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Internet to Pakistan Goes Down
TwobyTwo writes "According to CNN, a power supply problem on an undersea cable has severed all outside Internet connectivity to Pakistan. Many businesses have been seriously impacted. Repairs will involve some disruption to access from other countries, and are tentatively scheduled for overnight." From the article: "'It's a worst-case scenario. We are literally blank,' said a senior foreign banker who declined to be identified. An official at the Karachi stock exchange said Pakistan's main bourse was unaffected as it had its own internal trading system."
Weird, I didn't notice it at all!
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
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An entire country Slashdotted...
We heard your collective screams and offer our prayers. I can only imagine in my nightmares if we lost our internets.
*shudder*
-- taking over the world, we are.
They're a crabby lot.
thank god I still have access to Tech Support services in India...
I felt a great disturbance in the Internet, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced...
Osama Bin Lobster did it!
"...Internet Attacks from the Middle East seemed to grind to a halt today..."
I'm currently in Pakistan, and I have to say that not having any Internet really sucks.
How am I going to read Slashdot now?
Damnit! I was trying to cut the India line but it was all jibber this jabber that and being underwater didn't help my vision.
Wouldn't that be "Shark"?
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According to CNN, a power supply problem on an undersea cable has severed all outside Internet connectivity to Nigeria. Many businesses have been seriously impacted. Repairs will involve some disruption to access from other countries, and are tentatively scheduled for overnight." From the article: "'IT"S A WORSE CASE SCENARIO, NO MORE WIRE TRANSFERS' said BIBI LUCKY, A SENIOR BANKER SEEKING TO TRANSFER MONEY. An official at the Lagos stock exchange said Nigeria's main main mail server was unable to send hundreds of mails queued to be sent to the outside world.
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Thats a statement I thought I'd never see!
Damn, where is Aquaman when you need him?
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I feel a great disturbance in the Internet. As if millions of Pakistani nerds cried out in terror, and were suddenly silienced.
Now that we know what the underwater cable is for, will someone in Pakistan please tell me what's in that damned hatch?
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We don't need no stinkin' backup! What could possibly happen to our
No. All our high-speed internet links to Europe and Asia are done with carrier pigeons.
Sorry about that. I unplugged a cable that I thought led to an empty wall. Let me put it back...brb!
So you know nothing about international intelligence or undersea cables, and yet you feel qualified to comment... If you don't understand what you're talking about - don't comment on it.
:-)
You should not talk without knowing about people's backgrounds and if you had any balls, you would not post things like that as Anonymous Coward. You might be surprised at the backgrounds of many folks in various careers. How they got there is often a convoluted path.
By the way, even though you are an anonymous coward...... Your IP address is 80.43.97.222. You run Mozilla 5.0 as a browser in X11 on Linux. You run Intel hardware. Your ISP is Tiscali UK Limited out of London England. You are in your mid 20s, unemployed though intelligent and you feel just a little disenfranchised.
P.S. The use of yeah? at the end of sentences is common to those in the south of England, and in particular London. Also common in New Zealand. That helped narrow down the IPs associated with hits on the site. There's more, but I've got work to do.
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They have these things called boats.
Ships.
Now, the Navies they have these people called soliders.
Sailors.
Did you just say "Titi.." ? That would be a fine lake !!
Except for the "caca".
Pakistan isn't exactly known for having hospitable terrain.
Have you been there? Or are you just believing the same media which hyped up the Iraq war?
You mean that the rugged terrain and nearly impassable mountain peaks are a media fabrication? That damned National Geographic and their lying maps anyway. I'll bet that K2 is just a little hump of a hill.
If Nigeria requested our assistance in restoring the cables, send back a reply charging them $200,000,000,000, in cold hard cash, packed into several suitcases. :-)
That was because he specified it must be a dual fuel source capable plane -- jet fuel and peanut oil. This was before the ethanol crowd got into power.
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I just copied the list and emailed it to everyone in my address book so they could be informed, too. Hang on, there's someone at the door...