I'm pretty ignorant on this subject, and not a US national, but wouldn't this be a rather good way to eliminate redundancy in similar projects across both agencies at a time when the US needs to rationalise expenditure?

I don't think one should censor the internet, it's the easy way out and costs a society rather than individual perpetrators. Censorship is wrong. I personally would of liked to see the CPS bring charges against Wikipedia.

Lets be real clear here... this is an image that is of a minor in a sexually provocative pose being used for profit (marketing). It is child pornography. That's not in a grey area, it's point blank illegal to distribute or publish such material in the UK. In such cases however censorship often adds to hype and can be counterproductive, I want to stop hearing political groups using child porn as a campaign gimmick and do something substantive.

However, there's much hypocrisy in this area, I personally think a lot of acceptable content of pop videos featuring schoolgirls are at best cynical... And hey, I'm all for porn on TV, cinemas advertising, I couldn't care as long as it's consenting adults sex and sexuality is good.

If I was directing the CPS in the UK I'd prosecute the publishers (Wikipedia). I realise this might be a controvertial opinion, I'd just like to clear the deck of the hypocrisy on both sides of the argument.

But the fact remains that no one really owns security online, which leads to gated communities with firewalls -- a highly unreliable and wasteful way to try to assure security.

And I'm not seeing how this international security issue is much different from any other which pretty much as long as theres been human history has involved patchwork alliances and federations to stipulate, review, and enforce.

There's nothing to lament here folks, move along please.

You're right, once you get "Es no posible" you're pretty much screwed regardless of what the issue is or what you have to say. I remember somebody elses number/line getting switched to mine, and being able to demonstate this to Telefonica and just being told it wasn't possible... I had to move apartment in order to get a working line.

My friend did manage to get Telefonica to run a line halfway up the mountain just to his house after his (Spanish) wife spent some time threatening Telefonica with what I think must have been a blood feud... nobody is quite sure what she threatented them with, but it worked.

I live on a small Spanish island off the West coast of Africa. I have a 10Mb/s line, and I can hit the full throughput of this on a good torrent... I did so downloading Ubuntu... This was after contacting Telefonica shortly after the line was installed to express concern about the poor throughput and them saying yes the line wasn't set up properly but should work fine within 48 hours which it did.

At a previous apartment I lost my line after somebody basically cut through it while doing DIY somewhere in the block. It was rewired I think 3 days later.

Yes there are many bad storied about Telefonica that could be told, but my point is that I'm quite confident that I have better bandwidth here than I would have if I returned to the UK. One more reason not to go back to the UK I guess.

Chrome is the current browser beta from Google, and IE8 is the current browser beta from MS... so why compare Chrome in the same group as IE7?