet you have people like Banquo, prndll and Desides that act moronic when expressing their dislike for it. You're not better than anyone, MySpace included. Sorry to break it to you.

Yes, I'm aware this is the internet. No, MySpace is not the most viable means for communication, but not all of my friends use AIM, MSN, Yahoo, etc. Some people use MySpace and some people don't. I don't see what the issue is here. If you don't like MySpace, good for you. So what?

"Perhaps, but it's also driven by people who like to communicate with their friends. I have a lot of friends I hardly see, and/or who don't live in the same town anymore, and MySpace is a means of communicating with them."

ever hear of email or instant messaging, or *rolls eyes* the telephone?

I agree 100%.

Many soldiers serving overseas also use Myspace to keep in touch with their families back home. Sure there are instant messengers and email, but Myspace is a little more personalized which can be nice in those situations. Just because some users of Myspace are immature it shouldn't brand everyone that way.

Good, 'cause MySpace.com sucks.

Bingo!

So for those people who like to keep track of how much MySpace sucks, you can add "crappy infrastructure" to your list. If you are running the #1 site that teens visit, I'm pretty sure that you'd invest in redundant data centers and things like that.

Perhaps this power outage thing was just a cover-up for something even worse: Some landlord betrayed Tom and demanded last year's rent.

Server repairs were completed in record time today. When asked how they were able to complete them on such short notice and with half of the staff on the beaches, Mr. Andersen simply repilied,

'Some of our most despera.. *cough* active users volunteered their efforts in exchange for a few favors....somewhere between 14 and 16.'

In unrelated news, 10 MySpace users in the area have mysteriously gone missing, all between the ages of 14 and 16...

ROFLMAO... I had to start this thread with the internet predators... what was I thinking?! ;-)

you know something. probably they are not making enought money from myspace that they didnt pay their bill.

hahha. i blocked myspace on our server.

Funny. I just re-watched the season 1 NCIS ep where the guy was trying to take out the entire US power-grid starting in Virginia.

Heh.... I can see it now....

MySpace tries to black out the Nation. News at 11.

So they started at the wrong end of the continent. No-one ever said they were smart. ;)

And that, folks, is the reason you need massive battery backups and 6-10 diesel generators always spooled up, so that power outages dont do much (and yes, datacenter I have to go to does, in fact, have 7 generators, always running, with 2wks of diesel, plus contracts to truck more in in the event of a power outage lasting over 2wks)

always running?

Why not just 'in case of power failure'?

Seems like a bit of a waste, if you ask me....

whats the point of having a datacenter always running if there wont be anyone to access it in case of a power outtage ... ???

Gotta get those backups done, man.

maybe there's no electricity in his facility ( like in many rural areas in this nation )

Um, just 2 cents here (since we are talking about wasting money)... if there is no electricity in an area, not the wisest (nor cost productive) idea to have a data center there. Seems to me to kind of defeat a business plan focused on saving money...

"Yeah, so we are going to have our data center in the middle of that big field over there and get this, we are going to have electricity brought in by the truckload for about 5000.00 more a megawatt than just deciding to co-locate somewhere that DOES have power! It'll be great! You'll see!"

lmao...

~dnc

see, but you have to think on the long run and cost of productivity, if you relocate this datacenter to a more urban area, consider the cost of labor being that you would have to hire ITs, but if you leave it in the middle of the "field" all you have to do is pay a rancher to "wutch'ver her"

Yeah, but what if that rancher decides to take my data center to the edge of a cliff and THEN "wutch'ver her"? I mean, wouldn't it cost me more to have to shoot the rancher for violating my poor, defenseless data center?

I know, I know... a good firewall would prevent that from happening...

(too much coffee)

I think you're both missing something here:

If there's no power lines out there, there probably won't be any high-speed fiber lines either (which I hope no datacenter would settle for less).

Unless they do a satellite uplink, they're out of luck.

lol, i hear ya .... a good firewall or a cowbell

Details, details... Gotta squash our low tech plan, don't ya? ;-)

Um... Yes.

Please.

the point is, just because there's no power in that area, doesn't mean that people don't want to still get to the servers hosted in that datacenter.

If you have servers in a colo without generated power and redundancy you're an idiot. Colo is much more than just where to put your servers, they're suppost to be buildings that are earthquake, fire, hell on earth, resistant, not to mention have highspeed fiber connections.

Looks like my users will actually have to work today and not d*ck around on myspace...woohoo!

Nah, they'll just head over to BN.

Sorry about your website, man... ;)

Just think of all the 14 year olds that were saved from internet predators on MySpace for those 12 hours. ;-)

But what about those poor internet predators? Will no-one think of the predators?

Yeah, but I'm sure they have their reserves just in case of a rainy (or in this case, overly sunny and HOT) day...

ahHAHahHAHahHAh

"on a side note, Tom Anderson was forced to hire online predators, and rely on their desperation to quicken myspace server repairs."

That looks like an internet predator laugh to me.. ;-)

(ducking and running)

~dnc

ROFLMAO

...moved...