KNOTT, T wrote:
in which he claimed that the "super smart kids" in his school are
planning to bring down Wikipedia”
He didn’t say how did he? Because I can’t get wikipedia, wikibooks, or
meta . There is a note saying servers will be down at 2 -3 tomorrow
morning UTC but that’s hours away. Could it be DOS attack or am I
being paranoid?
It sounds like a variation on a theme from fiction where the visitor
announces that he will turn off the sun if the natives don't behave. An
eclipse, about which he had previous knowledge then just happens at his
command. The problem is that such a phenomenon at any given place is
not that common. Mark Twain used that idea in his "Connecticut Yankee
in King Arthur's Court"; he was very effective at trolling the credulity
of others.
Ec