StorSimple is likely a somewhat obscure service for many, but Microsoft has long offered this storage solution for large enterprise customers like Mazda, SK Telecom and GF Health Products.
(Babbage wrote about this in "Powers of ten" last October).A few years ago, attackers began to seize upon commonly used standards, like NTP and DNS for converting domain names into internet machine numbers, gaming protocols, and a host of more obscure network services as a means of amplifying their attacks.How does it work?
Hence the historic duopoly between ITV and the BBC – separate funding but competition for viewers driving quality and choice even in the more obscure public service genres.
And if you're using an obscure payment service or you switched to a new provider, you can also manually import CSV files.
So the next time you read a story about a programmer ferociously demanding open data for some seemingly obscure government service, like about parking meters, comment at the bottom of the article with a simple "thanks".
The USPS has snared a large share of this business, but its growth has essentially just obscured the service's more fundamental problems.
All the major players are covered, as well as a handful of more obscure instant-messaging services from Web sites like CafeMom and others.
I envisioned this rich tapestry of services, obscure to monolithic, hooking in through engines and tools to a vastness of data and users, and, at the other end of the telescope, a single point of entry through which one would have instant access to everything from maps to obscure scientific results to the current price of tea.
Updated, 7 58 p.m. | Three weeks after an obscure Internet news service claimed that Syrian rebels had admitted responsibility for the deadly chemical attack outside Damascus in August, a veteran foreign correspondent whose name and reputation lent credibility to the story has denied writing the article.
When boundaries are obscure or professional service is not available, some organizations choose to quit or not to enter into this area.
