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Internet2 Taken Out by Stray Cigarette
AlHunt writes "A fire started by a homeless man knocked out service between Boston and New York on the experimental Internet2 network Tuesday night.
Authorities say the fire, which also disrupted service on the Red Line subway, started around 8:20 p.m. when a homeless man tossed a lit cigarette. The cigarette landed on a mattress, which ignited and led to a two-alarm fire."
Obligatory firewall joke here, please...
I wonder if there will be a new Internet protocol for protection against malicious smoking hackers.
What a great DoS attack. Forget the terrorists, watch out for accidents. That's a level 4 from Symantec.
Guess they forgot to install the firewall.
It wasn't a homeless guy, it was a torch job paid for by Internet 1.
Support the mob or mysteriously disappear.
Internet2, level3? What's level3?
"Level 3 Communications cables used by the network went up in flames"
"Level 3 engineers estimate it could take one to two days to restore the circuit"
Taken out by a level 1 homeless person?
Zere vere zwei peanuts valking down der Straße, and von vas assaulted...peanut
In other news, witnesses reported a spontaneous cheer coming from the corporate headquarters of the Recording Industry Association of America.
Obviously the newly imposed mattress fire safety rules just aren't working!
Clearly the homeless are not only unsightfull to look at, they also pose a direct threat to homeland security by sabotaging our infrastructure.
It seems clear that we must *eradicate* the homeless.
(don't mod this a troll straight away)
perpetually dwelling in the -1 pits
Only YOU can prevent Internet fires!
It could be that the only purpose of your life is to serve as a warning to others.
From the article: "The homeless man, whom authorities identified as one Kevin Rose, was apparently despondent after the recent shutdown of his tech news aggregation site. Witnesses reported seeing him staring into the flames and rocking slowly while mumbling a series of letters and numbers."
Sometimes at night I imagine the darkness is filled with horrible things with too many teeth, like Julia Roberts.
...US Government brought down by chili farts. Pictures at eleven.
We also eat lost tourists. Throw another Aussie on the barbie, Billy-Ray! The young'uns is hungry!
Mea navis aericumbens anguillis abundat
smoke kills
Conservatism: The fear that somewhere, somehow, someone you think is your inferior is being treated as your equal.
What are cigarettes, after all?
They are tubes, a series of tubes...
Hopefully I didn't put any [] around my words.
It is still safe this was just a lucky strike.
This is common misunderstanding, so you have nothing to be ashamed of. Internet and Internet2 were first built for fast porn delivery, later military got interested and started using it for reliable porn delivery under nuclear attack.
I am reminded of This
I remember voting backhoe.
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
Anyone who's been beaten by an Aussie after complaining about the steak can confirm both points.
Torben
You fool! The entire online porn industry is just a way to fund the NSA. What better way to ensure they have enough bandwidth and ability to shift lots of data than to control a huge chuck of it. When the time comes the porn will be the first thing they switch off to keep their access. This way they have a network backup operational and ready to operate at the flick of a switch.
[/tinfoilhat]
the more they over-think the plumbing the easier it is to stop up the pipe
No wonder Slashdot developed Firehose....
Nightmare scenario ... they merge by some obscure genetic process (involving a spider bite or something like that) to form a backhoebo.
Only three things are certain; death, taxes, and apocryphal quotations - Ben Franklin.
~ <-- joke
* <-- your head
Call the cops, someone is smoking a cigarette. Someone else may or may not have to smell cigarette smoke, oh no! They may or may not throw their filter on the ground, oh no! You do know that Hitler was a rabid anti-smoker too, don't you?
Both Miller's Bar and Redcoat Tavern do have non-smoking sections
Smoke doesn't know how to stay in the smoking section...
My cats ate my karma. They also wrote this comment.
"A smoking section in a restaurant is like a peeing section in a swimming pool."
:n
If the Internet2 had't been down, we wouldn't have had to settle for this low-bandwidth ASCII illustration.