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Undersea Cables Damaged By Earthquake
ColoradoAuthor writes "The horrific earthquake and the ensuing tsunami in Japan have caused widespread damage to undersea communications, according to data collected by telecom industry sources. Initially, it was thought that the damage to the cables that connect Japan and Asia to each other and other parts of the world was limited, but new data shows the extent of the problems."
tens of thousands of people dieing. who fucking cares, IS THE INTERNET UP?
You Raff You Ruse!!
Please god, say no.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
I know how awkward it sounds, but it is plural.
This is a government cover up, we all know it was actually Godzilla that caused it!
The thing shifted the entire island by 8ft, I'm not surprised our comm cables were damaged.
Here's an idea this conversation reminds me of... let's not hold people responsible (either in personal retribution or for fiscal remuneration) for the sins of their progenitors unless (1) they actively glorify them, *AND* (2) they rise to the level of genocide, war crimes, or population displacement.
There are enough living warlords and genocidal assholes that we don't need to go looking for dead ones.
That would be a much better Federation Prime Directive than the one they came up with. Much more tied to IRL than the one they used, which is effectively about how to do fieldwork in anthropology--but not as helpful.
-- IANAL, this isn't legal advice, and definitely isn't legal advice for you. Also, Squee!
.. go fix it. No need to sit around and get all freaked out for one more foxnewsin' reason. Just fix it and move on.
It's a good thing that some cables still work to allow communications. For example, I just heard about another incident at the nuclear power plant that @*^^^#$ NO CARRIER ;-)
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-03-12/world/japan.earthquake.tsunami.earth_1_tsunami-usgs-geophysicist-quake?_s=PM:WORLD
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Maintenance loop could have fixed it.
Pearl Harbor just made me hate Americans... One American, specifically... Michael Bey.
Maxim: People cannot follow directions.
Increases in truth directly with the length of time spent explaining them
If it affected china cables in any form then spam should go down
The Konami code appears to be the code to disable Japan in real life.
(I'm going to hell for this...)
That's ridiculous. Fish don't talk so why would we care?
I noticed on my IPS that slammer worm attacks have gone way down since the earthquake.
Taiwanese botnets are impacted. Let's just leave it.
Look at the graph.
http://isc.incidents.org/port.html?port=1434
i mean, they can make measurements & all that, but they really have no idea what causes the earth to shake, beyond their primitive understanding of 'plate techtonics'.
Said as if the whole earth isn't connected to itself, and the gravitational vectors of the whole solar system don't matter either. Big earthquakes have a tendency to happen in the months around the solstice, November -> March. All the big quakes in recent memory have been in this time frame:
Haiti Earthquake: 12 January 2010
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake: December 26, 2004
2010 Chile Earthquake: February 27, 2010
2011 Japan Earthquake: March 11, 2011
From that wikipedia list: 12 of the largest quakes on record occurred between December and March, 4 in November, and only 8 were between May and October. So... What's so important about the winter months?
Well, the earth's Perihelion (closest approach to the sun) is about on January 4th. In the winter months the sun is putting a little bit more of a 'tug' on the earth's crust.
I'm on an email list of a guy that watches worldwide earthquake reports. He commented on the New Zealand quake, and gave a 'heads up' for the Ring of Fire. When this quake hit, he noted that the moon's perigee is coming up on March 19th, and that the earth would keep shaking until that influence passed.
The crust of the earth is sorta like a fragile eggshell - all it takes to crack is the right combination of spin axis/wobble and gravitational vectors in the solar system (gotta watch out for when Jupiter aligns with Mars, you know? :).
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
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It's both a natural AND a virtual disaster.
See subject-line, & this:
"As my daddy always said: 'The only good jap is a dead jap'. Fucking slant-eyed freaks." - by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 16, @11:58AM (#35504780)
Perhaps in HIS TIME, there WAS need for that "sentiment", as the Japanese DID attack us @ Pearl Harbor (but then, we "f'd w/ them, economically" (FDR did), so they "struck back"... worst part is? We KNEW it was coming, & we LET THEM (to "dig us out" of the 'great depression')).
Today's NOT that day... that past is gone, no need for it now. Those poor bastards in Japan took enough of a beating @ the hands of atomic power, & this wasn't needed to happen to them!
(Hey - Even I, & I often consider myself fairly "ruthless" @ times, & especially to those who attack me or mine? These folks were NOT attacking us here in this case!)
Hey - I truly wouldn't "pour salt into a wound" (especially just to see or hear that even my enemies are suffering @ the hands of such a HEINOUS way to die!)
APK
P.S.=> Since I'm polish by descent? I have heard my share of racist crap... I know what it's like... do you?? I hope you never do... it's NOT fun! apk
The sea is being polluted with leaking packets. Rumor has it they're going to utilize the massive amount of internet porn to try a junk shot to stop it....
If you do what you always did, you get what you always got.
You know there are two solstices each year, right? And that the quake hit two weeks ahead of the middle of the two? Stick with the perihelion theory, it works better in this case.
#badscience
I cant understand why they just simply didnt just add some extra cable to pick up the slack.
From that wikipedia list: 12 of the largest quakes on record occurred between December and March, 4 in November, and only 8 were between May and October. So... What's so important about the winter months?
Nothing. You've offered a 4 month window out of 12 months, and showed us 12 of the largest quakes out of the top 24 landed in that period. You'd expect the mean to be eight, if quakes are completely random. I ran a t-test separating the quakes listed on your wikipedia page by 4-month groups, making your december-march one group, may-july another, and august-november the third one. Assuming the null hypothesis that quakes are completely random, the two-tailed P value for that sample was 0.5242. ie, Not statistically significant at all.
I'm on an email list of a guy that watches worldwide earthquake reports. He commented on the New Zealand quake, and gave a 'heads up' for the Ring of Fire.
Ken Ring is just a crank.
No worries, in the cable map of Japan there are all manner of redundant paths out of the country. Really, compared to the misery of hundreds of thousands in the NE, the IT situation is of no import.
We must show sympathy for this tragedy.
Regards,
ovgadget