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Obamacare Data Hub Crashes For Second Time In Three Days, Verizon Blamed Again
The first and last time a critical data center for Obamacare crashed this past Sunday night, leading to healthcare.gov becoming completely inaccessible and thus halting enrollment (assuming there had been any in the first place but of course allowing the government to blame any lack thereof on Verizon), we said "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." Once again, we were proven correct when overnight the Connecticut state healthcare exchange, "Access Health CT", announced that the Obamacare data hub was "experiencing an outage" on Tuesday evening. The culprit - Verizon once again. Which answered our question: not Syrian hackers or Cisco but, conveniently, Verizon Terremark.
Conveniently, because recall which company was first implicated in the avalanche of Edward Snowden revelations - why Verizon, which before the NSA disclosure, was first said to be the major communication interception hub used by the government. So when Obama asks the firm that gets unknown kickbacks from the government for providing private client data to the NSA, to take one for the team, well... Verizon promptly obliges.
More on this hilarious "coincidence" from Reuters:
"Access Health CT was informed by CMS (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services) that the Federal Data Services Hub is currently experiencing an outage," a statement from the Connecticut state exchange said.
A similar outage on Sunday halted online enrollment on the federal Healthcare.gov website as well as similar state sites.
An official at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) acknowledged the Obamacare website had been impacted by the problem.
"Tonight, Verizon Terremark again experienced network issues in their data center that caused a system outage impacting the federal data services hub and the Healthcare.gov marketplace application," the official, who asked not to be named, said in an email to Reuters.
"Verizon Terremark is conducting maintenance overnight to resolve their issue with our technical team and when that is complete we will bring our systems back online," the official said.
Verizon's Terremark operates the data services hub that links online health insurance marketplaces with numerous federal agencies and can verify people's identity, citizenship, and other facts.
"We are now undertaking infrastructure maintenance, which should be complete overnight. We anticipate the strengthened infrastructure will help eliminate application downtimes," said a statement by Jeff Nelson, vice president of global corporate communications at Verizon Enterprise Solutions.
"Verizon is committed to supporting our HHS client and stabilizing their www.healthcare.gov website. Since HHS asked us to provide additional compute and storage capacity, our engineers have worked 24/7 to trouble-shoot issues with the site," the statement said.
And once the Verizon wildcard is used a few more time, ostensibly every single day allowing the Obama administration's apparatchiks an explanatory loophole why Obamacare enrollment is in the single digits, then come the Syrian hackers of course.
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UNDO dammit........UNDO!!!
Do they drive a Ford?
Hey! I said I know Fortran !
Gimmie a call and get together some of the old school geeks who put men on the Moon and we'll git er done!
The Hidden Agenda Behind Obamacare
http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=383
Dude....we all know....we're working on it.
OK?
If you want to help out just hold off on the damn crop circles.....cause that's not helping here.
How's you know they were my idea? It's something fun to do when you get abducted by some party animal aliens!
Still looks to me like tt's a takedown, and they can't admit that hackers are "having their way with" the system. What would that do to public confidence? It would end Obamacare. Don't you guys get it?
Imagine their chagrin when some script kiddie puts up a "this site's security sucks" homepage...
much like having to pass it to see whats in it, you have to use it to see how bad it sucks
Perhaps the NSA is causing the degradation by their fiber tap/splice.
Bwhaaaaaaaaaaa
No no no... It's stuck in an infinite loop! I should know cause I've written plenty of them myself!
That's not a bug, it's a feature.
Can you hear me Now!
How do you know they're really infinite?
You didn't build that website by yourself.
You had $650+ million in taxpayer funded help
Assholes
Think I still have some 80 column punch cards and my IBM flow charting template around somewhere. That might help!
Hey, I don't want to point fingers but Zero Hedge is becomming like Healthcare.gov, everytime I empty the browser cache it takes ZH 1 min to load! Fix it!
I'm using an old assed iPad 1 right now and it loads fine. You must be linked to that part of the net Al Gore built.
I know HP-12C's are supposed to have some computing power, but....
RE
Translation: we need to call India
Hello, my name is Punjab.
Please hold for senior customer service from Quebec Canada.....you do speak French right?
Qui!
Bonjour, c'est Claude. Débranchez votre ordinateur pendant 30 miuntes et avoir un beau croissant avec un café et appeler bacl plus tard. Merci
I must by Federal regulations ask you if you like curry slurries.
Non! Ils sont merde dégoûtant pour retarde!
When calling one of those push 1 for English, 2 for Spanish, etc., things, it is suggested that one select the number for Spanish.
Why? Well, very few Spanish speakers in India, so the call centers tend to be in the States, and, moreover, the Spanish speakers are almost universally bilingual, proficient in English - indeed, often it is their native tongue.
When asked why you picked the Mexican line, feign ignorance, whereupon they will say, "Oh, the phones must be fucked up again." Or maybe they'll think your to stupid to follow simple directions. Doesn't matter. They'll help all the same.
Very practical. Thanks.
You missed the first part of the quote-
The gov't supposedly asked them to provide additional capacity. That is a very different process than troubleshooting (unless Verizon is so incompetent that they do not know how to add capacity). Therefore either Verizon is performing work not requested, which is a crime if they try to bill HHS for it, or Verizon is lying about what the government asked them to do. Wasn't there some provision in SarbOx with fines and jail times for false press releases?
Someone dropped the tray of keypunch cards again...
"Hello. This is Technical Support. Have you tried rebooting?"
Well, I can take my shoes off.....but I don't really see how that's going to help.
"No, no, no. Kick the machine - *hard* - *twice*."
That's why we would draw several diagonal stripes across the tops and sides of a card deck to help put them back in order. It rarely worked.
Dude, you made me suddenly flash my old Fortran days--and the incredibly loud keypunch room and the room filled with air-conditioned big metal and tape machines--all available only after midnight...
We were told a cautionary tale about a not-so-bright programmer who wrote a format statement to print a huge array with a page feed instead of a line feed, and filled the printer room full of paper.
Well, I don't know about "only" available after midnight, but that's the only time I ever went (University of Toronto, late 70's, and always the night before the program was due, of course). Tension in the air so thick you could have served it as poundcake. Every keypunch macine taken. Every keypunch ribbon so threadbare, you could read a novel through it. Every T/A with a line stretching out the door. 40 people lined up at the card reader. And, always, always, always - at least two people on the floor, sobbing, with a spilled stack of cards clustered around them.
This site crashes a lot too. Anyone else getting that?
Use Mozilla and get the NSA filter addon......should help a lot.
If you have IE, it's nearly unusable. I installed Google Chrome which works much better with ZH pages, but it's still not a cure-all.
Firefox dudes. With Ghostery add-on. Plus you can add on the new Lightbeam plug in to see who all is spying on you!
Plus on the Lightbeam although it's available for the latest version of FF which is 24.x or so
Be gentle with them. The site probably crashed from the unexpectedly huge and enthusiastic consumer traffic.
or Tea Party DOS attack.
that'll be then next group they blame. 'cuz they're rayciss.
Step 1) Take away people's existing health insurance.
Step 2) Make it impossible to get new policy.
#WINNING!
The maggot's plan for the average joe has always been the same: if you don't have money don't get sick. if you're broke and sick die quickly. if you have money or insurance die slowly.
This picture shows a Commodore C 64-I. It has been one of the most advanced and most relieable computers at it's time. I still have a C-128-D and it never let me down in over twenty years. Dammit, if the crash of this shitty data-hub should be visualized, use a picture of the first IBM-PC - that would be much more appropriate than one of the finest Computers that have ever been built. ;-)
<scans office floor> Vic-20, TS 1000, Atari 400 (because you can snack while typing and then wipe down the keys!)
the first IBM-PC...
I still have a Charlie Chaplin advertized PC Jr. My kids learned to program musical sounds on the keyboard and the thermal printer was awesome once you put a crease in the paper as it curled off the roll. Just don't use it for archival purposes as the image tends to evaporate in time.
As Obama's central ACA, (CACA) is up and running, will we be able to retire the need for SS#s? I mean, now that my DNA is on file with .gov, won't that make my 9 digit entity equally useless.
They're trying to run each login through Obama's Blackberry. And it would have worked fine, too; except he's on it 24/7 sending out spam e-mail. Seems he thinks he's some sort of Kenyan Prince.
Does this mean I'm not going to receive my wire transfer?
"I'm sorry Sir, but our computers are down at the moment. Let me explain our toll-free number to you..."
I got one of those emails.
Apparently he needs my bank account to transfer 8 billion dollars into, and I get 1% for the privelage.
He just needs my birth certificate for some reason....
"Ask not what your Country can do for you,
but rather ask who's to blame".....President B.O.
What next?
Terrst tea-hadist, anarchist, hostage taking doctors...or sumpin.
"New York doctors are treating ObamaCare like the plague, a new survey reveals.
A poll conducted by the New York State Medical Society finds that 44 percent of MDs said they are not participating in the nation’s new health-care plan.
Another 33 percent say they’re still not sure whether to become ObamaCare providers.
Only 23 percent of the 409 physicians queried said they’re taking patients who signed up through health exchanges.
“This is so poorly designed that a lot of doctors are afraid to participate,” said Dr. Sam Unterricht, president of the 29,000-member organization. “There’s a lot of resistance. Doctors don’t know what they’re going to get paid.”
http://nypost.com/2013/10/29/docs-resisting-obamacare/
Verizon is being setup. Why wasn't comcast asked to fix this?
Cause you can't get Showtime on Comcast
Obviously Obamacare needs a taxpayer bailout. And that means even more QE! Bullish!
obamacare is insanely bullish. in fact, the worse it doesn't work, the moar bullish it is.
either our government is incredibly inept and stupid or this is purposeful. most days i have trouble discerning between the two
what we have here is a perfectly logical outcome. the laws are written by corporate lobbyists while the specifics of implementation are left to ineffectual bureaucrats.
Read Saul Alinsky....pretty sure it's on purpose.
The real question is.....can the crazy little dead bastard actually pull it off?
ineffectual bureaucrats
pretty sure that's redundant.
Oh, it's purposeful. Obamacare was built to be a pathway to singe-payer. Just they didn't expect it to go this bad this fast.
Please blame Verizon. They're practically a government agency anyway. They live off big government contracts. Scumbags.
Obviously we can't "hear you now".
Somebody needs to tell Nigeria that Obamacare covers them too.
Crap. Nigeria doesn't have nukes yet, do they?
I just got the email. A Nigerian navigator has guararanteed me the best Obamacare has to offer and it won't cost me a dime. I can't wait to send him my social security number.
I wonder if Jon Stewart has finished downloading every movie ever made yet?
What's the difference between a contractor and a thief?
Thief work at night.
That only means the telecoms, ie Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint etc., being private sector industries, need to be taken over by government (Like the Healthcare industry) to make them more available and cheaper for the consumer. :)
rofl....who couldn't see this coming? But tell you the truth, I didn't think 0bama and his cronies would look so stupid and pathetic in their excuses.....who elected these morons??? Oh yeah, darkies...voting twice or more with the full assistance of idiot liberals and academics.....
As Bugs Bunny would have said, "What a bunch of maroons!"
Q: How do you know when Obama's lying?
A: His lips are moving.
The most transparent administration in history? No. Obama's is the most dishonest administration of all time. Obama makes Richard Nixon look like a Saint! Everyone in Obama's administration are liars. But, what else could be expected from an incompetent Affirmative Action President?
As Bugs Bunny would have said, "What a bunch of maroons!"
Q: How do you know when Obama's lying?
A: His lips are moving.
The most transparent administration in history? No. Obama's is the most dishonest administration of all time. Obama makes Richard Nixon look like a Saint! Everyone in Obama's administration are liars. But, what else could be expected from an incompetent Affirmative Action President?
Please take down the picture of the Commodore 64 off this article. In it's day in the 1980's, the Commodore 64 was a powerful, cost effective home computer millions of people found useful. Nothing the goverment ever does is powerful, cost effective, or useful, so the two do not belong in the same article.
A bit protective of a relic doncha think? That's what the government is, a relic.
Hey ... would you sheep just stop complaining and accept slavery already! It would save the politicians and bankers so much money dreaming up and running these faux "we care about you" programs.
why do I always get this two for one double post?
nevermind, it's my Commadore 64's fault
The shit code does a DDOS on itself. It is a wonder that Vz can handle the traffic anytime.
People, all these tech glithces etc, etc. is just smoke and mirrors. The real disaster is the 0bama(doesn't)Care law.
As that ignorant bitch Pel0si said we have to pass it before we can see whats in it. We're seeing what's in it and it's a fucking totalitarian nightmare-people losing perfectly good health insurance because their policy doen't "measure up" the the f-ed up "standards" in the law. So you end up with higher deductatbles, higher premiums and some bunch of f-ing bureaucrats running your very life.
Side note: this law has been modified (unlawfully) by 0bozo thru 1500-2000 waivers for his crony businesses, plus something like 15 exec orders that change parts of the law. Plus IT WAS SOLD TO US BY HIM WITH BLATANT LIES.
Just on the first two points alone, it seems the law should be null and void.
Verizon???
You mean the NSA!
Aren't the NSA folkes mad as hell at Obama?
Here's a contrasting story. Thank God for people who still think, invent, and reduce cost.
Need a Hand? Boy Gets Prosthetic Hand Made by 3-D Printer (Cost $5 vs. $30K Medical Device)
Posted: 29 Oct 2013 02:02 PM PDT
Verizon is out of their effing minds getting involved in this mess. They're going to take the hit over and over and over until Obama skates in a month with higher than ever poll numbers and the people demanding higher taxes and universal child care.
remember folks... it takes a village... of idiots, apparently
The problem was traced to the main 850 MHz Pentium server running windows NT.
Can you hear me now? No? Goooood.
A company is only as good as its people. The problem with Verizon and ALL large corporations, is that their HR policies (dictated by their General Counsel weasels) cause them to hire people who should not be hired in a "free market".
Their call centers are filled with people whose charm and syrupy politeness earns them a 10 out of 10 (for their rigged surveys -- rigged by what's there and what's missing!), but earns them a 1-6 for their competence. Chances are quite good that whatever "problem resolution" gymnastics you went through with them, will have been a wasted exercise and that the billing problem will persist. Even on the second and third attempt, by which time you got the "supervisor" involved.
E.g. I said:"... let me ask you this...", and I got back "ok, fine... but let me aks you this..." "Aks" me? WTF is "aks" me? These fuckers can't even speak proper English! Are they now hiring dyslexics (for HR points), or is this some new language trend I don't know about?
Conclusion: it's really a bitcoin mining operation & there's not enough resources to do the thing they pretended they were going to do.
And it works as well as shitcoin itself.
Sob, sob. Please Tylers, I'll ask you again. Take the photo away. Please don't blame the Commodore 64. It's not it's fault. Computers from that era were reliable.
I'm quite sure that the US govt could have issued every person in the US with a C64, a CRT TV, modem, disc drive and appropriate software and it would be cheaper and they'd now all have O'care and it would be working.
Disclaimer: I never owned a C64 but I did have 2 other computers from that era and they both still work. The C64 was still winning awards even when it was way past it's use-by date ( eg, a similarly priced computer came with twice the memory, colour monitor, faster disc drive (while the C64 disc drive was still an extra ) and 4 times the clock speed ), purely because of it's large customer base and software availability.
Do you phear me now?