Elderly Woman Pokes Cable, Cuts Internet Access in Three Countries
- Thread starter Tom Goldman
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One cable. Millions of people affected by the slight damaging of one cable.
Someone really needs to turn these folks on to the concept of parallel circuitry.
Someone really needs to turn these folks on to the concept of parallel circuitry.
Just about the funniest thing I've seen in a long time 
From what I remember from a few of my classes and odd discussions with the tech people I work with, you can push copper to close to the speed of fiber. Because there is still "resistance" from not perfect optics, the speed is somewhere in the range of 2/3's that of light in a vacuum, and electricity can almost keep up... Almost
From what I remember from a few of my classes and odd discussions with the tech people I work with, you can push copper to close to the speed of fiber. Because there is still "resistance" from not perfect optics, the speed is somewhere in the range of 2/3's that of light in a vacuum, and electricity can almost keep up... Almost
We've already got Red stone dust that covers the purpose of wire, THEORY DEBUNKED.Jaranja said:
Wow, that'd suck, they didn't bother telling people where not to dig? It seems kind of important... for obvious reasons.
Uhh yeah, pretty much what I'm thinking. I mean it majorly sucks that happened, but come on, it was clearly an accident, the thing was not adequately protected, and she is an old lady. I really hope they leave her alone and don't pursue any charges against her.Tom Goldman said:
Maybe put a sign up that says "Don't Dig Here: Poorly Protected Telecomm Cable"
My Dad is working on a construction site where they have to plan carefully with Municipal administration for the land because the major Fiber optic line that connects Vancouver is under the job-site (as well as a kerosene fuel line that's piped out to YVR)
Interruption of the signal gets the Government fined $5,000,000/hour.
Interruption of the signal gets the Government fined $5,000,000/hour.
Meh, iron and crap like fiber-optic cables spawn near ground level. She needs to go deeper[sub][sub][sub][sub]INCEPTION[/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub] if she wants gold or diamonds.
Most of the US in terms of people or in terms of land mass?samsonguy920 said:
Though I wouldn't be surprised if there are over 3.2 million US citizens with worse or without internet, especially in rural areas. I know several people still on dial-up, or who have very spotty connections, because their local friendly monopolies decided it wasn't profitable enough to bring the connection into a low-density town.
That problem, plus this story, make me hope that the Google experiment in Kansas City [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/108873-Google-Building-Ultra-Highspeed-Internet-Line-in-Kansas-City] works out as well as it possibly can. Out of all the reasons to not have an internet connection, "because no one's bothered to run a line" has to be one of the silliest and easiest to (theoretically) solve.
This is hilarious because it happened far away. It'd become a lot less funny if it was closer to home.
Doesn't make much sense really.kaizen2468 said:
Nevertheless, hilarious. It'd be funny trying to explain to your friends that you couldn't go on the internet because some elderly woman poked a cable.
It's a pity that 3.2 million people lost their internet -temporarily-, pretty sad.
see, THIS is (another reason) why Australia is so shit...even 3rd world nations full of political unrest and street bombings have better internet that us!
The sad thing is, so many of these cables are completely unprotected, the undersea cables connect entire continents and could be severed by so much as a misplaced anchor, could you imagine if terrorists got smart and went for to interwebz? WE'D BE OUT OF LOLZ!