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And nothing will change. At least not until someone does this with malicious intent - script kiddie A knocks out big site, or a censoring state decides that it should block a free speech site from the entire Internet.
http://www.nanog.com/ is currently showing a "Welcome to nginx" message
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"Hello, 911? Yeah, I've got an unconscious person here. His face is literally purple." Did I mean literally literally, or figuratively? And how can the previous question have meaning?
You remove the emphasizer and just say: "His face is purple."
“BGP is literally the glue of the Internet” - I think you’ll find BGP is figuratively the glue of the Internet ;)
you can almost always take it out of the sentence it is being used in and the sentence is easier to read and makes more sense.
a new pet-hate word for me (nothing on you OP!)
27 minutes, 3-5% traffic, it could means thousand of dollars lost for Google, right? (Does it sueable?)
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You remove the emphasizer and just say: "His face is purple."
And then they say, "literally purple?"
While one can speculate on why you might be wrong about this being a problem, an examination of the world around us rather strongly suggests that there's no question that there is something fatally wrong with your argument.
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And then they say, "literally purple?"
The problem with this argument is that you are hypothesizing a case that, if it were going to be happening, would be happening now , not in the future. Yet it does not. There is no great epidemic of confused 911 operators because they can't make out whether or not someone on the other end used literally "correctly". While one can speculate on why you might be wrong about this being a problem, an examination of the wo…
If your point is that "we can make it impossible to communicate the concept 'literally' until there's an epidemic of deaths over it", then your threshold is in a very, very wrong place.
Isn't the title a touch sensationalist? Google did not go "offline": it was briefly unavailable for a relatively small number of networks.
For the people affected, google was for all purposes "offline". If the estimate of 3–5% of the internet population is correct, that's a lot of people.