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Biggest Threat To Communications Infrastructure: Crappy Pop Bands
from the oops-we-did-it-again dept
It's hardly surprising to hear about heavy demand for concert tickets taking down web sites, since ticketing sites have a long history of technical problems they still haven't quite managed to work out. But over in the UK, demand for tickets to the refill-our-coffers reunion tour of 90s boy band Take That didn't just take down some ticket sites, it managed to knock out several thousand unrelated BT phone lines as well. Forget botnets spawning from email worms and viruses; it would appear the botnet of tens of thousands of nostalgic women herded by a washed-up pop act is what causes the real damage.
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:mood, amused:
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That's Gotta Hurt
BT got "pwnd" by a boy band. Ouch.
Nth post!
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mood: frightened
We're under attack! Terrorists!
n+1th post
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rofl
this rofled my waffle
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Poor Brits
I don't want to know what happens when Oasis gets back together.
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OASIS
Oasis are still together Ayal Rosenthal
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Not washed up
I'm not a fan however I think the writeup is somewhat unfair to Take That (oh god I'm defending them!).
This is actually a genuine reunion not a cash in. They didn't expect much, just a one-off show for nostalgia value. It snowballed after that though, helped by some strong new material including a number 1. However you're right in that the fan base is somewhat older now!
Not exactly what I call washed-up.
Just thought I'd put the Americans straight :-)
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Oh the shame...
My countries comms infrastructure dented by a boy-band
Oh the paralysing shame of it all
Thank fuck Robbie hadn't joined them - we'd have probably imploded
Can't.......even work in.........reference......to.......bush
Oh the shame
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re: Reunion Tours
Well I supposed it's a good thing for the British economy that the Spice Girls reunion tour looks like it won't happen.
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It could be worse
I mean, the Bay City Rollers might go on tour
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