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added 2008 Thu May 1 7:00:00 by unknown user
love this stuff. I need more hours in a day... Saved By: Kevin Gamble | View Details | Give Thanks
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added 2008 Fri Mar 14 7:00:00 by unknown user
Visualization is a technique to graphically represent sets of data. When data is large or abstract, visualization can help make the data easier to read or understand. There ... Saved By: Stephanie.Hobson | View Details | Give Thanks
added 2008 Wed Jan 9 7:00:00 by unknown user
The DataPortability Workgroup announced this morning that representatives from both Google and Facebook are joining its ranks. Saved By: Thomas Vander Wal | View Details | Give Thanks
added 2007 Wed Sep 26 7:00:00 by unknown user
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A good write up on recovering photos from a memory card. Saved By: Nick Peters | View Details | Give Thanks
added 2007 Thu Jun 14 8:33:58 by populist
An internal FBI audit has found that the bureau potentially violated the law or agency rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data about domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions in recent years, far more than was documented in a Justice Department report in March that ignited bipartisan congressional criticism.
added 2007 Tue Jun 12 5:19:43 by zaph22
Wired News, with help from some readers, attempted to get real answers from the largest United States-based ISPs about what information they gather on their customers' use of the internet, and how long they retain records like IP addresses, e-mail and real-time browsing activity. Most importantly, we asked what they require from law-enforcement ..
added 2007 Sun Jun 10 7:40:19 by jeremytoday
Twitter is a network of, uh, twitterers who do little more than post minute-by-minute accounts of their daily activities. I cannot understand why anyone would want to do this, or why anyone would want to read these posts.

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added 2007 Wed May 30 2:05:05 by TechnologyExpert
A lawyer for Vice President Dick Cheney told the Secret Service in September to eliminate data on who visited Cheney at his official residence, a newly disclosed letter states. The Sept. 13, 2006, letter from Cheney's lawyer says logs for Cheney's residence on the grounds of the Naval Observatory are subject to the Presidential Records Act.
added 2007 Tue May 22 9:22:17 by STONERS
Classified information about a U.S.-developed missile defense system was leaked from Japan's navy to students at a naval academy, a news report said Tuesday, as officials investigated security gaps in military information shared between the allies.
added 2007 Sun May 20 6:55:30 by Beau7890
Richard Guthrie, a 92-year-old Army veteran, was one of those victims. He ended up on scam artists' lists because his name, like millions of others, was sold by large companies to telemarketing criminals, who then turned to major banks to steal his life's savings.
added 2007 Thu May 17 2:58:11 by TechnologyExpert
These days, data get stored on disks, computer chips, hard drives and good old-fashioned paper. Scientists in Japan see something far smaller and more durable - bacteria. While ink may fade and computers may crash, bacterial information lasts as long as a species stays alive - possibly a mind-boggling million years.
added 2007 Sun Apr 29 18:23:59 by jcolman
One of the most popular claims made by global warming denialists is that Al Gore has got his science wrong. But read on for the hard science facts that prove he's right.
added 2007 Tue Apr 17 10:54:35 by gatitabonitasen
The chairman of the Senate education committee urged the Bush administration yesterday to block student loan companies from accessing a national database that holds confidential information on tens of millions of students. The request by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), came after The Washington Post reported on inappropriate searches of the da
added 2007 Mon Apr 16 20:24:24 by populist
Some lending companies with access to a national database that contains confidential information on 60 million student borrowers have repeatedly searched it in ways that violate federal rules, raising alarms about abuse of privacy, government and university officials said.
added 2007 Mon Apr 16 5:35:06 by Beau7890
Some lending companies with access to a national database that contains confidential information on tens of millions of student borrowers have repeatedly searched it in ways that violate federal rules, raising alarms about data mining and abuse of privacy, government and university officials said.
added 2007 Mon Mar 26 23:29:10 by populist
Rackable Systems has begun selling a data center packed into a modular storage container, getting to market ahead of a rival system from Sun Microsystems.
added 2007 Mon Mar 19 18:33:08 by populist
THE war in Iraq enters its fifth year today. That, and 3197 US military deaths reported by the Pentagon as of Friday, are among the few numerical certainties in a conflict characterised by confusion and misuse of key data.
added 2007 Mon Mar 19 4:40:59 by Digidave
Choose your data source, pick your location, download the .KML file, and dive in, you data junkie. Unfortunately GCensus currently only has information for California, Oregon, and Pennsylvania. But it is way cool looking to see census data on a 3-d map.
added 2007 Sun Mar 18 9:23:44 by STONERS
It looks like a color-coded terror alert scale - and meteorologically speaking, that's exactly what it is. With climate change making conditions more unpredictable, national weather services from across the European Union have joined forces to create a new Web site providing up-to-the-minute information on "extreme weather" across the con
added 2007 Thu Mar 15 15:36:38 by elenaadler
Privacy bodies have welcomed Google's decision to anonymise personal data it receives from users' web searches.
added 2007 Fri Mar 9 10:03:51 by kupferwerk_fste
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added 2007 Wed Mar 7 20:42:04 by populist
Lawmakers and privacy advocates are concerned that a powerful new data searching tool being tested by the Department of Homeland Security could pose a threat to Americans' privacy as it sifts through mountains of information for patterns that might reveal terrorists.
added 2007 Wed Mar 7 18:06:42 by yabaduba
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added 2007 Sat Feb 24 14:56:15 by TheAttacks
Are you obsessed with security? Your PCs are not connected to the Internet, you've got 8 locks on your front door, a password containing more than 12 characters, and photos on your computer of you on the beach wearing a leopard thong and sipping cocktails with 3 naked babes? Worry no more!
added 2007 Thu Feb 22 9:15:58 by trojanhorse
Scientists have gotten their best look ever at the composition of planets outside our solar system, but were more surprised by what they didn't see than what they did see.
added 2007 Sun Feb 18 16:52:52 by okitech
Like so much else about the Iranian state, the Quds Force, which conducts overseas operations for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, remains remarkably mysterious even to those who closely study the country
added 2007 Sat Feb 10 1:54:10 by okitech
The FBI and the VA inspector general are investigating the Jan. 22 disappearance of an external hard drive from an agency facility in Birmingham, Ala. The hard drive potentially could contain personal information on 48,000 veterans. VA spokesman Matt Burns said initial reports show encryption policies "were not strictly followed."
added 2007 Wed Feb 7 21:52:52 by starboy
The palm-sized PDA tucked away in Justine Aitel's pocketbook just might be the most scary device on display at this year's RSA security conference.