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Internet2 Taken Out by Stray Cigarette

Posted by samzenpus on from the only-you-can-stop-internet-fires dept.

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."

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  1. obligatory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Obligatory firewall joke here, please...

    1. Re:obligatory by maxwell+demon · · Score: 4, Funny

      It actually was a successful test of the ultimate firewall. It prohibited all malicious hacking on Internet2.

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  2. Hmmm. by CannonballHead · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder if there will be a new Internet protocol for protection against malicious smoking hackers.

    1. Re:Hmmm. by deftcoder · · Score: 5, Funny

      Is IPv6 flame-retardant?

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  3. Homeless? by bulliver · · Score: 5, Funny

    It wasn't a homeless guy, it was a torch job paid for by Internet 1.

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    1. Re:Homeless? by Hanners1979 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Or, more likely, the RIAA and/or MPAA. ;)

  4. Level3? by BigDuke6_swe · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

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    1. Re:Level3? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      He obviously rolled a 20 on his attack roll.

  5. In other news by Baricom · · Score: 4, Funny

    In other news, witnesses reported a spontaneous cheer coming from the corporate headquarters of the Recording Industry Association of America.

  6. This is why we need tougher safety standards... by Mish · · Score: 5, Funny

    Obviously the newly imposed mattress fire safety rules just aren't working!

  7. Smokey says... by Genocaust · · Score: 5, Funny

    Only YOU can prevent Internet fires!

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  8. O How the mighty have fallen. by ShagratTheTitleless · · Score: 5, Funny

    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."

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    1. Re:O How the mighty have fallen. by fuse2k · · Score: 4, Funny

      "He just just kept saying '09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0' over and over"

  9. Re:We Must act Now! by Glowing+Fish · · Score: 5, Funny

    I heard they have hammers.

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  10. Internet and Internet Killers have this in common: by Glowing+Fish · · Score: 4, Funny

    What are cigarettes, after all?

    They are tubes, a series of tubes...

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  11. Re:If a cigerrette can by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    take out the internet... what hope do we stand against nukes? No need for anything that elaborate, terrorists will just send a DMCA notice to ATDN/AT&T/GX/LVL3/Verizon/NTT/Qwest/SAVVIS/Sprint informing them that their core routers are caching the IPv6 address 09F9:1102:9D74:E35B:D841:56C5:6356:88C0 inside the routing tables.
  12. Re:reliability? by Half+a+dent · · Score: 5, Funny

    It is still safe this was just a lucky strike.

  13. Old Slashdot poll by dj245 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I am reminded of This

    I remember voting backhoe.

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  14. Firehose by Chiisu · · Score: 5, Funny

    No wonder Slashdot developed Firehose....

  15. Re:Geek priorities... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ~ <-- joke

    * <-- your head