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- cleanideas, on 02/07/2008, -2/+96Yeah, everybody is being really paranoid! Nobody is actually cutting the ca
- LiquidIse, on 02/07/2008, -43/+128"If you cut a cable, all you are doing is inconveniencing a lot of people."
Um, no. An entire country dropping offline not only makes huge expenses for that companies IP maintenence crews, it destroys national and international economy. You try taking the US offline for 24 hours, watch what NYC and wall street look like. - saltinekracka20, on 02/07/2008, -2/+69The dolphin from Seaquest.
- DRINKxREDxBULL, on 02/07/2008, -22/+87Finally, as sane voice of reason.
Unless they already got to the staff of Wired.......... - mechman, on 02/07/2008, -4/+68I still say it's a viral ad campaign for Cloverfield 2.
- madfrogurt, on 02/07/2008, -1/+52Iran was never taken offline. Every country has redundancies to make sure this didn't happen.
- kaelyiesta, on 02/07/2008, -1/+45That quote is probably the most important piece of the article. I had no idea this was so common. Each article on this issue made it seem as if this was a unique event. It certainly changes my perspective to know that this isn't all that much of a coincidence now.
- RickS2, on 02/07/2008, -5/+45"Cable cuts happen on average once every three days," Beckert said. There are 25 large ships that do nothing but fix cable cuts and bends, Beckert adds.
How do they fix them? - Sogui, on 02/07/2008, -1/+34You'd think after the last 3 were marked as inaccurate people would realize IRAN WAS NEVER OFFLINE
- noahhoward, on 02/07/2008, -2/+29It's almost as if you didn't read the whole article.
- woodenbender, on 02/07/2008, -1/+24duct tape
- CannedMango, on 02/07/2008, -22/+45"I'm much more worried about terrorists blowing up people than cables," Beckert said. "If you cut a cable, all you are doing is inconveniencing a lot of people."
Well, I'm much more worried about the American government carrying out clandestine operations in the middle east that escalate tensions and push us closer to war than the (near) impossible chance of ever being blown up by "terrorists". - overtoke, on 02/07/2008, -2/+21Day 8 of seeing this lame comment.
- goatomatic, on 02/07/2008, -1/+16My friend's glad to hear this because it's effecting the area his job is being outsourced to.
- madfrogurt, on 02/07/2008, -10/+24I'm happy to see a non-hysteric news piece on the cable cuts.
Oh wait, I'm on digg. I meant to say we're obviously at war with Iran because we need more thermite to start a false flag event to then reveal we've captured Bin Ladin already before the next election. Ron Paul '08. - deepdiggdude, on 02/07/2008, -1/+14Yeah, wasn't the internet originally designed to be a system that would work around such failures? That was the whole point of the webbed structure, yes?
- oldhick, on 02/07/2008, -1/+14There is nothing wrong with obtaining facts and asking questions. But that wasn't what was going on. People were already assuming it was the US government preparing for war... That's just ignorant and stupid. Until you have the facts, don't make stupid assumptions that make you look like an ass a day later.
- noahhoward, on 02/07/2008, -0/+10They're also upstream from the cuts and have landlines.
- legendxx, on 02/07/2008, -0/+9Iran was never off-line.. not even close.
- DLCNYC, on 02/07/2008, -0/+9Oh no...they just cut the cable in Florida, too!
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm
And Germany!
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/europe.htm
And Chile!
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/samerica.htm
Grab your canned goods and head for the hills...this isn't terrorism...IT'S THE APOCALYPSE! WAAAAAAAA!
/idiocy - jdh358, on 02/07/2008, -0/+9Let alone just the next sentence.
- noahhoward, on 02/07/2008, -0/+8Pull them up with a hook clean the ends rejoin the cable and lay it back down.
- DogBotherer, on 02/07/2008, -0/+8affecting
- chrisgnv, on 02/07/2008, -0/+8You sound pretty intelligent and informed.
- madfrogurt, on 02/07/2008, -0/+8And this is the most dugg comment. Bravo digg, you really show just how often people will vote for a comment that directly contradicts the article because it doesn't fit your views.
- DreKor, on 02/07/2008, -1/+8This isn't really hard to explain. I think this does the best job of visually demonstrating the causes of these fiber cuts.
http://frozenreality.co.uk/comic/bunny/index.php?i ... - Fenix, on 02/07/2008, -1/+8http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_communicati ...
- hotsoda, on 02/07/2008, -4/+10"Put your tin foil hats back under the bed. It is most likely not terrorism."
..that's what they want you to think! - oldhick, on 02/07/2008, -0/+6Not true.
- Error601, on 02/07/2008, -0/+6That's where we employ the wondrous magic of using an alternate route. Maybe if these sneaking bastards took out a few thousand main lines and all the satellites then we'd have something.
- dudefather, on 02/07/2008, -3/+9bah regular cuts? hogwash! A conspiracy theory is so much more likely/entertaining than the mere 'truth'
- noahhoward, on 02/07/2008, -4/+10You are what is known as paranoid, or delusional. They're both fine illnesses take your pick.
- madfrogurt, on 02/07/2008, -0/+5See we've already bombed them, and every phone call, email, blog post and newscast from Iran is really just CGI and advanced AI from the CIA's Sigma program.
Here's to hoping no one ever finds the huge hole in the middle east which I assure you is currently smoldering. - Devaney, on 02/07/2008, -0/+5I think that if they're sitting on the bottom of a sea/ocean they couldn't be very tight, you'd have to give them a lot of slack so they'd conform to the underwater geography (drop offs and such)
- Hackdaddy, on 02/07/2008, -3/+8Like I'm going to trust anything the ***** main stream media says...
The true conspiracy is that MSM is a pure propaganda instrument. - acliffhang3r, on 02/08/2008, -1/+5Could someone explain what this means? http://www.internettrafficreport.com/asia.htm
- notoneofus, on 02/07/2008, -0/+4I don't know. Those PayPal fees really cut into your profit.
- Error601, on 02/07/2008, -2/+6I guess that wasn't as obviously tongue and cheek as I thought. Or some people like the above are retarded.
- merreborn, on 02/07/2008, -3/+7There hasn't been a single cut in the US yet. Good po
- Burn, on 02/07/2008, -0/+4It's fibre optic cable, it can't electrocute anything.
- madfrogurt, on 02/07/2008, -2/+6You make nonsense connections, make outlandish claims and your logic fails even a basic run through. This is low level paranoid schizophrenia, not critical thinking.
- Oea420, on 02/08/2008, -0/+4It means wherever router1.iust.ac.ir is (One, sole router, in all of Iran.. what, you think one router controls ALL of information going in an out of a country? Give me a break) is offline at the moment, most likely due to cut in an undersea cable.
- _skin_, on 02/07/2008, -5/+9Damnit, I really wanted this to be true... My tinfoil hat was getting dusty.
- BigBallistix, on 02/07/2008, -3/+6If you're referring to the notion of rerouting, then I suggest you consider the added potential of, oh I dunno... THIS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON if you can manipulate the expected ping, and excuse yourself with articles like Wired's when everyone starts asking questions.
- drastik21, on 02/07/2008, -0/+3you mean like an anchor.
- thailand1972, on 02/08/2008, -0/+3Means zilch, look at Florida:-
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm
One router's downtime does not mean a whole country / state is down. - VeganG, on 02/07/2008, -0/+3Do you realize how slow and laggy satellite internet is?
- RetardoCrisp, on 02/07/2008, -0/+32000+ ft of line and a rock is not easy to tow and the cables have a heavy sheath on them to specifically protect them from issues on the ocean floor. They get buried over time as well by quite a bit of sediment. I am a commercial diver by trade and been down deep on the ocean floor for concrete jacket work over pipes etc.
- RetardoCrisp, on 02/07/2008, -7/+10Scapegoat of the 21st Century...Al Quaeda....Jesus Christ guys, quit buying into the ***** propagandist hype. They supposedly took control of several airplanes with ***** Exacto knives and managed to do a 180* banked turn at 500+ mph in a 757 and now you buy this story that they cut the ocean floor cables? What did they use, buckets & garden hoses with Kirby Morgan written on the side of them and dove down 2000ft and cut them with their huge supply of Exacto knives?
- protogenxl, on 02/07/2008, -0/+3Call Sealab, I bet Captain Murphy is trying to get an illegal cable tv hookup again.
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