The Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security had to go offline for several months.
Six others would go offline by 2021 at the latest and the three newest by 2022, he said.
If half of the ports go offline even for a few days, the impact on the economy overall will be staggering.
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Delays over decision-making and financing have led to doubts that new power capacity will come on stream before existing plants go offline.
He said Icann feared that if any root server were to go offline the damage claims by companies with lost business could be huge.
ATMs can go offline, so perhaps stock up now.
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My gut feeling is that there will be a few problems--some local power stations will go offline, some old mainframes will go goofy and maybe, with luck, the IRS will freeze up for a few days.
Well, you might want to get offline and go outside, and then back inside, to the movies.
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And we can, maybe offline, we can go through some of the calendars of prior examples if you wanted to do that.
The operating system still has a ways to go in terms of unifying its offline features, but the move to ARM processors has done much to bolster the browser-focused operating system.
Compared to Dish Network's Sling-powered TV Everywhere streaming approach, DirecTV's sideloading has the distinct benefit of offline viewing, but without access to live TV on the go.
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The offline feature is an ideal tool for travelers and on-the-go NOOK users, allowing them to maintain access to ForeverMap 2 without a data connection.
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If you want to play one of these games on the go and find yourself without an internet connection, you have no option to play offline.
The news coincided with the launch of Sky Go Extra - a service allowing users to download movies and TV shows so they can be watched offline.
So before you go on a trip, you can download a book to your laptop or your Chromebook and then read it offline.
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