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].'"

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Re:Well...

[denobug]

The reality is that there is always something to repair.

Please mod the parent up.

Re:Immature and Gun Happy

[IndustrialComplex]

A man with a knife reached for his hip, grabbed his knife, and... I was on his arm already. A man with a gun could do the same, and the barrel of the gun (the thing with the hole at the tip) would be pointed ... down away from his hip, toward the floor. I could then dislocate his elbow with a quick movement forward, and he might fire... at the floor.

Are you seriously telling me that if I grab you in an alleyway, backed in a corner or against a wall with no way to take a quick step back, that you can mindlessly draw your gun and fire? With zero hand-to-hand combat training? Because the gun is magical and makes you an all-powerful killing machine and all I have is my bare hands?

FACT.
http://fashionablygeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/dwight-schrute-fact.jpg