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How One Clumsy Ship Caused A Major Net Outtage
Ant writes "Here is an interesting world map of various Internet connections, showing how it took just one vessel to inflict the damage that brought down the internet for millions."
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This ought to be tagged as coming from the "Lack of Redundancy Department".
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
All those virus writers struggling so hard, and then a simple ship gets all the bragging rights.
Terrorists can't threaten a country's freedom and democracy. Only lawmakers and voters can do that.
I'd assume it cut all the cables?
Obviously this is the result of U2 manager Paul McGuinness calling on ISP's to disconnect the evil file sharers of the world..
;)
"To great applause from the audience of music managers, McGuinness insisted that disconnection enforcement would work."
How right he was!
> I'd like to see those slashbots apologize for undermining the US at every turn and being so unpatriotic.
Not all Slashdotters are *from* the US, you insensitive clod! I, for one, am posting from Teheran University and don't see why I should have to
*NO CARRIER*
Go somewhere random
I thought we had agreed that it was George Bush that cut the cables. Did everyone change conspiracy theories while I was away?
Think of all the 1's and 0's flowing into the ocean right now?! The cost to the environment here is appalling. Someone turn the valves on that internet backbone, stat! Think about the animals!
I've definitely noticed a drop in sales calls from indian call centres over the past few days. I normally suffer from a few a day, maybe 2 or 3, but it's been wonderfully quiet for aq couple of days now - bliss!
politicians are like babies' nappies: they should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons
Governments have also become directly involved, with the Egyptian communications ministry imploring surfers to stay offline so business traffic can take priority. "People who download music and films are going to affect businesses who have more important things to do," said ministry spokesman Mohammed Taymur.
And here's a big difference with the US. If the US were in the situation of limited bandwidth, we would all be encouraged to stop sending email to give priority to those shopping on iTunes.
Adapt, adopt, or get out of the way!
My suspicions were correct. The cross-section clearly shows that the outer layer of the cable is actually a TUBE!
I love that they put the installation and maintenance vessels on the high seas. Reminds me of the 17th century maps showing sea monsters in unexplored areas.
"Well, good luck finding a judge that doesn't run a bestiality site."
Colombia is not down..
unknown-ff-ff-00-ff-ff-ff:~ floydman$ ping Colombia.com
PING colombia.com (199.125.90.76): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 199.125.90.76: icmp_seq=0 ttl=110 time=327.604 ms
64 bytes from 199.125.90.76: icmp_seq=1 ttl=110 time=333.573 ms
64 bytes from 199.125.90.76: icmp_seq=2 ttl=110 time=324.541 ms
64 bytes from 199.125.90.76: icmp_seq=3 ttl=110 time=324.487 ms
The lunatic is in my head
"...here there be tech support"
They have a survey on that page: "Have you been affected by the disruption to internet services? You can tell us your experiences using the form below:"
Something tells me such a survey would not be very scientific.
Table-ized A.I.
Is that since the cable cut my spam folders and inbox have been blessedly free of spam! I always say, you want to cut the crap with email and phishing, cutoff the net connections to Africa and Asia.
This explains why I haven't heard back from my Nigerian banker.
Have gnu, will travel.