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    • Pakistan causes worldwide YouTube outage

      Posted by Jeff from MSNBC

      An Internet expert likened the cause of the outage to "identity theft" by a Pakistani telecommunications company, which accidentally started advertising itself as the fastest route to YouTube. But instead of serving up videos of skateboarding dogs, it sent the traffic into oblivion.

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    • Pakistan removed from the Internet | Threat Chaos | ZDNet.com

      Posted by Kaerast from ZDNet

      The telecom company that carries most of Pakistan’s traffic, PCCW, has found it necessary to shut Pakistan off from the Internet while they filter out the malicious routes that a Pakistani ISP, PieNet, announced earlier today. Evidently PieNet took this step to enforce a decree from the Pakistani government that ISP’s must block access to YouTube because it was a source of blasphemous content.

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      Terrorism 2.0

      Posted by okami from Spacewar

      Terrorism and wars of the future won't be fought outdoors but from the comfort of our own homes, behind our computer screens. With cyberattacks on the rise and gaining in destructive capability, the threat to the international community is beyond current regulations and defense mechanisms, a panel of experts said last week.

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    gharibtirdad comments on:

    Woman indicted in fatal MySpace hoax on girl

    Dear friends i agree totally with our great man US Attorney Thomas OBrien about any harassment of  anykind to another person especially a young person in My Space we have an excellent Attorney, very sincerlly Tirdad Gharib

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    5:28 am 5/18/08
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    Jeff comments on:

    Firefox 3 Beta 3 Brings a New Browsing Interface

    I am excited for it – but I wish they would certify plug-ins a bit faster as they go along.

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    3:47 pm 2/14/08
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    Jwgardner comments on:

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    Maybe it’s the “resource hog” property of Firefox that has kept me away: my system seems alllergic to FF, as the whole thing overheats and shuts down within seconds of the program being accessed.

    Perhaps I should try Beta 3, and see what happens.

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    11:59 am 2/14/08
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    Jwgardner comments on:

    Story | Victoria Times Colonist | Canadians urged to post health-care violations to new website

    Given all the press given to various forms of essentially-universal health care that Democratic candidates for the U.S. presidency currently propose, I thought this was very topical. In Canada there are constant threats to our version of universal care/Medicare at all levels – from encroaching privatization from U.S. owned clinics (which, thanks to NAFTA, we can’t remove despite their violation of the Canada Health Act) to extra payments for simple medical equiptment.

    This particular story has to do with efforts to deal with that smaller issue, of course. It’s easier to deal with, though, being strictly illegal. Blocking private care alternatives is a slightly more thorny human rights issue.

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    2:01 pm 2/04/08
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    seefood comments on:

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    “a solid Benjamin”?...sounds like a ponzi scheme.

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    I think all they care about is Vox. TypePad has had sparse updates since the Vox launch

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    AT&T Rigs Net Neutrality Study

    Sad to see my alma mater RPI go for this. Not surprising though.

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    5:00 pm 7/05/07
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