City Hall workers told to stop watching Olympics on the net

All that live streaming on the job threatens to melt down the city's computer system, so please stop, LA's chief technology officer pleads.

"We are experiencing a high volume of traffic due to people watching the Olympics online," Randi Levin said in a mass email reported by the LA Times. "I respectfully request that you discontinue this as it is impacting city operations."

A lament no doubt repeated in executive offices across the country, but maybe not as much as the complaints about NBC's live stream balking.

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