Denial-of-service tool targeting Healthcare.gov site discovered

Re:Denial-of-service tool targeting Healthcare.gov site disc... by ctdonath on Thursday November 07, 2013 @02:01PM (#6691603)

That's an amazing non-sequitur.

ETA: just because I'm opposed to one program doesn't mean I favor others. I'm just as opposed to "NSA, TSA, wars on terrorism and drugs and a thousand other programs" as I am to Obamacare. I'm not sure how you conclude that by opposing wasteful oppression in one area somehow means I'd be more tolerant of wasteful oppression in other areas.

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Re:Denial-of-service tool targeting Healthcare.gov site disc... by grecy on Thursday November 07, 2013 @03:53PM (#6692312)

Please go on.

If you're opposed to wasteful spending by NSA, TSA, wars on terrorism and drugs and a thousand other programs and Obamacare, where do you propose spending all those trillions?

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Re:Denial-of-service tool targeting Healthcare.gov site disc... by ctdonath on Thursday November 07, 2013 @10:19PM (#6694211)

We don't have those trillions. The government is borrowing near 50% of what it spends, with no idea/plan/expectation of paying it back. If any money is saved by such cuts, give the money back to the citizens who earned it and let them decide where their money should go.

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Re:Denial-of-service tool targeting Healthcare.gov site disc... by jack-r-abbit on Thursday November 07, 2013 @04:27PM (#6692521)

I can't speak for the parent here but for me I would rather them not spend so wastefully so that I don't have to give them 30% of every dollar I earn. So how about spending some of those trillions to give us all some of our taxes back.

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Re:Denial-of-service tool targeting Healthcare.gov site disc... by grecy on Thursday November 07, 2013 @04:54PM (#6692689)

So you'd actually be happy to lower education standards, health standards, transport, infrastructure, etc. etc. - all those things that taxes pay for.

I feel obliged to point out that America is already severely behind the rest of the developed world in those things.

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Re:Denial-of-service tool targeting Healthcare.gov site disc... by jack-r-abbit on Thursday November 07, 2013 @05:07PM (#6692769)

Did you read my comment? Because I didn't say anything even close to that. Not at all. I simply wish they would not spend so wastefully and that the money they do spend is more effective. I didn't say we should pay no taxes. I think we should pay less taxes and have that money used more efficiently.

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