The filtering had three primary rationales, according to the report: politics and power, security concerns and social norms.
If Skype is one of the most frequently filtered, then it's also about money. To me, this implies the telco's are able to exert pressure on governments as well as ISP's to either limit or block Skype traffic outright.
"Currently with my job working for the NSW Department Of Education, there is routine background checks to check that your not a child sex offender, other offences will affect your employment but not definate. But its going to far...".
The above obvious errors are bolded for benefit of the humorless mod that marked me off topic, and that's not even all of them. I'm no more of a grammar Nazi than the next guy, but come on! Jeez, there's even an error in the subject. And OP/AC supposedly works for the school system? It's no wonder that our schools are in trouble.
I submitted this story back in January, shortly after the original clam about the spy coins was made and it was rejected. Original link is gone, but a similar one is available at http://www.thestar.com/News/article/170886.
Yeah, I live near Miami and I've been seeing these too, but much bigger,and especially during the Super Bowl. But instead of some slogan, they're covered with advertising. Stuff like MetLife, GoodYear, etc.
Several others have made points about the quality of tape drives and proper maintenance and I think they're both well taken.
A Sys admin I knew several years back wound up trying to do a restore because of an upgrade that went awry. He figured it would be a good idea to clean the heads before doing the restore since it had been a while since the last cleaning. Turns out that after the cleaning, he could no longer read the backup tapes. He probably would have been fine if he hadn't cleaned the heads as there was apparently a small piece of grit on the head that was scratching all the tapes in exactly the same place. These were all readable before he cleaned the heads. Or better he should have cleaned the heads before he took his final backups. He never was able to get the data restored for his client. It wasn't $38 billion, but in the end they lost about 2 years worth of data and weren't very happy about it.
The whole Iraqi war has nothing to do with terrorism.
I really don't understand why most people don't get this point, especially voters in the U.S. And where is Bin Laden and why are we no longer concerned with his capture? I believe that the last thing this administration wants to do is have Bin Laden captured or killed. Without him out there in the wild, there's no boogeyman and less reason to justify suspending our constitutional rights in the name of the "war on terror".
Spot on. The country would be in much better shape if we had more business people in politics and less politicians who are, by and large, mostly lawyers and career politicians. I'm not saying Gates is the right man for the job, but I do think we need more people with real business acumen in politics (not Neo-Cons with Ivy-league MBA's) before anything is really going to change.
Right. One hour each Sunday morning when there's a DST change from 2 to 3 am. Sounds like a fair deal to me. "Okay folks, let's settle in an listen to...Oops, looks like our time's done here for the Indie segment, now back to our regularly scheduled Clear Channel programming".
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Is it available in brown?
I personally think I'll wait for the Google street level view. Then maybe we'll be able to catch the 'Face' on Mars walking out of a porn shop.
83 comments and no "Move along now, nothing to see here" post?
Yeah, but just try uploading that bucket of KFC Original recipe to a FAT partition. That's sure to clog the tubes.
Cowboy Neal's Backdraft
Well, that's what I feel like I have now with Vista installed.
Nice quote. Do I need permission, or can I pirate that as my new sig?
"Currently with my job working for the NSW Department Of Education, there is routine background checks to check that your not a child sex offender, other offences will affect your employment but not definate.
But its going to far...".
The above obvious errors are bolded for benefit of the humorless mod that marked me off topic, and that's not even all of them. I'm no more of a grammar Nazi than the next guy, but come on! Jeez, there's even an error in the subject. And OP/AC supposedly works for the school system? It's no wonder that our schools are in trouble.
I have a gmail account as well as a personalized Google home and noticed the "i" a few weeks ago.
So that's explains where Vanilla Ice really came from. That could explain some things...
Fine...then would you please tell me where I left my damned car keys?
Exactly. In fact, I was going to ask where the itsatrap tag is.
/.ers into actually reading the article for once.
I, for one think TFA is just an elaborate attempt to trick
Now if only they could find a way to make the 2000 Presidential election non-binding.
And before I get flamed, I am both a Republican and a Floridian. Funny, saying both of those things used to make me proud.
Am I the only one who RTFS and thought "It's only a flesh wound"?
I submitted this story back in January, shortly after the original clam about the spy coins was made and it was rejected. Original link is gone, but a similar one is available at http://www.thestar.com/News/article/170886.
Yeah, I live near Miami and I've been seeing these too, but much bigger,and especially during the Super Bowl. But instead of some slogan, they're covered with advertising. Stuff like MetLife, GoodYear, etc.
Damned government! Oh, wait...
Hey, it worked for Moses...the 10 commandments are still around.
Several others have made points about the quality of tape drives and proper maintenance and I think they're both well taken.
A Sys admin I knew several years back wound up trying to do a restore because of an upgrade that went awry. He figured it would be a good idea to clean the heads before doing the restore since it had been a while since the last cleaning. Turns out that after the cleaning, he could no longer read the backup tapes. He probably would have been fine if he hadn't cleaned the heads as there was apparently a small piece of grit on the head that was scratching all the tapes in exactly the same place. These were all readable before he cleaned the heads. Or better he should have cleaned the heads before he took his final backups. He never was able to get the data restored for his client. It wasn't $38 billion, but in the end they lost about 2 years worth of data and weren't very happy about it.
Go to the source. Microsoft has a link hereBottom line is there are some SUS and WSUS updates, but no critical IE or OS component updates this month.
Spot on. The country would be in much better shape if we had more business people in politics and less politicians who are, by and large, mostly lawyers and career politicians. I'm not saying Gates is the right man for the job, but I do think we need more people with real business acumen in politics (not Neo-Cons with Ivy-league MBA's) before anything is really going to change.
Right. One hour each Sunday morning when there's a DST change from 2 to 3 am. Sounds like a fair deal to me. "Okay folks, let's settle in an listen to...Oops, looks like our time's done here for the Indie segment, now back to our regularly scheduled Clear Channel programming".