U.K. internet provider’s bailout cancelled because rats chewed through its fiber optic cables — biodegradable cable jackets use soy- or corn-based materials, attracting hungry rats
U.K. internet provider’s bailout cancelled because rats chewed through its fiber optic cables — biodegradable cable jackets use soy- or corn-based materials, attracting hungry rats
Some car manufacturers also use cheap wires with animal fats in the cable jackets. Attracts animals such as foxes, cost us £100s.
Should be illegal, or they should have to disclose it in their product specification.
This-Lengthiness-479 on
Good job network stuff is not critical infrastructure. Luxury, innit.
Now let’s spend tens of billions bombing Iran. Much better use of our taxes.
breazy45 on
Makes sense, rats and foxes love the stuff. Im always replacing cables due to pest damage
Grizzl0ck on
Because you want the protection on your network infrastructure to be biodegradable so the environment it’s protecting the cables from actually destroys it.
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SecondTheThirdIV on
Biodegradable cable jackets? There’s no way that’s a real thing that a human with a brain thought of, that other humans with brains then saw that and thought “great idea”. There’s just no way.
gpowerf on
I know a few modern Land Rovers that have had recurring issues with mice and wires. I wonder if this is the problem.
aifo on
| The firm is currently owned by FitzWalter Capital, a private-equity firm that specializes in investing in distressed companies, where they’re either turned around or cut to pieces and sold for profit.
Oh well, guess they lost that bet. On to the next victim they can asset strip.
ian9outof10 on
That headline is absolute chaos. What the fuck happened to writing quality.
FedBySheep on
Hungry rats most certainly eat non-biodegradable cables, too.
lapetite_etoile on
Many 2010-2015 Jaguar owners also know this feeling…
GRang3r on
In my partners home town in Austria, the pine martens get into cars and eat the electric and brake cables.
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Some car manufacturers also use cheap wires with animal fats in the cable jackets. Attracts animals such as foxes, cost us £100s.
Should be illegal, or they should have to disclose it in their product specification.
Good job network stuff is not critical infrastructure. Luxury, innit.
Now let’s spend tens of billions bombing Iran. Much better use of our taxes.
Makes sense, rats and foxes love the stuff. Im always replacing cables due to pest damage
Because you want the protection on your network infrastructure to be biodegradable so the environment it’s protecting the cables from actually destroys it.
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Biodegradable cable jackets? There’s no way that’s a real thing that a human with a brain thought of, that other humans with brains then saw that and thought “great idea”. There’s just no way.
I know a few modern Land Rovers that have had recurring issues with mice and wires. I wonder if this is the problem.
| The firm is currently owned by FitzWalter Capital, a private-equity firm that specializes in investing in distressed companies, where they’re either turned around or cut to pieces and sold for profit.
Oh well, guess they lost that bet. On to the next victim they can asset strip.
That headline is absolute chaos. What the fuck happened to writing quality.
Hungry rats most certainly eat non-biodegradable cables, too.
Many 2010-2015 Jaguar owners also know this feeling…
In my partners home town in Austria, the pine martens get into cars and eat the electric and brake cables.