Skype Goes Down, Millions of Voices Silenced

[Marcus Yam]

One of the largest providers of voice on the internet, Skype, today had its usually reliable service interrupted with an outage that left many silenced.

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[dgingeri]

It felt as if millions of voices cried out, and were suddenly silenced.

 

[brett1042002]

[citation][nom]dgingeri[/nom]It felt as if millions of voices cried out, and were suddenly silenced.[/citation]

...that is no moon...

 

[fritter87]

Don't lie skype. Tell us what really happened. Someone tripped over a cord!

 

[jednx01]

[citation][nom]brett1042002[/nom]...that is no moon...[/citation]
.....It's a space station.....

 

[solymnar]

supernodes....mega-supernodes....what's next? Ultra-hyper-mega-supernodes?

 

[mtyermom]

ubernodes?

 

[dogman_1234]

The dya we truly rely on this stuff and a high end cyber attack or even a computer infrasrtucture failure occure...it will be more than a few million silenced. There will be panic.

 

[blackthorne]

[citation][nom]brett1042002[/nom]...that is no moon...[/citation]

I've got a bad feeling about this....

 

[kd0frg]

I felt a great disturbance in the force

 

[exfileme]

Uggg I've got gas.

 

[hellwig]

I keep forgetting Skype is peer-to-peer. Still, for their IM and video chat users, there are plenty of other options. As for their VOIP services, I would hate to be a company depending on Skype for my international customers right now.

 

[sot010174]

....Turn the ship around.

 

[igot1forya]

[citation][nom]blackthorne[/nom]I've got a bad feeling about this....[/citation]
"It's an older code, sir, but it checks out..."

 

[wolfram23]

*Another Star Wars quote*

 

[utengineer]

Han Solo: No time to discuss this as a committee.

 

[mdillenbeck]

[citation][nom]mtyermom[/nom]ubernodes?[/citation]
ewebollnodes!!!!

 

[meradz]

[citation][nom]solymnar[/nom]supernodes....mega-supernodes....what's next? Ultra-hyper-mega-supernodes?[/citation]
plaidnodes... They've gone to plaid!

 

[jaysbob]

Han, Han, make-cheesay. Pa'sa tah ono caulky malia. Ee youngee d'emperolo teesaw. Twa spastika awahl no. Yanee dah poo noo.

 

[alextheblue]

[citation][nom]solymnar[/nom]supernodes....mega-supernodes....what's next? Ultra-hyper-mega-supernodes?[/citation]
Mega ultra chicken? No no... is only legend...