Quake in Taiwan Cripples Internet

judebx writes "Powerful quakes measuring 7 on the Richter scale have struck southern Taiwan and caused damage to undersea communication cables, disrupting telephone and internet services in several parts of Asia. The quake comes on the second anniversary of the Indian Ocean Tsunami, and triggered tsunami warnings. Human casualties, however, have been low so far."

Re:Priorities

[Dunbal]

People were injured and died in this quake

      Get off your moral high-horse and stop trying to tell us that you actually give a shit. No one believes you.

Re:What is the sound of one spam clapping?

[ScentCone]

And even worse, having white skin, I get blamed for what you idiots do.

Look, I don't care what color you, or anyone else is. I care what they do. The systems I deal with have nothing whatsoever to do with your daily life (especially since you use a Yahoo account). I'm just telling you facts: there are large IP blocks serving Hong Kong, much of China, Taiwan, Korea, etc., that are, for me and my users, a source of essentially nothing but spam and endless cracking attempts. So until that ratio changes to something more like what I see out of, say, Brazil or Germany, it pretty much all just gets stopped. I'm injecting network geography, not race into this. You're the one that's got race stuck in your head. Packets have no color to me, they just carry the intent of the person sending them, or the carelessness of the person using an unpatched, pirated O/S that's being a slave to the person sending them.

You are the one that said you speak for everyone in Hong Kong, and I replied in a way to point out how ridiculous that sounds. You can't have it both ways.

Re:Let's wait and see

[petabyte]

"so they are actively pursuing ways of crippling the spammers."

I vote for axe handles. Or, tie them to a bed, and smash thier ankles with a sledge hammer. That worked for Cathy Bates.

Now what sort of logic does that make? James Caan spent the rest of the movie [wikipedia.org] in a wheelchair with a typewritter!. The spammers would still be able to spam, but not much else.

Re:Priorities

[khallow]

I disagree. I think it's prudent and time-saving to avoid phony displays of sensitivity and feeling. When I die, I hope my death will not inconvenience people and force them to such acts.

Re:What is the sound of one spam clapping?

[Anonymous Coward]

Microsoft have stood their ground and refused to employ market-sensitive pricing,....

That's just a nice way of saying that MS should act like the fucking pharmaceutical companies and screw Americans into the ground while selling at steep discounts to any country with balls enough to say they won't pay the bullshit inflated prices Americans pay. How about some market-sensitive pricing for the poor in the US. Instead, they ignore the educational needs of the US poor, while falling all over themselves to kowtow to others.