[15% of ALL] Internet traffic was routed via Chinese servers [for 18 minutes on April 8th]

The Washington Times ^ | November 15, 2010 | Shaun Waterman

[GOPJ]

Is this connected to the missile / airplane / whatever / in California?

[GOPJ]

ping

[dfwgator]

I guess that explains why all the porn sites started looking like this

[Christian Engineer Mass]

How about a nice game of chess?

[Ramius]

Thanks for the ping. This was reported in some tech journals back in April. It happened twice over a period of a couple weeks.

I would actually suspect incompetence, moreso than malice. While that’s of course possible, it’s also just as likely or more likely that there’s some dipwads at china telecom that simply don’t know what they’re doing, and they let some bad routes propagate. Any ISP can do this. Most don’t it, because they know what they’re doing.

It does point to an issue in BGP that would be good to figure out a fix for.

[AFreeBird]

She wuv you Wong time, eh Joe?

[GOPJ]

Is that you, HAL?

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.Qe2 b5 6.Bb3 Be7 7.c3 O-O 8.O-O d5

This move is a pawn sacrifice. After White accepts it, Black’s pieces can occupy active positions.

9.exd5 Nxd5 10.Nxe5 Nf4 11.Qe4 Nxe5 12.Qxa8?

This move deflects the queen, allowing Black to mount a kingside attack. White is also worse if the queen takes one of the knights, which could be answered by Nd3 or Bd6. The correct move is 12.d4, to which Black should reply with 12...Bb7.

12... Qd3!

Threatening 13... Ne2+ 14. Kh1 Ng3+ with checkmate to follow.

13.Bd1 Bh3!

Black also has 13... Bg4, winning a piece after 14. Qb7 Bxd1 15. Rxd1 Ne2+ 16. Kh1 Ng4 17. Qf3 Qxf3 18. gxf3 Nxf2+, or 13... Nh3+ winning the queen after 14. gxh3 Bxh3 with the dual threat of checkmate and Rxa8. The movie picks up the game here — see the diagram.

14.Qxa6?

White abandons the long diagonal and moves into a forced checkmate. Even after 14.Qb7 c6 15.Qxe7 Bxg2 16.Re1 Nf3+ 17.Bxf3 Qxf3, mate is not far off.

14... Bxg2 15.Re1 Qf3

Here HAL, using the descriptive chess notation, says: “I’m sorry Frank, I think you missed it. Queen to bishop three, bishop takes queen, knight takes bishop, mate.”, which is inaccurate in two ways. First, the move Qf3 isn’t “queen to bishop three” but “queen to bishop six”. Secondly, HAL’s variation 15...Qf3 16.Bxf3 Nxf3# does not mention that White could prolong the resistance for a few moves, for example by playing 16.Qh6.

Some conjecture that these two inaccuracies are a very subtle foreshadowing of either HAL’s breakdown or of his deception of the crew.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poole_%E2%80%93_HAL_9000

[SunkenCiv]

Of course, the entire Internet had to be routed somewhere else a half hour later.

[Christian Engineer Mass]

No it’s the computer from wargames!