Obama's MMORPG is having a patch weekend. One can probably safely assume that all saved games from v0.3b will be incompatible with the new version.
Meanwhile in Kentucky, the EULA is startling. Via @DRUDGE_REPORT.
"Users (authorized or unauthorized) have no explicit or implicit expectation of privacy," the disclaimer reads. "Any or all uses of this system and all files on the system may be intercepted, monitored, recorded, copied, audited, inspected, and disclosed to authorized state government and law enforcement personnel, as well as authorized officials of other agencies, both domestic and foreign."
"CGI Group Inc, the Canadian contractor that built HealthCare.gov, is "declining to comment at this time," said spokeswoman Linda Odorisio."
"Analysis: IT experts question architecture of Obamacare website"
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/04/us-usa-healthcare-technology-technology-idUSBRE99312620131004
TOTUS:
http://cdn.breitbart.com/mediaserver/Breitbart/Big-Government/2013/Obamacare/obamacare_rally_AP.jpg
CGI. Hmm. Weren't they behind the gun registry and the Sk. Land titles fiascos?
Unlike Canada, that eased into the current nightmare state of medicine over a comfortable 4 decades, the United States is poised to leap into the maw of a hideous bureaucratic leviathan overnight.
I urge you folks to read "That None Should Die", by Frank Slaughter. It's basically an Atlas Shrugged set in the world of medicine. It seemed pretty incredible when I first read it 20 years ago, but now it's uncannily prophetic.
amateur hour continues on Pennsylvania Ave...............
Affordable Insurance.
Let me tell you a war story.
Before the invasions of those fanatically fortified positions in Normandy, and many small Japanese held Islands of the Pacific,
Army, Navy and Marine commanders were offered a wonderful deal for their troops.
As these men were pulling on their wading boots and putting prophylactics on the long end of their guns,
servers two purposes, each one keeps a very important weapon dry.
Anyway....
Special insurance men,
they should have used women in shorts,
came around to the troops and offered them great deals on life insurance.
For just a few dollars per month they could increase their life insurance from $5,000 dollars up to 20,000 dollars, which was a small fortune in 1944.
Well guess what happened?
After the smoke cleared and the beaches were covered with thousands of Brave, young Americans lying there dying, or were already dead,
the government checked their insurance books and only , 1 percent had increased their life insurance.
Why?
Because these Brave Young Americans knew they were not going to get killed or wounded or get sick and die.
Now we have Obumbles trying to sell an insurance deal without using young girls in hot pants,
or maybe he will,
the youths of this country are not going to buy it,
if they are forced to buy it,
Democrats will lose their asses in the next election.
Good..
A weekend isn't even close to enough time to patch a system that was broken from the start. Got curious to find out what was going on during the time that my computer was seemingly stalled and huge amounts of javascript were uploaded to my machine for what seemed to be a nondescript page with just a single button on it. This is bizarre and someday will take a look at my Wireshark log where I captured every packet going between my computer and healthcare.gov. Unfortunately the site uses secure sockets and so have to try to remember how I set up a man-in-the-middle hack to decrypt the packets before they reached my browser. It was an impressive number of packets to produce a display which was essentially information free.
Anyone can just turn on expert tools and the debugging features of their browser and peruse the scripts that are being downloaded. Not sure why googleanalytics.js is required and get the feeling that the whole server application was created with a high level "build your own website toolkit" in which might work fine for someones personal website that gets a few visitors/day, but scalability and optimization appear to be absent from this truly awful rats nest of javascript.
Also, the amount of javascript execution required to deal with this website will overwhelm the capabilities of people who haven't got the latest 3 GHz quad core 64 bit machine with 4+ Gb of RAM. Every once in a while I try to surf the web using a 80486 based laptop and find that it seems to hang totally on a lot of websites which is as a result of the browser just choking on the amount of javascript that clueless web designers throw in for totally unneeded graphic effects. My personal web site loads just fine on an 80386 based machine given that I have no use for flashy effects for their own sake.
This may have actually been a deliberate piece of sabotage by some coders who produced a very flashy web site to impress clueless politicians who have no knowledge of ideas such as scalability. The only way this piece of crap can be fixed (assuming one wanted to fix it) would be to start from scratch and write highly optimized server code which can service millions of simultaneous accesses. Apparently the crash occurred with a mere 9 million people trying to get on. I guess the next step is for people to try out various exploits to crash the site and crap code like this is detested by hackers although this site will likely crash and burn without much external help.
@Loki -
Would you share your website's URL with others on the blog?