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- anderzole, on 02/02/2008, -14/+467something's afoot
- ophello, on 02/02/2008, -11/+420Cmon, people, its just a viral campaign for Cloverfield 2
- EllieElliott, on 02/02/2008, -15/+308smells fishy
- spyd3rweb, on 02/02/2008, -11/+2621 cable = accident
2 cables = possible accident
3 cables = deliberately sabotaged - Erich100, on 02/02/2008, -5/+243The CIA finally got the right one.
- Napoleone, on 02/02/2008, -19/+185By your picture you look to be a man approaching or in his forties. How is it maturity has eluded you this long?
- AriaStar, on 02/02/2008, -7/+172Will someone PLEASE think of the porn?!
- Maluka, on 02/02/2008, -5/+113One site reports "Stranger things have happened. But if there's a fourth cable cut in the Indian Ocean we're calling shenanigans. By whom?
Our best guess: terrorist sharks.
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/02/01/third ... - inactive, on 02/02/2008, -8/+110Internet Current Status
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/asia.htm - ieataquacrayons, on 02/02/2008, -16/+107And by people who do!
- dienaked, on 02/02/2008, -4/+91For just a little perspective:
Just over a year ago one undersea earthquake cut 9 cables in the Asia Pacific region.
3 years ago Pakistan was cut completely cut off because of an cut in a undersea cable.
In 2004 Sri-Lanka was cut off when a ship dropped anchor on a cable.
Five years ago someone did deliberately cut a cable just offshore from a resort in Japan.
In 1999 a cable in the North Sea was cut by a fishing trawler.
etc, etc. It happens more often than you'd think. This is just a very small set of examples. - ASSASSYN360, on 02/02/2008, -4/+88That is what happens when you miss two payments.
- BigBallistix, on 02/02/2008, -1/+80There's an old saying; A coincidence is remarkable, but a coincidence of coincidences is a conspiracy.
- MrFlesh, on 02/02/2008, -5/+82Three cables cut from "anchor dragging" That's not what anchors are used for and is not common.
1. severely impacts ability to move
2. will damage anchor
3. could lose anchor
Under sea cables are marked by buoys on the surface in shallow waters and captains know to be careful in the area because cutting on of these with your anchor would get a captain fired. - crashbang, on 02/02/2008, -7/+80I find it concerning that there is no more specific information as to why three of these cable have been suddenly incapcitated than " a ship's anchor did it." Hmmmm
- harlowsmonkeys, on 02/02/2008, -14/+83Well, that's what they get for living on an island. Oh wait...the mideast and india aren't islands. Why does ALL their internet access go through three undersea cables?
- inactive, on 02/02/2008, -9/+72i already said earlier that this is done to prevent the inauguration of the iranian oil bourse http://www.energybulletin.net/12125.html and http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=37468§ion ... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Oil_Bourse
- rtaibah, on 05/22/2009, -69/+132hmmm, sounds like Bush and his minions...
- Bonekhan, on 02/02/2008, -11/+73I'd be pissed if I was an Iranian, but not because of the no internet access.
- Lane, on 02/02/2008, -3/+654 cables = OMFG That one was like totally secret!
- benman587, on 02/02/2008, -2/+62Direct link to BBC article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7222536.stm
- ElbertF, on 02/02/2008, -4/+60We're as much disconnected from them as they from us.
- gds923, on 02/02/2008, -13/+64Folks, this is bad news, and is in no way a benefit to the Bush administration. The best chance we have to fight terrorism in the middle east is through the free spread of information.
- bosssmiley, on 02/02/2008, -7/+57March about in the streets chanting "Death to America" like they did back in the 1980s probably...
- Fawkes, on 02/02/2008, -3/+51Well that explains why I can't talk to Joshua... Ah well, anyone for a game of chess?
- surfff, on 02/02/2008, -2/+47based off those graphs, FLORIDA also has no internet. i doubt that... http://www.internettrafficreport.com/history/111.h ...
- Swarms, on 02/02/2008, -1/+45Writing this from Florida, I doubt that, too.
- Napoleone, on 02/02/2008, -5/+43You did indeed. Your presentations are usually so over the top though, that it's very hard to take what you say seriously. I don't say that to offend, but rather to advise you to exercise restraint in your presentations.
- wizzpig1337, on 02/02/2008, -10/+45I'd be pissed if i was an Iranian. No counter-strike, no digg, no msn, no mininova.org, no youtube, no break.com
wtf would i do with my spare time ?! =( - imnojezus, on 02/02/2008, -0/+35Who sold them the friggin' lasers? I smell conspiracy.
- TheKorn2, on 02/02/2008, -1/+33Laying cable is expensive (hyuck hyuck hyuck). Besides, I can see their logic... "if someone cuts this cable, then we have the backup RIGHT OVER THERE! There's no way someone would cut both, right?? RIGHT??"
- inactive, on 02/02/2008, -5/+37According to Wikipedia, Iran's population is over 70,000,000!
- jazzboyrules, on 02/02/2008, -3/+33traditional war, cold war, bio war,... e-war
- aguitarhero, on 02/02/2008, -0/+30Approach girls.
- allan17, on 02/02/2008, -11/+41A ***** car just crashed in Iran - I'm sure Bush is involved in this somehow...
- GeekyGerge, on 02/02/2008, -1/+29That's a pretty neat skill
- notjamt9000, on 02/02/2008, -3/+30I guess there's always satellite internet access
- thetechkid, on 02/02/2008, -1/+27According to Wikipedia, Iran's population is OVER 9000!
- diggcensors, on 02/02/2008, -5/+30your hand
- WolverineBlue, on 02/02/2008, -2/+27Huh, his entire post was "something's afoot." I don't see the US anywhere in that statement. When just two cables were cut, I just thought it was really bad coincidence, but three cables at the same time seems too improbable. I'm not saying it was the US, it could've been a lot of groups.
- LEPT0N, on 02/02/2008, -1/+26um... that site also claims Florida has no internet right now...
- tastypaste, on 02/02/2008, -2/+26Maybe it's just one boat with a drunk captain sailing around the ocean with his anchor down? I remember another drunk captain who didn't see Alaska in front of him and ran into it, spilling tons of oil everywhere.
- DocHoliday22, on 02/02/2008, -6/+30India is becoming a backbone for outsourced operations so no Internet for them pretty much means a vicious collapse for western economies too... So it doesn't seem like a conspiracy.
- MohammadHosein, on 02/02/2008, -1/+24***** .
i live in Tehran and everything is as usual . Iran is connected to Turkey via several STM-4's and to london via a single STM-1 as backup , also there are several satellite-based backup links . - Memitim, on 02/02/2008, -9/+32Yeah, because there is absolutely no reason to suspect the US government when highly unlikely ***** happens to Iran.
- inactive, on 02/02/2008, -3/+26well, first you must understand what Iranian Oil Bourse is. It is a petroleum exchange that will be dealing and transacting in Euros and Yen only. Underpinning the support of the PETRO USD. If all of Eurasia will follow, then the USD's only support - oil - will cease to exist, and, the USD will become a toilet paper. Copish?
- EmailAddress, on 02/02/2008, -3/+25nice time to install a sophisticated packet sniffer...
- gak001, on 02/02/2008, -1/+23I believe it was SIr Winston Churchill who said something to the effect of Once is happenstance, Twice is coincidence, the third time it's enemy action. Auric Goldfinger may have said it too.
- Jeffler, on 02/02/2008, -10/+31***** off, my best friend is living there for the year and relies on his internet connection to communicate with me and his other friends.
- samssf, on 02/02/2008, -7/+27Bush doesn't want to fight terrorism diplomatically. He wants it to be enough of a threat that we can send troops and go to war.
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