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yahoo treats us like yahoos

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1700, 30th August, 2010
Some guy with the last name Carr has written extensively on why the internet is replacing Analytical Man with Flickering Man, ending a rich five centuries of widespread literacy and replacing it with stupid internet-connected morons who just hop from link to link.  I, for one, have found the opposite true:  since my introduction to [...]
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good news on the tech front for your civil rights

By mitchell b powell | Published: 2039, 18th April, 2010
Yahoo beats Feds in E-Mail Privacy Battle It’s enshrined in the fourth amendment that the government can’t unreasonably search and seize your possessions.  That means they can’t go through your stuff unless they’ve got strong probable cause that you’re involved in wrong-doing, or unless they’ve got a warrant signed by a judge (which would also [...]
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bye bye, google.

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1808, 22nd February, 2010
I love using the Google search engine.  I love Gmail. But for the last two days, google.com has been the one website which will not load.  All others work fine. I don’t like Yahoo because it’s messy. So I’m using Bing now.  Although it’s not quite as clean as I’d like, it can do for [...]
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