Internet Full of 'Black Holes'

Internet Full of 'Black Holes' (http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080411/sc_livescience/internetfullofblackholes)

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You're pounding the keyboard, double-clicking away, sighing and grumbling, but to no avail: That devilish little hourglass icon refuses to give way to the Web site you're trying to reach. Most Internet users have encountered trouble reaching online destinations, but they often attribute the problem to their wireless network cutting out or a server momentarily going down.


Sometimes, though, the problem is more mysterious. At any given moment, messages throughout the world are lost to cyber black holes, according to new computer science research.

FUCK

OMFG HAX

hax hax RUN

Wait... Wat!?

JUKE'D

i'M ASCARED

I got yer black hole RITE HEAR.

i wanna cyber a black hole

you dont say

so does this mean we can chat with people on the other side of the black holes?

-moto

So someone was given grant money to discover that sometimes routers go down? or what?

i cybered with a black hole

I think that they're talking about when a user writes a very long message, then attempts to send it and the server connection is reset, or the user accidentally hit the back button. Then, when the user goes back to the page that had their text, it has disappeared. And also where downed routers and out-of-date DNS addresses cause sites to be inaccessible.

This is akin to a transportation study being conducted on potholes, to find out where the original roadway surface went. In other words, utterly ridiculous.


But it's ok. My university raised $3 billion in funds this year. They can afford to fund some shit projects for idiot grad students.