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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."
The people who care are the hundreds of thousands, nay the millions of people who are trying to contact loved ones in the quake zone.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
Yeah, because underseas telecommunications cables are only used for the Internet. They couldn't be used for, say, telecommunications.
Who cares if the news can get out? Who cares if family members can reach each other? Who cares about coordinating rescue and relief efforts?
I don't know about that.
In a couple days some of them might have tentacles of their own, so...
They're mostly already dead, so not too many more stray survivors to be found. Not everybody can dig for bodies. Not everybody can save the world from nuclear disaster. Not everybody can rebuild houses. These cables are somebody's responsibility and are very important in their own right. Clearly they're not THE TOP PRIORITY, but somebody has to address it sooner or later.
This is a government cover up, we all know it was actually Godzilla that caused it!
Hundreds of thousands of people trying to see if their loved ones are safe, IS THE INTERNET UP, everywhere?
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I know how awkward it sounds, but it is plural.
No. It's not. Data is not the plural of datum. Data is a substance.
Much as you can't have too many rice, you can't have too many data. You can, however, have too much rice/data, and too many grains/points of rice/data.
A datum is a single data point. Data itself is unquantifiable until you are talking about the specific points of data. When the sentence says "New data shows...", it is clear that the data in question is akin to information, knowledge, insight, measurements, etc. to every single person on the planet except the guy who took the measurements.
Data is singular.
Agreed with sexconker (great name btw), but specifically, data is a mass noun in addition to be plural for datum. There are specific references from the Wiki page that you can go look up, if you don't believe the Wiki page in the first place.
Data is a substance? The only physically substantive data I can think of is from TNG. And I miss him.
It is unwise to ascribe motive
Try the dictionary next time.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/data
Data leads a life of its own quite independent of datum, of which it was originally the plural. It occurs in two constructions: as a plural noun (like earnings), taking a plural verb and plural modifiers (as these, many, a few) but not cardinal numbers, and serving as a referent for plural pronouns (as they, them); and as an abstract mass noun (like information), taking a singular verb and singular modifiers (as this, much, little), and being referred to by a singular pronoun (it). Both constructions are standard.
And the telcos who surely need tens of billions of dollars in government aid to repair the cables, surely!
The thing shifted the entire island by 8ft, I'm not surprised our comm cables were damaged.
That's nothing. Have you read some of the comments on "news" sites? I was reading an article on a paper's website about the US looking to provide some assistance to Japan and the comments tended to be something like "serves them right, we should let them die for WWII!".
Fortunately, they're allowed to breed and vote the same as everyone else. Uh . . . hurrah. :/
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.
The photons and electrons in the cables have "substance", while a photon has no mass it has measurable properties and electrons have mass.
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
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
The Konami code appears to be the code to disable Japan in real life.
(I'm going to hell for this...)
Aquaman weeps some more...
Why Gilbert Godfrey, you little asshole, lost your cushy two-syllable Aflac job but still at it?
If tsunami hits east coast somewhere close to Pennsylvania and rolls over west coast next to LA or Seattle, then spam will go down.
That's nothing. Have you read some of the comments on "news" sites? I was reading an article on a paper's website about the US looking to provide some assistance to Japan and the comments tended to be something like "serves them right, we should let them die for WWII!".
Yes, and those comments are nothing compared to the comments on the Chinese websites. The US remembers an attack by a foreign military against a US military target, albeit a sneak attack. The Chinese remember the rape of Nanjing.
It's both a natural AND a virtual disaster.
Wow....political correctness is really going pretty far these days. I mean, EVERY time there is a tragedy or crisis, these type of jokes come out.
Anyone remember the Challenger explosion and the jokes that followed that?
What does NASA stand for?
Need Another Seven Astronauts
Tasteless? Sure...but that's just human nature, gallows humor. Are we not too "PC" to allow this anymore?
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
I agree with you but only two of his twelve Japan Tsunami jokes were funny
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
Try the dictionary next time.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/data
Data leads a life of its own quite independent of datum, of which it was originally the plural. It occurs in two constructions: as a plural noun (like earnings), taking a plural verb and plural modifiers (as these, many, a few) but not cardinal numbers, and serving as a referent for plural pronouns (as they, them); and as an abstract mass noun (like information), taking a singular verb and singular modifiers (as this, much, little), and being referred to by a singular pronoun (it). Both constructions are standard.
Nice, a succinct answer to the data/datum "controversy" that seems to upset many nerds...
Did you mount a military-grade, variable-focus MASER on an unlicensed artificial intelligence?
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.
he only talked AT them when he needed a favor, some friend
Gilbert is just another comic who has seen a niche and is working aggressively to prevent anyone else from crawling into it with him. He's The Loud, Obtuse Idiot. People are actually making jokes about how Ross is The Old Comedian. Carlin recently gave up The Dirty Old Man, but it'll be a while before anyone really attempts to own that again, or maybe it'll just be some time before they can get away with it.
Or in other words, Gilbert is never funny, and he knows it.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"