Stray bullet takes out Spectrum fiber, knocks Texans offline
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Sounds dangerous over there. Do you need ice with illinois national guard backup to help bring you freedom?
We have the freedom to knock out our own internet with freedom bullets. What more could one want?!
She is not stray, for every bullet has an owner
Crime is out of control in Texas! What a lawless wasteland the pedophile party has made.
Send in the national guard and the army! I'm sure there's leaves to be raked and trash to be picked up!!!
Texas, which will feel the warming more than other areas of the USA, is strongly religious, Republican, and needs to be isolated for everyone's protection
Build a wall around Texas and make Texans pay for it.
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I thought "stray bullet" meant it didn't hit what was aimed at and just strayed off. This seems pretty deliberate. And for anyone who doesn't feel like reading the article, it's not happening in just Texas.
I read the article, but I don’t think it’s deliberate at all. There are 150M guns in the US, and lots of gun owners are morons. Episodically targeting Ohio, Texas, and California doesn’t seem like it would do much to benefit anyone.
Only way this would be more American if someone was also shot.
...By a toddler with the gun.
Give it time...
In Texas, you say
working for an isp in rural NY and PA, this is not uncommon, but for us normally they are normally not "stray"
The comments section here reads like a coping session for spoiled children who didn't get what they wanted. Came here for Linux, leaving with questions.
Are the cables not underground? Just put them underground its not safe above ground in texas
Lots of stuff like power and phone lines still arent underground in large parts of the US afaik.
The most Texas internet outage ever
Man, Texas Republicans really don't want people to watch pornhub.
Texas problems. No one else’s.