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Iran May Shut Down Internet During Election
daveschroeder writes "'The Iranian government might block private access to the Internet for the general legislative election on March 14, two Iranian news outlets reported Monday. In 2006, the authorities banned download speeds on private computers faster than 128 kilobytes per second. The government also uses sophisticated filtering equipment to block hundreds of Web sites and blogs that it considers religiously or politically inappropriate. Many bloggers have been jailed in the past years, and dozens of Web sites have been shut down.' It would appear that Iran's own government is more a threat to the nation's internet connectivity than the fragility of the undersea cable network."
I am posting anonymous because I know some classified information that I shouldn't, let alone reveal. Their "sophisticated equipment" is a Halliburton project.
As was mentioned by more than one person during that time, you missed another possibility: That the cables were cut/damaged in order to provide cover for a splice.
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
http://anangrydakotademocrat.blogspot.com/2007/10/obamas-goal-eliminate-all-nuclear.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/02/us/politics/02obama.html
As well as a speech he made last week that I cannot find online at the moment. He said 'greatly reduce' at first, then alluded that the US should eliminate them to 'lead the way'.
Then again, posting truth gets you modded as Flamebait around here.
This is bullshit. Hillary has been prowar, except when campaigning. The Clinton administration had a couple war efforts. Obama's foreign policy guy is Brzezinski, who isn't specifically anti-war. Only when it's a terrible, terrible idea.
Can we not mod up baseless political bullshit from either side? Thanks.
Please stop stalking me, bro.
GWI never really was completed. Iraq fired at planes enforcing the no-fly zone many times before GWII.
http://www.historyguy.com/no-fly_zone_war.html
WMDs were found in Iraq, "although not of a militarily significant capability" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction
Why invade Iran? There are other options.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_bomb
Someone needs to be in the mideast to oppose the Iran theocracy. Replacing a secular dictator with a pro-US secular democracy would be nice long term, if it works out that way...
They make contradictory claims about why, but in the end, it is a one day inconvenience for internet users. The most sinister reason I can think of for them wanting to shut it down is to prevent riots caused by posts alleging election improprieties (real or imagined). Really sinister.
Am I missing something? What's the big deal?
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction While various leftover weapons components from the 1980s and 1990s have been found, most weapons inspectors now believe that Iraq's chemical weapons program did indeed cease production after 1991.
The Secretary-General of the UN at the time the resolution was passed, Boutros Boutros-Ghali called the no-fly zones "illegal"
Need we go over why the United Nations is an unreliable source here?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil-for-Food_Programme#Abuse
How long was it going on? We don't know, but it makes anything the UN says regarding Iraq highly suspect.
"You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."
Insightful? This is *funny*, unless the moderator is poking sarcastic fun at Slashdot readers. And, I just can't imagine *that*.