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Transatlantic Cable Fault Disrupts Internet In UK

Posted by timothy on from the electrify-the-atlantic dept.

An anonymous reader submits "Web traffic between the U.S. and Europe has been hit after an undersea cable developed a major fault on Tuesday. Because the TAT-14 cable network is shaped like a ring, it should be able to cope with one such failure -- but unfortunately the consortium that owns it hadn't fixed an earlier problem, just off the U.S. coast. Just shows how systems with build-in redundancy can still go badly wrong...."

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  1. Re:Silly Limeys... by zaffir · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Funny, then, that you brits are infamous for your horrible teeth.

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  2. Re:Silly Limeys... by Pingular · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Funny, then, that you brits are infamous for your horrible teeth.
    Hey, 'you yanks' are infamous for being fat (I'd say overweight, but lets not beat round the bush), quick to anger, stupid (I'd say unintelligent, but again...), insensitive, vain and greedy, yet believe your country, with the highest rate of gun crime in the developed world, is somehow thoughtful and wise. Funny old world.

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