Silences 0.3
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Singer silences messageboard
Singer silences messageboard
07/18/2004 06:52 AMSinger silences
messageboard
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Apple Silences Beeps, Hissing
Apple Silences Beeps, Hissing
03/06/2004 02:06 AMApple confirmed this week that there was a noise issue with some of
its dual-processor Power Mac G5 models and said the issue has been
fixed for new machines rolling off the production lines. By Ina Fried
(CNET News.com via MyAppleMenu)
China silences Tiananmen critics
China silences Tiananmen critics
06/03/2004 06:37 AMKnown activists are detained or go missing from their homes ahead of
the 4 June anniversary of the crackdown.
Bush Administration Silences FBI
Whistleblower
Bush Administration Silences FBI
Whistleblower
07/07/2004 11:04 AMVia Dave Farber's
Interesting People mail list)
Boston Globe: Translator in
eye of storm on retroactive classification. Sifting through old
classified materials in the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks,
FBI translator Sibel Edmonds said, she made an alarming discovery:
Intercepts relevant to the terrorist plot, including references to
skyscrapers, had been overlooked because they were badly translated
into English.
Edmonds, 34, who is fluent in Turkish and Farsi, said she quickly
reported the mistake to an FBI superior. Five months later, after
flagging what she said were several other security lapses in her
division, she was fired. Now, after more than two years of
investigations and congressional inquiries, Edmonds is at the center
of an extraordinary storm over US classification rules that sheds new
light on the secrecy imperative supported by members of the Bush
administration.
In a rare maneuver, Attorney General John Ashcroft has ordered that
information about the Edmonds case be retroactively classified, even
basic facts that have been posted on websites and discussed openly in
meetings with members of Congress for two years. The Department of
Justice also invoked the seldom-used ''state secrets" privilege to
silence Edmonds in court. She has been blocked from testifying in a
lawsuit brought by victims of the Sept. 11 attacks and was allowed to
speak to the panel investigating the Sept. 11 attacks only behind
closed doors.
Why? Maybe, as Republican Sen. Charles
Grassley says in this story, "''Frankly, it looks like an attempt to
impede legitimate oversight of a serious problem at the FBI."
Even now, Congress as a whole has yet to locate its spine.
By the way, the story notes that Sens. Grassley and Leahy have, at the
government's request, removed from their websites letters they wrote
to the FBI demanding answers about this situation. The story also says
the letters are available on the Internet but doesn't say where.
They're
here,
at the invaluable
Memory
Hole.
More information:
The first major news organization to cover this story was CBS' 60
Minutes show. Here's
that 2002 report,
And the increasingly helpful Disinfopedia wiki has
much
more.
Shakespeare silences guns in Rio slum
(Reuters)
Shakespeare silences guns in Rio slum
(Reuters)
06/09/2004 03:35 PMReuters - Shakespeare silenced the guns in a no man's land separating
two
warring Rio de Janeiro gangs as residents of nearby slums watched
Brazilian TV stars perform a play
about love in time of war.
Bush silences dangerous criticism...
from the Parks Service
Bush silences dangerous criticism...
from the Parks Service
07/11/2004 08:25 AMEx-chief of Park Police denounces
firing
cnn.com/2004/US/07/10/park.police.chief/index.html
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"Bush silences dangerous criticism...
from the Parks Service"
"Bush silences dangerous criticism...
from the Parks Service"
07/12/2004 04:00 AMMSFT buys spam company, sues the
competition, silences political
activists
MSFT buys spam company, sues the
competition, silences political
activists
07/30/2004 12:12 PMMy cow-orker Annalee Newitz has posted a great editorial on the latest
court battles over spam, pointing out the weird, anticompetitive and
anti-speech aspects of the spam fight.
Microsoft is developing what it calls Bonded Sender, a program that
would supposedly separate "legitimate" Internet marketers and bulk
mailers from spammers. Working with a California company called
IronPort, Microsoft will create a white list of Internet marketers who
have paid a fee and demonstrated that they have no record of spamming.
Companies participating in the Bonded Sender program will be allowed
to send their email ads to HotMail and MSN users.
Given Microsoft's investment in the Bonded Sender program, it seems
they may soon be in the business of serving as middlemen between
emailer marketers and their webmail users. In other words, it sounds
like the software megacorp is about to start competing with Richter.
Of course, Microsoft could always call off its suit if Richter claims
to have been rehabilitated -- and he pays his Bonded Sender fees!
In the spam wars, sometimes it's hard to tell the spammers from the
antispammers.
The situation gets even more complicated when you consider the fact
that Microsoft will do more than pick and choose winners in the junk
email business. Bonded Sender will punish most the people who aren't
even sending advertisements -- groups like Internet activists
MoveOn.org, who send out millions of emails to alert their members to
upcoming political events and issues. If these groups don't pay their
Bonded Sender fees, HotMail simply won't deliver their email --
regardless of whether users have specifically opted in to receive it.
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