Fantastic. I printed it and it's on my wall. And for those of you who are too lazy to follow the link, here it is:
WHEN DOES EDUCATION STOP?
by James Michener, 1962
During the summer vacation a fine-looking young man, who was majoring in literature at a top university, asked for an interview, and before we had talked for five minutes, he launched into his complaint.
'Can you imagine?' he lamented. 'During vacation I have to write a three-thousand-word term paper about your books.' He felt very sorry for himself.
His whimpering irritated me, and on the spur of the moment I shoved at him a card which had become famous in World War II. It was once used on me while I was 'bitching' to a chaplain on Guadalcanal. It read:
Young Man, your sad story is truly heartbreaking.
Excuse me while I fetch a crying towl.
My complaining visitor reacted as I had done twenty years earlier. He burst into laughter and asked, 'Did I sound that bad?'
'Worse!' I snapped. Then I pointed to a novel of mine which he was using as the basis for his term paper. 'You're bellyaching about a three-thousand-word paper which at most will occupy you for a month. When I started work on Hawaii, I faced the prospect of a three-million-word term paper. And five years of work. Frankly, you sound silly.'
This strong language encouraged an excellent discussion of the preparation it takes to write a major novel. Five years of research, months of character development, extensive work on plot and setting, endless speculation on psychology and concentrated work on historical backgrounds.
'When I was finally ready to write,' I replied under questioning, 'I holed up in a bare-wall, no-telephone Waikiki room and stuck at my typewriter every morning for eighteen months. Seven days a week I wrestled with the words that would not come, with ideas that refused to jell. When I broke a tooth, I told the dentist I'd have to see him at night. When DeWitt Wallace, the editor of the Reader's Digest and a man to whom I am much indebted, came to Hawaii on vacation, I wanted to hike with him but had to say, "In the late afternoon. In the morning I work."'
I explained to my caller that I write all my books slowly, with two fingers on an old typewriter, and the actual task of getting the words on paper is difficult. Nothing I write is good enough to be used in first draft, not even important personal letters, so I am required to rewrite everything at least twice. Important work, like a novel, must be written over and over again, up to six or seven times. For example, Hawaii went very slowly and needed constant revision. Since the final version contained about 500,000 words, and since I wrote it all many times, I had to type in my painstaking fashion about 3,000,000 words.
At this news, my visitor whistled and asked, 'How many research books did you have to consult?'
'Several thousand. When I started the actual writing, there were about five hundred that I kept in my office.'
'How many personal interviews?'
'About two hundred. Each two or three hours long.'
'Did you write much that you weren't able to use?'
'I had to throw away about half a million words.'
The young scholar looked again at the chaplain's card and returned it reverently to my desk. 'Would you have the energy to undertake such a task again?' he asked.
'I would always like to be engaged in such tasks,' I replied, and he turned to other questions.
Young people, especially those in college who should know better, frequently fail to realize that men and women who wish to accomplish anything must apply themselves to tasks of tremendous magnitude. A new vaccine may take years to perfect. A Broadway play is never written, cast and produced in a week. A foreign policy is never evolved in a brief time by diplomats relaxing in Washington, London or Geneva.
The good work of the world is accomplished principally by people who dedi
I absolutely agree iwht Nursie, but for different reasons. College is there to train you in your field. Gaining a well rounded education is *your* responsibility. While it is very convenient to get the background knowledge necessary for humanities, it all boils down to current events. Knowing what is happening in the world *will* affect your life, and you'll never understand what's going on without a decent background.
But I believe that you should focus on your trade in college, and use the time to learn how to study arts/humanities on your own, since it'll be necessary to do so for the duration.
And I have to totally disagree about high school, because you're going to have to throw out about half of the bullshit they fed you about arts and humanities there.
But those arms were sticking out too far, some people were accidentally running into them, so we had to make the statues more secure to the public. Think of the blind people!!
All kidding asside, I think that this is a great idea, there's absolutely a market space for a secure browser, specifically running on a server. You still shouldn't use it to surf pr0n, but finding those useful little applications online for your server would be much easier if I could do it on the server itself safely.
Second, this being from a University and released open source, I expect this to have an impact not by taking some 'market share' but by possibly aggregating some of it's technologies to other browsers.
RTFA - They didn't badmouth Zombies Ate My Neighbors, they just said it's name was bad, and bring up a good point - would the game have been more popular if it didn't have such a cheesy name?
(Cultural spoof notwithstanding, many video game players at that time mostly weren't allowed to watch zombie movies in the 70s and 80s.)
This isn't a technical issue though, but a social one. The technology workaround is easy, defending the rights of WikiLeaks (and by extension, the rest of us) is the hard part.
I don't need to make one, I can rip the press release straight out of ftp.hq.nasa.gov,/pub/pao/pressrel/1999/99-114. You can also see how they followed up on it at http://oig.nasa.gov/old/inspections_assessments/g-00-021.pdf. Everyone makes mistakes.
NASA didn't gamble on the weather, they prepared what was necessary for the 90 day mission, showed up and succeeded, even through brutal dust storms. They've continued, dusterless, for 1327 days beyond their original spec, that's more than 14x the time they planned for. You're essentially accusing the crew of Apollo 17 of stupidity and lack of preparation for spending 56 days on the moon, and finally saying they might have to leave soon because they didn't bring the chemicals to clean the CO2 out of their oxygen scrubbers. (They're still game to try and stay a week or two more though.)
Your excuse follows, and yes, it was very stupid of them.
Douglas Isbell Headquarters, Washington, DC Sept. 30, 1999 (Phone: 202/358-1753)
Mary Hardin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA (Phone: 818/354-5011)
Joan Underwood Lockheed Martin Astronautics, Denver, CO (Phone: 303/971-7398)
RELEASE 99-113
MARS CLIMATE ORBITER TEAM FINDS LIKELY CAUSE OF LOSS
A failure to recognize and correct an error in a transfer of information between the Mars Climate Orbiter spacecraft team in Colorado and the mission navigation team in California led to the loss of the spacecraft last week, preliminary findings by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory internal peer review indicate.
"People sometimes make errors," said Dr. Edward Weiler, NASA's Associate Administrator for Space Science. "The problem here was not the error, it was the failure of NASA's systems engineering, and the checks and balances in our processes to detect the error. That's why we lost the spacecraft."
The peer review preliminary findings indicate that one team used English units (e.g., inches, feet and pounds) while the other used metric units for a key spacecraft operation. This information was critical to the maneuvers required to place the spacecraft in the proper Mars orbit.
"Our inability to recognize and correct this simple error has had major implications," said Dr. Edward Stone, director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "We have underway a thorough investigation to understand this issue."
Two separate review committees have already been formed to investigate the loss of Mars Climate Orbiter: an internal JPL peer group and a special review board of JPL and outside experts. An independent NASA failure review board will be formed shortly.
"Our clear short-term goal is to maximize the likelihood of a successful landing of the Mars Polar Lander on December 3," said Weiler. "The lessons from these reviews will be applied across the board in the future."
Mars Climate Orbiter was one of a series of missions in a long-term program of Mars exploration managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, DC. JPL's industrial partner is Lockheed Martin Astronautics, Denver, CO. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.
It's too bad that you aren't in the business of making excuses for stupidity, because by the time you finished excusing yourself, you'd have a pretty massive portfolio going.
Anyway, since you don't do it, I'll explain how it's done.
1. Correct your ignorance of the original post. You might be right in your exhortations, but even if you were correct,(you're not btw) you have no idea why or the reasons for your arguments. So, go ahead and read the original post carefully. Move on to the articles. Interesting, interesting. Maybe even look at a photo. Maybe even look at the sonnet by Geoffry Landis, one of the MER scientists. Maybe poetry ain't your thing, but at least recognize the name and what it commemorated.
2. Correct your ignorance of the conversation. Read the significant posts that have came before you. Read the names of who wrote them and draw conclusions about their ability to be involved in the discussion. (Hint, some are more qualified than others, be sure to look out for theircomments.)
3. Correct your ignorance of your own general statements. You've mentioned egregious oversights, billion-dollar-probes, cars on the moon, insurmountability, Burt Rutan, engineers at any major oil company. and fucking dusters. I'll help you out some here.
We actually had built a dust experiment to test out some methods of removing dust. It had been scheduled to fly on the Mars-2001 Surveyor Lander, but the 2001 lander mission was cancelled after the failure of the 1999 Polar Lander (which used the same basic spacecraft design). In fact, we talked about dust removal technology for the MER, but it simply turned out that the most reliable solution was to increase the size of the panels so that they would still be at nominal power after 90 days worth of calculated dust accumulation.
Billion-Dollar-Probes - Cost: Approximately $820 million total (for both rovers)
$645 million for design/development + $100 million for the Delta launch vehicle and the launch + $75 million for mission operations
Cars on the moon - Didn't have solar panels.
insurmountability - No one claims the problem was insurmountable.
Burt Rutan - Aerospace Engineer. He could probably make the rovers fly in the Martian Atmosphere, but wouldn't be able to help much with the dust.
engineers at any major oil company - These engineers don't tend to work with solar panels, but with the massive profits available to these companies, bending their R&D budgets towards a dust-removal system would probably have some great conclusions as well.
4. Draw Conclusions and recognize stupidity
The hardest part of this process is recognizing stupidity where it lies. I can't do this for you, so I'll leave this as an assigned exercise.
5. Actually make excuse for stupidity to public
The creative task involves coming up with a good excuse. The best aren't pious but sincere and have a dose of self-depreciative humor, which shows your recognition of the mistake, preferably with a solution to not repeating it, the best explanation for the mistake, newfound understanding, and your willi
I tell people in windows environment to do a Start>Run services.msc all the time. Working through graphical hoops via delayed response communication (Emails or Forum Posts) can be a real issue unless you've got screenshots already prepped. And you can never be sure exactly what they clicked on in thier quest for the fix. Sometimes the user will diverge with your carefully planned click stream and be uanable to find their way back. CLI is a much easier way of troubleshooting.
Next I just need a good way to troubleshoot via voice.
For those of you who actually want to know "How they did it?" posted from: Renesys Blog which was found from Cydeweys which is updating as the story progresses. Both of those sites seem to be running a bit slow, so hesitate before clicking.
Just before 18:48 UTC, Pakistan Telecom, in response to government order to block access to YouTube (see news item) started advertising a route for 208.65.153.0/24 to its provider, PCCW (AS 3491). For those unfamiliar with BGP, this is a more specific route than the ones used by YouTube (208.65.152.0/22), and therefore most routers would choose to send traffic to Pakistan Telecom for this slice of YouTube's network.
I became interested in this immediately as I was concerned that I wouldn't be able to spend my evening watching imbecilic videos of cats doing foolish things (even for a cat). Then, I started to examine our mountains of BGP data and quickly noticed that the correct AS path ("Will the real YouTube please stand up?") was getting restored to most of our peers.
The data points identified below are culled from over 250 peering sessions with 170 unique ASNs. While it is hard to describe exactly how widely this hijacked prefix was seen, we estimate that it was seen by a bit more than two-thirds of the Internet.
This table shows the timing of the event and how quickly the route propagated (this is actually a fairly normal propagation pattern). The ASNs seeing the prefix were mostly transit ASNs below, so this means that these routes were distributed broadly across the Internet. Almost all of the default free zone (DFZ) carried the hijacked route at least briefly.
FYI: This YouTube video is just anti-Islamic propaganda, and unrelated to the subjects at hand. Don't waste your time on it, unless you feel like watching yet another technically-true, obviously-slanted video. I've had my fill of those from the election.
I guess I should mention that if you haven't yet bothered to get a little background on the widely accepted facts of the prophet's political barbarism, you should look into it... just don't do your research with crappy YouTube videos. And you should also be sure to follow up with Christianity's ascent to mainstream popularity.
IANAP, but when I watch lightning streak between the sky and the clouds, it doesn't appear to take the shortest possible route. If you factored in all of the atmospheric conditions, it might be the shortest electrical route, but... refer to my first acronym.
Slashdot Mirror
I also remembered this relevant story:
FBI Posts Fake Hyperlinks To Trap Downloaders of Illegal Porn
If everyone starts putting their crappy family videos of their kids online, I can see a ton of false positives.
But if there's any good, preexisting reason for this to be stopped, This could start happening in America too:
Having Your ID Stolen Leads to Job Loss, Prosecution
Didn't slashdot begin as a non-profit entity?
Fantastic. I printed it and it's on my wall. And for those of you who are too lazy to follow the link, here it is:
WHEN DOES EDUCATION STOP?
by James Michener, 1962
During the summer vacation a fine-looking young man, who was majoring in literature at a top university, asked for an interview, and before we had talked for five minutes, he launched into his complaint.
'Can you imagine?' he lamented. 'During vacation I have to write a three-thousand-word term paper about your books.' He felt very sorry for himself.
His whimpering irritated me, and on the spur of the moment I shoved at him a card which had become famous in World War II. It was once used on me while I was 'bitching' to a chaplain on Guadalcanal. It read:
Young Man, your sad story is truly heartbreaking.
Excuse me while I fetch a crying towl.
My complaining visitor reacted as I had done twenty years earlier. He burst into laughter and asked, 'Did I sound that bad?'
'Worse!' I snapped. Then I pointed to a novel of mine which he was using as the basis for his term paper. 'You're bellyaching about a three-thousand-word paper which at most will occupy you for a month. When I started work on Hawaii, I faced the prospect of a three-million-word term paper. And five years of work. Frankly, you sound silly.'
This strong language encouraged an excellent discussion of the preparation it takes to write a major novel. Five years of research, months of character development, extensive work on plot and setting, endless speculation on psychology and concentrated work on historical backgrounds.
'When I was finally ready to write,' I replied under questioning, 'I holed up in a bare-wall, no-telephone Waikiki room and stuck at my typewriter every morning for eighteen months. Seven days a week I wrestled with the words that would not come, with ideas that refused to jell. When I broke a tooth, I told the dentist I'd have to see him at night. When DeWitt Wallace, the editor of the Reader's Digest and a man to whom I am much indebted, came to Hawaii on vacation, I wanted to hike with him but had to say, "In the late afternoon. In the morning I work."'
I explained to my caller that I write all my books slowly, with two fingers on an old typewriter, and the actual task of getting the words on paper is difficult. Nothing I write is good enough to be used in first draft, not even important personal letters, so I am required to rewrite everything at least twice. Important work, like a novel, must be written over and over again, up to six or seven times. For example, Hawaii went very slowly and needed constant revision. Since the final version contained about 500,000 words, and since I wrote it all many times, I had to type in my painstaking fashion about 3,000,000 words.
At this news, my visitor whistled and asked, 'How many research books did you have to consult?'
'Several thousand. When I started the actual writing, there were about five hundred that I kept in my office.'
'How many personal interviews?'
'About two hundred. Each two or three hours long.'
'Did you write much that you weren't able to use?'
'I had to throw away about half a million words.'
The young scholar looked again at the chaplain's card and returned it reverently to my desk. 'Would you have the energy to undertake such a task again?' he asked.
'I would always like to be engaged in such tasks,' I replied, and he turned to other questions.
Young people, especially those in college who should know better, frequently fail to realize that men and women who wish to accomplish anything must apply themselves to tasks of tremendous magnitude. A new vaccine may take years to perfect. A Broadway play is never written, cast and produced in a week. A foreign policy is never evolved in a brief time by diplomats relaxing in Washington, London or Geneva.
The good work of the world is accomplished principally by people who dedi
I absolutely agree iwht Nursie, but for different reasons. College is there to train you in your field. Gaining a well rounded education is *your* responsibility. While it is very convenient to get the background knowledge necessary for humanities, it all boils down to current events. Knowing what is happening in the world *will* affect your life, and you'll never understand what's going on without a decent background.
But I believe that you should focus on your trade in college, and use the time to learn how to study arts/humanities on your own, since it'll be necessary to do so for the duration.
And I have to totally disagree about high school, because you're going to have to throw out about half of the bullshit they fed you about arts and humanities there.
You should sign up at WoW School!
In the words of the great H.J.S:
"Let this be a lesson to you, kids.... Never Try."
Or in short, the journalists tend to be liberal, their bosses aren't.
It's those god damn motherfucking TUBES, man! I see them going everywhere, but NO ONE IS STOPPING THE MADNESS!
But those arms were sticking out too far, some people were accidentally running into them, so we had to make the statues more secure to the public. Think of the blind people!!
All kidding asside, I think that this is a great idea, there's absolutely a market space for a secure browser, specifically running on a server. You still shouldn't use it to surf pr0n, but finding those useful little applications online for your server would be much easier if I could do it on the server itself safely.
Second, this being from a University and released open source, I expect this to have an impact not by taking some 'market share' but by possibly aggregating some of it's technologies to other browsers.
RTFA - They didn't badmouth Zombies Ate My Neighbors, they just said it's name was bad, and bring up a good point - would the game have been more popular if it didn't have such a cheesy name?
(Cultural spoof notwithstanding, many video game players at that time mostly weren't allowed to watch zombie movies in the 70s and 80s.)
Put a bigger, holographic wang on it.
Ever fly in one of those newfangled airplanes?
You have? Then your soul is DAMNED I tell you and DOOMED to burn in hellfire!
Run linux on it, and you could be stealing from this company
Math you can't use
I'm not sure if you were being sacrastic about patenting math or not, either way, this is still a great book!
But a symbol isn't a shape, it's an idea.
This isn't a technical issue though, but a social one. The technology workaround is easy, defending the rights of WikiLeaks (and by extension, the rest of us) is the hard part.
I don't need to make one, I can rip the press release straight out of ftp.hq.nasa.gov, /pub/pao/pressrel/1999/99-114. You can also see how they followed up on it at http://oig.nasa.gov/old/inspections_assessments/g-00-021.pdf. Everyone makes mistakes.
NASA didn't gamble on the weather, they prepared what was necessary for the 90 day mission, showed up and succeeded, even through brutal dust storms. They've continued, dusterless, for 1327 days beyond their original spec, that's more than 14x the time they planned for. You're essentially accusing the crew of Apollo 17 of stupidity and lack of preparation for spending 56 days on the moon, and finally saying they might have to leave soon because they didn't bring the chemicals to clean the CO2 out of their oxygen scrubbers. (They're still game to try and stay a week or two more though.)
Your excuse follows, and yes, it was very stupid of them.
Douglas Isbell
Headquarters, Washington, DC Sept. 30, 1999
(Phone: 202/358-1753)
Mary Hardin
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
(Phone: 818/354-5011)
Joan Underwood
Lockheed Martin Astronautics, Denver, CO
(Phone: 303/971-7398)
RELEASE 99-113
MARS CLIMATE ORBITER TEAM FINDS LIKELY CAUSE OF LOSS
A failure to recognize and correct an error in a transfer of
information between the Mars Climate Orbiter spacecraft team in
Colorado and the mission navigation team in California led to the
loss of the spacecraft last week, preliminary findings by NASA's
Jet Propulsion Laboratory internal peer review indicate.
"People sometimes make errors," said Dr. Edward Weiler,
NASA's Associate Administrator for Space Science. "The problem
here was not the error, it was the failure of NASA's systems
engineering, and the checks and balances in our processes to
detect the error. That's why we lost the spacecraft."
The peer review preliminary findings indicate that one team
used English units (e.g., inches, feet and pounds) while the other
used metric units for a key spacecraft operation. This
information was critical to the maneuvers required to place the
spacecraft in the proper Mars orbit.
"Our inability to recognize and correct this simple error
has had major implications," said Dr. Edward Stone, director of
the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "We have underway a thorough
investigation to understand this issue."
Two separate review committees have already been formed to
investigate the loss of Mars Climate Orbiter: an internal JPL peer
group and a special review board of JPL and outside experts. An
independent NASA failure review board will be formed shortly.
"Our clear short-term goal is to maximize the likelihood of a
successful landing of the Mars Polar Lander on December 3," said
Weiler. "The lessons from these reviews will be applied across the
board in the future."
Mars Climate Orbiter was one of a series of missions in a
long-term program of Mars exploration managed by the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory for NASA's Office of Space Science,
Washington, DC. JPL's industrial partner is Lockheed Martin
Astronautics, Denver, CO. JPL is a division of the California
Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.
- end-
Anyway, since you don't do it, I'll explain how it's done.
1. Correct your ignorance of the original post.
You might be right in your exhortations, but even if you were correct,(you're not btw) you have no idea why or the reasons for your arguments. So, go ahead and read the original post carefully. Move on to the articles. Interesting, interesting. Maybe even look at a photo. Maybe even look at the sonnet by Geoffry Landis, one of the MER scientists. Maybe poetry ain't your thing, but at least recognize the name and what it commemorated.
2. Correct your ignorance of the conversation.
Read the significant posts that have came before you. Read the names of who wrote them and draw conclusions about their ability to be involved in the discussion. (Hint, some are more qualified than others, be sure to look out for their comments.)
3. Correct your ignorance of your own general statements.
You've mentioned egregious oversights, billion-dollar-probes, cars on the moon, insurmountability, Burt Rutan, engineers at any major oil company. and fucking dusters. I'll help you out some here.
$645 million for design/development + $100 million for the Delta launch vehicle and the launch + $75 million for mission operations
4. Draw Conclusions and recognize stupidity
The hardest part of this process is recognizing stupidity where it lies. I can't do this for you, so I'll leave this as an assigned exercise.
5. Actually make excuse for stupidity to public
The creative task involves coming up with a good excuse. The best aren't pious but sincere and have a dose of self-depreciative humor, which shows your recognition of the mistake, preferably with a solution to not repeating it, the best explanation for the mistake, newfound understanding, and your willi
Streisland Effect. But hey, forming your own opinion about something isn't really a waste of time.
I tell people in windows environment to do a Start>Run services.msc all the time. Working through graphical hoops via delayed response communication (Emails or Forum Posts) can be a real issue unless you've got screenshots already prepped. And you can never be sure exactly what they clicked on in thier quest for the fix. Sometimes the user will diverge with your carefully planned click stream and be uanable to find their way back. CLI is a much easier way of troubleshooting.
Next I just need a good way to troubleshoot via voice.
Good job with those rovers by the way. :)
For those of you who actually want to know "How they did it?" posted from: Renesys Blog
/24 that has been hijacked to its providers
/25 routes are first seen from 36561
/25 routes from 36561
which was found from Cydeweys which is updating as the story progresses. Both of those sites seem to be running a bit slow, so hesitate before clicking.
Full text of Reneysys: Pakistan hijacks YouTube.
A few hours ago, Pakistan Telecom (AS 17557) began advertising a small part of YouTube's (AS 36561) assigned network. This story is almost as old as BGP. Old hands will recognize this as, fundamentally, the same problem as the http://merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/1997-04/msg00380.html">infamous AS 7007 from 1997, a more recent ConEd mistake of early 2006 and even TTNet's Christmas Eve gift 2005.
Just before 18:48 UTC, Pakistan Telecom, in response to government order to block access to YouTube (see news item) started advertising a route for 208.65.153.0/24 to its provider, PCCW (AS 3491). For those unfamiliar with BGP, this is a more specific route than the ones used by YouTube (208.65.152.0/22), and therefore most routers would choose to send traffic to Pakistan Telecom for this slice of YouTube's network.
I became interested in this immediately as I was concerned that I wouldn't be able to spend my evening watching imbecilic videos of cats doing foolish things (even for a cat). Then, I started to examine our mountains of BGP data and quickly noticed that the correct AS path ("Will the real YouTube please stand up?") was getting restored to most of our peers.
The data points identified below are culled from over 250 peering sessions with 170 unique ASNs. While it is hard to describe exactly how widely this hijacked prefix was seen, we estimate that it was seen by a bit more than two-thirds of the Internet.
This table shows the timing of the event and how quickly the route propagated (this is actually a fairly normal propagation pattern). The ASNs seeing the prefix were mostly transit ASNs below, so this means that these routes were distributed broadly across the Internet. Almost all of the default free zone (DFZ) carried the hijacked route at least briefly.
18:47:00uninterrupted videos of exploding jello
18:47:45first evidence of hijacked route propagating in Asia, AS path 3491 17557
18:48:00several big trans-Pacific providers carrying hijacked route (9 ASNs)
18:48:30several DFZ providers now carrying the bad route (and 47 ASNs)
18:49:00most of the DFZ now carrying the bad route (and 93 ASNs)
18:49:30all providers who will carry the hijacked route have it (total 97 ASNs)
20:07:25YouTube, AS 36561 advertises the
20:07:30several DFZ providers stop carrying the erroneous route
20:08:00many downstream providers also drop the bad route
20:08:30and a total of 40 some-odd providers have stopped using the hijacked route
20:18:43and now, two more specific
20:19:3725 more providers prefer the
20:28:12peers of 36561 start seeing the routes that were advertised to transit at 20:07
20:50:59evidence of attempted prepending, AS path was 3491 17557 17557
20:59:39hijacked prefix is withdrawn by 3491,
FYI: This YouTube video is just anti-Islamic propaganda, and unrelated to the subjects at hand. Don't waste your time on it, unless you feel like watching yet another technically-true, obviously-slanted video. I've had my fill of those from the election.
I guess I should mention that if you haven't yet bothered to get a little background on the widely accepted facts of the prophet's political barbarism, you should look into it... just don't do your research with crappy YouTube videos. And you should also be sure to follow up with Christianity's ascent to mainstream popularity.
IANAP, but when I watch lightning streak between the sky and the clouds, it doesn't appear to take the shortest possible route. If you factored in all of the atmospheric conditions, it might be the shortest electrical route, but... refer to my first acronym.