.... and what a week it was.
Live-8 last weekend already seems a lifetime away. The winning of the
2k12 Olymic contract has faded already (and will probably resurface in
about 6 years) and the buses and tubes are well on their way to resuming
normal service.
Aside: The kids are already 'bored' (is how they express it) with the
pics of broken buses and trains. Yes they understand about the terrible
loss of life and injury, but they don't understand why this particular
event should take up so much airtime when there are similar events
reported almost every day (from other parts of the world) that receive no
more than the briefest of mentions.
Another thought occured to me whilst thinking about these bombs. If the
purpose is to disrupt London then hiting the transport system is surely a
futile tactic where the transport system is (thankfully) a chaotic mixture
of independent resources. Traffic re-routes around the problem, people
re-route around the problem - yes, I have read Gridlock (Ben Elton) and it
is funny, but the (false) assumption is that there is an organised system
that can be disrupted. Stopping a city that has evolved (rather than one
which was designed) is like trying to catch jelly (jello) in your hands -
it just isn't going to happen.
It wouldn't be too hard to take out Tesco or Walmart (if one were to put
one's mind to the task), but a nation of (independent) shopkeepers cannot
be brow beaten by sporadic terrorism. To break an organisation, one
requires an organisation to break.
To bring this vaguely back on topic, I posted a short while ago about the
stupidity of allowing just a few carriers to monopolise the backbone of
the internet resulting in a system vulnerable with many possible single
points of failure. I'd like to see the topology altered at the POPs to
bring the internet back to its roots as a resiliant network with no single
point of failure.
A well placed bomb on the central reservation of the M1 (highway linking
North/South Britain) taking out the fibre links would cause far more
disruption and probably take longer to reroute than hitting a few trains.
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| A well placed bomb on the central reservation of the M1 (highway linking North/South Britain) taking out the fibre links would cause far more disruption and probably take longer to reroute than hitting a few trains. |
A properly phrased coded message sent to Asda HQ claiming tampering in
the bread mixture would have an equally terrifying result. Only one
group of people have a reputation for being so bungling as these
bombers - and that's our secret service.
Matt
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| ... and what a week it was. Live-8 last weekend already seems a lifetime away. The winning of the 2k12 Olymic contract has faded already (and will probably resurface in about 6 years) and the buses and tubes are well on their way to resuming normal service. Aside: The kids are already 'bored' (is how they express it) with the pics of broken buses and trains. Yes they understand about the terrible loss of life and injury, but they don't understand why this particular event should take up so much airtime when there are similar events reported almost every day (from other parts of the world) that receive no more than the briefest of mentions. Another thought occured to me whilst thinking about these bombs. If the purpose is to disrupt London then hiting the transport system is surely a futile tactic where the transport system is (thankfully) a chaotic mixture of independent resources. Traffic re-routes around the problem, people re-route around the problem - yes, I have read Gridlock (Ben Elton) and it is funny, but the (false) assumption is that there is an organised system that can be disrupted. Stopping a city that has evolved (rather than one which was designed) is like trying to catch jelly (jello) in your hands - it just isn't going to happen. It wouldn't be too hard to take out Tesco or Walmart (if one were to put one's mind to the task), but a nation of (independent) shopkeepers cannot be brow beaten by sporadic terrorism. To break an organisation, one requires an organisation to break. To bring this vaguely back on topic, I posted a short while ago about the stupidity of allowing just a few carriers to monopolise the backbone of the internet resulting in a system vulnerable with many possible single points of failure. I'd like to see the topology altered at the POPs to bring the internet back to its roots as a resiliant network with no single point of failure. A well placed bomb on the central reservation of the M1 (highway linking North/South Britain) taking out the fibre links would cause far more disruption and probably take longer to reroute than hitting a few trains. |
You're right. Knock out linx in London and most of the network is
screwed for UK traffic. Thankfully are a couple of other pipes out of
the country.
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