cicho - Slashdot User

Comment Re: Dropping Anchor (Score 1) 329

by cicho on Friday December 19, 2008 @05:53PM (#26178015) Attached to: Mediterranean Undersea Cables Cut, Again

Thanks for that. From your explanation thoughn gather that there may be a pretty thin line between "skinning the jacket off and bending" a cable and breaking / clipping one while doing so, especially underwater. It would be something of a delicate operation.

This is not to say it's any evidence for tampering vs an inadvertent breaking by a ship's anchor, only that perhaps the tampering scenario is not altogether unlikely, either.

Comment Re: Dropping Anchor (Score 1) 329

by cicho on Friday December 19, 2008 @05:09PM (#26177361) Attached to: Mediterranean Undersea Cables Cut, Again

"(we have nuclear submarines built specifically for the purpose of not tipping our hand when we tap undersea cables)."

Tap fiberoptic cables, too? Remotely, without splicing them?

Submission + - Google sues Polish poets over gmail.pl

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 16, 2007 @10:29PM

An anonymous reader writes: Google has launched legal action against a group of Polish poets, demanding that they give up their Internet domain name gmail.pl, a member of the cultural collective said. Krawczyk, a poet and IT fan based in the central Polish city of Lodz, said that at the end of last year her group was surprised to discover that http://www.gmail.pl/ was available. They decided to buy the rights to the domain name in order to raise the profile of GMAiL, which publicises the works of young unknowns who have not yet found a conventional editor. http://physorg.com/news90864387.html

Submission + - What Working at Google Microsoft and Yahoo is Like

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Friday February 16, 2007 @10:22PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Tastyresearch shares stories about interning and working at Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. He barbecues with Bill Gates at his house, dines at the Google cafeterias, gets stood up by Yahoo, and details his interviews. He notes that many Microsoft interns end up at other places he works (reading between the lines). A chart compares Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo from the perspective of monitor sizes and perks. Prospective applicants are advised to learn about sorting and linked lists."

Submission + - Iraq War Planned Using PowerPoint Slides

Submitted by

Phobos

on Friday February 16, 2007 @08:17PM

Phobos writes: "The BBC is covering the NSA's (no, not that one, the other one) uncovering of a pre war powerpoint presentation.

These documents show how unrealistic the Iraq invasion was from the beginning. By this time, only 5,000 troops were to be in Iraq, with the rest having been redeployed. Retired Army Col. Andrew Bacevich said that PowerPoint war planning was the ultimate insult:

"Here may be the clearest manifestation of OSD's [Office of Secretary of Defense] contempt for the accumulated wisdom of the military profession and of the assumption among forward thinkers that technology — above all information technology — has rendered obsolete the conventions traditionally governing the preparation and conduct of war. To imagine that PowerPoint slides can substitute for such means is really the height of recklessness.""

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