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luis jure wrote: |
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> on 2013-03-31 at 23:05 Michael Mol wrote: |
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>> On 03/31/2013 10:00 PM, Philip Webb wrote: |
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>>> There was a good story in 'Guardian' : |
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>>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/29/cyberwar-spun-shoddy-journalism |
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>> The Gizmodo article that Guardian article lauds irritated the hell out |
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>> of me. [...] |
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>> Whether a chunk of Europe dropping offline qualifies as "breaking the |
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>> Internet" is an interesting question. |
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> i don't live in europe. i live in a small country in south america. i don't |
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> read the press and i don't have tv. i'm mostly uncontaminated by the |
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> debris produced by journalism. |
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> today i asked my girlfriend if she had also noted that the internet has |
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> been very slow for the last week or so. perhaps it was a problem with my |
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> connection. it was she who told me that the problem with the internet had |
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> been mentioned in the news (unlike me, she does watch tv and read the |
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> news). |
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> i'm glad for all the people who weren't affected. but whatever it was, i've |
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> been suffering the consequences. so i'm more than irritated by the |
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> assholes minimizing the problem, or treating this as "non-news". |
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Until this thread popped up, I hadn't heard about it either. I hadn't |
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noticed any slowness but I wouldn't have known it happened either unless |
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Walt posted it or someone else did. |
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Me, I read the article. Also thought is was neat and sort of learned |
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something too. |
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Thanks Walt. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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