Is it really necessary to always broadcast Github being down? They have a perfectly good status page for this express purpose.

It's rather sad that DDoS attacks seem to just be the norm at this point.

Well, a lot of people are part of a botnet but few can spot that. I am always told that ISP is always being attacked.

Everybody is always under attack. The internet is falling to pieces because of botnets, and people forming clans for protection (by which I mean CloudFlare, they're forming CloudFlare)

I wonder if we could ever produce a statistics on the financial loss, power consumption of these attacks.

Can you please expand on the cloudflare clan? Sounds interesting!

I'm making light of the fact that we repeated the same thing that happened in history. When people started getting attacked, they formed larger groups to defend themselves. and now we're doing that on the internet with things like CloudFlare.

Interesting. About 20 minutes ago I just finished cloning down linux kernel to my new vm, which was almost 900MB.

I was able to get roughly 1.3MB/s and the connection seen stable. I supposed I was lucky to be serve from a stable server at that time.

EDIT

I thought about contributing after watching this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLBrBBImJt4

Gonna fine some low hanging fruit like style fixing and then move my way up!

Remember kids, if you're just building there's no need to clone the whole history, a shallow clone of remote HEAD with --depth=1 should suffice.

Well, I am contributing to the kernel. But thanks.

Best comeback to a patronising response ever!

I did include a condition in my statement :)