Sourceforge is now blocking access to sites from Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria. Since 2003, the SourceForge.net Terms and Conditions of Use have prohibited certain persons from receiving services pursuant to U.S. laws, including, without limitations, the Denied Persons List and the Entity List, and other lists issued by the U.S. Department of [...]
Google Is Just Saber Rattling And Won't Pull Out Of China
January 13, 2010 By 5 Comments
David Drummond, SVP of Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer for Google, just dropped a very provocative post over on the official Google blog. Normally a post of this nature would go pretty much unnoticed (except by the tin-foil hat wearing security freaks) as it details an attempted attack on Google and a number of [...]
Google playing with music search again?
May 31, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I’d almost forgotten that Google has a search operator “music:” that when put in front of a query will bring up information about the artists, songs and albums you’re searching for. However, what did surprise me today, was getting the same results as searching for “music: Nickelback” simply by searching for Nickelback on Google.com. Check [...]
Selling Seagate a national security risk? Grow up!
August 26, 2007 By 1 Comment
The xenophobes are at it again. This time they’re freaking out because a Chinese technology company has expressed an interest in purchasing hard drive maker Seagate. “Seagate would be extremely sensitive,” said an industry executive who participates in classified government advisory groups. “I do not think anyone in the U.S. wants the Chinese to have [...]
No O'Flaherty in China? I'm blocked!
March 12, 2007 By 4 Comments
Greatfirewallofchina.org is reporting that O’Flaherty (and the entire oflaherty.dk) is being blocked in China. Aim of this website is to be a watchdog and keep track of which and how many or how many times sites are censored. Help to keep the censorship transparent. Each blocked website will automatically be added to the great firewall [...]
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