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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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  1. Fourth Undersea Cable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    ... crashes into field in PA.

  2. I smell... by sykopomp · · Score: -1, Troll

    ..a nukular war being readied as the final action of a desperate failure of an administration.

  3. Poopy poop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Poopy poop poopity poop poop. I like eating poop.

  4. A disruption of communication can mean only one... by lthown · · Score: 1, Troll

    thing: war - the advisor dude from Star Wars Episode 1. Looks like the trade federation is coming for the Arabs!

  5. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    How long before Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadine-joke blames this on da j000z?

  6. Re:Iran hasn't lost connectivity by anotherone · · Score: -1, Troll

    And shockingly enough it hasn't crumpled under the massive weight of an extra couple hundred GET requests. Shocking!

    Ever notice that the only sites that actually succumb to the slashdot effect are hosted on shitty open-source blogging platforms running on 233mhz boxes over the webmaster's mother's DSL line? When, say, Google News links to a news site being run on enterprise hardware out of a real datacenter on a platform with paid developers, everything seems fine.

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  7. Re:Third cut? by ShieldW0lf · · Score: 0, Troll

    Co-incidence is what people call it when they're confronted by something systematic that they aren't able to understand. It doesn't exist.

    When you can't find the evidence, you look for motive and capacity. That makes it most likely that this was caused by the western warmongers alliance in an effort to cover up operations, or by the religious leaders within Iran in an effort to isolate their population from "corrupting influence".

    In light of the real, visible and ongoing efforts being put forth by Iran to humanize their people in the eyes of the world and counteract the demonizing propaganda put out by the US, it's unlikely that they did this to themselves, even though under different circumstances it would be in character.

    It seems pretty obvious that this was caused by the US/UK/Israel alliance as a way to strike at the Islamic countries. Not that it really matters who did it, even if you knew, you still wouldn't have any capacity to hold anyone accountable. What matters to Iran is replacing the old infrastructure with a new one that is less vulnerable and prevent the exploitation of the opportunity this provides their enemies to establish vectors for espionage.

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  8. Re:Third cut? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Liberalism is a mental disorder.

  9. Re:Third cut? by bigpicture · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well if it ain't the GREAT BIG EGO again!!! MR. RELATIVITY THINKING HIMSELF!!! Welcome back. It's a small world and a big Universe. Why are the polar ice caps melting on Mars at a faster rate than on earth??? Why is there evidence that other planets are heating up faster than earth??? No human intervention there. Consider some data and ignore others, "the scientific way". I see you haven't changed, still think that only YOU know the truth, when there are Heisenberg Uncertainty, plus Probability theories out there!!! Who appointed you the TRUTH gatekeeper?