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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."
I wonder if there will be a new Internet protocol for protection against malicious smoking hackers.
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
Obviously the newly imposed mattress fire safety rules just aren't working!
The Internet was designed originally as a means of communication in the event of nuclear war.
No it WASN'T. It was certainly financed through DoD but go read a book on the subject instead of talking out of your ass. Where wizards stay up late is recommended, nay required reading.
I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it -- Groucho Marx
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.
I heard they have hammers.
Hopefully I didn't put any [] around my words.
It is still safe this was just a lucky strike.
No wonder Slashdot developed Firehose....
INTERNET DOWN! THE experimental INTERNET that nobody uses WENT DOWN, in a fire that killed three people and did millions of damager to property.
f you had just let them smoke in their offices
I'm old enough to have worked with smokers who could smoke in their offices. My girlfriend at the time could tell the days I'd gone into the smokers' offices, even for a brief visit, and would demand that I shower before I'd get any action.
Sorry, but having a smoking section in a building is like having a peeing section in a pool.
Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.