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My Interwebs is Wireless

Started by manalang · 9 months ago

I’m fascinated by the ongoing soap opera about the mysteriously severed undersea telecomm cables. If you haven’t been following, here’s a good recap. Maybe we’ve been preoccupied with Super Tuesday, but I haven’t seen too much mainstrea ... Continue reading »

9 comments

  • Tyler Muth

    1 year ago

    Jake,

    They use an Optical Time Domain Reflectometer to find the breaks. Seriously, how could you not know that?

    Tyler
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  • Jake

    1 year ago

    @Tyler: Wow, color me embarrassed. In my head, I picture this device to be like the one they use in "Ice Road Truckers" to calculate ice thickness, fancy name, lots of colors and a flashy display.
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  • Tyler Muth

    1 year ago

    I read about it on Gizmodo this morning and had the name of that stupid thing stuck in my head all day. When I saw your post, I couldn't resist ;)

    Tyler
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  • Jake

    1 year ago

    Sweet, I'm glad karma allowed you to drop some knowledge. I'll file that nugget away for future use.
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  • Floyd

    1 year ago

    Okay, I guess it's time for me to fess up to the world (and give Jake the scoop). Last time I chartered a boat and went deep sea fishin', I guess I wound up draggin' my bait a little too deep. Thought I might have hooked the Mother of All Marlins, but wound up with a tangled mess of wire... Gotta say,though, that the cable put up one heck of a fight!
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  • Jake

    1 year ago

    @Floyd: I think you owe the Interwebs users of the Middle East, India, Pakistan and a whole bunch of other places a sincere apology.
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  • Margaret Rouse

    1 year ago

    Hmmm...maybe the severed undersea telecomm cables, last Fall's Storm worm, today's art theft in Zurich and tonight's BlackBerry outage are all caused by an evil-doer
    who's quietly testing his plan to cripple the entire planet. I love conspiracy theories. And James Bond.
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  • Jake

    1 year ago

    @Margaret: Everything must be related, and it's our job to connect the dots. Floyd has culpability for the cable-cutting, so now, we need to lean on him to uncover his co-conspirators. Although, he's a pretty connected guy and could be at fault for all of the above.

    That's easier. Blame Floyd and meet for cocktails.
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  • Floyd

    1 year ago

    I'm actually responsible for all those things Margaret mentioned - a result of my over-exuberance in a hunt for a particular trout that has the map to a long-lost Conquistador treasure stamped on his dorsal fin...or was it a snook? Anyway, apologies to all for everything.

    Now that we have that out of the way and bygones are bygones, about that meeting for cocktails thing...
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