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« on: October 16, 2009, 06:24:12 PM »
The NSA is storing so much information on us all that they've run out of names to describe the size of their database.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23231

Just how much information will be stored in these windowless cybertemples? A clue comes from a recent report prepared by the MITRE Corporation, a Pentagon think tank. "As the sensors associated with the various surveillance missions improve," says the report, referring to a variety of technical collection methods, "the data volumes are increasing with a projection that sensor data volume could potentially increase to the level of Yottabytes (10^24 Bytes) by 2015." Roughly equal to about a septillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) pages of text, numbers beyond Yottabytes haven't yet been named. Once vacuumed up and stored in these near-infinite "libraries," the data are then analyzed by powerful infoweapons, supercomputers running complex algorithmic programs, to determine who among us may be—or may one day become—a terrorist. In the NSA's world of automated surveillance on steroids, every bit has a history and every keystroke tells a story.
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« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2009, 06:27:34 PM »
[quote]According to a recent Justice Department report, "As of December 31, 2008, the consolidated terrorist watchlist contained more than 1.1 million known or suspected terrorist identities."
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« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2009, 07:16:27 PM »
I thought this was gonna be about some new Bay Area slang, yotta'mean?
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« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2009, 07:39:27 PM »
Quote from: paul718 on October 16, 2009, 07:16:27 PM
I thought this was gonna be about some new Bay Area slang, yotta'mean?

Have you ever been to the Bay Area? Tongue
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« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2009, 08:01:19 PM »
Quote from: Хahar on October 16, 2009, 07:39:27 PM
Quote from: paul718 on October 16, 2009, 07:16:27 PM
I thought this was gonna be about some new Bay Area slang, yotta'mean?

Have you ever been to the Bay Area? Tongue

No, the farthest west I've ever been is Toronto.  But some of those "hyphy" songs got airplay in New York a few years ago.
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« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2009, 08:03:12 PM »
« Edited: October 16, 2009, 08:07:39 PM by Lt. Governor PiT »

     That's rather creepy.
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« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2009, 04:18:44 AM »
Quote from: Хahar on October 16, 2009, 07:39:27 PM
Quote from: paul718 on October 16, 2009, 07:16:27 PM
I thought this was gonna be about some new Bay Area slang, yotta'mean?

Have you ever been to the Bay Area? Tongue


actually, he's not far off since yaddamean is East Bay fresh
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« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2009, 07:12:13 AM »
« Edited: October 17, 2009, 07:16:22 AM by sbane »
Do you like to go yellow bus in yo scraper while ghostridin it, Lunar?

Oh yeah all the cool people call it yay area not bay area, yadadamean?
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