Dec 07 2012

Somebody doesn’t like us

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Just so you know — I didn’t break the Atheist Census (well, I did, a little bit). They are currently being subjected to a DDOS attack. Apparently, someone doesn’t want atheists to be counted.

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rorschach

7 December 2012 at 9:16 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

They are currently being subjected to a DDOS attack. Apparently, someone doesn’t want atheists to be counted.

Some of those loving Christians, presumably.
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robro

7 December 2012 at 9:19 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

See…it’s God. As I said, God hates censuses.

I recently ran into a possible explanation for this bit of biblical craziness: actually counting the number of the chosen ones would have shown that God had not fulfilled the covenant that the children of Abraham would number as the stars. Clearly by the time of writing Samuel-Kings, the Israelites did not rule the world and their numbers were nowhere near the number of stars. If God fails with one thing, then why not all the rest. So, just make it evil to count.
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Cuttlefish

7 December 2012 at 10:11 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

It gave me the “too many” signal when I posted it, a couple hours before you did; I suspected some sort of Brazilian attack (knowing full well it couldn’t possibly be the numbers I sent there). When you sent the horde there, I was frankly astonished at how well it held up to the flood before suffering the same sort of problems.
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AJ Milne

7 December 2012 at 11:09 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

No. Really.
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coyotenose

8 December 2012 at 1:51 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Christians? Acting immorally and breaking the law? Their only possible justification being bigotry against members of another group?

UNPOSSIBLE!
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thebookofdave

8 December 2012 at 2:17 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

One at a time. please! The site can’t handle us all at once. There must be a Brazilian of us trying to log in.
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madtom1999

8 December 2012 at 3:10 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

the bookofdave – in the UK a brazillian refers to the strange pubic topiary that results in a hitler moustache.
I’m sure theres more than 1 of us trying to sign..
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anubisprime

8 December 2012 at 6:29 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

The goons are really nervous then!

They must be so frightened to bother with such a pointless attempt at silencing atheism.
To do this nonsense means they are fighting in their minds a rearguard action…they are losing.

Their childishness has been noted!
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Katherine Lorraine, Chaton de la Mort

8 December 2012 at 6:40 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

@madtom1999 – In the US, a Brazilian is when you get a hot wax treatment on the hairs around your crotchal region, making it all smooth and angry at you for ripping your friggin’ hairs out of your skin.
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John Morales

8 December 2012 at 6:46 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

[meta]

thebookofdave is being topically punny (‘Brazilian’, ‘bazillion’).
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roland

8 December 2012 at 7:29 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Don’t such things always get hacked/attacked? I don’t think it matters much what the topic is about.
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vaiyt

8 December 2012 at 7:48 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

somebody doesn’t like us

No shit.
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slowdjinn

8 December 2012 at 8:03 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Anubisprime

To do this nonsense means they are fighting in their minds a rearguard action…

Of course they are. They’re being PERSECUTED don’tchaknow.
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hence

8 December 2012 at 8:07 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Works for me now.
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gshevlin

8 December 2012 at 8:50 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I thought a brazillion was a very very large number…
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Moggie

8 December 2012 at 10:45 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Where does it say in the bible that you shouldn’t DDoS an online census?
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shouldbeworking

8 December 2012 at 11:44 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

These Canuck atheist got counted ut it took a few visits to the site. I got only 2 wrong. Those Xiang must think that in the war on xianity, the best defence is a good offence.
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HappyHead

8 December 2012 at 11:59 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I suspect that a brazilion is like a million of brazil, who were somewhere up over 2000 last time I checked while the census was still online. That’s a lot.
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abb3w

8 December 2012 at 12:37 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Any word on how they’re telling a deliberate DDOS attack from an accidental DDOS caused by a billion Atheists all trying to go over and be counted?
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anubisprime

8 December 2012 at 1:40 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Still off line!…mind I suppose the weekend does not help getting server or admin motivated, maybe why some folks thought it best to do it on a Friday leaving Saturday to beat the wife & kids and Sunday to beat their meat or whatever it is they do in a circle jerk to hymns!

Won’t make a iota of difference, when it comes back up I will still sign the damned thing!
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Don Quijote

8 December 2012 at 1:50 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

I thought that Brazillion was a certain kind of hair style.
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margareth

8 December 2012 at 4:45 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Though a long time reader, I haven’t commented on freethought blogs until today. One of the primary reasons I set up the account was to ask the question: are you going to let us know when the Atheist census is back up? I clicked on it to fill out the form but as you pointed out, there is an ongoing denial of service attack. I find it very typical. The superstitious live in fear, (or they wouldn’t be superstitious), so it’s unsurprising that an attempt would be made to disrupt such a count.
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john

8 December 2012 at 10:34 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

The advert right under this article was for Christian Mingle dot com.

SRSLY? On FTB?
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dougalder

8 December 2012 at 11:26 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

PZ I sent them an email a short while ago suggesting they contact Cloudflare.com and get DNS from them – they will scrub incoming traffic and rotate public facing DNS servers to foil a DDoS.
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marko

11 December 2012 at 6:44 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

Still busted?
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John Morales

11 December 2012 at 6:55 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

marko, the site is up for me.