LA workers asked to stop watching Olympics online
Associated Press, Los Angeles | World | Wed, August 01 2012, 1:30 PM
The top technology officer for Los Angeles is pleading with city
workers to stop watching the Olympics online at work, saying it could
cause a municipal computer meltdown.
The Los
Angeles Times reports that city tech guru Randi Levin sent an email
Tuesday asking workers to stop watching the London games because the
city was experiencing a high volume of traffic.
City officials say watching Tuesday's women's gymnastics and soccer
competitions live on the Internet causes a tremendous amount of
bandwidth to be tied up.
That means city computers might be working at a snail's pace under the strain.
Councilman Dennis Zine says taxpayers aren't paying
city workers to watch the Olympics on their computers or televisions.
Zine said he wanted to know where supervisors were during the viewings.
