Art Bell

[sydtron]

Looks like it's mostly from China and Russia, but a significant amount also from the Saudis and Germany at the moment as well:

http://map.ipviking.com/#

"Hello Joshua.....


Would you like to play a game?"

[zeebo]

"Hello Joshua.....


Would you like to play a game?"

Please let it be a nice game of chess.

[rzr1911]

according to the map, the US is mostly attacking itself.

[ks3484]

Looks like it's mostly from China and Russia, but a significant amount also from the Saudis and Germany at the moment as well:

http://map.ipviking.com/#

We Are Our Own Worst Enemy -  Beware Of Disinformation - These Stories Were Quietly Released Friday, 3/27/2015:

• CBS news

• Vandalism and other Internet outages reveal lack of backup systems for US broadband service

[Heather Wade]

We Are Our Own Worst Enemy -  Beware Of Disinformation - These Stories Were Quietly Released Friday, 3/27/2015:

• CBS news

• Vandalism and other Internet outages reveal lack of backup systems for US broadband service

This happened in Humboldt a few times due to weather.  I don't know where the fiber line was, underground or above, but it was a little taste of the apocalypse when it broke.  Yay, 'Murica.  Whoever cut the one in AZ, karma's a bitch, bitches.

*If a few major fiber lines broke, or were cut, would that slow down the Internets?  The people in that area can't get online, but how would that slow things down for the rest of us?  Mass exodus to the nearest free wi-fi?  Just throwing ideas around.

[nooryisawesome]

http://betanews.com/2015/03/30/syrian-electronic-army-hacks-hostgator-fastdomain-and-more-for-hosting-terrorist-sites/

[Heather Wade]

  Ok.  Or it could be the Syrian Electronic Army.  How did we not think of that?

[morgana213]

 :oc

  Ok.  Or it could be the Syrian Electronic Army.  How did we not think of that?

It was right on the. tip. of. my. tongue. 

[zeebo]

..*If a few major fiber lines broke, or were cut, would that slow down the Internets?  The people in that area can't get online, but how would that slow things down for the rest of us?  ...

'scuse me I just need to know if this affects my daily lolcat feed.

[Heather Wade]

'scuse me I just need to know if this affects my daily lolcat feed.

[phrodo]

http://betanews.com/2015/03/30/syrian-electronic-army-hacks-hostgator-fastdomain-and-more-for-hosting-terrorist-sites/

Well fuck ...

:ocIt was right on the. tip. of. my. tongue. 

I hear ya sister..  it was right there... ... or was that spit?

Either way evidently Keith was right in dropping MV's little pony show ... clearly he is consorting with known international terrorists... 

[morgana213]

Well fuck ...

I hear ya sister..  it was right there... ... or was that spit?

Either way evidently Keith was right in dropping MV's little pony show ... clearly he is consorting with known international terrorists... 

Hahahaha!!!  Very astute observation.

[Zenman]

  Ok.  Or it could be the Syrian Electronic Army.  How did we not think of that?

Aha. I might have figured Patty Hearst would have something to do with it.

[pate]

Did your caps lock key malfunction?   I almost didn't know who wrote the post...

SOUR MILK GETS ME DRUNK!

HOW "BOUT YEW>(?)

[pate]

forum runs fins today. last 2 days were a bit slow sometimes. getting too many hits? Like a natural DDOS "attack".

morphine - sharks patrol these waters

Auld something the other thang...

[pate]

i was joking. jesus. you're about as fun as ball cancer.

I just got inspired to start talking conspiracy, and that other thang...

[pate]

...these problems will soon be entirely forgotten, though.  i've purchased a VPS with dedicated hardware resources through a company called sparknode, and we'll be migrating the forum to that very soon...

Yes, this...

[rzr1911]

How To Ignore Another User + hide their comments
http://bellgab.com/index.php/topic,5323.0.html

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

  Ok.  Or it could be the Syrian Electronic Army.  How did we not think of that?

Fort Rock better get off his rear and defend us.  Scorpion Army vs. Syrian Electronic Army.

[Sumthins Goin On]

NO NO NO AS I HAVE TOLD YOU ALL IT IS THE CANADIAN INVASION SET FORTH TO DESTROY US IN A SEA OF LACIVEUS FILTHY PORNARGAFY WITH SEXUAL FLESH RUBBING AGANST ONE ANOTHER IN A SEA OF PORNAGRAFIC ORGASM REPENT AND JOIN THE NEW REVELATION BEFORE YOU ALL FALL IN TO THE BOILING PIT OF SEWAGE I HAVE SPOKEN!!!!!

[nooryisawesome]

NO NO NO AS I HAVE TOLD YOU ALL IT IS THE CANADIAN INVASION SET FORTH TO DESTROY US IN A SEA OF LACIVEUS FILTHY PORNARGAFY WITH SEXUAL FLESH RUBBING AGANST ONE ANOTHER IN A SEA OF PORNAGRAFIC ORGASM REPENT AND JOIN THE NEW REVELATION BEFORE YOU ALL FALL IN TO THE BOILING PIT OF SEWAGE I HAVE SPOKEN!!!!!

I HEARD STEVE IS THEIR LEADER. DAMION IS THE ASST. LEADER.

[ks3484]

This happened in Humboldt a few times due to weather.  I don't know where the fiber line was, underground or above, but it was a little taste of the apocalypse when it broke.  Yay, 'Murica.  Whoever cut the one in AZ, karma's a bitch, bitches.

*If a few major fiber lines broke, or were cut, would that slow down the Internets?  The people in that area can't get online, but how would that slow things down for the rest of us?  Mass exodus to the nearest free wi-fi?  Just throwing ideas around.

The telcom industry is apparently taking billions of taxpayer dollars from the feds and doing next to nothing to insure or strengthen America's information super highways. It would seem as if they have built two intersecting highways. One running the length of the country from east to west, and the other from north to south. Then they take any funds left over from the grants and pocket them. Cutting, damaging, destroying, or in some way disrupting the telcom infrastructure as it now stands is not out of the realm of possibilities. Massive and maximum disruption of this country's telecommunications systems is an obvious and evident possible target. It will probably occur at the points where North, South, East, and West intersect. Satellite systems are more or less dependent and controlled by other systems with terrestrial components. Wi-Fi systems are not immune. They cannot operate unless they are juiced up. Which means that the wi-fi equipment is at some stage going to need an interface to a power grid that is going to be affected by the lack of energy that is allotted to them using useless fiberoptic dependent networks and interfaces.

"As early as 1995, however, the U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology warned that the "power of optical fiber technology is diminishing the number of geographic transmission routes," concentrating the flow of information and "resulting in an increase in network vulnerability."

Read more: Vandalism and other Internet outages reveal lack of backup systems for US broadband service

[Delphi]

Cloudflare

[Juan]

Ham radio.

[VegasI15]

We Are Our Own Worst Enemy -  Beware Of Disinformation - These Stories Were Quietly Released Friday, 3/27/2015:

• CBS news

• Vandalism and other Internet outages reveal lack of backup systems for US broadband service

This was done by someone that knew what they were doing.  I hope I'm wrong but this could be another shot across the bow against net neutrality.   

[WhiteCrow]

We Are Our Own Worst Enemy -  Beware Of Disinformation - These Stories Were Quietly Released Friday, 3/27/2015:

• CBS news

CBS News
Northern Arizona's digital umbilical cord problem

"Staff at Bookmans Entertainment Exchange in Flagstaff suggested to kids bewildered by the internet technical problem that they should read a book"

"Many blamed Al Gore,  that he should have done a better job, while Al Gore blamed it on Global Warming and Climate Change"

Al Gore's reply to critics:
"The internet fiber optic cables are like  frogs.  Indeed, you dump a frog into a dish filled very hot water, and it will instantly jump out, incurring little damage to itself.   But, if you place the same frog in comfortably lukewarm water and then gradually heat the water to a boiling point, the frog never jumps out.  Our collective Internet Fiber Optic system is like the frog’s.  Because the destruction is gradual, we let it happen, sitting there like frogs, not responding"

[laserjock]

Frogs...  So now you introduce French into this maelstorm of national insults, God help us, now the French will be doing DNS attacks... 

[rzr1911]

Maybe you'd have more money to fix your infrastructure if you wouldn't let the Military Industrial Complex steal all your taxmoney, and not drive several Carrier Battlegroup around to attack countries (who were once friendly towards the US) on the other side of the planet.

[Danger!UFO]

Well, things could be worse....


The Downfall of Yes

[laserjock]

Hah hah, my favorite band.  That's like someone took the dialogue right out of the usenet discussions about the band...