Pretty unlikely. Outages are common, especially in this above average summer, due to higher transformer load and temps.
Ever since the freeze, people who have even planned outages, refer to them as “rolling blackouts”. ERCOT is a pretty open data organization aside from QSE and generator data, and it’s unlikely that this data would have been fudged. We would have seen EEA3 in addition to $5k settlement prices if there was enough of a shortage to invoke rolling blackouts. These prices directly affect end users, e.g. businesses, datacenters, end users still on RTM rates, and solar buyback users. Generators definitely have offers open up to the $5k price point, and there is no way they’d be able to lock the settlement price without it being obvious to businesses/end users, or to generators/REPs/TDUs that there is market manipulation.
As far as sagging frequency, this is also wrong, because frequency sag calls up additional reserves, and we haven’t run below 1 gigawatt of reserves since the winter freeze. The number to watch for is 59.5 hertz, which is automatic EEA3 (we haven’t hit this since the winter storm, where we reached a whopping 59.3 hertz) This is also directly measurable by TDUs and (maybe) end users.
I think the more interesting thing here is how less popular of search term perl/php has become. I really can't find a language that is on an upward trend. Why would people be searching for these terms less over time?
EDIT: Nevermind, it's relative to all searches. More terms to search will depress these numbers.
It actually looks like they withdrew their A records. anl.gov is having the same issue (Though strangely enough, not mirror.anl.gov, so thankfully my systems can still update.)
I am still feeling burned by how quickly my zv6000 disintegrated. (And anecdotally, how poorly they treated some of the people I know who had malfunctioning laptops from bad nvidia gpus).
I'm not interested in buying HP products anymore, I'm sure that there are people who feel similar. HP is not a brand that stands for quality in my eyes.
No language has a doom sentence on it- they're just tools. There's some languages that are definately more often found in certain "cog-ish" code production companies, which might be what you're referring to.
The best thing you can do for yourself is get familiar with most languages out there, and build a sense of generalism about yourself. If you're comfortable with learning new things, and have a portfolio to back it up, you can have enough options to avoid companies that places you in a "cog" position (If that's what you're looking for.)
It's interesting they're disallowing 008. I work at a popular webhost, and we've had problems with this crawler too (It's distributed, and can crawl things a little too fast).
By the way, simply put, load averages are computed based on the number of processes in contention for the CPU, and are calculated based on a single CPU average. So, a load of 70 means 70 processes were in contention of the CPU, meaning the system is overloaded by 7000% (assuming the server had only one CPU core.)
A common way is just script vulnerabilities, allowing execution of arbitrary code. I work at a popular webhosting company, and I've seen cases where apps will execute PHP code inserted as a sooofed User-Agent, POST data, and other weird places. The idea is that you send a payload that executes on the remote host, GETs your shell from some free webhost or another compromised account, and then saves it on the target machine. At that point, you're set.
mod_security can help for people running Apache, and so will using maintained and up to date scripts.
Personally, I have a dedicated server, there's plenty to be had out there for a relatively cheap price. ($50ish range, they're out there, I'm hosting at http://securedservers.com)
A dedicated server is a good opportunity to learn about server administration too!
Also of interest, another number close to this is the world's stock of broad money, at around $75.86 trillion. Because this is comprised of all money in circulation, plus the total quantity of money in money market funds, credit union deposits, and other liquid assets, the top end of what is being asked for is almost literally, all of the money in the world.
Ever since the freeze, people who have even planned outages, refer to them as “rolling blackouts”. ERCOT is a pretty open data organization aside from QSE and generator data, and it’s unlikely that this data would have been fudged. We would have seen EEA3 in addition to $5k settlement prices if there was enough of a shortage to invoke rolling blackouts. These prices directly affect end users, e.g. businesses, datacenters, end users still on RTM rates, and solar buyback users. Generators definitely have offers open up to the $5k price point, and there is no way they’d be able to lock the settlement price without it being obvious to businesses/end users, or to generators/REPs/TDUs that there is market manipulation.
As far as sagging frequency, this is also wrong, because frequency sag calls up additional reserves, and we haven’t run below 1 gigawatt of reserves since the winter freeze. The number to watch for is 59.5 hertz, which is automatic EEA3 (we haven’t hit this since the winter storm, where we reached a whopping 59.3 hertz) This is also directly measurable by TDUs and (maybe) end users.