North Korean Internet Is Down

First time accepted submitter opentunings writes "Engadget and many others are reporting that North Korea's external Internet access is down. No information yet regrading whether anyone's taking responsibility. From the NYT: "Doug Madory, the director of Internet analysis at Dyn Research, an Internet performance management company, said that North Korean Internet access first became unstable late Friday. The situation worsened over the weekend, and by Monday, North Korea’s Internet was completely offline. 'Their networks are under duress,' Mr. Madory said. 'This is consistent with a DDoS attack on their routers,' he said, referring to a distributed denial of service attack, in which attackers flood a network with traffic until it collapses under the load."

Comments

Re:Who will get

[AK Marc]

So when does the US go to war to defend a Japanese company? The US won't defend Americans in the USA (how many unarmed black men were killed by cops this year? How many black men were lynched this year?), but will happily start a war to defend the Right of Japan to make profit in the USA.

Re:Who will get

[AK Marc]

There are more white people than black people in the USA. So there could be strong racism and your statement still be true. Also, how many were unarmed and under 20? That seems to be the sweet spot for killing black men.

Re:Who will get

[AK Marc]

Could it just POSSIBLY be that blacks are far more likely than whites to be engaged in street activities that are begging to attract police attention?

Nope. Every study I've seen done on it indicates that two people with a clean background check, one white and one black are both equally likely to offend, and that applies across all types of offending (violent, felony, non-violent). The issue is that Black people are more likely to be harshly punished for any act, leading to higher recividism. But I've never seen a study that shows a black person with no record is more likely to offend than a white person of the same SES level. If you've seen one, I'd love to see it.

The studies indicate that recividism is higher in Blacks because they perceive unfair treatment, and the studies detect unfair treatment.

And that, once confronted, just maybe they might be far more threatening - as in, likely to whip out a handgun or rush the officer?

Unrelated to the number of beatings/killings of unarmed people, who, by definition couldn't have pulled a gun on the cops.

On the other hand, every single one of the issues presented remains absolutely topical to this day. You take the afros and 60s cars out of that episode and it could have been made yesterday.

My experience is that this exists because the whites assert there is no racism, especially against those lazy, worthless Niggers. The system does hold down the Black man, and the system calls all Black people liars for thinking it does. When we admit our racism and embrace it (in an MLK way, not a Hitler way), then we'll be closer to moving away from being suck in the '60s race riots for another 200 years.

I know multiple people who claim to not be racist, but insist they wouldn't hire anyone who wasn't white. That kind of disconnect, insisting everything is right, while doing the opposite, is what causes frustration. If every Black person born tomorrow actually had all the same opportunities as white people, we wouldn't have any racism in a generation. But I know plenty of people who were pulled over for DWB. Even had it happen to me once, for driving a "bad" car in a nice neighborhood at night. Driving home from volunteering at a non-profit as a poor college student. "Your inspection sticker looked to be out of date". But it wasn't. And where he was, I don't think he could have even seen the sticker at all, let alone have any idea whether it was valid. The new Caddy in front didn't get pulled over, and the new Mazda behind me didn't get pulled over, and had the same exact sticker (I know because Mom owned the non-profit I was volunteering at, and was following me home). This was in a small town that has been sued for racism (rounding up brown people at bus stops and arresting them for loitering). I have no doubt he thought I didn't belong, and waved me on when he stopped me and established I was white and did look like everyone else. Young enough to be allowed a used car, and old enough to have a license. Move along, white boy, you are valid. But if I'd been black or otherwise didn't look as fit-in as he liked, I'm sure I'd have had harassed me more.