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gerddie writes “Cryptohippie has published what may be called a first attempt to describe the ‘electronic police state’ (PDF). Based on information available from different organizations such as Electronic Privacy Information Center, Reporters Without Borders, and Freedom House, countries were rated on 17 criteria with regard to how close they are already to an electronic police state. The rankings are for 2008. Not too surprisingly, one finds China, North Korea, Belarus, and Russia at the top of the list. But the next slots are occupied by the UK (England and Wales), the US, Singapore, Israel, France, and Germany.” This is a good start, but it would be good to see details of their methodology. They do provide the raw data (in XLS format), but no indication of the weightings they apply to the elements of “electronic police state” behavior they are scoring.
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jamie found this visualization of air travel, which might be usable in some sort of proxy for the spread of flu virus (to choose a random application). Jer Thorp, an artist and educator from Vancouver, Canada (and a former geneticist), searched Twitter for the phrase “Just landed in” and obtained lat/lon coordinates for both the indicated airport and the Twitter user’s home location, as recorded in their Twitter profile. He them produced videos of multi-hour stretches of air travel that had been latent in the Twitter information stream.
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O'Brien defence begins cross examination of Kilrea
Ottawa Citizen By Glen McGregor, The Ottawa CitizenMay 11, 2009 5:44 PM OTTAWA – A lawyer acting for Ottawa Mayor Larry O'Brien spent most of Monday cross-examining former mayoralty candidate Terry Kilrea over his history of repeated attempts to win public office … Kilrea tesitifies prominent Conservatives wanted a 'business … Metro Canada – Ottawa Ottawa mayor offered opponent money, federal job, court hears CBC.ca 580 CFRA Radio – National Post – Blackberry Cool – United Press International all 109 news articles Langue : Français |
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Senior Mountie apologizes for Dziekanski death
The Canadian Press OTTAWA – A senior RCMP officer has apologized for the death of a Polish immigrant who was zapped with a Mountie stun gun. Deputy Commissioner Bill Sweeney's statement Monday is perhaps the clearest sign of public regret from the force over the death of … RCMP deputy commissioner apologizes for Dziekanski's death Vancouver Sun Mounties withheld truth to 'protect the facts': Taser inquiry Canada.com United Press International – Winnipeg Free Press all 72 news articles |
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Dhalla abuse charges 'false'
Edmonton Sun By IAN ROBERTSON, SUN MEDIA BRAMPTON — Beleagured Liberal MP Ruby Dhalla surfaced yesterday after three days of silence and denied accusations she mistreated foreign caregivers at her family's Mississauga home. Dhalla a victim of campaign: lawyer National Post Domestic abuse Ottawa Citizen Globe and Mail – Toronto Star – Winnipeg Sun – Toronto Star all 545 news articles |
“With the release of Prism 1.0 beta we are ready to start fostering an ecosystem that makes it easier for developers to create and distribute compelling web app bundles”
Recently, 4chan pwnd Time Magazine’s poll to identify the World’s Most Influential Person. The online community dominated that poll and made the founder of 4chan, moot A.K.A. Christopher Poole the winner. That’s not surprising. 4chan is known for pwning everything it can get its hands on.
“Google knows more about you than your mother.” Kevin Bankston, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, recently made that statement to this reporter.
