[24165] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NYC Fiber cut: pictures!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark E. Mallett)
Mon May 24 16:44:34 1999
From: "Mark E. Mallett" <mem@mv.mv.com>
To: patrick@ianai.net (I Am Not An Isp)
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 16:04:52 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990520163309.01de6310@172.16.1.167> from "I Am Not An Isp" at May 20, 99 04:34:28 pm
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> >
> >I want to see pictures of someone /cutting/ the fiber. And
> >then looking at what they just hit, and then being blinded
> >by the laser beam.
>
> Far too humane. At least until we get Buck Rogers style laser. Pointing
> one of THOSE at a backhoe operator's head might make other backhoe
> operators think before they dig.... :)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_342000/342188.stm
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