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University of Twente NOC Fire Arson
Lars writes "A 26-year old man from Hengelo has admitted to deliberately setting fire to the Network Operations Centre of University of Twente, last Wednesday. The fire gutted two wings of the building and devastated one of the fastest networks in Europe.
The arsonist is an employee of the University, which must come as quite a shock to those involved.
The University released a short statement to the press.
It mentions that the total damage caused is roughly 40-50 million euros (about the same in dollars) and that the guy was caught last Friday, when he tried to set fire to one of the faculty buildings."
The Stake, obviously.
I guess those Euro's don't go for that sort of thing though, do they?
Never confuse volume with power.
Now that's a dedicated luddite.
He tried to kill me with a forklift!
Not really. His boss probably stole his stapler.
They should have let him keep his red Swingline Stapler...
the need for strict tracking of stapler ownership in the modern office environment.
Ralph: "That's where I saw the Leprechaun. He tells me to burn things!"
Leprachaun: "You've done grand, laddie! Now ya know what ya have ta do! Burn the house down! Burn 'em all!"
They obviously didn't have enough firewalls.
(Sorry... couldnt resist)
-- 7 string electric violin + live loop samplers
Information wants to be set on fire.
That's not what they mean by Firewire.
I wonder if we could get him a job over at that place in Redmond?
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Can anybody make more sense of this more than the original?
First a massive fire, now a thorough slashdotting. What's next, Mecha-Striesand?
It turns out it wasn't arson, but merely a misunderstanding.
They asked him to install the new "firewall"...
--- I wish I could hear the soundtrack to my life. That way I'd know when to duck.
maybe he was listening to the "roof the roof, the roof is on fire!"
:P
then he could blame the RIAA and make them pay for it
an o to a O.
:)
o - arse before jail
O - arse after jail.
Alas gallinaceas de urbe bovis volo
Here in the Netherlands today all gay people are supposed to strike because some Iman said that homosexuality was a contagious disease so now they're all calling in ill to keep their coworkers from getting ill:P So he's probably a homofobe and didn't want to be on strike these days:P...can't find an decent link to the story..
0x or or snor perron?!
I'm sure if you submit it again, they'll keep posting it, though.
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
gruntled?
Let's show our sympathies regarding the loss of one of the fastest computer networks in Europe by Slashdotting their web servers!
Instead he is going to prison and meet Bubba; the A$$ Plow.
Federal "pound me in the ass" prison!
I am not a number! I am a man! And don't you
Actually, we installed smoke alarms in the kitchen, but they went off every time we made dinner so we removed the batteries.
Let's develop a manual, GUI router software.
The PC has 2 or more network cards, and one program on the system. The only interface is a mouse.
The delinquent sees as many windows on the screen as there are NICs in the computer. They manually route packets by identifying a packet header in hex in the window, and dragging that packet from the window it's coming from to the window it should be routed to.
They would be checked by an automatic router in operation in the background, and would be given further punishment if they route packets incorrectly.
Their sentence term would simply be to route as many packets as were lost due to their actions.
-Adam
it's a well know fact, that the worst enemy of all (high) availability resides on OSI layer 8. I think 62% is a pretty low number, the reality is higher. In all cases where the unlucky bastards manages to cover his tracks, technology will take the blame. Other than the people involved it doesn't argue about it.
Yours, Martin
I sure hope that doesn't spread to the US.
Think of the money insurances companies would lose on permanent disability in San Fran ALONE.
Never confuse volume with power.
I hope you mean insured against fire (=verzekerd tegen) instead of assured of fire (=verzekerd van)
karma police: arrest this man, he talks in maths; he buzzes like a fridge, he's like a detuned radio. [radiohead]
Yeah, the rapist will probably force the arsonist to give his buddy a rimjob whilst he pounds him in the ass. You know how those europeans are...
PS God loves you and longs for relationship with you.
I do not think that using that signature was a good idea. People might get the wrong idea about Prisons, rape and God.
NO! NO! Please don't mod me, I'm too young to die a troll. *click* Oh the pain, the pain...
Well, everything is just fine till the lightbulb breaks while wiping....
He was just trying to overclock his Athelon.
I'm thinking he was goatse'd one too many times.