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What the damaged Svalbard cable looked like
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#112> The critically important cable that connects Svalbard to the mainland is no thicker than a pinkie finger This is amazing. I wonder how much data per unit of time this is capable of transporting. Wikipedia says "Each segment has a speed of 10 gigabits per second (Gb/s), with a future potential capacity of 2,500 Gbit/s." [1] Wikipedia also notes that NASA helped fund this system. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sva…
Wait, an entire mainline for a country can do 10Gb/s and people somehow are paying for gigabit home Ethernet? Either the former is understated, or the latter is way overkill. Or, I'm misunderstanding. Which is probably the most likely possibility.
I'm not sure where they got that number from, but when the two cables were put there many years ago the stated capacity at that time was 40Gb/s for each of the cables (though that capacity was not meant to be used at full back then).
Source: I worked on the network setup that was going to be used by NASA. (The main funding of this cable was not NASA, but in any case it was used by NASA to replace a much slower and more complicated satellite link)
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#113Ah excellent, fishermen not only destroying the ocean but also the infrastructure of countries. When will peoples appetite for destroying the ocean be qualled?
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#114What, no mention that the Norwegian police use evidence markers with inches printed on them? That company sells them with CM markers.
Product appears to be an ID Tent from Evi-Paq. It has inches on the front 'leg' and cms on the rear. https://forensicssource.com/collections/evidence-markers/pro...
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#115What, no mention that the Norwegian police use evidence markers with inches printed on them? That company sells them with CM markers.
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"Maybe a clue about the real origin of the photos".
No. It's simply the _commercial product_ the police used for markers. It shows both cm and inches. You don't think that the police themselves are actually manufacturing these things, do you?
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#116We once booked a night on Rebak Island, next to Langkawi, Malaysia.
The day before our arrival I receive a call that a boat somehow broke the water pipe which lies on the bottom between Rebak and Langkawi, cutting the island off from fresh water, and whether I wanted to rebook to another hotel.
Not sure what the moral of the story is, but it kinda fitted the context :)
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
TL;DR of the court cases: the fisherman was guilty of damages to the tune of $1.2M, and his insurance cover was voided because his act was so reckless. Funnily enough, the cable owners (Telus) tried to thread the needle of making the owner liable, but not so badly that insurance wouldn't pay for it. The judge didn't buy this, and obviously a sole operator crab boat can't pay over a million in damages (although he did…
Despite not recovering any money, Telus may have seen some value in letting others know what the consequences can be. “Kill the chicken to scare the monkey
I think they taught the value in letting others know to NOT put things together yourself that you cut an operational cable and report it to police yourself voluntarily.
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#118> The critically important cable that connects Svalbard to the mainland is no thicker than a pinkie finger This is amazing. I wonder how much data per unit of time this is capable of transporting. Wikipedia says "Each segment has a speed of 10 gigabits per second (Gb/s), with a future potential capacity of 2,500 Gbit/s." [1] Wikipedia also notes that NASA helped fund this system. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sva…
> I wonder how much data per unit of time this is capable of transporting. The max throughput of fiber optic cables isn't exactly constant. As fiber optic modem and DSP technology improves you can get much higher speeds on 15+ year-old cables than were ever possible when they were laid. Recently I saw an article about researchers getting 300,000 Gbit/s over existing fiber optic cables (though I'm sure that's a long w…
Though surely the repeaters in a cable, such as the one in the article, presents hard limits?
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
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The photo with evidence marker 11 clearly shows both inches and centimeters. There's no conspiracy here. They're just taking photos with both sets of measurements.
Hey, I apologize. Only two photos loaded on my phone, both of which used inches only.
Conspiracy was the furthest thing from my mind; I’ve seen photos from police in the US with centimeters and I thought it was hilarious: Americans using cm and Europeans using inches. What’s the world coming to?
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
That line of thinking ultimately leads to the conclusion that trust is impossible. If you cannot trust the Norwegian police to produce accurate information, then you must trust the media. If you can't trust the media, then you have to trust strangers on the Internet. If you can't trust strangers on the Internet, you have to trust your friends and family. But what if they're informed by the corrupt police, media, or I…
You're not making a logical argument against the reasoning, you're just saying that a logical argument, ignoring probability at every level, leaves you helpless. Trusting things isn't a solution, it's a cop-out. Instead of a magic formula, you take things on a case-by-case basis, examining sources and possible motives of those sources, looking at past experience with them for hints. This sounds like work because it i…
Trust, but verify.