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Nov 13, 2020 · "The Internet cannot remain a 'Wild West': we need clear and transparent rules, a predictable environment and balanced rights and obligations," Breton told Pichai. The call came after a Google internal document outlined a 60-day strategy to counter the European Union's push for the new rules by getting U.S. allies to push back against Breton.
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Bio-Weapons That Eat Ammunition and Fuel - Slashdot
May 26, 2002 · 1gor writes: "This article in The Observer mentions Pentagon's plans to use genetically modified bugs that 'eat' the enemy's fuel and ammunition supplies without harming humans (they also want to to pacify the enemy by spraying Valium). Imagine an escaped virus destroying the Earth's oil reserves and its whole industrial potential? Curiously, the military may …
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Broadband from Airships - Slashdot
Oct 19, 2005 · Broadband from Airships 180. rustbear writes "The BBC reports that researchers looking to the skies to provide super-fast internet access via airships have proved it can successfully operate a data rate link of 11Mbps. Trials were conducted using a 12,000 cubic metre balloon, flying at an altitude of around 24 kilometres for nine hours.
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Troubleshooting For Dummies
Ten Hours Without Internet Sep 21, 2017 The backhoe is the natural enemy of the Internet. Link Stop the Boop-De-Doop Sep 4, 2017 You can eliminate the noise that plays when you add a new gizmo to your PC. Link "Hello, Tech Support?" Jul 27, 2017 Do people still use tech support? Link. For all blog posts related to the troubleshooting topic
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Newswire Misreports Gamer's Suicide - Slashdot
Jan 19, 2006 · Asriel86 writes "Pulling from the AFP newswire, Yahoo, CNN, and others have been reporting about how a gamer broadcast his own suicide on a gaming forum via a webcam, and that members of the forum continued to ridicule the gamer while he killed himself. Gaming Horizon has just learned that this is c
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Social Media Watch Thread - Page 11 - Bharat Rakshak
Feb 20, 2021 · Reddit, like Slashdot forums, are a cesspool of unmoderated garbage. The easiest way to manage it is to look for the worst of it - very easy to find - and use that as a basis to discredit the already biased India subreddits. 90% of reddit is already a pile of p00, …
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Don's Blog – Page 3 – Technology run (almost) amuck
Apr 25, 2021 · Its often been said that the Internet's natural enemy is the backhoe. But in this case, its a set of beavers who needed some more fibre in their diet. Many years ago I did a very complete tour of a telecom facility. The inside plant, the outside plant, the sewers, the batteries, the roof, the cold-war-era emergency call centre bunker.
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Adventures in 3d Printing | PDF | Hacker Culture | 3 D
Internet, irst-time authors had to go to a publisher and practically beg to obtain the investment required. Nowadays, eBooks or blogs have dramatically reduced those costs and, at the same time, democratized writing. Even better news is that new 3D model libraries are opening up all the time. The downside is that many of these new sites are
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CMSC-27100 — Lecture 25: Graph Theory: Connectivity
Mar 19, 2018 · Googling "internet interruption backhoe" results in 97 thousand hits at writing, and first page title like, "The Backhoe: A Real Cyberthreat - Wired," "The Backhoe, The Internet's Natural Enemy - Slashdot," and "Urban Dictionary: Fiber-seeking Backhoe." It's a hard world for edges out there, too.
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Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters
Jun 16, 2019 · Long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot brings us news about the southern hemisphere of Mars: The University of Arizona HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) has posted a photo of curious chevron shapes in southeast Hellas Planitia that are the result of "a complex story of dunes, lava, and wind." "Enterprising viewers will make the …
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How ISPs Collude To Offer Poor Service - Slashdot
Dec 28, 2012 · My internet DNS is so bad, I switched to Open DNS, a free service, because DNS provided by my DSL provider times out 90% of the time. My packet loss is always > 45%, and my internet speeds for "3.0M down, 750K up" are 128K down, and less than 56K up. Wrap "open market works" around you in the night, fondle it, and stroke it. But it's a pipe dream.
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Jul 18, 2021 · "Internet is ON; circumvention tools ARE working," Psiphon said in a statement. Psiphon said the roughly 1.4 million represents about 20% of Cuban internet users. Its open source circumvention tool can be downloaded from app stores like Google Play or Apple to "maximize your chances of bypassing censorship," according to the company.
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Jul 08, 2008 · Barence writes "Dozens of new undersea internet cables are set to be laid over the next couple of years, providing a huge boost to worldwide capacity. The huge boom in internet video has led to doomsday scenarios of the internet running out of capacity. Although experts believe that there is abundant amounts of 'dark fibre' lying unused in oceans across the world, …
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US "the Enemy" Says Dotcom Judge - Slashdot
Jul 16, 2012 · You're totally missing the point. The famous quote is "we have met the enemy and he is us." That is why it is a snarky (and accurate) turn of phrase to say "we have met the enemy and he is (the) U.S." Relating to the old quote is meant to give context via the truth of the snarky new stating of it. It gives the statement more weight.
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Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters
Dec 08, 2017 · Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. Timely news source for technology related news with a heavy slant towards Linux and Open Source issues.
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The Backhoe, The Internet's Natural Enemy - Slashdot
Jan 19, 2006 · The Backhoe, The Internet's Natural Enemy 382. Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday January 19, 2006 @01:29PM from the brace-yourself-for-impact dept. Juha-Matti Laurio writes "Experts say last week's Sprint outage is a reminder that with all the attention paid to computer viruses and the latest Windows security holes, the most vulnerable threads in America's critical …
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Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters
Jun 12, 2021 · Its device business (the part that sells TVs, sound bars and the like) had a gross profit of $48.2 million in the same period, up from $32.5 million last year. While the hardware business has significantly more revenue, profits from data and advertising spiked 152 percent from last year, and are quickly catching up.
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Alterslash archive for 2021-May-30
May 30, 2021 · That's the opinion of Vaclav Smil, a distinguished professor emeritus at the University of Manitoba and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, writing in IEEE's Spectrum (in an article shared by Slashdot reader schwit1): Natural gas is abundant, low-cost, convenient, and reliably transported, with low emissions and high combustion efficiency
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Grad Student's Work Reveals National Infrastructure - Slashdot
Jul 08, 2003 · Grad Student's Work Reveals National Infrastructure 662. Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday July 08, 2003 @11:05AM from the kick-me-here dept. CodeHog writes "The WP reports about a student working on a PhD and how it relates to national (US) security. Very interesting that he has been able to get all this information.
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Can Terrorists Build a Nuclear Bomb? - Slashdot
Feb 18, 2005 · on Friday February 18, 2005 @11:15AM ( #11711826 ) The real question isn't whether terrorists could build a nuclear bomb, but whether they would want to. As long as the US can threaten smaller countries with the "invade first and ask questions later" approach to foreign policy, the fear will breed opponents to the US.
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