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Monthly Archives: March 2008

You’ll Never Walk Alone

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

The NSA is not the only one monitoring every move you make, every breath you take. In their desire to anticipate our wants and needs before we know them ourselves, the New York Times reports that major web companies–Yahoo!, Google, AOL (it’s still around? I’ll be damned)–are “gathering clues about the tastes and preferences [...]

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You’ll Never Walk Alone

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

The NSA is not the only one monitoring every move you make, every breath you take. In their desire to anticipate our wants and needs before we know them ourselves, the New York Times reports that major web companies–Yahoo!, Google, AOL (it’s still around? I’ll be damned)–are “gathering clues about the tastes and preferences [...]

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Cape Wind

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

The Nantucket Sound wind farm–Cape Wind–has been struggling to overcome well-connected and well-moneyed opposition. Cape Wind would produce about 170 megawatts, about 75% of the average energy demand for Cape Cod and the Islands. From the Cape the project’s wind turbines will appear to be about 1/2″ above the horizon. The project [...]

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Privacy and Security

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

A story in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal titled NSA’s Domestic Spying Grows as Agency Sweeps Up Data (subscription required) reports that–
According to current and former intelligence officials, the spy agency now monitors huge volumes of records of domestic emails and Internet searches as well as bank transfers, credit-card transactions, travel and telephone records. The NSA [...]

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