The reason the Haloscan comments weren't working earlier today is that they were being hit with a DOS (Denial Of Service) attack. A DOS attack means that the server in question is being swamped by an overwhelming number of false requests. This means that either some jerk, who missed out on the last 50,000 years or so of Human evolution, is causing this out of the smallness of his being or some bad guy is doing his share to attack the shameless agents of satan. In either event, males who behave like this should end up singing soprano in the boys choir (so as not to be able to pass their obviously flawed genetic material on to another generation). Women who engage in this sort of behavior should be sent to cloistered convents where they can spend the rest of their lives contemplating God (or their navels...whichever); they can be let out immediately after they experience menopause...the whole object of this exercise is to remove that persons genetic contribution to the species gene pool. However, I would make their release conditional on their never having access to a computer or the Internet again in their lifetimes.
 
Of course, denying a person access to a computer from this time forward dooms said person to life as a second class citizen in any computer literate society. Not that a non-computer literate person could not/cannot achieve a position of wealth, power and/or fame in a computer driven society, it is just that that sort of achievement is rapidly becoming extremely difficult. Thus, computer hackers should be sentenced to lives somewhat down the foodchain in our society. Works for me...