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Topic: Third major subsea Internet cable damaged (Read 13364 times)
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MrHat
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Good point.
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Righ
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Teaching the world Google-fu one broken dream at a time.
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Iran now oficially without internet access
It's still reachable. Response times are pretty slow - some of the routers in the AP region are dropping packets, but the 'net is doing its job and routing around the damage. I suppose we don't have long to wait to rule out one particular theory - new moon is on the 8th. |
The camera adds a thousand barrels. - Steven Colbert
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HaemishM
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the Confederate flag underneath the stone in my class ring
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That's the same goddamn story they've been trying to pedal to the US Intel agencies since Bush got in office. The only people who believe it are the people who want an excuse to bomb Iran. |
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Samwise
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sentient yeast infection
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It doesn't matter how hard they pedal that story. It's not going anywhere.  |
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HaemishM
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the Confederate flag underneath the stone in my class ring
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Goddamnit, I got hit by the grammer bike.
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Yegolev
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2/10 WOULD NOT INGEST
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Pretty sure today is the new moon.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Lantyssa
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Goddamnit, I got hit by the grammer bike.
You can dodge easily enough. He'll never catch you.  |
Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Samwise
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sentient yeast infection
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Goddamnit, I got hit by the grammer bike.
I hope you got his insurance information.  |
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Murgos
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Strangely, my parents in Lebanon still have full DSL access.
...at the moment.  Apparently everyone still has internet access. Tales of outages seem to be highly exaggerated. |
"You have all recieved youre last warning. I am in the process of currently tracking all of youre ips and pinging your home adressess. you should not have commencemed a war with me" - Aaron Rayburn
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Yegolev
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2/10 WOULD NOT INGEST
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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penfold
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Irans much delayed Euro/non USD based Oil Bourse was meant to go online this week. It won't now 5 cables have been cut. A coincidence, I'm sure. |
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Nerf
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The Presence of Your Vehicle Has Been Documented
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That's the same goddamn story they've been trying to pedal to the US Intel agencies since Bush got in office. The only people who believe it are the people who want an excuse to bomb Iran. So how exactly do you explain Irans fearless leader announcing "WE WILL HAVE THE BOMB!! DEATH TO THE ZIONISTS!" oh, every other fucking week? Or is he in on the conspiracy? |
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Riggswolfe
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Propaganda.
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"We live in a country, where John Lennon takes six bullets in the chest, Yoko Ono was standing right next to him and not one fucking bullet! Explain that to me! Explain that to me, God! Explain it to me, God!" - Denis Leary summing up my feelings about the nature of the universe.
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Morat20
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Irans much delayed Euro/non USD based Oil Bourse was meant to go online this week. It won't now 5 cables have been cut. A coincidence, I'm sure.Are we on five now? Maybe someone is just stress testing the internet. :) |
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Tale
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sıɥʇ ǝʞıן sʞןɐʇ
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I used to be the internet guy for a major computer magazine in the 1990s (i.e. the guy who wrote about the internet, as opposed to today where everyone writes about the internet). A guy in our testing labs was an early P2P downloader, somethingawful forums goon, and internet underground type.
He quit his life and became a seismic navigator in Asia. He works on ships in rooms full of computers, monitors and satellite broadband - I've seen photos, it's a wall of technology like some kind of Bond villain's setup. He could probably drop the anchor a few times ...
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Miasma
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Stopgap Measure
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How hard are these things to break? Like could someone with a medium sized boat just drag their anchor along the bottom until one of the hooks snags a cable and then go to full power to snap them? Because if my job ever gets offshored to India I think I would be tempted to take a nice vacation in the Mediterranean sea  . |
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Signe
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Muse.
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No! It was a propeller from a cruise liner!
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My Sig Image: hath rid itself of this mortal coil.
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Ironwood
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Goddamnit, I got hit by the grammer bike.
I hope you got his insurance information. Owned twice. You're on fire. |
"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Salamok
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maybe it's the scientologists striking back at the internets.
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Simond
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How hard are these things to break? Maybe 10cm across, plastic coating, steel wire 'armour', and glass fibre core. Tougher than co-ax, but not that much tougher. |
"You're really a good person, aren't you? So, there's no path for you to take here. Go home. This isn't a place for someone like you."
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JWIV
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Just a note - one of the cable failures is not due to a cut - it's because of a power problem.
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HaemishM
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the Confederate flag underneath the stone in my class ring
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That's the same goddamn story they've been trying to pedal to the US Intel agencies since Bush got in office. The only people who believe it are the people who want an excuse to bomb Iran. So how exactly do you explain Irans fearless leader announcing "WE WILL HAVE THE BOMB!! DEATH TO THE ZIONISTS!" oh, every other fucking week? Or is he in on the conspiracy? If you really want to discuss this, take it over into politics, because this will only be the 50th time I've talked about Iran in there. If I talk about it in here, this thread will likely disappear into politics anyway. |
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