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Submission + - Internet down in Iran ahead of planned protests (telegraph.co.uk) 1

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on Sunday December 06, 2009 @05:58AM

Ceriel Nosforit writes: "Internet access in Tehran was almost completely unavailable on Saturday, two days ahead of planned demonstrations in the Iranian capital by opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad."

Submission + - Apple astroturfing or editor corruption?

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on Sunday December 21, 2008 @10:31AM

Ceriel Nosforit writes: "Why are we seeing so many lame articles mentioning Apple products when they're barely related to the contents of the article? What will it take to make this crap go away?"

Submission + - A rare insight into the working of the brain

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on Tuesday March 25, 2008 @09:18AM

Ceriel Nosforit writes: "The left hemisphere of neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor's brain stopped working correctly as she had a stroke, and she took this as an opportunity to study how the brain worked from the inside. In the YouTube video of her dramatic, informative and entertaining presentation of her experience, which utilizes a real human brain as prop, she gives us valuable insight about ourselves and how we experience reality."

Submission + - Nordic ISP circumvents spying

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on Monday May 07, 2007 @07:23AM

Ceriel Nosforit writes: "
The Swedish government has proposed a law which would allow the National Defence Radio Establishment to intercept all electronic communications passing the national border. To meet customers' demand for integrity, TeliaSonera has decided to move the production of e-mail services for Finnish customers to Finland.
— Kauppalehti

TeliaSonera's move is however not completely benevolent, but a necessity for compliance with Finnish privacy laws, as they state in their press release. This is interesting because even in the liberal paradise of Northern Europe Finnish and Swedish law and practice can be in such contradiction. Compare with Echelon & local variants and the rest of the world."

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