Mensch pal Bozier defends Menshn security, dubs critics 'snippy geeks' The launch of a Twitter-like messaging service co-founded by UK politician Louise Mensch on Sunday has been accompanied by a huge security flap. According to users who sent in complaints, Menshn.com allegedly harboured a variety of security flaws. Most glaring of these, one user insisted, was an alleged failure by the site – …
Apart from the fact that he reads like an arrogant MBA pseudo-geek who can't remember what side of the Atlantic he's on, I'm betting he wasn't even born when his 'vision' of an online community first went live.
Chatrooms with preset, premoderated topics; comments deleted after a week; 'promised' free of trolls and spam... it's Micronet 800 folks!
Louise Mensch is a household name in the UK. Leveraging her trendy brand to entice youngsters to a new niche social network should be quite easy, and Menshn should be an enormous success - security hiccups or not.
Wait a minute, did I say Louise Mensch? I was thinking of Lady Gaga. Forget what I said; no-one cares who she is and what she does.
The same people that make quotation mark gestures with their fingers when they're talking.
I believe these people are the 17th group in line for the firing squad when the revolution comes, although I don't have my list handy right now so I can't check.
I have an easier way. He's a politician. It's basically something that he perceives to be his job.
I don't particularly care what party they belong to, I have a healthy distrust of anyone who wants to be a politician or refers to themselves as one. It's like the line from The Thin Blue Line about gun ownership. A good enough reason to stop someone becoming a politician should be that they WANT to be one.
"A good enough reason to stop someone becoming a politician should be that they WANT to be one."
I agree completely. They are supposed to be there to represent us, the normal people. Yet wanting power makes them abnormal, therefore unsuitable for the role.
I know it's a gross simplification, but IMHO it fits.
> A good enough reason to stop someone becoming a politician should be that they WANT to be one.
Not *entirely*...
A few years back, I was toying with the idea of standing for Parliament. Not because I want to be an MP - I just want rid of the incumbent numbnuts.
Sadly, I live in a "safe seat" area :-(
Vic.
So, a technical glitch is found with a website, requiring analysis and comment by a technical expert, but instead we have a floor-crossing politician being quoted as the answer ?
How many people, on being rushed to A&E would be happy to see Andrew Lansley scubbed up saying "there is no problem" ?
How about next time the reg needs a political analysis, it asks googles server team ?
I'm not sure that will even be necessary. It looks like it's PHP + MySQL so, unless there's connection pooling and a good DBA around, max connections will be an issue pretty quickly and someone will need to add a lot of indices by hand if they don't want queries to die the agonising death of file scans.
Ouch, and before anyone asks, this isn't hacking or DoS.
ab -n 1000 -c 10 http://www.menshn.com/
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/
Benchmarking www.menshn.com (be patient)
apr_socket_recv: Operation timed out (60)
Total of 33 requests completed
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