Database Tagged 120,000 as Possible Terrorist Suspects
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Britain Charges 8 Terrorist Suspects
(AP)
Britain Charges 8 Terrorist Suspects
(AP)
08/17/2004 03:27 PMAP - British police charged eight terrorist suspects Tuesday of
conspiring to commit murder and use radioactive materials, toxic
gases, chemicals or explosives to cause "fear or injury" in a case
involving an alleged top al-Qaida operative at the center of a U.S.
terror alert this month.
Britain Charges Eight Terrorist Suspects
(AP)
Britain Charges Eight Terrorist Suspects
(AP)
08/17/2004 09:35 PMAP - British police charged eight terrorist suspects Tuesday with
conspiring to commit murder and use radioactive materials, toxic
gases, chemicals or explosives to cause "fear or injury" in a case
involving an alleged top al-Qaida operative at the center of a U.S.
terror alert this month.
Early database project yielded 120,000
suspects
Early database project yielded 120,000
suspects
05/20/2004 10:07 AMFBI's DNA database has helped ID
thousands of suspects
FBI's DNA database has helped ID
thousands of suspects
03/08/2004 11:22 PMSiliconValley.com Mar 8 2004 8:41PM GMT
Mining the Tagged Web
Mining the Tagged Web
03/06/2004 02:04 AMConsulting Google to track down "jaguar," for example, generates an
alarming list of more than 7 million documents—a mad muddle of entries
about cars, animals ...
How should MP3 files be tagged for
podcasts?
How should MP3 files be tagged for
podcasts?
04/09/2005 12:57 AMZDNet Apr 9 2005 4:08AM GMT
European bl0gosphere tagged
European bl0gosphere tagged
06/22/2005 02:54 AMLoïc le Meur
needed to put together a presentation about the European blogosphere
for his talk at
Reboot. He put up a
wiki page so that European bloggers might help him out, and within 24
hours, over 40 people contributed data from their specific countries.
It's fast becoming a good overall resource on the paneuropean blogosphere. You can also follow the
discussion on the Technorati "eu
ropean blogosphere" -tag.
Portuguese pooches to get radio tagged
Portuguese pooches to get radio tagged
07/23/2004 02:59 PMMaker of radio frequency identification chips wins a $600 million deal
to insert chips in dogs.
The JSP Files - Parts 1 to 8: Tagged and
Bagged
The JSP Files - Parts 1 to 8: Tagged and
Bagged
07/25/2002 01:32 AMWebmasterBase Jul 25 2002 0:48AM ET
Flickr: Photos tagged with sxsw
Flickr: Photos tagged with sxsw
03/14/2005 04:51 PMthe collective visual experience of everyone at SXSW here .. Flickr:
Photos tagged with SXSW
flickr.com/photos/tags/sxsw
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SEC OKs use of data-tagged corporate
reports
SEC OKs use of data-tagged corporate
reports
02/05/2005 09:11 PMSiliconValley.com Feb 3 2005 8:58PM GMT
Another Tagged Online Bookmarks Manager
Another Tagged Online Bookmarks Manager
06/22/2005 01:52 AMHat tip to Library Stuff for the pointer to http://www.netvouz.com/ ,
which is another social bookmarks manager with super tagging action.
From the front page you can get a list...
RSS feeds of keyword-tagged photos
RSS feeds of keyword-tagged photos
08/09/2004 03:18 PMFlickr "tags" are user-created keywords that describe their photos. If
two or more users hit on (or agree upon) the same tags, all photos
with a common tag are grouped together. That's pretty cool -- a kind
of Wiki-style serindipitous metadata thing. What's cooler is that
every tag automatically gets an RSS feed, so that you can watch all
the photos tagged with "cuba" or "outdoor" or "red" in your RSS
reader, getting alerts every time a new one comes along. Here's the
100 most popular tags in Flickr -- click each for a link to its RSS
feeds (bigger words in the list represent more-popular tags).
(Disclosure: I'm an advisor to Ludicorp, the company that makes
Flickr).
Link
(
via Gomi No Sensei)
Update: Joshua notes, "the tagging system in
flickr was inherited from del.icio.us"
Japanese Schoolchildren to be Tagged
with RFID
Japanese Schoolchildren to be Tagged
with RFID
07/13/2004 11:40 PM""Japan: Schoolkids to be tagged with
RFID chips.""
""Japan: Schoolkids to be tagged with
RFID chips.""
07/14/2004 03:29 AMMobile Carriers Tagged With W10.1
Billion in Fines
Mobile Carriers Tagged With W10.1
Billion in Fines
12/29/2004 08:06 AMHankooki Dec 29 2004 12:21PM GMT
Namespaces and Social Networks in a
Tagged World
Namespaces and Social Networks in a
Tagged World
02/05/2005 09:12 PM
David Weinberger has
a brilliant
quick statement about how BOTH namespaces and social networks will
be used to disambiguate tags'.
I sure as hell hope so. I'd hate it if there was nothing to
disambiguate tags.
Namespaces and Social Networks in a Tagged World
As the interest in tagging and folksonomies grows, we are going to be
faced with a choice: Namespaces or social networks.
The problem is that tags are too simple and ambiguous. (That's also
their strength, but we'll let that go for the moment.) As tens of
millions of people start tagging Web resources, many tags will include
too many disparate items: When you're searching for pages about
London, do you really want to get pages about Jack London? And, no one
really wants information about London; we always want information
about some aspect of a topic. So, the "London"-tagged pages about
London's club scene are noise to someone looking for information about
London's form of government.
Namespaces, or domains of discourse if you prefer, are one way
around this. For example, the Global Voices group that encourages
inter-national blogging, suggests tagging relevant pages with the
prefix "gv" as in "gv:ghana" or "gv:thailand." We will undoubtedly see
a proliferation of such prefixes, and if tagging really takes off, we
may end up with an unregulated version of the domain system in which
multiple organizations squabble over who gets to use a particular
prefix.
Social networks provide an alternative. If I knew who the people
associated with Global Voices were, and if I knew who was the author
of particular tags, I could search for the "ghana" tag and find only
the ones created by GV members. That wouldn't be perfect because it
would get pages tagged by GV members for personal use, but it might be
good enough, especially with further refinement.
This is not an either/or. I'm confident we're going to see both
namespaces and social networks used to disambiguate tags. And there
are undoubtedly brilliant ideas waiting to be had. But it seems highly
likely to me that social networks are going to become more important
than ever in a world gone made with tagging.
[Operating
Manual for Social Tools]
I love this piece.
It's especially heartening for me to listen to David talk about
social networks - as I know he's against the 'Friendster/Tribe' school
of thought - but seems to have accepted a more generalized notion of
what social networks are - and will be.
Anyway - I never said I liked those explicit social networks - it's
just that it was so much dam fun gaming them (apparently Joi had fun
-too!) But it's up to folks like David - who keep us honest -
especially when it comes to the difference between something explcit
liek calling someone "your friend" - versus truth and honesty.
Young offenders to be electronically
tagged while on bail
Young offenders to be electronically
tagged while on bail
01/06/2004 04:32 AMPublicTechnology.net Jan 6 2004 3:14AM ET
Japan: Schoolkids to be tagged with RFID
chips
Japan: Schoolkids to be tagged with RFID
chips
07/13/2004 10:45 AM
CNETAsia
Japan: Schoolkids to be tagged with RFID chips
Japanese authorities decide tracking is best way to protect
kids
The rights and wrongs of RFID-chipping human beings have been
debated since the tracking tags reached the technological mainstream.
Now, school authorities in the Japanese city of Osaka have decided the
benefits outweigh the disadvantages and will now be chipping children
in one primary school.
This reminds me of
the lyrics to the Suicidal Tendencies song
Institutionalized, "Wait, what do you mean, what are you
talking about, we decided!? My best interest?! How can you know what's
my best interest is? How can you say what my best interest is?"
I know people are going to scream "tin foil hat" at me again,
but I really don't like the idea of tagging people and the idea of
national ids. It really is a slippery slope which will always look
rather innocent at the beginning but will lead to a stifling of
freedoms and an ability to profile and control people. I believe this
is true especially in Japan, there are not enough people who argue
against the "oh it's going to just be so convenient" side of the
argument.
Interestingly, the "oh so convenient" national ID card that I was
protesting has only had a 0.2% uptake by the population in Japan so I
guess if you give people a choice, they'd rather not waste their time,
money and privacy.
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Old Tunnel May Be Tagged as a Landmark
(Los Angeles Times)
Old Tunnel May Be Tagged as a Landmark
(Los Angeles Times)
09/15/2004 06:11 AMLos Angeles Times - In its heyday 60 years ago, the Belmont Tunnel was
a prime passageway into Los Angeles, an early experiment in using a
subway to move people across the city. Thousands of Red Car trolley
passengers traversed it daily in their journey between downtown and
Hollywood.
Heisenberg's waterfowl: tagged penguins
breed less
Heisenberg's waterfowl: tagged penguins
breed less
05/19/2004 03:02 PMTagging a penguin's wing with a research tag changes their drag
coefficient, resulting in altered social behaviour, most notably less
success in breeding.
As well as hindering conservation efforts, the penguins' poor breeding
success may also mean that birds tagged in previous experiments have
yielded misleading scientific data.
"We may have to reconsider our present knowledge on the life-history
traits of penguins, such as breeding success and chick survival, which
over the years has been drawn almost entirely from flipper-banded
birds," warn Gauthier-Clerc and his colleagues in their paper in
Biology Letters.
LinkSchroedinger's waterfowl: tagged
penguins breed less
Schroedinger's waterfowl: tagged
penguins breed less
05/19/2004 07:39 AMTagging a penguin's wing with a research tag changes their drag
coefficient, resulting in altered social behaviour, most notably less
success in breeding.
As well as hindering conservation efforts, the penguins' poor breeding
success may also mean that birds tagged in previous experiments have
yielded misleading scientific data.
"We may have to reconsider our present knowledge on the life-history
traits of penguins, such as breeding success and chick survival, which
over the years has been drawn almost entirely from flipper-banded
birds," warn Gauthier-Clerc and his colleagues in their paper in
Biology Letters.
LinkHeisneberg's waterfowl: tagged penguins
breed less
Heisneberg's waterfowl: tagged penguins
breed less
05/19/2004 10:33 AMTagging a penguin's wing with a research tag changes their drag
coefficient, resulting in altered social behaviour, most notably less
success in breeding.
As well as hindering conservation efforts, the penguins' poor breeding
success may also mean that birds tagged in previous experiments have
yielded misleading scientific data.
"We may have to reconsider our present knowledge on the life-history
traits of penguins, such as breeding success and chick survival, which
over the years has been drawn almost entirely from flipper-banded
birds," warn Gauthier-Clerc and his colleagues in their paper in
Biology Letters.
LinkJapan school kids to be tagged with RFID
chips
Japan school kids to be tagged with RFID
chips
07/12/2004 10:14 PMThe chips will be put onto kids' schoolbags, name tags or clothing to
track the kids' movements.
Tagged terror suspect speaks of system's
stupidities
Tagged terror suspect speaks of system's
stupidities
03/25/2005 09:27 AMKafka written by infinite number of monkeys...
Japan: Schoolkids tagged with electronic
chips; authorities decide tracking best
way to protect
Japan: Schoolkids tagged with electronic
chips; authorities decide tracking best
way to protect
07/13/2004 08:23 AMmandatory chips embedded under their skin .. jump on the technology
bandwagon .. Not good ..
:
asia.cnet.com/newstech/systems/0,39001153,39186467,00.htm
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Firebird Database Remote Database Name
Overflow
Firebird Database Remote Database Name
Overflow
06/01/2004 03:27 PMAviram Jenik (Jun 01 2004)
Terrorist DoS?
Terrorist DoS?
10/30/2003 11:31 AM Someone posted this as a comment on my skeptical blogging of a
reported denial of service attack on a group that "outs" what it
thinks are terrorist sites. This arabic site looks like it is planning
a DoS against Internet Hagannah to me. It is a list of ip addresses.
That page has been removed for "administrative purposes."...
Are You a Potential Terrorist?
Are You a Potential Terrorist?
05/21/2004 05:31 AMA Florida company that helped the government launch Matrix also
provided the feds with the names of 120,000 people who, according to
its statistics, were likely terrorists.
Suspected Terrorist
Suspected Terrorist
02/10/2004 02:35 AM[](http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/suspectedTerrorist/)?
What's Your Terrorist Quotient?
What's Your Terrorist Quotient?
05/20/2004 02:45 PMEarlier this year there was a lot of talk about the "MATRIX"
(Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange) that would link up a
variety of databases for law enforcement officials to get faster
access to data about possible criminals and criminal activity. There
has been a loud backlash against the system by privacy activists - and
while that's made some states back off, others have moved forward.
Defenders of the system insist that since all they're doing is making
use of information that is already available to them, there are no
privacy questions. All they've really done is made it faster to get
useful information for investigations. However, now a story has come
out that the original system went well beyond that
to give people a "terrorist quotient" suggesting how likely they
were to be a terrorist. The article also notes that the initial test
of the system came up with 120,000 potential terrorists - and helped
trigger a number of law enforcement actions. If it really is just
analyzing data that is already available, and simply flagging
individuals for further investigation, is that really such a big deal?
It's just a more data intensive version of profiling. The real risk
with such a system is that it would allow people who shouldn't have
access to get data on people they shouldn't have data on. However, if
it's actually being used to track down criminals, what's the problem?
Obviously, if law enforcement relies to strongly on the "terrorist
quotient" as an indicator of guilt, that would be a problem. But, if
it's just used to alert them to potential problems, and is using data
they already have available, the privacy issue doesn't seem to be as
big a deal. If the system is used properly, it's not that
problematic. The real issue is having some openness about what data
is being included, who has access to the system, and how the data is
being used.
Suspected Terrorist
Suspected Terrorist
01/18/2004 06:00 PMCapture/RIP Music Streams for Easy,
Free, Legal, and Tagged Music/MP3 Files
Capture/RIP Music Streams for Easy,
Free, Legal, and Tagged Music/MP3 Files
03/28/2005 12:56 PMTech-Recipes Mar 28 2005 5:12PM GMT
"Brown Equals Terrorist"
"Brown Equals Terrorist"
07/11/2004 04:41 AMBrown = Terrorist - Part II
Brown = Terrorist - Part II
07/19/2004 03:06 PM
Brown = Terrorist - Part II With Bush running about the
country telling us how much safer we are, it's fun to look at some of
the so-called terrorists we're being protected from:
"Five
Mexican citizens who stole cans of baby formula from store shelves
throughout Iowa and sold them to a man of Arab descent for later
resale." America's Internet terrorist
America's Internet terrorist
04/15/2004 10:29 PMStraits Times Apr 16 2004 2:13AM GMT
One Million Distinct Tags, 14 Million
Tagged Posts
One Million Distinct Tags, 14 Million
Tagged Posts
06/05/2005 11:41 PM This weekend, Technorati reached another milestone, our millionth
indexed tag. It amazes me that since we launched our service to track
tags on blog posts on January 17th of this year, there has been an
explosion in the use...
Read any good terrorist books lately?
Read any good terrorist books lately?
09/21/2004 01:05 PMAmong many other unfortunate provisions in the Patriot Act, passed in
haste and hysteria in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, there's one
that's especially loathsome to American values: It gives the
government an unprecedented and scary carte blanche to paw through
library and bookstore records to see what you've been reading. If you
believe that such records might actually help the government nail the
next wave of al-Qaida terrorists, then you don't have to do anything.
But if you believe, as I do, that this particular power is useless for
that goal -- but might prove handy for John Ashcroft and successors
should they decide that, for example, citizens who read too many books
about subject X might warrant close surveillance -- then you should
go here and sign the petition
by the
Campaign for Reader
Privacy, a coalition of booksellers, librarians and writers, to
push Congress to change this un-American law.
This particular part of the Patriot Act is one of those stealth
provisions that simply invites government abuse. Consider:
"The FBI may request the records secretly; it is not required to prove
that there is 'probable cause' to believe the person whose records are
being sought has committed a crime; and the bookseller or librarian
who receives an order is prohibited from revealing it to anyone except
those whose help is needed to produce the records."
This isn't the sort of power we should trust in any government's
hands; given the current administration's record, it's even scarier.
FBI Investigates Terrorist Teddy Bear
FBI Investigates Terrorist Teddy Bear
06/22/2004 08:44 PMFree Internet Press Jun 23 2004 0:43AM GMT
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