That's a well known side effect of mathematics! May I suggest using an LLM to count them for you?
There's a lamb! That makes one!
Look,another lamb! That makes two!
Another lamb! That makes four!
And one more crocodile! That makes five!
There's another lamb! That's six!
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These kinds of undersea maps used to be posted regularly on this site.
They only show the sea cables of course, there are lots of buried land connections everywhere too. The world is way more connected than it was in the 1990s, when the Hacker Tourist went around chasing fibre.
In this particular case (Hormuz), the impacted Gulf states have 1) plenty of money to pay, 2) plenty of redundant connections with neighbouring countries, and 3) as you rightly point out, Starlink is also an option.
Iran has a few satellites itself, and gets help from Russian intelligence. That's how they've managed to pinpoint and bomb all the US military bases hidden inside the Gulf states.
He definitely IS a gaslighting fucktard. He's always been one.
Years ago, when he turned Google from a promising tech company into an evil spy company, he used to prance around telling reporters to suck it up, because if they didn't want to have their private data hoovered up and published on the Internet, maybe they shouldn't be doing things in private at all. Then a reporter from CNET looked up Schmidty's address and published it in a story for all to see. Schmidt promptly attacked the reporter and CNET like the gaslighting fucktard he already was, misusing the growing power of Evil Google for his own ends.He's done lots of these things.
IF this is true, it's a perfect, real-world, textbook example of rent-seeking. The classic example is putting a chain across a river used for commerce; this is exactly the same, updated for modern technology. Excellent! Economics students take note!
You're wrong on this one. The Internet was designed by DARPA precisely for this kind of situation, namely routing around damage to the network because of war damage.
The end effect of attempting to cut cables and prevent repair ships from... ahem... repairing the cables in Hormuz during a war or otherwise is that traffic will be transparently diverted to other cables in the network.
Nobody will notice, except for the neighbouring Gulf states, who will probably see traffic slowdowns, as their other connections must take the packets, and _possibly_ (but that's a long shot) more expensive Internet pricing.
Literally nobody in the rest of the world will notice any sustained slowdowns on packets. This is completely unlike the oil price hikes, which will remain for at least as long as the US and Israel keep inflaming the region.
Gold iphones have been a thing in Saudi for many years already. Apparently the cheaper regular iphones stain too easily (with all the oil fumes).
I'm not sure if the concept of "generate it on the fly" is optimal for getting the poison into LLM training data. Spiders like the googlebot are pretty good at checking consistency of page data for inclusion into their index. If the spider suspects that the page served to regular users is different from what it sees, it can lead to SEO countermeasures.
Probably best to generate the fake wiki pages on a weekly rotation.
Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated. -- R. Drabek
