Vodafone explains why they changed the FUP.

Interesting message left by hacker. I think they are called white hat or black hat hackers as opposed to white or black hackers.

A hilarious posts that raises deep academic questions: "How much of this antipathy is attributable to deliberate misinformation, and poor education, and media which loves a sensation? Does what is ostensibly over zealous nationalism mask a deep insecurity, even a loss of identity?"

Google, for example, allows Syrian users to access Gmail and iGoogle, but not Google Gears or Gmail video chat. Facebook, though filtered by Syrian ISPs, offers Syria as a location option, and allows users to access its services. Only companies such as Amazon.com, which sells books and other products by mail, and GoDaddy.com, which offers domain names, have been forced to prohibit Syrian use altogether.

Did you ever sit at the airport or at a cafe and there was a unencrypted wireless access point nearby, but whenever you wanted to visit a site their website would pop up asking for a fee to use the internet through their AccessPoint (aka. Captive Portal)?

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The theory that the internet phrase lol,meaning "laugh out loud", can be placed at any part in any sentence and make said sentence lose all credibilty and seriousness.

Everything should be archived.

Responses such as these are significant. They indicate an acknowledgement by the authorities of the extent to which young people have carved out an influential space for themselves online.

the family posted a message on a web forum

Very nice illustration of the underwater cables around the world. Highlighting Wednesday incident in Alexandria.

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facebook privacy concerns

video explaining what the web and web2.0 is all about

Anti-terror legislation forces Italian cybercafes to check ID of all customers

a 3d map of the world. The Z axis is the digital access index