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   Janet said on 5/5/2006 @ 6:41pm PT: [Permalink]

   Thank you So much, Brad! 🙂

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   TaterSalad said on 5/5/2006 @ 6:47pm PT: [Permalink]

   Brad, once again, you are awesome. I’ve been trying to access RawStory for hours. I thought for sure their site was taken down by the FBI. Thanks for letting us know that it wasn’t that bad. Thanks for ALL you do!

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   Bluebear2 said on 5/5/2006 @ 6:54pm PT: [Permalink]

   Brad,

   you mention a new IP address. Do you know if there will be a redirect from their old address, or will we have to search for them?

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   Bluebear2 said on 5/5/2006 @ 7:26pm PT: [Permalink]

   I guess Barry’s comment answers my question. Hope to have Raw back tomorrow!

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   Bluebear2 said on 5/5/2006 @ 7:31pm PT: [Permalink]

   Crap I linked to the wrong thing –

   Brad – please pull my #4

   Should have been:

   I guess Barry’s Comment answers my question. Hope to have Raw back tomorrow!

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   Oregon Fan said on 5/5/2006 @ 7:41pm PT: [Permalink]

   Thanks Brad! I have been trying to connect all afternoon and wondered what was up. Like Tatersalad I thought the feds had gotten ’em.

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   Robert Lockwood Mills said on 5/5/2006 @ 8:01pm PT: [Permalink]

   Thanks, Brad. Maybe someone can explain to me how a server can get changed without the approval of the company using the service.

   Maybe there isn’t anything sinister going on here. But who has the right to make such a change? Can someone change my telephone number, or my cable service, without my permission? Weird. It seems to me that the government could do this from behind the scenes, even if that isn’t the case this time, claiming "national security" as an excuse.

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   911blimp said on 5/5/2006 @ 8:40pm PT: [Permalink]

   IMHO, for every 10 times that some anti-cryptofascism site goes down, at least 9 of the outages were caused by something other than the most popular presumed cause, and at least one of them was self-inflicted for reasons of self-promotion.

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   The Old Turk said on 5/6/2006 @ 10:16pm PT: [Permalink]

   Thx for sharing the info,….

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    czaragorn said on 5/6/2006 @ 3:40am PT: [Permalink]

    Thanks Brad! I was wondering what had happened. OT – it’s a lovely spring afternoon here in Prague, but sadly, I have to work through what is a 3-day weekend here. Nevertheless, I was listening to the Air America Radio stream as I edited away, and they were playing Thom Hartman’s show from, what, yesterday? Anyhoo, it was a pleasant surprise to hear you doing your thing on his show. You sounded great, as always, spreading words of crucial importance to our once great country. Keep up the fine work, please – when I finish this massive project I’m working on I’ll send you whatever I can in the hopes that it makes your life a little easier and allows you to focus on the really important stuff.

    Regards, Bob

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    DavidD said on 5/6/2006 @ 4:43am PT: [Permalink]

    Thanks for the update. I’ll admit that I was another leftist who leaped to the conclusion that sinister stuff was afoot.

    And that should be "propagate" rather than "propigate".

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    Julian Holdrege said on 5/6/2006 @ 5:07am PT: [Permalink]

    Thanks for the shout, Brad. Hmm…well guess its not sinister, but kinda strange. You just don’t see blogs with tons of hits each day just dissapearing like that. You’d think the host company would take client company by hand and make a supersmooth transition. And at least put some simple HTML code up to say "Our server will be down a day or two for a planned outage". Plus, usually the web hoster typically has lots of racks and can seamlessly put the site on another rack if it has to move one. Unless the web hoster decides to move *everything* like, say, for cheaper building lease. Anyway, I’m rambling. Just glad Raw’s coming back. Can’t wait for Fitzmas! :doze:

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    mike said on 5/6/2006 @ 7:36am PT: [Permalink]

    While doing a search to find out why RAWSTORY page was down, I came upon this webpage, which seemed odd to me – it seems to be an internal page with something to do with North Carolina’s voting machines?
    I wanted to forward this to BradBlog – but can’t find an email address on the site here.

    http://www.sboe.state.nc.us/sei...lus/SEIMS+.htm

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    Bluebear2 said on 5/6/2006 @ 8:10am PT: [Permalink]

    Mike #14

    Brad’s email address is at the bottom of the column to the right in the section titled "About Brad Friedman" just above the advertisements. It is a clickable link "You may Email him here" – should open your email composer.

    Raw story is back up now.

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    Bluebear2 said on 5/6/2006 @ 8:21am PT: [Permalink]

    Mike #14

    You’d think that the site you linked would be passworded – rather interesting.

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    Brad said on 5/6/2006 @ 9:50am PT: [Permalink]

    Bluebear2 – You’ll get right to rawstory.com once it’s back up at the new location. No change necessary.

    RLM – It wasn’t anything sinister. Someone was given the okay to move the server, but apparently the timing was bungled or confused. I’d put it into the "screw up" category rather than anything else.

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    Dredd said on 5/6/2006 @ 10:40am PT: [Permalink]

    … did anyone press CTRL ALT DEL …

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    The Old Turk said on 5/6/2006 @ 4:30pm PT: [Permalink]

    OT,.. OT,… OT,….

    Kaliforniae – Right wing radio talk show host,…

    apologizes for blind support of bu$$$$$$$$$h.

    Click link,.. then click Doug’s apology frm 5/06/06.

    http://www.kabc.com/mcintyre/li...Heard+On+Radio

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    The Old Turk said on 5/7/2006 @ 5:07am PT: [Permalink]

    Iranian Oil Bourse to open soon,…

    USA dollar,… dive,.. dive,.. dive……………

    Iranian Oil Bourse : Major damage projected to USA Dollar : Link

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    CD said on 5/8/2006 @ 9:19am PT: [Permalink]

    Thanks Brad I was wondering about that.

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    Jason said on 5/12/2006 @ 6:56am PT: [Permalink]

    It seems they’re STILL offline?
    5-12-06, a week later?

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    Gene Grossmann said on 5/16/2006 @ 10:59am PT: [Permalink]

    Brad since Raw Story is down I gleaned this info off Think Progress. —————————————–On a side note, found this little beauty tucked away at the bottom of the tech news –

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/125700

    “Last week, the voting watchdog organization Black Box Voting published a report detailing how Diebold’s TS6 and TSx touch-pad voting machines could be compromised by taking advantage of “backdoor” features designed to allow new software to be installed on the systems.”

    Comment by Drew Mackenzie — May 16, 2006 @ 3:21 pm
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    Gene Grossmann said on 5/16/2006 @ 11:05am PT: [Permalink]

    Brad since Raw Story is down I gleaned this info off Think Progress. —————————————–On a side note, found this little beauty tucked away at the bottom of the tech news –

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/125700

    “Last week, the voting watchdog organization Black Box Voting published a report detailing how Diebold’s TS6 and TSx touch-pad voting machines could be compromised by taking advantage of “backdoor” features designed to allow new software to be installed on the systems.”

    Comment by Drew Mackenzie — May 16, 2006 @ 3:21 pm
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    Gene said on 5/16/2006 @ 11:08am PT: [Permalink]

    On a side note, found this little beauty tucked away at the bottom of the tech news –

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/125700

    “Last week, the voting watchdog organization Black Box Voting published a report detailing how Diebold’s TS6 and TSx touch-pad voting machines could be compromised by taking advantage of “backdoor” features designed to allow new software to be installed on the systems.”

    Comment by Drew Mackenzie — May 16, 2006 @ 3:21 pm
    FYI