01-31-2008, 09:33 AM
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Internet Failure Hits Two Continents
Internet Failure Hits Two Continents
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CNN) -- Large swathes of Asia, the Middle East and north Africa had their high-technology services crippled Thursday following a widespread Internet failure which brought many businesses to a standstill and left others struggling to cope.
One major telecommunications provider blamed the outage, which started Wednesday, on a major undersea cable failure in the Mediterranean.
India's Internet bandwidth has been sliced in half, The Associated Press reported, leaving its lucrative outsourcing industry trying to reroute traffic to satellites and other cables through Asia.
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I really hope this doesn't spread, although it doesn't sound like it is likely to.
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01-31-2008, 10:28 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: In my office, at the Ministry of Awesome!
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Oh no, there's something wrong with the tubes!!!!
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01-31-2008, 10:33 AM
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Scoring Winger
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It's spreading!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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01-31-2008, 10:46 AM
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Lifetime Suspension
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It's Skynet!
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01-31-2008, 10:52 AM
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In the Sin Bin
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Thank god our internet wasnt affected, I'd be bored out of my mind at work.
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01-31-2008, 10:53 AM
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Dances with Wolves
Join Date: Jun 2006
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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
Oh no, there's something wrong with the tubes!!!!
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don't panic, we just need to unclog the congestion with a Keno ball.
If I could find the daily show clip to go along with that statement this thread would be certified gold.
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01-31-2008, 10:56 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2003
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Russic
don't panic, we just need to unclog the congestion with a Keno ball.
If I could find the daily show clip to go along with that statement this thread would be certified gold.
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Maybe we should give Al Gore a call.
The guy who invented the internet could probably help with getting this tube problem sorted out. Maybe fix global warming while he's at it.
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01-31-2008, 11:01 AM
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One of the Nine
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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
Maybe we should give Al Gore a call.
The guy who invented the internet could probably help with getting this tube problem sorted out. Maybe fix global warming while he's at it.
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Uh oh... You're going to pay for that... 
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01-31-2008, 11:04 AM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
Maybe we should give Al Gore a call.
The guy who invented the internet could probably help with getting this tube problem sorted out. Maybe fix global warming while he's at it.
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Al apparently busy having work done on his house. Getting a new small coal fired plant to generate power so he can have a few new goodies installed.
He could however probably do a movie about it!!!
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01-31-2008, 11:07 AM
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Farm Team Player
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Calgary
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I dont know if its just my imagination but I feel like there is a little less lag while surfing (for me on this old computer anyways).
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01-31-2008, 11:26 AM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: /dev/null
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Originally Posted by 4X4
Uh oh... You're going to pay for that... |
Indeed.
WWW (WEB) does not == Internets
/puts old man hat on
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01-31-2008, 11:27 AM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Nov 2006
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Originally Posted by skippy
I dont know if its just my imagination but I feel like there is a little less lag while surfing (for me on this old computer anyways).
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Tides are coming in pretty decent today I guess. 
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02-01-2008, 09:23 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
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A cable off the coast of Egypt was cut by a ship's anchor.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01...lose_internet/
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A spokesman for Flag Telecom, the owner of the severed cable, told the Reg: "It is a problem off the coast of Alexandria in Egypt. For some reason ships were asked to anchor in a different place to normal - 8.3km from the beach. One of the ship's anchors cut our cable but there are multiple cuts - we're not the only company having problems."
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02-01-2008, 09:24 AM
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Just imagine how many kittens were saved yesterday...
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02-01-2008, 10:29 AM
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Has Towel, Will Travel
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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
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Sorta like a tubal ligation then? 
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02-01-2008, 10:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Ford Prefect
Sorta like a tubal ligation then? |
or vasectomy 
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02-01-2008, 10:44 AM
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Has Towel, Will Travel
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Originally Posted by redforever
or vasectomy |
Ixnay the V word! 
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02-01-2008, 12:15 PM
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Originally Posted by fredr123
Just imagine how many kittens were saved yesterday...
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Hahaha!
Probably quite a few.
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02-06-2008, 08:59 AM
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Another cable has been damaged in the middle east.
This is the 5th one in about a week.
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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02-06-2008, 09:22 AM
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Scoring Winger
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Anyone else find it ironic that internet outages are being reported over the internet. Reminds me of that episode of Family guy when peter took out the TV signal.
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