Internet Black Holes 100
An anonymous reader writes "Hubble is a system that operates continuously to find persistent Internet black holes as they occur. Hubble has operated continuously since September 17, 2007. During that time, it identified 881,090 black holes and reachability problems. In the most recent quarter-hourly round, completed at 04:40 PDT, 04/09/2008, Hubble issued 46,846 traceroutes to 1,815 prefixes it identified as likely to be experiencing problems (of 78,772 total prefixes monitored by the system). Of these, it found 195 prefixes to be unreachable from all its vantage points and 139 to be reachable from some vantage points and not others." No relationship to that other Hubble which also tries to find black holes ;)
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this is so gonna hurt my Karma...
So what? (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:GNAA Gay Nigger Monkey Scientist News (Score:4, Funny)
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Oops, wrong black holes. We're discussing internet black holes, right? Wow, what a coincidence, when I went to the Uncyclopedia to look up black holes I see the featured article on its front page reads So I click the link which goes to "Why?:Do I have a drug dealer on my buddy list?"
No, your karma's fine. Mine is now swirling down an internet black hole, as a lot of slashdot mods absolutely hate juvenile humor, while others have no humor at all, while some slashdotters hate ME. Fortunately for me most of them are trolls [uncyclopedia.org] who lost their karma long ago.
My eyeball hurts. Damn your goatse link!
Re:So what? (Score:5, Funny)
From "Ferris Bueller's Day Off". The spelling clue is in the title.
Re:Map? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Purpose? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Does it matter? (Score:5, Funny)
A white hole?
But what is it?
Namespace collisions (Score:3, Funny)
Let's get these all out of the way now (Score:5, Funny)
2) The government(s) is capturing your traffic because it thinks your a terrorist, and it's losing packets due to the [Republican created] bureaucracy.
(a) And your packets are being water boarded
(b) AT&T helped
(c) The EFF wants to know
3) The RIAA is capturing your traffic because it thinks your a pirate, and doesn't know how to get them back to you at a reasonable price.
(a) Your packets are being sued
(b) Congress is helping
(c) The EFF still wants to know
4) It's a setup for the next Matrix movie. Neo's abilities are causing corruption in the matrix, creating failures in command nodes and putting millions of people to sleep. Like most of his movies.
5) The two Hubble's are tied together, and the internet is an existential manifestation of our physical universe as we discover it.
6) Global warming / El Nino's internet revenge.
7) Tubes are clogged.
Re:Description (Score:5, Funny)
1- Comcast
2- Particle Accelerators
3- Internet black holes
4- Goatse
Have fun.
Well, that's useful information (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Well, that's useful information (Score:5, Funny)
"It's like rain, on your wedding day,
a website that has a button to tell you if your IP address is in a black hole,
a free ride, when you already paid..."
Re:Does it matter? (Score:2, Funny)
Internet Black Hole... (Score:3, Funny)
I pinged a host that wasn't there
It wasn't there again today
The host resolved to NSA.
Re:Name collision is cute, but overall a BAD idea (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Does it matter? (Score:3, Funny)
I'm pretty sure I've seen the video of this and yes, it is sweet. Frightening, but sweet.