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By Janet Evans
Friday, Dec 19 2008, 01:20 PM
It's DEAD again. I'm speaking about the internet in the middle east.
Something is fishy, don't you think? Almost one year ago between three and five undersea cables were cut taking out the internet. It was never fully determined what caused all of those outages. While some internet in the middle east somes from sattelite, some originates from underwater cable.
Now Egypt, Yemen and Sudan are having problems.
And here we outsource a host of technology to the middle east, specifically to India. Last year that was comprimised by the cutting of the cables. You take for granted that the web is just there, working. You don't plan on its underwater cables being cut.
So you have to wonder...
Millions of people across the Middle East and Asia have lost access to the internet after two undersea cables in the Mediterranean suffered severe damage.
Huge numbers in Egypt and India were left struggling to get online as a result of the outage, when the major internet pipeline between Egypt and Italy was cut.
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) throughout the region, including those in United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, also reported problems. International telephone calls, which have also been affected, are being rerouted to work around the problem.
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Related from February 2008
Cable Damage Hits 1.7 Million Users In UAE
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By Janet Evans
Wednesday, Dec 3 2008, 11:44 AM
That's text messaging short hand for "Just Do It."
And just do it is what a doctor volunteering in the Congo did when he performed a very complex amputation by receiving his instructions via text message.
GR8 job doctor!
"A doctor volunteering in war-torn Congo performed a complex amputation to save a boy’s life by following instructions sent by text message from a colleague in London.
David Nott, 52, a vascular surgeon, was working for a Medicins Sans Frontieres hospital in the eastern town of Rutshuru, an area ravaged by bloody battles between Congolese and rebel troops. Among the hundreds of wounded soldiers and civilians brought into the hospital in October was a 16-year-old boy who had been caught in the midst of a gun fight between advancing combatants in a forest in the Nyanzale region. "
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By Janet Evans
Tuesday, Sep 23 2008, 04:51 PM
Another school shooting...Not a tragedy…a massacre.
This time in Finland. Today one student killed killed ten others, and then himself (of course, he turned the gun on himself; coward).
Of course, neighbors said he was “quiet.”
A masked student went on the rampage at a Finnish school Tuesday, methodically gunning down 10 people before turning the weapon on himself, a day after police quizzed him over a chilling YouTube warning.
Young women screamed as the 22-year-old shooter stalked the corridors of the vocational college in a ski mask and black outfit letting off round after round at helpless students before starting several fires, witnesses and police said.
The massacre in Kauhajoki in southwestern Finland was the country's deadliest school shooting and the second in under a year.
"I heard the sound of shooting and hysterical girls' voices. Then two girls came towards my room and said a weird man was shooting," Jukka Forsberg, the janitor of the school, told AFP.
"I went to see and saw a guy leaving a big black bag in the corridor and going into classroom number three and closing the door.
"I looked through the window and he immediately shot at me," he said, adding, "Thank God I was not hit! He fired at me but I was running zigzag. I ran for my life."
Forsberg said he heard "horrible screams of pain" as he raced out of the building. The shooter has been identified as a second-year culinary arts student Matti Juhani Saari.
Read the article HERE
Sure... there were advanced warning signs (a video).
I blogged last November about Terrorism in American Schools: The First of ALL Fears
It’s worth a second look.
Also, New Berlin is going to be installing high tech video equipment in their school district, just approved this past month.
I also blogged about schools using high tech video systems last November,
Smile Kids, You're On LIVE Camera.
An article came out last week in "Campus Safety" for educators that states there are between 2,000-3,000 camera "systems" out in the schools throughout the country right now. (Making the Leap To IP Video - A Safer Bet. www.campussafety.com (Sept/Oct 08).
Since Franklin Public Schools are so close to the House of Correction, with the threat of domestic terrorism (that includes from students), and whatever looms ahead from foreign terrorism, I think we need to keep this equipment in mind.
We are currently repairing our track again for $53,000 and have a renovation of the stadium/track in the future plans for over 2.5 million....
We just had a safety program on that track. Perhaps some safety equipment in the schools might be of benefit. Just a thought.
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By Janet Evans
Monday, Jul 28 2008, 11:56 AM
Some people like to keep track of things.
Dates, statistics, record breaking moments, great moments in history….
Here’s one for you…
Google says the Web has hit a new milestone: more than one trillion active, unique URLs.
"Internet search giant Google has doled out one of those interesting little numbers that make keeping track of the Internet so much fun—except, in this case, the number isn't little at all. According to Google, its systems that spider the Web looking for new content hit a new milestone: one trillion unique URLs on the Web at once. "
Read about it HERE
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By Janet Evans
Thursday, Jul 17 2008, 07:02 AM
By Janet Evans
Sunday, Mar 9 2008, 06:00 PM
Here in the USA we know darn well that people who "text" are able to do it almost any time and still function.
Why, they even do it while driving!
That's not a good thing, but people are doing it just the same.
So, why then, are British citizens finding it so difficult to text while walking?
Check out the plan to give some help to those spazzy Brits who can't seem to do two things at once. You won't believe your eyes!
London's Plan to Prevent Cell Phone Text Injuries í here
OMG....I'm still laughing!
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By Janet Evans
Friday, Mar 7 2008, 06:00 PM
In this world of technology and You Tube, would it surprise you that Al Qaeda is looking for Computer Geeks?
That's right.
Al Qaeda wants to reach as much of an audience as possible.
And they want to do it with high-tech productions.
If you are hired, forget a nice office with a water cooler, though.
You'll be working out of an Internet Cafe on a laptop, with a high-speed connection.
You must be current with your languages....Arabic, English and Urdu.
Everyone needs to be able to understand your videos.
Your objective?
Draw in would-be terrorists with your high-tech multimedia work.
Read about it on Fox News
Al Qaeda Seeks Tech Geeks to Run Multimedia Wing ç here
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