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Third Undersea Cable Cut
Many readers are reporting that another undersea fiber optic cable has been cut, apparently caused by another wayward anchor. It looks like Iran has completely lost Internet connectivity."
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*brings out the popcorn*
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
Last night while sitting in my chair
I pinged a host that wasn't there
It wasn't there again today
The host resolved to NSA.
A communications disruption can mean only one thing - invasion.
-Dave
My work here is dung.
and Four Times is shrimp getting to like the taste of plastic coating.
Fry: What's happening?
Dr. Zoidberg: All 6,000 hulls have been breached!
Fry: Oh, the fools! If only they'd built it with 6,001 hulls! When will they learn?
It's true I tell you, feller at work's next door neighbour read it in the paper.
Wrong on so many levels...
XenoPhage
Technological Musings
So let's see, three cables in three days...that puts the monster in Manhattan by what, next Thursday, give or take a few isolated fishing vessels between here and there? Better charge up those handicams, kids!
Office productivity throughout the Middle East has risen sharply.
This is something that the damned Yankees would do as prelude to invading Iran -- to stop all the bloggers from documenting the invasion and getting the rest of the Arab and Muslim worlds up in arms.
Hey, you wanted a "Conspiracy".
PS. Osama is hanging out on GWB's ranch in Texas - that's why they can't find him.
First scuba: "Hey dude! I found the cables!"
Second scuba: "Cool. Now cut the red one. No, not that one, the other one. No not this one!"
First scuba: "Hey man! Sorry, I'm colorblind.."
Second scuba: "Sh.t! That's 2 dude. We were simply supposed to cut the good one... Now gimme those scissors. There you go."
Of Code And Men
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
This reclusive giant of the deep, the Great White Backhoe, spends most of its life in quiet solitude. But, once every seven years, as if called by some unknown force, these gentle beasts gather in great numbers to feast upon the cables of the ocean floor.
</french-accent>
At least now we know they cant buy parts for their nuclear weapons online anymore.
Sigh...more fairy tales from teh Intarweb...
We all know that colorblind people can see colors correctly underwater while those who have correct vision cannot.
Whatever it is, it probably literally translates to "bad movie".
Not a typewriter
At risk of being off-topic, Ann Coulter just said she'd back Hillary, so I think the four horsemen should be around here any minute now.
Not a typewriter
The countries internet connection is hanging by a thread, and you slashdot their university. Smooth move, asshole.
-1 Uncomfortable Truth
And all of Iran's computers will overflow.
>The government always surprise me by sinking to a new low, maybe this is the new low?
Well, it *is* the bottom of the ocean.
"Hey, Quinn! Check out my new raver's wig!"
[He flips a switch and fiber optic cables coming out of his hair start glowing and flowing in multiple colors)
"Stormy, where'd you find the cables for that wig? Tell me you didn't pull them out of the control panels."
"Control panels? Hell no, I'm not stupid! No, I got them outside. There's a whole lot of them out there on the sea floor."
"Outsi-- you idiot! Those are Internet cables! You can't just steal them!"
"But everyone's else is doing it!"
[Hetch appears on the monitor, but the camera reads him as a multi-colored blob.]
"Hetch sewed himself a fiber-optic suit!"
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
they should have just hired the COMCAST guys to, uhhh, NAK an RST some of the packets.
that'll fix 'em!
--
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
kmem russian roulette: Aquillar> dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/kmem bs=1 count=1 seek=$RANDOM
Nah, that's impossible. Only the US does bad things.
Slashdot - where whining about luck is the new way to make the world you want.
Me note must: Yoda paraphrase do not
We'll be taking back your geek card now. We were willing to let you get away with not recognizing a line from Star Wars, it being from a prequel and all, but not even using Google before you ask? Have you no decency?
If you're trying to make some nukes
Don't bother putting up your dukes
Subs with scissors of nations crossed
Will ensure *** CARRIER LOST ***
Bloody? Fishy? ...
We only wish,
To catch a fish,
So juicy sweet!
But what has it got in its packetses, GOLLUM! GOLLUM!
Ironyblind? Is that why I had to have my BDUs pressed while in the Army? I guess if they were ironed then the ironyblind couldn't see me coming?
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
There is only one possible conclusion: Manbearpig has learned to swim.
- RG>
Hey pal, this isn't a pleasantforest, so don't waste my time with pleasantries!
The host resolved to NSA.
Wait a minute, I thought it was Network Solutions (NSI) that was picking up all the domain names.
Retrofitted? What does the sub have on it, a giant pair of scissors sticking out of the front?
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
Three times... that's one clumsy anchor.
It'll be springtime, in Iran, for Dick Cheney
Red states are happy, and not gay
Iran can't speak out to protest
Look out! we're cutting all the rest...
This isn't the 1960s. The people who worked on the Apollo program are all retired. Somewhere, in a submarine, a guy just said, "LOLZ, think I cut cable!" and his commander replied, "pwned! LOLZ! I'll come take a look at it after I finish this MySpace video."
"Believe me!" -- Donald Trump
The countries internet connection is hanging by a thread, and you slashdot their university. Smooth move, asshole.
You're assuming he's not working for the NSA.
If you were, posting such a link might be intentional.
Never assume the friendly repairman at your door in a secure location is there to help you.
-- Tigger warning: This post may contain tiggers! --
Maybe Iran did it to try and stop the US from gathering intelligence? or maybe the company that gets paid to fix it did it, or a tel com competitor?
Me? I'm betting on Godzilla. He is on his way to Syria to fight Cthulu since Israel's surprise bombing failed.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
I've always thought the USS Richard Nixon would have been a better name for a submarine that carries out covert wire tapping operations..