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Sybarite

2012-01-25 09:08:58 AM

Is the i a new Apple product, and how soon can I get on line to buy one?

Calmamity

2012-01-25 10:59:32 AM

Sybarite: Is the i a new Apple product, and how soon can I get on line to buy one?

i3.photobucket.com

Never get off the line! Never get OFF the LINE!

dittybopper

2012-01-25 11:50:48 AM

Chances are, I'd be too busy making 6 meter DX contacts to notice.

Well, I *MIGHT* notice that the internet DX clusters were down. Maybe.

/Wife would biatch about not having access to disgracebook.

blackomne

2012-01-25 12:03:19 PM

Please, a day off from my IT job.

RedTank

2012-01-25 12:04:01 PM

This article is fictional fear based webhit mongering dribble... It would require a massive solar storm to knock out the internet. If there were a storm of that size then we would have other problems beyond having to "self-promote."

Donnchadha

2012-01-25 12:12:22 PM

RIP Tony Sparano

Flash_NYC

2012-01-25 12:20:04 PM

Well if the internet is used mostly for what they say it's used for, I predict:

1- a run on the Sears underwear catalog
2- a run on any National Geographic that feature a stories with topless "native" girls.
3- depending on the length of the disruption, maybe door-to-door encyclopedia sales will make a comeback.
4- almost no one will be asking "who?" whenever some internet video star is referenced as if everyone in the world scans youtube 24/7.
5- erasing or altering archived information will be hard as the information would revert back to it's printed, (unalterable) format.

Smeggy Smurf

2012-01-25 12:25:44 PM

Not a single fark will be given if expensive toy gadgets go down

protectyourlimbs

2012-01-25 12:35:11 PM

old_toole

2012-01-25 12:36:49 PM

I might get some work done.

drongozone

2012-01-25 12:38:36 PM

Egad, no Internet! I harken back to 1990 and how I used the USPS to send out my 'zine to HUNDREDS of people AROUND THE GLOBE

HotIgneous Intruder

2012-01-25 12:39:57 PM

Ground current in Quebec, ha.

A few months after we moved into this place, the weed eater kept catching the heavy gauge ground wire that descended from the junction box into the ground. I began poking around and discovered that the wire just went down into the ground a few inches and didn't connect to anything. There was no grounding rod. So the entire house was just sorta grounded, maybe. Rest assured that at daybreak the next morning there was a guy out there hammering in a new eight-foot copper grounding rod.

/CSB
//New construction kinda sucks

WelldeadLink

2012-01-25 01:32:59 PM

There is on i in Internet.

angstycoder

2012-01-25 01:33:40 PM

HotIgneous Intruder: Ground current in Quebec, ha.

A few months after we moved into this place, the weed eater kept catching the heavy gauge ground wire that descended from the junction box into the ground. I began poking around and discovered that the wire just went down into the ground a few inches and didn't connect to anything. There was no grounding rod. So the entire house was just sorta grounded, maybe. Rest assured that at daybreak the next morning there was a guy out there hammering in a new eight-foot copper grounding rod.

/CSB
//New construction kinda sucks

Living in an apartment with no grounding, I'm getting a kick...

/ I can't touch my coax half the time because a current is getting induced into it inside the wall. Disconnect from the pole outside, disconnect anything from the jack inside, touch the jack and still get zapped.

Twitch Boy

2012-01-25 01:40:09 PM

Way to go subby, now I have to make another Candlejack joke. I'm getting sick and tir

CygnusDarius

2012-01-25 01:54:52 PM

Flash_NYC: 5- erasing or altering archived information will be hard as the information would revert back to it's printed, (unalterable) format.

"PC Load letter!? What the hell does that mean?"

QuinnTheFetus

2012-01-25 02:08:00 PM

CygnusDarius: Flash_NYC: 5- erasing or altering archived information will be hard as the information would revert back to it's printed, (unalterable) format.

"PC Load letter!? What the hell does that mean?"

images.cheezburger.com

evildwarf

2012-01-25 02:11:27 PM

But if people need to talk to each other again where will we get our anonymous abuse from people telling a stranger they've never met what a dickwad they are based on the contents of one sentence they write?

dittybopper

2012-01-25 02:50:00 PM

evildwarf: But if people need to talk to each other again where will we get our anonymous abuse from people telling a stranger they've never met what a dickwad they are based on the contents of one sentence they write?

CB radios will still work.

Balder333

2012-01-25 03:40:17 PM

If the solar storm is enough to i knock out the internet then it quite possibly would knock out the electrical distribution system also... we'd have about a week of no power before chaos would descend upon all metropolitan areas and it would be the end of civilization as we know it.

aspAddict

2012-01-25 03:46:27 PM

Balder333: If the solar storm is enough to i knock out the internet then it quite possibly would knock out the electrical distribution system also... we'd have about a week of no power before chaos would descend upon all metropolitan areas and it would be the end of civilization as we know it.

In other words, it would be a lot like SOPA passing?

DVDave

2012-01-25 04:20:54 PM

Just as long as you don't drop or dent it.

StoneColdAtheist

2012-01-25 05:22:18 PM

I just finished reading Earth Abides, so I'm getting kicks out of these replies.

queezyweezel

2012-01-25 05:35:15 PM

angstycoder: HotIgneous Intruder: Ground current in Quebec, ha.

A few months after we moved into this place, the weed eater kept catching the heavy gauge ground wire that descended from the junction box into the ground. I began poking around and discovered that the wire just went down into the ground a few inches and didn't connect to anything. There was no grounding rod. So the entire house was just sorta grounded, maybe. Rest assured that at daybreak the next morning there was a guy out there hammering in a new eight-foot copper grounding rod.

/CSB
//New construction kinda sucks

Living in an apartment with no grounding, I'm getting a kick...

/ I can't touch my coax half the time because a current is getting induced into it inside the wall. Disconnect from the pole outside, disconnect anything from the jack inside, touch the jack and still get zapped.

Hmm, it's not very likely that the current is being induced into the coax (I've seen it happen when the cable line parallels the incoming power line for a few hundred feet though.
More likely there's a splitter somewhere that's connecting that line to other lines and one of them is hooked up to a tv with crappy isolation. I've seen some TVs that back-feed upwards of 80VAC onto the cable connection. I've also seen houses where the hot and neutral wires were reversed on the outlet and it caused 120VAC to be back-fed into the coax cable from the TV or cable modem.
It also sounds like the cable system in your place isn't grounded.

babtras

2012-01-25 06:05:52 PM

The moment the Internet goes down, I'm on vacation. I work from home for a company with the nearest office two time zones away.

DarthBart

2012-01-25 08:01:49 PM

queezyweezel: angstycoder: HotIgneous Intruder: Ground current in Quebec, ha.

A few months after we moved into this place, the weed eater kept catching the heavy gauge ground wire that descended from the junction box into the ground. I began poking around and discovered that the wire just went down into the ground a few inches and didn't connect to anything. There was no grounding rod. So the entire house was just sorta grounded, maybe. Rest assured that at daybreak the next morning there was a guy out there hammering in a new eight-foot copper grounding rod.

/CSB
//New construction kinda sucks

Living in an apartment with no grounding, I'm getting a kick...

/ I can't touch my coax half the time because a current is getting induced into it inside the wall. Disconnect from the pole outside, disconnect anything from the jack inside, touch the jack and still get zapped.

Hmm, it's not very likely that the current is being induced into the coax (I've seen it happen when the cable line parallels the incoming power line for a few hundred feet though.
More likely there's a splitter somewhere that's connecting that line to other lines and one of them is hooked up to a tv with crappy isolation. I've seen some TVs that back-feed upwards of 80VAC onto the cable connection. I've also seen houses where the hot and neutral wires were reversed on the outlet and it caused 120VAC to be back-fed into the coax cable from the TV or cable modem.
It also sounds like the cable system in your place isn't grounded.

Half the outlets in one of my old places were hot/neutral reversed. Took getting the snot knocked out of me a few times before I tested them all, pulled the master breaker, and fixed them all at once.

Current place has one backwards, but I haven't bothered trying to find the breaker for it yet. Probably should, though, it pisses my UPS off occasionally.

Phoenix19851

2012-01-25 08:53:07 PM

DVDave: [www.webree.com image 638x355]

Just as long as you don't drop or dent it.

i91.photobucket.com

Don't listen to her! That biatch is crazy!

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