Posted on 09/17/2008 10:28:43 AM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee
This is what the Nut Roots are doing to WGN-AM in Chicago:
Obama vs. WGN-AMIf you guys in the Robinson family don't get your act together, and get it together soon, then the Nut Roots are going to take down this site, and take it down hard, for the next two months.
The station is coming under attack for offering airtime to controversial author.
by John McCormick and Steven Schmadeke | Tribune staff reporters
September 16, 2008
chicagotribune.comChicago radio station WGN-AM is again coming under attack from the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama for offering airtime to a controversial author. It is the second time in recent weeks the station has been the target of an "Obama Action Wire" alert to supporters of the Illinois Democrat.
Monday night's target was David Freddoso, who the campaign said was scheduled to be on the station from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. Chicago time.
Obama mobilizes rapid response on Web
Campaign targets media when attacks aired By John McCormick | Chicago Tribune reporter
12:32 AM CDT, September 17, 2008
chicagotribune.comMuch of Barack Obama's political success can be traced to a database listing contact information for millions of people, a tool that has proved invaluable in raising record sums of money and organizing a national volunteer network.
Now Obama's presidential campaign is increasingly using the list to beat back media messages it does not like, calling on supporters to flood radio and television stations when those opposed to him run anti-Obama ads or appear on talk shows.
It did so as recently as Monday night, when it orchestrated a massive stream of complaints on the phone lines of Tribune Co.-owned WGN-AM in Chicago when the radio station hosted author David Freddoso, who has written a controversial book about the Illinois Democrat.
You need to do several things to the Free Republic infrastructure and have them in place no later than about October 1; among them:
1) Mirror Free Republic to at least two other physical locations around the country - one on the east coast [Washington/NYC/Atlanta], and the other maybe more central [Texas has some large colo's with backbone connectivity].
Right now, I am seeing only two IP resolutions for "www.freerepublic.com" - 209.147.64.200 & 209.147.64.201 - and traceroutes have them [predictably] on the same physical network [I imagine that they are sitting right next to one another in the same server rack]:
2) Turn off as much of the relational structure at Free Republic as is possible, and return to a strictly flat file structure for as much of the content at Free Republic as is possible.[n - 2] mg-1.a01.mlpsca01.us.da.verio.net [n - 1] 128.242.105.82 [n] 209.147.64.200 The current relational structure is hopelessly broken, and the negotiations between the caching frontend and the relational backend are breaking down multiple times a day.
Again: THE RELATION STRUCTURE MUST BE DISCARDED - THIS IS IMPERATIVE.
[Furthermore, it is vastly easier to propagate a flat file structure to multiple physical sites around the country; trying to propagate a relational structure, in real time, with relatively limited funds for bandwidth, is essentially impossible.]
3) As things really heat up in October & November, I'd consider banning [temporarily] all non-political content, and instituting an aggressive policy of putting on probation the accounts of users who post lengthy, inane, unfocused, meandering, off-topic soliloquies - concentrating instead on promoting the work of people [like Kristinn] who are doing original investigative reporting and who are presenting their results in simple, straightforward, declarative arguments.
Along those lines, I'd move aggressively to upgrade the quality of the moderators who are policing the content at Free Republic - the quality of the moderation is utterly unpredictable from hour to hour - one hour there will seem to be a moderator who "gets it", and the next hour, it's as if that moderator's shift suddenly ended, and we have an utterly clueless moderator in charge of things.
I don't care if you're worried about hurting Granny's feelings if you tell her that she can't moderate for the next two months - we have to get some moderators in here who are up-to-date on current events and who understand the difference between original investigative reporting [regarding e.g. DEM/Obama treason & Bolshevik/Gramscian subterfuge] and the kinds of "Pray for my Kitty who is having feline leukemia chemotherapy tomorrow morning" threads which seem to waste so much CPU time & bandwidth at this site.
We need to KNOW
that they will do
EVERY EVIL MANIPULATIVE, TRAITOROUS THING THEY CAN REMOTELY GET AWAY WITH
AND SOME THAT HAVEN’T BEEN THOUGHT OF BEFORE THIS ROUND.
If you're suggesting that they stick with the relational nonsense, then I'd question your sanity.
There is no known entity in all of computer science which is faster than a flat file structure, especially once it's been cached in RAM [and, better yet, cached at local ISP caching infrastructures throughout the nation].
Relational databases are death to efficiency.
“I don’t like the monthly thing.
I just contribute a year’s worth once a year.
This is an extraordinary expense, made necessary by the extraordinary Obama Organization and the dedication of the frenzied.
I’m in for extra funds...”
What ever is easier for you or makes you feel better.
The people, who really are the financial backbone of churches and other organizations, are the ones, who donate yearly, quarterly, monthly, bi weekly or weekly on a regular basis.
More to the point this sort of technical design discussion cannot be made in public lest you tip the bad guys off. A nice private note to JimRob, maybe. That's what FReepmail is for. IMHO, of course.
Never heard of any problems with Mac servers because Mac has had the least problems with hacking attacks. But then again, I am a Mac fan.
Quix and all.
The best defense is a good offense. See this thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2084386/posts
go here.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freerepublic2/?v=1&t=search&ch=web&pub=groups&sec=group&slk=1
bump
I think so.
What I read into it is that the "freeping" of polls is almost always a waste of time and a distraction, often pulling us into "Have you stopped beating your wife" sites by --- who else?
Sophisticated trolls.
If Jim Rob needs the money he should post a donation thread as soon as he figures out what he needs.
There are different rules and regulations concerning forums that run paid for ads and forums based on donations. I am not familiar with all of that but know JimRob wants to keep this a donation only forum.
Too bad we don’t have some super rich donators to give us a boost. But, who knows, even the size of the donation could come under some regulations??
“There is no known entity in all of computer science which is faster than a flat file structure, especially once it’s been cached in RAM [and, better yet, cached at local ISP caching infrastructures throughout the nation].”
Depends on the volume, flat files kind of become a bear once the amount of information reaches a certain size.
If you, for example, want to look up all post that I have ever put up in a flat file system, have fun. people dont often consider how relation systems enhance lager sites.
If you setup a RDB correctly (indexed correctly, optomized) it will on large load systems smoke flat files. And given the complex querey uses that many on FR have the difference would only be more pronounced..
The overwhelming majority of those "until-recently-inactive" are sleepers... the subtle contents of their suddenly revived interest in FR is a red flag for me every time.
This looks like as good a place any any to update my tagline....
It's not impractical at all.
You turn the old servers into "read-only" mode, to serve as an archive of the old threads, you bring up your new flat file servers [with something similar to the original flat file Free Republic code - 25 or 50 posts per page], you LDAP your user accounts and passwords over to the new servers, and you go live.
It's entirely doable, and it's what this site is going to need to withstand the Nut Roots attacks it will be facing over the course of the next two months.
That, of course, plus mirroring - there must not be a single pipe serving as a single point of failure when the sh*t starts hitting the fan in the next few weeks.
I mean - good grief - these kooks just broke into two of Sarah Palin's private email accounts at Yahoo - bringing down a relational database, attached to a single pipe out of California, would be a day at the beach by comparison.
We have had a huge influx of new ‘freepers’ in the last few months. Some of their agenda’s are questionable. Perhaps a freeze should be put on NEW sign-ups until after the election.
That's just utter and complete nonsense.
RDBs max out at thousands of transactions per second.
Flat file structures, on gigabit ethernet, max out at MILLIONS of transactions per second.
Umm... Horse crap.
Anything much more complicated than an address book had better be implemented in a well-indexed, well-normalized RDBMS if you expect it to do anything particularly useful.
Do you think 99.99% of the business world uses relational databases because they're inefficient? I mean, really.
Besides, I don't think the Robinsons have a crack team of (flat file???) DB administrators sitting around ready to re-architect their entire system.
No need to further compromise Freeper security secrets...
But whatever is happenning at FR now is extremely annoying at best, very suspicious at worse. And it's not getting better.
No need to further compromise Freeper security secrets...
But whatever is happenning at FR now is extremely annoying at best, very suspicious at worst. And it's not getting better.
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