DOJ asks for search records

(this post was written by Kyle on January 20, 2006, and it concerns & & & & )

[via BoingBoing] In defense of the Child Online Protection act, the Justice Department has asked Google, Yahoo, AOL, and MSN for one week’s worth of search data. Over at SearchEngineWatch, Danny Sullivan surmises, “The government apparently wants to estimate how much pornography shows up in the searches that children do.” MSN, AOL, and Yahoo turned [...]

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Byrd’s speech

(this post was written by Kyle on December 21, 2005, and it concerns & & & & & & & & & )

The cool thing about being in Boston is that I can watch T.V. again. Two days ago, I sat around and watched the Senate on CSpan. One thing I got to see was a passionate speech by Senator Byrd, who is like 85 years old. He basically bitchslapped the President for the whole “spying on [...]

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Riya

(this post was written by Kyle on December 11, 2005, and it concerns & )

Anybody hear of Riya yet? It’s a Flickr kind of thing, but they have some sort of technology that allows for face recognition. In other words, it comes to recognize the people who you usually take photos of, and then it tags those photos appropriately for you. This sounds really cool, but I can’t help [...]

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