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- Four cable 'cuts' in a week: Conspiracy nuts light up the phones
- So what's going on with telecom cable interruptions in the Middle East? First a ship's anchor cut into two high-priority cables -- Flag Telecom's Europe-Asia cable and the consortium-owned SEA-ME-WE 4 system. That pretty seriously damaged communications in the Middle East and choked - but didn't cut off - traffic...
- Tags: Phone, Elephant, Wired Inc., Iran, Attack, Cable, Network Technology, Security, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-02-06
- Don't get excited over cable breaks. Yet.
- This weekend there was a lot of hand wringing over some posts to Digg, reddit, and slash dot that pointed to this page at the Internet Traffic Report. There is one router in Iran that is not responding to pings so it shows up red. This led to the rapid...
- Tags: Iran, Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-02-04
- Photo: Is it a radar-resistant flying boat?
- Iran military tests small propeller-driven aircraft that flies low over water surface at up to 100 knots.
- Tags: knot, boat, photograph, Iran, aircraft
- Image galleries 2006-04-04
- Photo: Is it a radar-resistant flying boat?
- Iran military tests small propeller-driven aircraft that flies low over water surface at up to 100 knots.
- Tags: knot, boat, photograph, Iran, aircraft
- Image galleries 2006-04-04
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- Global warming is a security issue say American spies
- Global warming is a security issue say American spiesDead on[i]If global warming is real and it's consequences are as serious as some say which I doubt it will case major instability across the globe[/i]I think we've seen it repeated many times in history: Everyone's content and willing to lend a...
- Tags: security, global warming
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- FCC wants no-porn, free broadband wireless auction
- FCC wants no-porn, free broadband wireless auctionHmmm....Is Porn illegal? If not is this not a governmental nose-snubbing at freedom of speech, making it highly illegal ?Do we really WANT this sort of action by our government?Do we want to become China?I dunno. I'm just askin'...The moral crusaders :)Ok,...
- Tags: Federal government, Broadband Internet, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Government, WIRELESS, broadband wireless auction, broadband wireless, FCC, broadband
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- diversITy: can being gay hold your career back?
- Edit: Just a couple of grammatical tweaks. This series of entries, called diversITy, continues from the previous topic, all concerning the diversity of people within the IT industry. This time, I'd like to put forward: sexual orientation in the workplace, can it set you back? ...
- Tags: Workplace, Career, Diversity, U.K., IT Industry, LGBT, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- Firefox 3.0 downloads surpass 7 million
- Firefox 3.0 downloads surpass 7 millionFound a FLAW in Firefox 3.0these protocol-handler security settings are ignored although they're set to 'true' and so you don't receive warningsnetwork.protocol-handler.warn-external.mailtonetwork.protocol-handler.warn-external.newsnetwork.protocol-handler.warn-external.nntpnetwork.protocol-handler.warn-external.snews(about:config)I've done my partI even downloaded it twice, once for my laptop and once for my desktop. :)Three cheers for the Mozilla Teamand a...
- Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, FF3
- Discussion threads 2008-06-18
- Photobucket's DNS records hijacked by Turkish hacking group
- Photobucket's DNS records hijacked by Turkish hacking groupJust wait until Paypal gets hijackedSo far this has just been child's play. Sooner or later there's going to be some serious financial consequences, and not just for the site owners.RE: Photobucket's DNS records hijacked by Turkish hacking groupThat's all very well... but...
- Tags: Domain names, NETWORKING, SECURITY, Photobucket, Turkish, hacking group, DNS Records, DNS, hacking
- Discussion threads 2008-06-18
- More oil refineries coming right up. Will this stunt cleantech growth?
- Saudi Arabia is preparing to add more refineries in the next few years. And they plan to begin refining more of their less desirable, more sulphurous, crude oil. Saudi is aiming for an 80% increase in refining capacity. Most refineries in the world can now only handle...
- Tags: Refinery, Canada, Clean Technology, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Crude oil: OPEC cartel? Speculation? Unlimited demand?
- Crude oil: OPEC cartel? Speculation? Unlimited demand?Why is Crude Oil Price so High?Why is the Dollar so low?RE: Crude oil: OPEC cartel? Speculation? Unlimited demand?It's pretty easy. OPEC is made up mostly not all mind you, of countries that are not to fond of the US....
- Tags: Auto Industry, OPEC, Crude Oil, cartel
- Discussion threads 2008-06-06
- Oil's superspike may make telecommuting the norm
- Oil's superspike may make telecommuting the normUnlike the Music Industry - Never heard of "oil payola"Superspike? Really. It's interesting that we have so much of the stuff that why don't the companies start paying us to use their fuel? I guess that would probably be "illegal" at...
- Tags: Gas Prices, telecommuting
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- Mac OS 10.5.2 = Apple Vista?
- Mac OS 10.5.2 = Apple Vista?Wow!Jason who also publishes the Power Page blog is an avid Mac user. That Apple koolaid must stunt mental growth.i think you need to look again most of the blogers on zdnet arei think you need to look again most of the bloggers’ on...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, osx, Mac OS 10.5.2, Apple Vista, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS
- Discussion threads 2008-05-05
- Mexican officials nabs BlackBerries
- If you were the lead press person for a Mexican Delegation visit with President Bush, what would you do when you noticed that all of the White House staff in the meeting had deposited their BlackBerries on a table outside the hotel meeting room? Grab those...
- Tags: U.S. Secret Service, Phone, White House, Official, RIM BlackBerry, Handhelds, Hardware, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- RSA finds new malware enhanced phishing technique
- RSA finds new malware enhanced phishing techniqueShocked!Gee, you forgot to mention which operating systems are susceptible to this thing.The magic 8-ball says it's only one...the usual one...every time...and of course it being the case 100% of the time is not because it's built like crap...it's because it's "popular"...hmmm...the only way...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, Spam, SECURITY, phishing technique, RSA Security Inc., phishing, malware, magic 8-ball
- Discussion threads 2008-04-21
- Twitter: Blocked in Dubai over inconsistent values; Where's the next ban?
- Twitter: Blocked in Dubai over inconsistent values; Where's the next ban?I guess twitter makes sense in this casebut i still cant find a valid all day use for it.Good for clubbing with large groups though.same old censorship adapted to the sandThis is merely the western censorship with an Arab flavour.Most...
- Tags: Telephony, Twitter, inconsistent value
- Discussion threads 2008-04-16
- Biofuel just got even more unpopular across the globe
- Biofuel just got even more unpopular across the globebiofuels is the latest political scamthrowing subsidies in our fuel tank and giving more reasons to countries to exercise population control is the way we will defend our interests overseas. If we play it smart we might be able to get some...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, biofuel
- Discussion threads 2008-04-14
- For sale on eBay: Nuclear biological protection gear and other cool stuff
- eBay auction. Item: F-14 Antenna. Winning bidder: Mahoud A. For sale: Nuclear biological chemical gear. Contact anon1234@craigslist.org eBay auction. Item: Small arms protective inserts. Winning bidder: Hu J. These are just a few of the items the Government Accountability Office discovered for sale on eBay...
- Tags: General Accounting Office, eBay Inc., Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- Alternative energy folks should be smiling as gas expected to soar in cost
- The U.S. government is preparing American drivers for $4 gasoline this spring. Meanwhile crude oil prices seem to be settled into a range just above $100/barrel. As long as the U.S. dollar stays weak and demand for oil doesn't drop considerably, there's no reason to expect lower oil prices....
- Tags: U.S., Alternative Energy, Gasoline, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- OOXML said to win ISO standardization approval with 75 percent of the vote
- While ISO isn't set to announce the official voting tally until tomorrow, the OpenDoc Society has posted to a mailing list what it claims are the final results indicating that Microsoft will be granted ISO approval for its Office Open XML OOXML document format. According to the...
- Tags: ISO, OOXML, Iso standards, Process Improvement, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Quality, Business Operations, Emerging Technologies, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
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