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Hunters Shot Down Google Fiber
aesoteric writes "Google has revealed that aerial fiber links to its data center in Oregon were 'regularly' shot down by hunters, forcing the company to put its cables underground. Hunters were reportedly trying to hit insulators on electricity distribution poles, which also hosted aerially-deployed fiber connected to Google's $600 million data center in The Dalles. 'I have yet to see them actually hit the insulator, but they regularly shoot down the fiber,' Google's network engineering manager Vijay Gill told a conference in Australia. 'Every November when hunting season starts invariably we know that the fiber will be shot down, so much so that we are now building an underground path [for it].'"
For our amusement, let's hope they killed somebody's 2g1c download.
"Common sense will be the death of us all"
To be fair, there's no way Steve could have thrown a chair that high.
i'm not sure brightly colored camo-suits will work...
anyway, googletroopers, expect them to have home-brew equipment which might seem slightly crude, but is actually miles ahead of modern day military hardware, very intuitive to operate... like a railgun (point-click-kill)
(and i just thought of something, if apple ever amassed an army of iTroopers, the black/white color scheme of stormtroopers certainly fits well doesnt it? kind of gives you a whole new perspective on steve's black turtleneck)
People, what a bunch of bastards
You can't simply chase down a deer and scream liberal rhetoric at it until it kills itself, now can you?
It's why non-Americans think the U.S. gun culture is so obviously insane.
As a European, I don't have a problem with American gun culture at all. Can't fire across the Atlantic, so nobody except Americans get hurt.
On the serious side, though: The way the US government is trending I think it's a really good idea to have a large number of weapons in the populace.
So Microsoft are the Borg, Apple are the Evil Empire and Google are... Mighty Morphin Power Rangers?
So, what we're saying is that Google is being regularly shot down by yahoos?
...There's gotta be a witty quip to be made there somewhere...
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