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burythehatchet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 10:07 AM
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Careful what you tell about yourself - BIg brother is watching
Pentagon sets its sights on social networking websites

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19025556.200?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=mg19025556.200

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New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon's National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. And it could harness advances in internet technology - specifically the forthcoming "semantic web" championed by the web standards organisation W3C - to combine data from social networking websites with details such as banking, retail and property records, allowing the NSA to build extensive, all-embracing personal profiles of individuals
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obreaslan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 10:11 AM
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1. Oooohhhh, they're watching right now? Then let me say....



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stepnw1f Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 10:30 AM
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8. I Love That PIC!!! (nt)
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RobertSeattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 10:13 AM
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2. That's why I'm going to start typing in morse code!
..-. ..- -. ... .-
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obreaslan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 10:15 AM
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3. ...---...
Edited on Fri Jun-09-06 10:23 AM by obreaslan
Repeat: ...---...

Edit: To add that I just figured yours out. hee hee! :)
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 10:22 AM
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4. The aspen leaves, when the log trucks come in over the routes
Edited on Fri Jun-09-06 10:23 AM by Hubert Flottz
that tangle at point tango alpha, in sektor b...that is all....Ziz...Zip...Beeeeep

Edit...I think I just mooned big brother...
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obreaslan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 10:25 AM
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5. The chair is in the ktchen! Repeat, the chair is in the Kitchen!
John, the flowers need to be watered. But only on Tuesdays!

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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 10:48 AM
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10. Was he saying SOS or
SOBs?

That is all...
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 10:27 AM
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6. aahh, morse code. My first project at the age of 5 was to build
and hook up a telegraph between the house and my brother and I's log play house that we built. Mother would rattle the key when she wanted us to come in.
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burythehatchet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 10:57 AM
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12. When I read your post I thought it said
"between the house and big brother"
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 11:05 AM
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13. My brother, 4 years my senior started me off at an early age
In the first grade for me we decide we are going to start cutting wood for sale and get rich, 2.00 bucks a rick. I don't think we ever got the whole rick cut. cross cut saw and and axe.
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Rose Siding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 10:29 AM
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7. If only they were as concerned with our opinions
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Mandate My Ass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 10:32 AM
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9. when they want your opinion
they'll give it to you. Unfortunately, that's going to get easier for them. :evilfrown:
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burythehatchet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 10:55 AM
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11. When they want your opinion
they'll read about it in your diary.
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