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Comment Re:Satellites? (Score 1) 351

by rtfm_admin on Tuesday August 30, 2011 @08:06PM (#37259914) Attached to: Pakistan Bans Encryption

Most services depend on GPS for spot-beam selection, timing, etc. Depending on your geographic location, the downsites can route all traffic through that countries proxies and other "stuff". BGAN does this for the US.

Satcom KB article

White House Ordered to Preserve All Email 259

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @09:41AM from the IT-at-that-place-just-got-harder dept.

Verunks writes "A federal judge Monday ordered the White House to preserve copies of all its e-mails in response to two lawsuits that seek to determine whether e-mails have been destroyed in violation of federal law. The issue surfaced in the leak probe of administration officials who disclosed Valerie Plame's CIA identity. ' The Federal Records Act details strict standards prohibiting the destruction of government documents including electronic messages, unless first approved by the archivist of the United States. Justice Department lawyers had urged the courts to accept a proposed White House declaration promising to preserve all backup tapes. The judge's order "should stop any future destruction of e-mails, but the White House stopped archiving its e-mail in 2003 and we don't know if some backup tapes for those e-mails were already taped over before we went to court. It's a mystery," said Meredith Fuchs, a lawyer for the National Security Archive.'"

Submission + - Original Marvel comics going online

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @07:43AM

An anonymous reader writes: In a tentative move onto the internet, Marvel is putting some of its older comics online Tuesday, hoping to reintroduce young people to the X-Men and Fantastic Four by showcasing the original issues in which such characters appeared. The publisher is hoping fans will be intrigued enough about the origins of those characters to shell out $9.99 a month, or $4.99 monthly with a year-long commitment. For that price, they'll be able to poke through, say, the first 100 issues of Stan Lee's 1963 creation "Amazing Spider-Man" at their leisure, along with more recent titles like "House of M" and "Young Avengers." Comics can only be viewed in a Web browser, not downloaded, and new issues will only go online at least six months after they first appear in print. Dark Horse Comics now puts its vibrant and large images of "Dark Horse Presents" up for free viewing on its MySpace site. DC Comics has also put issues up on MySpace, and recently launched the competition-based Zuda Comics, which encourages users to rank each other's work, as a way to tap into the expanding Web comic scene.

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