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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."
Good thing we still have Internet1.
Analogously, Slashdot could be seen as being a little like a website for other cultural groups using the tag line - "New
Is the internet devolving or this is just my impression? Routing protocols? Redundancy? Multipath anyone?
Baker's Law: Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it
http://www.sigsegv.cx/
...mumbling a series of letters and numbers
Obviously a disgruntled digg user.
What?
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0?
Internet 1 was designed to keep running after a nuclear exchange whereas Internet 2 can be taken down by a stray cigarette. That's progress for you...
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Yeah, you can replace "smoker" with "gay" or any minority group you dislike. A whiner is a whiner is a whiner. If you are severely allergic to smoke, then you don't go where people smoke. I'm highly allergic to poison ivy therefore I avoid the forest. I'm not a city boy by choice. ;)