Bandwidth must be saved.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 10/26/2009 10:59:55 PM PDT by meadsjn
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Securities exchanges have a sound network back-up if a severe pandemic keeps people home and clogging the Internet, but the Homeland Security Department has done little planning, Congressional investigators said on Monday.
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Many companies and government offices hope to keep operations going as much as possible with teleworking using the Internet. Among the many problems posed by this idea, however, is the issue of bandwidth -- especially the "last mile" between a user's home and central cable systems.
"Such network congestion could prevent staff from broker-dealers and other securities market participants from teleworking during a pandemic," reads the GAO report
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BLOCKING WEBSITES
Private Internet providers might need government authorization to block popular websites, it said, or to reduce residential transmission speeds to make way for commerce.
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Well, we'll see what happens.
Bandwidth must be saved.
Thank goodness that we have leaders we can trust implicitly during this time of greatest peril. [/gag]
Obama's breadline announcements must take priority.
Never put it past Homeland Security to find new and more efficient ways to waste taxpayer money. They really are adept at believing their own bullshit.
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