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