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Critical Obamacare Data Center Crashes On Sunday
If Churchill were alive today, he would probably characterize the rollout of Obamacare as a humiliation, wrapped in an embarrassment, inside a mockery-punching bag injury. And overnight, in addition to all the other well-known gremlins that have plagued America's socialized healthcare from Day 1, insult was added injury, following a Reuters report that a "data center critical for allowing uninsured Americans to buy health coverage under President Barack Obama's healthcare law went down on Sunday, halting online enrollment for all 50 states."
In other words, on top of and in addition to all the other bad coding and website processing issues that have been exposed and promptly scapegoated on other (you see Obama knew all about the successes, but nothing about the failures of Obamacare), now the internet itself is starting to glitch up. Which is hardly surprising considering Al Gore's involvement in the latter.
More from Reuters:
The data center operated by Verizon's Terremark experienced a connectivity issue that caused it to shut down, affecting the federal government's already problem-plagued online marketplace Healthcare.gov and similar sites operated by 14 states and the District of Columbia, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Obama administration and company officials could not say how long it would take to fix the connectivity problem.
The outage that started in the early hours of Sunday caused the data center to lose network connectivity with the federal government's data services hub, an electronic traffic roundabout that links the online health insurance marketplaces with numerous federal agencies and can verify people's identity, citizenship, and other facts.
Without the hub, consumers are unable to apply online for coverage or determine their eligibility for federal subsidies to help pay for insurance premiums. On Saturday, Sebelius praised the hub's ability to perform complex calculations in quick time as an example of a successful segment of the system.
HHS spokeswoman Joanne Peters said Sebelius spoke with Verizon's chief executive officer on Sunday afternoon to discuss the situation: "They committed to fixing the problem as soon as possible."
The outage was affecting enrollment in all 50 states, as well as Terremark customers not connected with the marketplaces, according to the HHS spokeswoman. She said the data center's network connectivity went down during planned maintenance to replace a failed networking component.
A spokesman for Verizon said the problem would be fixed "as soon as possible." "Our engineers have been working with HHS and other technology companies to identify and address the root cause of the issue," Verizon spokesman Jeff Nelson said.
Putting this in context:
The administration has expressed confidence it can fix underlying problems with Healthcare.gov by early December, in time for people to meet a December 15 deadline to enroll in new health plans to receive benefits on January 1. Further delays would jeopardize its ability to enroll as many as 7 million Americans for coverage during Obamacare's first year.
Whether or not Verizon fixes the glitch any time soon, or merely lets it linger, one thing is becoming obvious: the Obamacare delay, which was hard fought by the Teaparty, and which was so opposed by the administration leading to the grotesque 16 day government shutdown, has all but become a reality with every passing day. Only instead of someone actually taking responsibility, said delay will be scapegoated on Verizon's data centers, faulty fiber-optic and copper cables, Cisco switches, Syrian hackers, millions of lines of faulty (Fortran?) code, inept contractors, end users who never read the Help.doc file, and everyone and everything else. Just never the government itself.
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Just because you hate the legislation doesn't have anything to do with the web site that runs it. It launched on the day it had to. If this was Apple they would get it ready first then announce it not the other way around. BUT this is the nature of a legislated offering and you all should shut up and give it time to shake out the bugs. The first rockets NASA built crashed and the USA still went to the moon.
Way to defend it.
Good point and all...
Get lost...we eat trolls for breakfast (lunch, dinner, snacks...)
you miss the point buddy... it appears the government can describe a circle and not be able to draw it, all the while claiming that they can draw and to not worry... it will all be ok.... it is this disconnect between the world of forms and reality that is the key issue here. most of us with half a brain cell left saw this coming... and yet here you are defending the idiocracy and trying to compare it to the physics of going to the moon... problem is the first moon trip was a first but there have been millions if not billions of websites running for years, so it isn't like this requires voyages into the frontier of technology...
I build this stuff for a living and I know that the requirements were changing right up to launch. You don't build systems to a date. Microsoft delays a launch rather than having a bad launch. Government can't.
Don't know why I am arguing, this will be fixed, it is the law... and people are going to like it.
sounds like you are trying to convince yourself with your weak arguments or are just getting paid to post such drivel... i suggest sharpening your game before trying to dig in here.
government was too stupid to realize it couldn't... and now it has egg on its face... pretty simple story...
Do you have skin in the game? If not, piss off.
You remind me of Judge Smales.
"You'll get nothing and like it"!
Fuck off Hoser!
Microsoft delays a launch? Windows Vista? Bwahahaha
Vista became Windows 7 which was fantastic. Apple delayed OS X by years and it was a huge move forward.
You have low standards. Windows 7 was what Windows Vista was supposed to be. But they got behind schedule and SB thought it more important to milk the goats on time than to deliver a quality product, so he pushed Vista out unfinished and bork. UAC. AFU. Of course the backdoors able to to steal everyone's work wholesale already shipped with XPSP1 so the Hand dgas. Face it. Microsoft took their customers' money while willingly betraying them. Microsoft rolled out endpoint to endpoint encryption in 2005, then pulled it. FUCK MICROSOFT
Thankfully there's free SSH programs & GNUPG
fantastic GARBAGE.
It's what I use at work because I have no choice.
At home I'm using Plasma on KDE with Mint 13 Ubuntu 12.04
http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=116
http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_maya_kde.php
I wouldn't use Windows 7 at home if you paid me to. I wouldn't at work either if I could change it without violating some corporate policy.
Why can't government delay a launch, pray tell?
The dictator just needs to sign an executive order...he's good at those.
Seriously, shouldn't you get back to work or is the power out in Mom's basement?
It's not going to be fixed, none of it was working to begin with, and the law may be gone soon anyhow.
Stay in Canada please, eh.
Ya hoser!
they should have made the website 3B compatible... 3 beers and it would look a lot better
take off eh?
we don't want him - kicking him across your side.
We'll just throw fake papers at him calling him Juan and say he's from Mexico. That solve both are our problems.
The law was passed 3 years ago. The IRS has confiscated a portion of my salary to pay for a $600 Million boondoggle to Moochelles' cronies. No excuses, buddy when you and your progressive brethern think the govenment can do no wrong and demonize all who point out the epic fails.
This is worse than Katrina but Barry's ball lickers in the press will give him a pass.
NO ONE HATES THE LEGISLATION.
What we hate is the lie:
there IS no legislation so why are you PRETENDING there is?
NAME IT. NAME IT NOW.
You can't.
There isn't one. Not for taxes.
the return of stuxnet?
That’s what they get for going cheap and not upgrading the Commodore 64 with an external hard drive and 128k of RAM.
But, I hear you can still get enrolled in OBAMA care if you use a dial up phone and agree to waive your rights on the do-not-call list.
a true shambles of shambolic shenanigans. this is the US government people.
This is now the seventh or eighth time I've tried to register on the NY state Health Care Exchange (not that I'm actually going to register, I just want the free test drive).
But ever since I first tried, and until and including today, when I click on the "click here to register" link on the home page:
https://nystateofhealth.ny.gov/individual
I get a page with the following message in a red box:
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This page contains the following errors: error on line 50 at column 194: XML declaration allowed only at the start of the document Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.
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and a blank page below that. FAIL.
Wonder if anyone around here would like to give it a go and see if it works - or doesn't - for them.
Take comfort. The NY Times Editorial Board said Barry could fix the site himself. LOL
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/28/opinion/not-one-more.html?hp
Barry gonna put on his software project management cap. Like he's more qualified that K. Sebelius. LOL
I clicked on it and it worked for me. I am using Chrome if that helps.
I'm on an older MAC, using Safari. I kind of thought that it might be browser/OS related, but I'll be damned if I'm going to spend money for a new computer and OS and go through all the shit just to get ass-raped by ObummerCare.
When the time actually does come to verify my health care provider, I intend to make it up. Seriously, you think the IRS will be checking every tax return for compliance? Overwhelm the beast with bullshit is my solution.
I've also thought about this too. I have a 15-year amortization of intangible assets which has allowed me to show a loss for the last 15 years (believe me, it takes work to fuck the gov), that is running out. I am considering just taking the deduction and seeing if they catch it. Do they have my return from 2000? I don't, and I'm not legally obligated to have it (7 years, I believe for businesses). So, in the unlikely case that they actually check it and call me on it, I'll tell them I started using the deduction in 2005, or feign ignorance and pay the penalty, which would probably be under a grand.
Fuck em.
You are stealing. You may not get caught but you are a thief. If you had balls you would be a Tax protester and you would stand up and refuse to pay and take the heat. You don't care about tax law you are just cheap. How do you get 2 pluses for posting you intend to become a criminal.
He's "stealing" in the same way a convenience store owner is "stealing" by refusing to open the cash register for a thug with a gun.
"An unjust law is no law at all." ~St. Augustine
Where is the gun? It is a social contract. You vote those who are elected make laws that say what the rules are. If you don't like the rules vote in new people. Oh and add to that the fact that the laws they make must be within what the constitution let's them do. And if citizens don't think this is so then a Supreme Court independent of the legislature will determine if the law is constitutional.
Good or bad the US tax code is constitutional If you want it changed then you need to get other American's to vote in guys who will change it. In the mean time pay your fucking taxes criminal.
Really? You're asking where the gun is? All government action is enforced by the barrel of a gun, and you know it. That's why you told the previous poster to go ahead and, "be a Tax protester and...stand up and refuse to pay and take the heat." Which, guess what, involves IRS agents with shotguns and AR-15s.
http://www.irs.gov/irm/part9/irm_09-002-001.html
You're clearly a muppet who gobbles up any line of shit so long as an "authority figure" tells you to eat it.
"Vote in new people." Wow, time to stop your feeding, troll.
There is no social contract. The IRS has the guns. They show up & take what they want with no permission & shoot everyone who says no. There is NO law saying we must pay taxes. Not a one. YOU pay taxes that aren't even yours. The DEMAND itself is a crime. It has no legal support at all. None. Irwin Schiff proved it by writing a book showing there is no legislation for it. None.
Agreed. File a declaration & send a note saying you refuse to pay. Period. Say why & be detailed.
OR break the system by using tax 'fraud' (taxation is a fraud to begin with) because it should be broken (is a criminal enterprise).
You DID know it's a crime to jail someone for not paying taxes, because taxes are voluntary, didn't you?
Now you know: taxes are voluntary
http://youtu.be/XNICz9CZOgw
Trollolololol
The Post said "Wonder if anyone around here would like to give it a go and see if it works - or doesn't - for them." So how am I a troll?
Why do I get a negative for reporting the actions of my browser? Holy fuck it is not somethinkg one can have a positve or negitve feeling about? Unless you are making a comment on my selection of Chrome?
i'm pretty sure it's because of your post about "stealing" and "constitutional law". Everyone has you pegged as a limp wristed, mindlessly following twat.
that and all your fucking whining.
You probably get out of the shower to take a piss, don't you?
You think it's limp & weak NOT to have a shower that smells like piss?
Something's wrong with you.
If they ever get the system fixed hopefully hackers will relentlessly attack it thereby rendering it useless.
Where would the Tea Party find a hacker?
That's right only Tax Enoughed Party members oppose Obamacare. Because only bad people do not want the government fucking their lives up.
You are a troll and I hope you get cancer and die.
I didn't say they were bad. I just suggested they may be stupid. And I hope you live a long happy life do not get cancer.
We wish you the exact opposite
you ever wonder if that is what you are witnessing right now... except the hackers are employed by names that wish to remain discrete?
Dupe
I'd suspected hackers but then reports seem to point to a systematic programming failure.
I'm late to the party again.
I find myself questioning ZH as a reliable source... again. Referring to ACA or Obamacare as socialized healthcare is fallacious.
There is no heathcare involved, merely an isurance scheme, owned and administered by wall street financial firms and their proxies. They capture every citizen within the market using the coersive, violent force of government.
It is a state-corporate merger, and is much more akin to fascism than socialism.
Maybe I am just not recognizing some tongue in cheekiness here, and the socialist blast is mocking those who see it as some magic delivery system that gives free health care to the poor and 'underserved'. If that is the case, oh well. My comment still stands.
I think for American's it will be better than what is there now. But overall you are right.
the key question here is do you consider nazi's fascist or socialists?
Yes. I consider the Nazis fascists or socialists. (Implicit or explicit, government control of the means of production without real market influence)
With that said, there is a segment of younger people, (some not so young) infatuated with socialist principles, while despising fascist principles. Many of these people will come to realize that socialism is awesome, as long as you have nothing, want nothing, and do nothing. For everyone else, it sucks... unless you're the 'decider'.
ACA needs to go away. It goes away much faster if it is called by it's proper name, and is spelled out for those who otherwise might not see it for what it is: Fascism.
that's a decent answer but at the end of the day it is two sides to the same coin... both socialism and fascism are despotic in nature no matter how sugar coated you make and yearn for it with "good intentions". i am not critizing the desires, but am heavily critical about the implentation of them.... the beauty of america was its protection of the individual- the ultimate minority.... but we seem to forget that for the large minority and special interest groups
Socialism in a democratic country is not despotic. Why do you just plain ignor that most people living in norhtern Europe are happier than Americans? Choose not to live like them, fine. But you do yourself no favors to ignor the reality that there are parts you may like?
You're correct.
Too many people here are very ignorant:
Fascism is NEVER ever the collective ownership of the means of production by the PEOPLE. That is socialism.
Socialism is NEVER the corporate ownership, control or merger to government: that is FASCISM.
bazillions of outcomes from initial conditions are despotic, even idiots or insane people running a democracy.
That's not 2 sides of the same coin, that's like saying we all breathe air so we all share the same politics.
Corporate merger to goverment is not socialism, it is Fascism. Key difference.
Latin filler text in Obamacare application code...kind of funny where it comes from and what it means:
"After telling everyone that Lorem ipsum, the nonsensical text that comes with PageMaker, only looks like Latin but actually says nothing, I heard from Richard McClintock, publication director at the Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, who had enlightening news:
"Lorem ipsum is latin, slightly jumbled, the remnants of a passage from Cicero's _de Finibus_ 1.10.32, which begins 'Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit...' [There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain.]. [de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, written in 45 BC, is a treatise on the theory of ethics very popular in the Renaisance.]
http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/lorem_ipsum.html
Oblabla..."you didn't build that".
LOL
Gov clearly too busy listening to sovereign leader's phone calls to do any real work. Snort, choom, listen, choom, snort, repeat.
2009: "Good news, Son! Under Obamacare, you can stay on my health insurance policy until you're 26 years old."
2013: "Bad news, Son! Our insurance policy just got cancelled because of Obamacare."
The Borg implants will restore order to the collective.
The principle is more important than the clusterfuck. The agenda is slavery dipped in an empty promise, the circus is mockery.
So obviously the NSA pays their tech geeks a whole lot better than the Obama care tech geeks
Hopefully not. Then the NSA programmers might do the right thing.
If were lucky it will stay down.
Obamacare, the "gold standard" of nigger rigged software.
Come on man, that's not fair. Things that are african engineering enhanced will at least run/work for a little bit. This fucking thing has been a flop from the get go.
Maybe if people pushed themselves away from the fucking dinner table before attempting the third piece of fried chicken they wouldn't need health insurance so badly. The MSM would have you believe that all of our woes are a result of a poor healthcare system; I say it's a lack of self control that creates the majority of our problems. Obesity, diabeties (type II), heart disease................a majority of these cases are preventable.
Once when I was a young child I threw up right after eating ONE piece of KFC.
That greasy nasty skin is horrible.
From that day on IF I ate any fried chicken like that, KFC or clone, I throw away the skin.
I wouldn't eat that stuff more than once a year. It's got flavour but whatever.
I could do better for cheaper on my own.
but won't someone pleez fink of da shilldren?
I mean da hard drives