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Gunplay Blamed For Cutting Fiber
coondoggie writes "Internet service providers in the US experienced a service slowdown Monday after fiber-optic cables near Cleveland were apparently sabotaged by gunfire. TeliaSonera AB, which lost the northern leg of its US network to the cut, said that the outage began around 7 p.m. Pacific Time on Sunday night. When technicians pulled up the affected cable, it appeared to have been shot up over a length of a kilometer. 'Somebody had been shooting with a gun or a shotgun into the cable,' said a TeliaSonera spokesman. The company declined to name the service provider whose lines had been cut, but a source familiar with the situation said the lines are owned by Level 3 Communications Inc. Level 3 could not be reached for comment."
OK, does anyone know? How many XP do you get for killing a Level 3 network?
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
took a shot in the dark (fiber)! *rimshot* That sounds deliberate, though. I can see there being a small section that was accidentally shot once, but the entire length of a kilometer? That's not just a couple stray shots.
"Hi. My internet connection's shot. It's just not working."
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My bad. I lost control. See, I'm not very good at FPS, and got tired of being spawn killed and trash talked by some 12 year old punk. But I am a bit better IRL.
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We needs shotguns for this shit
I keep telling myself I'm not the desperate type.
...who instantly pictured corporate warfare, tech condotterie, and other cyberpunk-style happenings? Imagine a van full of shotgun-weilding, blue-print reading, monacle-wearing overlords....
Because backhoes just won't cut it anymore.
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." -Albert Einstein
Obviously, some Gansta Rappa's be pissed that dey be dissed by da Intarweb homeyz downloadin' deyr tunz free and not payin' da rappa's so dey'z kin git dey's new bling - so de Gansta's be poppin' some caps inta dat Intarweb!
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...when you shoot it out of my cold, dead ground.
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OMG! THINKOFTHEFIBER!
If someone did this to a lot of fiber links around the country. We'd be totally
Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
$25 says a disgruntled subcontractor is behind this.
Constitutional rights may be respected, repealed, or modified; but they must never be ignored.
We already have gun control.
Those with the guns are in control.
"My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my internet, prepare to die".
"Level 3 could not be reached for comment."
Well, duh. Their fiber's been all shot up. Of course they couldn't be reached.
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It happens. Reporters, being somewhat lazy on the technical end sometimes, will run with whatever units their source provided them. Some happy-go-lucky SI geek gets a hold of an impressionable or lazy reporter, and you'll get kilometers, grams, liters (litres!) and all other sorts of perversion and anti-American sentiment. That's how I understand how it happens, anyway.
All the techniques ever used to make men moral have been themselves thoroughly immoral... (Nietzsche)
Well at least it wasnt a backhoe....
CS: It is all sink or swim...oh and did I mention there are sharks in that water?
No, just the gun owners whose guns only shoot sideways.
If moderation could change anything, it would be illegal.
Dateline: Cleveland
"In a bizarre story coming out of Ohio, A Mr. Johanson allegedly went on a shooting spree. He shot out every window in his house, blasted his mailbox, walked down to the corner gas station and shot up a pump, shot out several street lights, and finally shot up a section of fiber cable. When finally captured and confronted by police, he claimed he was cleaning his rifle when it accidently went off."
{Nods to George Carlin as the source of this joke...}
"Well..here I am..." - Jubal Early
Those are supposed to be speed holes... I've heard they make it go even faster!
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Nah, it was the RIAA - they heard there was some pirate music packets on the fiber and got the police to raid the fiber - the packets refused to stop when ordered so they got shot.
--- Users are like bacteria -> Each one causing a thousand tiny crises until the host finally gives up and dies.
Metric? Imperial? Hah! In my day we had to know our weight in stones and our height in twain you insensitive clod!
Read: if you shoot INSIDE the fiber and along the line, you can get a lot of fiber in one shot.
Especially if you use a laser pistol...
Dick Cheney? It's more likely to be Al Gore.
After all, he who giveth, taketh away.
Mod me up, mod me down, do your worst you modding clown.
...where was Dick Cheney during all of this?
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This was all a minor misunderstanding. It was the *engineers responsible for windows networking* that we're supposed to have been taken outside and shot. Unfortunately, after this went through SMB, Exchange, and outlook, the network was targeted in error .
hawk
"My version of gun control is keeping both hands on the grip."
Around here, 'gun control' means that we hit what we aim at.
Oddly enough, they all seem to wind up being exactly one cable long...
I've found that nurturing one's Zen nature is vital to dealing with technology. Violence is pretty damn useful too.