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Internet Black Holes
An anonymous reader writes "Hubble is a system that operates continuously to find persistent Internet black holes as they occur. Hubble has operated continuously since September 17, 2007. During that time, it identified 881,090 black holes and reachability problems. In the most recent quarter-hourly round, completed at 04:40 PDT, 04/09/2008, Hubble issued 46,846 traceroutes to 1,815 prefixes it identified as likely to be experiencing problems (of 78,772 total prefixes monitored by the system). Of these, it found 195 prefixes to be unreachable from all its vantage points and 139 to be reachable from some vantage points and not others." No relationship to that other Hubble which also tries to find black holes ;)
[insert obligatory link to goatse with vague comment of black holes]
this is so gonna hurt my Karma...
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It found a tonne of internet holes. Now what? Bhuler? Bhuler? Bhuler? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone?
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. - Peter F. Drucker
The holes in DC might have to do something with the contents of the heads of the politicians.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
No, I think they're just being jerks rather than going for irony..
which is totally what she said
So that's the 'giant sucking sound' Ross Perot was trying to warn us aobut!
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The purpose is to give slashdotters an excuse to make thousands of Goatse jokes.
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?
Obligatory Red Dwarf quote:
A white hole?
But what is it?
Further study has revealed that most of these black holes are caused by namespace collisions, such as overuse of the words "blackhole" and "hubble".
1) The Large Hadron Collider is causing it.
2) The government(s) is capturing your traffic because it thinks your a terrorist, and it's losing packets due to the [Republican created] bureaucracy.
(a) And your packets are being water boarded
(b) AT&T helped
(c) The EFF wants to know
3) The RIAA is capturing your traffic because it thinks your a pirate, and doesn't know how to get them back to you at a reasonable price.
(a) Your packets are being sued
(b) Congress is helping
(c) The EFF still wants to know
4) It's a setup for the next Matrix movie. Neo's abilities are causing corruption in the matrix, creating failures in command nodes and putting millions of people to sleep. Like most of his movies.
5) The two Hubble's are tied together, and the internet is an existential manifestation of our physical universe as we discover it.
6) Global warming / El Nino's internet revenge.
7) Tubes are clogged.
The possibilities for /. jokes are endless. A combination of the following terms seems unavoidable
1- Comcast
2- Particle Accelerators
3- Internet black holes
4- Goatse
Have fun.
Whether or not there is some sort of god, I'm not supposed to say/god is a word and the argument ends there-Smog
They have a button where you can check if your current IP address is in a black hole. Anyone else find that ironic?
steampunk web design
Yes. Let's back up the internet - you offering to host?
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.
It might be better if they'd named these sites "boojums," because any packet that reaches one "will softly and silently vanish away and never be seen again."
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I'm pretty sure I've seen the video of this and yes, it is sweet. Frightening, but sweet.
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.