Fiber Optic Cables Cut Today...

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Fiber Optic Cables Cut Today...

Post by Elderberry » Thu Apr 09, 2009 8:19 pm

I wonder if that was why we couldn't connect to eplaya and the main BM site? Internet, phone, 911 service all knocked out for over 50,000 customers here in California.

This on the heels of the discovery of the hack into our electric grid and mapped it and left software that had the potential of knocking out our entire grid--hackers were, they think, from out of Russia I believe.

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Post by Artemis » Thu Apr 09, 2009 10:27 pm

Ah-ha. I wondered what was up. Did your avatar really take a whole 12 hour rest? ;-)
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Post by oneeyeddick » Thu Apr 09, 2009 11:22 pm

While it was down he switched hands and now the avatar we see is acually a reflection in the mirror he is standing next to.


Hold on a second........



Whack-a-doo, why are you standing so close to the mirror while you are doing that ???
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Post by Elderberry » Fri Apr 10, 2009 12:00 am

Artemis wrote:Ah-ha. I wondered what was up. Did your avatar really take a whole 12 hour rest? ;-)
That little guy never rests. If he's not wacking here he's wackin on some other forum.

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Post by djnormanj » Fri Apr 10, 2009 12:43 am

Funny, I never noticed a break in service to eplaya. But then again, I'm not in California at the moment, or the continental United States for that matter.

Hackers were possibly from Russia huh? Hey didn't mdmf007 say he was going to Sakhalin... in Russia?

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Post by searock420 » Fri Apr 10, 2009 4:38 am

Ya. They even declared a state of emergency
Somebody "cut" the fiberoptic cables
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Post by Apollonaris Zeus » Fri Apr 10, 2009 8:00 am

Probably some construction guy digging without calling the proper departments for gas, electric and phone lines!

I love it when they hit the gas lines
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Post by Sail Man » Fri Apr 10, 2009 9:01 am

That would explain why I couldnt get on eplaya yesterday. For a minute there I was worried I was gonna have to log into tribe for my BM fix (dog that sounds so wrong lol) so I decided to surf for porn instead. So all was not lost :lol:
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