60% of India and Egypt cut off from I-Net?

[Proteus_MST]

Obviously thanks to a damaged undersea cable 70% of Egypt and large parts of India are disrupted from I-net access.
Are there already confirmations of Aneeshm and our other indian forum users (well, I assume if they´re strangely missing it might be an indication )

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2008-01-30T160036Z_01_L30266218_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-INTERNET-DISRUPTION.XML

Also shows that the internet is more vulnerable than most people think, with bottlenecks that, if severed, can cause large parts of the world going offline.

[aneeshm]

My connection is through a top-level provider (private tie-up with the government body which set the 'net up in India in the beginning (Tata Indicom + VSNL)). I even get my own static IP. Even if everyone else goes down, I stay up.

Disruption is for the plebs.

I always was and always will be.

[Kuciwalker]

My connection is through a top-level provider (private tie-up with the government body which set the 'net up in India in the beginning (Tata Indicom + VSNL)). I even get my own static IP. Even if everyone else goes down, I stay up.

Like most universities in the US (re: static IP)

And I bet you aren't connected to I2

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker

Like most universities in the US (re: static IP)

Given that this is a civilian connection, not an academic one, and that I don't (yet) qualify as a university......

Originally posted by Kuciwalker

And I bet you aren't connected to I2

Well, yes, there is that.

Point is, I don't think anyone other than C-DAC and ERNET have it at all in India.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by aneeshm
Even if everyone else goes down, I stay up.

That's what I tell all the ladies

[Provost Harrison]

And I see Aneesh is off with his 'my caste is bigger than your caste' bullsh*t again

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
And I see Aneesh is off with his 'my caste is bigger than your caste' bullsh*t again

???

Seriously, WTF?

[aneeshm]

This is something I've been trying to understand for some time.

WTF is it with all the stuff about caste around here? I have no clue how my lineal descent from an ancient sage counts for anything anywhere as of this moment, except for maybe a bit of a living link with history or cultural narrative - which is only relevant to me, not to anyone else.

What I fail to understand is how the impression came about that I ever was up to the above-mentioned "bull****" in the first damn place. My positions on this issue have been pretty clear - equal rights for everyone, special privileges for NONE, because the latter are a direct and glaring contradiction of the former.

How a libertarian position, which holds the systemic equality of all as one of its highest goals and virtues, can be so consistently misinterpreted is a mystery to me.

Would you do me the honour of being an agent of my enlightenment, good Provost?

[Imran Siddiqui]

What I fail to understand is how the impression came about that I ever was up to the above-mentioned "bull****" in the first damn place. My positions on this issue have been pretty clear - equal rights for everyone, special privileges for NONE, because the latter are a direct and glaring contradiction of the former.

Let's just say what you say you believe can sometimes be at odds with what you say (Oh noes... the Brahmin are being oppressed!!!)

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

Let's just say what you say you believe can sometimes be at odds with what you say (Oh noes... the Brahmin are being oppressed!!!)

Please do not misrepresent my positions.

I have never claimed to belong to an oppressed group. Not only is the victim mentality for losers, it also makes perfectly normal, self-reliant communities into dependants of the state, due to the attitudes it fosters and the behaviours it encourages.

I have, however, claimed that policies are being instituted which are direct violations of the core principles of institutional equality, and of equality before the law, which I hold to be fundamental to any just system of law and to the basis of the legitimacy of the state.

Not only that, I have argued against such policies not merely on the basis of some hand-waving, moralistic, "feely" type of thought process, but after an observation of their outcomes, their failures in the past, and their pernicious consequences whenever and wherever they have been tried or implemented, along with details specific to my own country.

If, after all this, you still find that my position is in any way equivalent to the misrepresentation of it which prompted me to raise this question in the first place, then please feel free to tell me why you persist in thinking so.

[Patroklos]

Quick, we missed one! Somebody sever the rest of the lines, NOW

[Koyaanisqatsi]

They're working on it...up to four, now:

Internet services in Qatar have been seriously disrupted because of damage to an undersea telecoms cable linking the Gulf state to the UAE, the fourth such incident in less than a week.

http://www.arabianbusiness.com/510132-internet-problems-continue-with-fourth-cable-break?ln=en

So, uh, speculation on what's going on and for what purpose?

[Aeson]

Originally posted by Koyaanisqatsi
So, uh, speculation on what's going on and for what purpose?

Dolphin hackers.... porn

[VetLegion]

Perhaps it's that Dutch company that is building the palm-shaped islands in Dubai.

[Nikolai]

Originally posted by aneeshm
My connection is through a top-level provider (private tie-up with the government body which set the 'net up in India in the beginning (Tata Indicom + VSNL)). I even get my own static IP. Even if everyone else goes down, I stay up.

Disruption is for the plebs.

I always was and always will be.

Do I miss something? Anybody can get a static IP. I know I can define one in the settings someplace?