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LuvNewcastle

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6. Scary shit.

Reply to sir pball (Original post)

Sat Aug 17, 2013, 10:14 AM

Aug 2013

The internet is a precious world resource. I don't know how it would be done, but an international organization (the UN?) needs to be put in charge of keeping it safe. Our freedom is in jeopardy if it becomes controlled by an oligarchy, if it isn't already.

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Google goes dark for 2 minutes, kills 40% of world's net traffic [View all] sir pball Aug 2013 OP

I was online then and wondered WTF, and my paranoid side said, oh no, RKP5637 Aug 2013 #1

Jeez, WHAT DID YOU DO (said in voice reserved for pets & shredded toilet paper)! KittyWampus Aug 2013 #8

And now, I control the Universe! RKP5637 Aug 2013 #10

Just letting us know. nt bemildred Aug 2013 #2

Guess they're patched think4yourself Aug 2013 #3

+1. bemildred Aug 2013 #5

pretty funny. KittyWampus Aug 2013 #9

OMG, that was it! +++ 1,000 +++ RKP5637 Aug 2013 #11

That was my first thought Nictuku Aug 2013 #20

Google is too big to fail BlueStreak Aug 2013 #4

Scary shit. LuvNewcastle Aug 2013 #6

I found it to be pretty impressive actually... sir pball Aug 2013 #7

Yep. A lot of people did something *right* for that outage to be that brief. (nt) Posteritatis Aug 2013 #12

Probably mostly Youtube traffic PowerToThePeople Aug 2013 #13

Bit too early in the day for that sir pball Aug 2013 #15

Not much bandwidth with that traffic PowerToThePeople Aug 2013 #16

I tried that dickthegrouch Aug 2013 #17

I run no-script PowerToThePeople Aug 2013 #18

I use both dickthegrouch Aug 2013 #19

I don't know the numbers but I know a lot of developers justiceischeap Aug 2013 #14