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Vandals snipped another fiber optic cable line in the San Francisco Bay area this week, the 12th incident of its kind in the region over the past year.
The latest attack occurred in the San Joaquin Valley town of Stockton, disrupting Internet, mobile phone, and 911 service for tens of thousands of AT&T and Verizon customers in three counties east of San Francisco. Service was restored about a day after the Tuesday incident.
The FBI, which is investigating the attacks, has not stated a motive, but it said the attacks usually occur in remote areas where there are no surveillance cameras. The initial attacks on California telecommunications lines began in July 2014. Whoever is responsible appears, for the moment, to be operating with impunity.
It would be funny and appropriate if they kept snipping the cables running to the Wall Street high frequency traders that keep front-running everyone's trades. Also, potentially lucrative if you go long in Depends adult diapers first.
(Score: 3, Troll) by curunir_wolf on Tuesday July 21 2015, @12:30PM
I am a crackpot
(Score: 3, Interesting) by AnonTechie on Tuesday July 21 2015, @01:14PM
Reminds me of "The coating of civilization is often so thin that it rubs off with a little alcohol"
Albert Einstein - "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
(Score: 3, Funny) by tibman on Tuesday July 21 2015, @01:21PM
I can't hear you over all this freedom we're hav.. wait.. no, i can't hear you because someone cut the fiber-optics again.
SN won't survive on lurkers alone. Write comments.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday July 21 2015, @02:15PM
ROFLMBO - did you say, "Like the U.S." ? ? ? ?
I know that the U.S. has done a lot of shitty things in it's history - but the U.S. didn't start either one of the world wars. You can make a case that we contributed to the second one, but the first one was all on the whitey-white people across the pond!
But, yes, you are right. Civilization is but a thin veneer. Funny how few people appreciate that fact. Everyone just blindly accepts on faith that nothing can happen to upset our tidy little apple carts. What's with Daesh? They're tipping apple carts left, right, and center!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2015, @04:47PM
Recall in the very recent past,when Soviet enforcement of law and order was removed from Yugoslavia how quickly the "civilized" europeans turned to mass murder and genocide? It was practically overnight. And how quickly Sarajevo went from the beauty of a Olympic host city to a war-torn hell hole of death? That took less than ten years.
The largest technological and cultural contribution made to mankind has come from the Eurasian continent, spread over thousands of years, and that is of war and efficiencies of war.
(Score: 2) by curunir_wolf on Tuesday July 21 2015, @06:46PM
I am a crackpot
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2015, @10:38PM
Are you fucking kidding me? You want to compare the $200k the Japanese offered in Katrina relief (if requested) to the $730 MILLION [jcie.org] given to the Japanese from the US. That's fucking MILLION. And $77 Million of that was direct from the US government [usembassy.gov] delivered after only ONE month. Right after the disaster the US moved in an aircraft carrier, several amphibious ships, and put 2000 Marines on standby at the behest of the Japanese government.
You really want to negatively compare the US disaster relief response, funding and supplies for any major disaster anywhere in the world, whether it is at home, Hati, the Indian Ocean, any fuckingwhere? There is no country that is quicker in response and no people that dig deeper in their pocket than the US.
Are you THAT hateful, or stupid, or both?
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday July 22 2015, @12:49AM
You see that dot it the distance? Nope? Kinda normal, given how far you've missed his/her point.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 22 2015, @01:47AM
No, it is pretty spot-on. Though you must figure yours to be the "civilized" response.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Wednesday July 22 2015, @03:30PM
External disaster relief and donations was most definitely not what curunir_wolf was talking about.
I must have missed the press coverage of how the Japanese people who had survived the water and the destruction instantly started bickering and fighting.
(Score: 2, Disagree) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday July 22 2015, @01:32AM
Look at the big picture. You want to take a snapshot, and compare a couple of nations. Snapshots aren't sufficient to evaluate much of anything.
As for New Orleans and Louisiana during Katrina - liberal, incompetent governor, liberal, incompetent mayor. DAYS AFTER the hurricane struck the city, the president of the United States had to ask that liberal, incompetent governor if she needed or wanted help in New Orleans. The governor didn't even mobilize her own National Guard. This is the kind of thing that happens when important positions are given to bumbling fools for feel-good reasons.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday July 21 2015, @07:38PM
Kinda sounds like that time that all those submarine fiber optic cables were cut [wikipedia.org] mysteriously around Iran.
Of course, unlike San Francisco, the U.S. is now friends with Iran. You have to wonder why somebody would target a repressive, politically intolerant regime like San Francisco.