jamesroseman

I'm sure there will be punishment, but that it'll be out of the courts. The last thing they want publicized is a case about American Marines mistreating a convict.

To support this stance, this comes from the posted article:

“There is value in deterrence, your honor; this court must send a message to any soldier contemplating stealing classified information,” said Capt. Joe Morrow, a military prosecutor. “National security crimes that undermine the entire system must be taken seriously.”

"He faced up to 90 years in prison."

I think that, all things considered, this is the best possible outcome (realistically). There was no way he'd walk, because he did break laws. In this instance those laws were broken to get information out to the public, but one can easily imagine when those laws could be broken for more malicious purposes. If you leave this unpunished, they might think this opens up the floodgates. The powers that be would most likely prefer to deter 100 whistleblowers if it means stopping the one person who'd use the information for terrible ends.

I personally think it's interesting. A lot of B&M services are run the way they are because of tradition. Either you have the M&P private family owned businesses that have done it for years, or the big businesses who have similarly survived by playing by traditional rules.

Obviously those standards and traditions exist for a very good reason -- it works. I'm not saying it doesn't work, or that this model would work better, I'm just asking -- could it work at all?

My largest system builds and deploys with Fabric. We deal with multiple load-balancers with unique content, and it works perfectly. I use it for a master control Python script that watches/adds/etc our servers and our data.

Actually, I've always checked status.service to see if Github is up, it must be hosted on a separate server.

Where are these attacks coming from? Or is it just failure to keep up with increased client traffic?

I've noticed recently how frequently there are service issues with Github, many times service has been disrupted because of DDoS attacks and similar malicious activity.