Evan, SOP. Outsourced to the N-th degree. Jamie didn't try an adult-content site. These filters sometimes even block hotel reservation sites "for sexual content." Everybody cool down please. Alejandro Pisanty ! !! !!! !!!! NEW PHONE NUMBER - NUEVO NÚMERO DE TELÉFONO +52-1-5541444475 FROM ABROAD +525541444475 DESDE MÉXICO SMS +525541444475 Dr. Alejandro Pisanty UNAM, Av. Universidad 3000, 04510 Mexico DF Mexico Blog: http://pisanty.blogspot.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/pisanty Unete al grupo UNAM en LinkedIn, http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/22285/4A106C0C8614 Twitter: http://twitter.com/apisanty ---->> Unete a ISOC Mexico, http://www.isoc.org . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ________________________________________ Desde: at-large-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [at-large-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] en nombre de Evan Leibovitch [evan@telly.org] Enviado el: jueves, 20 de septiembre de 2012 10:57 Hasta: At-Large Worldwide CC: lac-discuss-en@atlarge-lists.icann.org Asunto: Re: [At-Large] US PTO Blocks Access to Certain Websites Ooops!! (from the same URL, edited:) Update: At 5 pm the USPTO called and said that the public access wifi
network was using a filter, provided by a contractor, to block "political activist" sites. This filter was not used by the network providing Internet access for the USPTO staff. After our meeting, the USPTO reviewed its policies, and has removed the filter. USPTO says the filter was implemented by a contractor, and no one we talked to at USPTO was aware of who was being blocked. In any event, the filter has been removed.
Makes you wonder what the contractor was doing creating the filter in the first place. - Evan On 20 September 2012 09:52, Carlton Samuels <carlton.samuels@gmail.com>wrote:
Now then, this is the Patent and Trademark Office of the United States! See the story here: http://keionline.org/node/1548
[FWIW, back in the day, I was one of three contract SEs - me, a Vietnamese woman and a Malaysian woman, both ethnic Chinese - who put in their first full text retrieval system. At the time I worked for a German independent software house. My son, a mechanical engineer fresh out of university, went to work there as an examiner last year. We engineered that system before he was born. They were still using it!]
[Apropos, his tenure didn't last too long. Let's say in regard to too many applications, his intuit ran counter too often to that of his immediate supervisor, resulting in the inevitable conflict. This, after I told the boy to shut up and go along with the program! But noooooo. :-)].
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