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Ship Anchor Damages African Undersea Cables
New submitter Bastian227 writes "A ship anchoring in a restricted area disrupted an East African high-speed Internet connection. The damaged fiber optic cable is one of three new undersea cables in the area off Kenyan coast. Repairs could take up to 14 days. 'The Teams cable had been rerouting data from three other cables severed 10 days ago in the Red Sea between Djibouti and the Middle East. Together, the four fiber-optic cables channel thousands of gigabytes of information per second and form the backbone of East Africa's telecom infrastructure. Telecom companies were reeling over the weekend as engineers attempted to reroute data south along the East African coast and around the Cape of Good Hope.'"
no more Nigerian scams!
Another bunch of accidental cable disruptions clustered in space and time? Am I paranoid to wonder if something's going on here? Or is it like how earthquakes get more press when they come in bunches?
Yo dawg, I heard you like the Ackermann function, so OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD
So the internet is now leaking cats into the red sea?
My first program:
Hell Segmentation fault
Now all those bits and bytes are now flowing into the sea
Considering Kenya/Tanzania/Uganda being more Western friendly and advanced over their neighbors it makes them hot spots for radical islamic groups. I'm sure all the new updated monitoring hardware on the other servered cables will be matched here as well.
I recall a political science class with a circular diagram... something about extreme fascism and extreme socialism going about achieving their ends using the same methods. Ironic these people are so in favor of going backward 1,600 years and using all this modern, western developed technology to do a lot of their communicating - they pass it off as more 'Ends justifying the means' BS Hard for me to consider them anything more than they really are on the surface - murderers, power hungry, dictatorial, etc.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
No sir. They are called terabytes.
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Together, the four fiber-optic cables channel thousands of gigabytes of information per second
They're called petabytes.
Petabytes would be millions of gigabytes. For this one we go with terabytes.
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
What exactly does "restricted area" mean in this case? If this means ships are prohibited from dropping anchor there and the ship did anyway, what is the consequence to the captain and ship owner? Loss of license for the captain for violating restricted area? Jail time for vandalism? Ship's owner on the hook for the cost of repair? Seems like if this sort of thing is becoming common than some severe punishment might encourage others to be more careful in the future...especially if it means loss of career and/or freedom for the captain and significant loss of money to the owner.
Because black people are from Africa. Any time you point out something bad about any area which is primarily black you are automatically a racist. It's actually a method used, ironically, by racists to project their hate onto someone else.
Nevermind that Nigeria is in Africa, and that no one said anything like "See all those black people will have to stop trying to scam us whites now that they have no Internet connection."
The pseudo-intellectual trendies on here will always try to point out some grand injustice to cover up their own hatred.
Because black people are from Africa.
All people are from Africa.
You know that game where you drop a quarter into a fish tank and try to get it to fall into a shot glass to win a prize?
Somehow they keep dropping anchors through 5000 feet of water to hit a cable a few inches in diameter laying on the ocean floor.
Who cares what they're called. How many floppy disks does it take to hold them and under how many Olympic size swimming pools of water are those cables submerged?
I was promised a flying car. Where is my flying car?