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It Is Almost Fast
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join:2001-06-25
Sacramento, CA
clubs: | LIES Yes, lies.. it's all part of the cover-up so that those who are actually cutting these cables can continue to do so with impunity.
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coxta
Ultramundane
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join:2000-07-15
LALALALALALA
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| Re: LIES Still very curious and seems statistically unlikely.
Internet provider in UAE confirms undersea cable cut between Dubai, Oman, cause unknown
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Omar Sultan, chief executive of Dubai's IPS DU, said Friday that the incident was "very unusual." He said it was not known how the underwater FLAG FALCON cable, stretching between the United Arab Emirates and Oman, had been damaged.
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"The site is a restricted area, which excludes the possibility that the malfunction resulted from a crossing ship," the ministry said in a statement. Internet efficiency in Egypt has reached about 70 percent, the statement said....
Flag Telecom's network is one of the "newest in existence" so it would be unlikely that the cables would break because of wear and tear or age.
Undersea cables extremely vulnerable say analysts
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Data from the field
In deep waters, cable cuts are rare. According to one paper presented at last year's SubOptic conference in Baltimore, Maryland, rates of cable fault in water over 1km deep are less than 0.1 faults per year, per 1,000km of installed cable. This implies around 50 deepwater repairs per year, globally. At depths of less than 1km, failure rates hovered between 1-2 per 1,000km in the 1990s, but have been steadily declining. According to a SubOptic 2004 paper, the rate in 2003 was 0.2 fault per 1,000km. This same paper estimated that 60% of all cable cuts occur in waters less than 100 meters deep. Of all cable faults, roughly three-fourths are due to "external aggression," the bulk of which is accidental human activity, namely, fishing, anchors, and dredging; a small portion of the 75% is natural, e.g., from earth movement and chafe, sometimes caused by earthquakes. Equipment failures and unknown - some portion of which could be theft or attempted theft/sabotage - account for the remainder. In deep water, natural causes and/or cable equipment failure dominate; human causes are rare. Hence, when cables fail in deep water, usually a natural and detectable event is the cause, as with the late 2006 earthquake near Taiwan, the last quake to cause multiple simultaneous outages. An earthquake, albeit small (magnitude 4.8) was reported February 2 in the Persian Gulf and could have affected cables there.
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join:2004-08-07
Louisville, KY | Nah, it was a blonde catfishing tournament. | |
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gatorkram
Spelling and Grammer impared
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join:2002-07-22
Winterville, NC
clubs: | Great image.. I love the boogie man image.. | |
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Zeb
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Lewisville, TX | Re: Great image.. First page of google image. Stealing is fun! :/ | |
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Tzale
Proud Libertarian Conservative
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join:2004-01-06
Sweden
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| Re: Great image.. said by Zeb  :First page of google image. Stealing is fun! :/ I wonder if he needed a license to use that image... Someone won't be happy if they find out that a popular site is using their images without permission.
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hayabusa3303
Over 200 mph
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clubs: | Re: Great image.. yep have some kind of **AA on him..  | |
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insomniac84
join:2002-01-03
Schererville, IN
1 edit | Ha. This is a user generated site. Meaning if the "owner" of that picture has a problem he can send the owners of this site a DMCA take down request. Then the site takes it down. Then if he is truly an ass, he can go to court and subpoena records to attempt to identify the person who copied the image and sue that person for damages if he can ever succeed in identifying the user. So in conclusion that "someone" who won't be happy can't do anything. | |
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join:2001-03-05
Brooklyn, NY | Totally OT, but:
current copyright definition of stealing is not fun >:-| | |
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| smcallah
join:2004-08-05
Home | Though, instead of a scythe he should be riding a backhoe with an anchor dragging behind it, and possibly carrying a shotgun. The three most common fiber cutting tools. | |
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| rahvin112
join:2002-05-24
Sandy, UT | Re: Finally - common sense Major League Baseball, not the government. | |
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beatsnpieces
join:2007-12-17
| Re: Finally - common sense said by rahvin112 :Major League Baseball, not the government. MLB uses satellites and bat-mounted cameras for surveillance, everyone knows that! :P | |
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join:2001-06-18
Washington, DC | No, you've got it wrong, the government finally got to Karl. He's helping them cover it up. Next thing you know, he's going to be lobbying for telco immunity | |
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DufiefData
join:2006-06-13
Gaithersburg, MD
| Head for the hills! "Was it the Cloverfield monster trying to prevent Egyptians from playing World of Warcraft?" Undoubtedly!
"Should you start stockpiling water and begin investing in gold?" Yes, yes! A thousand times YES!
Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!! | |
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Camelot One
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join:2001-11-21
Sarasota, FL
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| Re: Paranoid Dessert Setting aside the doom and gloom, cable cuts averaging 1 every 3 days? Why the hell haven't they done something about that, and how can they afford THAT many repairs?
And why has it taken more than a week to fix the first two cuts? With 1 every 3 days, you'd think by now they'd have the repair down to an "eyes closed" art.
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bullet087
join:2006-05-17 | There is a logical explination for this... it was probably a turbidity current, a deep ocean current that was responsible for the Atlantic telephone outage of the 50s or 60s (can't remember which) | |
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OCP
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join:2004-10-11
USA | Teh global warming did it! I had to. I just had to. | |
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mikenolan7
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join:2005-06-07
Torrance, CA | Bogeyman And I just finished lining my bathtub with tinfoil! | |
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goddan
join:2001-01-15
Quaker Hill, CT
| It's Misdirection! THEY are publicizing cable cuts in the Mediterranean to distract us from the REAL story. And that's the Dihydrogen Monoxide crisis! See »www.dhmo.org/ for the TRUTH!!!!
P.S. I like the bogey man graphic, too. Can I adopt him? Or at least get him as my avatar? | |
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devrandom
I got a pot, full of random stuff here
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join:2003-06-28 | Copper! Did somebody say copper shielding? Its the copper thieves! They've sunk to a new low! | |
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Tolli
@pacbell.net | Why were these cuts so publicized? If there are an average of one cut every three days, why were these so widely publicized? | |
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| Thaler
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join:2004-02-02
Encino, CA | Re: Why were these cuts so publicized? There was some really good porn running down the tubes this time. Thus, it now escalates into an international incident. | |
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XknightHawkX
join:2003-02-13
Morton, IL
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| Won't someone think what these conspiracy will do Won't someone think of the children. We have to protect the children.
Seriously, I don't know what is going on but I'm sure that the cable cut every 3 days is a lie. You know they would have figured a way how to stop that from happening all the time. That would add up to a lot of money.
Back to the children. Stop the cable cuts because it will currupt the children. Just like everything else. Children think of the children. | |
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jbob
Reach Out and Touch Someone
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join:2004-04-26
Little Rock, AR
·Comcast
·AT&T Southwest
| The number may be closer to 9... ...at least if you believe this guy.
»www.rense.com/general80/cable.htm
The last week has seen a spate of unexplained, cut, undersea communications cables that has severely disrupted communications in many countries in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. As I shall show, the total numbers of cut cables remain in question, but likely number as many as eight, and maybe nine or more.
The trouble began on 30 January 2008 with CNN reports that two cables were cut off the Egyptian Mediterranean coast, initially severely disrupting Internet and telephone traffic from Egypt to India and many points in between. According to CNN the two cut cables "account for as much as three-quarters of the international communications between Europe and the Middle East." CNN reported that the two cut cables off the Egyptian coast were "FLAG Telecom's FLAG Europe-Asia cable and SeaMeWe-4, a cable owned by a consortium of more than a dozen telecommunications companies".(10) Other reports placed one of the cut cables, SeaMeWe-4, off the coast of France, near Marseille.(9)(12) However, many news organizations reported two cables cut off the Egyptian coast, including the SeaMeWe-4 cable connecting Europe with the Middle East. The possibilities are thus three, based on the reporting in the news media: 1) the SeaMeWe-4 cable was cut off the coast of France, and mistakenly reported as being cut off the coast of Egypt, because it runs from France to Egypt; 2) the SeaMeWe-4 cable was cut off the Egyptian coast and mistakenly reported as being cut off the coast of France, because it runs from France to Egypt; or 3) the SeaMeWe-4 cable was cut both off the Egyptian and the French coasts, nearly simultaneously, leading to confusion in the reporting. I am not sure what to think, because most reports, such as this one from the International Herald Tribune, refer to two cut cables off the Egyptian coast, one of the two being the SeaMeWe4 cable,(11) while other reports also refer to a cut cable off the coast of France.(9)(12) It thus appears that the same cable may have suffered two cuts, both off the French and the Egyptian coasts. So there were likely actually three undersea cables cut in the Mediterranean on 30 January 2008.
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If you read the whole link he gets into a whole bunch of conspiracy stuff but the initial few paragraphs at least seem plausible. | |
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John Galt
Forward, March
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join:2004-09-30
Happy Camp
·CenturyLink
| Re: The number may be closer to 9... said by jbob :...at least if you believe this guy. Jeff Rense...put the pipe down, Man.
Give it a rest, the '70's are over..time to move on.
Head back to the MotherShip.
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Poodamon
@myvzw.com | Yes. Every Three Days Why of course. Can't you see all the repair ship rushing around. Repairs take only minutes depending on how many photons have excaped. The hard part is blow drying the cable before putting it back into the Internet tube. | |
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karlmarx
join:2006-09-18
iraq | Re: Yes. Every Three Days But the TRUCKS. Won't someone please think of the trucks! | |
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jig
join:2001-01-05
Hacienda Heights, CA | heh
"nothing to see here, move along, don't mind the mushroom cloud behind me" | |
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Surfinusa
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join:2001-02-08
|  Fiber demand goes up prices come down?
No seriously What people want to believe is fine with me.
Maybe a boat drops an anchor and then draggs a fiber optic line for miles and runs into another line and drags that one.... hmmm, maybe ships are changing the landscape of the underwater fiber scene.. haha not really.
Or is fiber cables just chew toys for Whales and sharks.  | |
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morbo
Complete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
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clubs: | the motion of the ocean
oh baby. it has to be the motion of the ocean. sizzle. | |
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There Is No Undersea Cable-Cutting Bogeyman
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Finally - common sense
