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22 Million missing emails from Bush Administration->

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GNUALMAFUERTE writes "Twenty-two million missing e-mails from the Bush White House have been found, according to two groups that are settling lawsuits they filed over the issue. A former Bush spokesman, though, dismissed the claim as overblown.

The announcement came from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and the National Security Archive, both of which were settling lawsuits they filed in 2007 over the failure of the Bush White House to install an electronic record keeping system. The groups said computer technicians uncovered the missing e-mails.

Meredith Fuchs, general counsel to the National Security Archive, said "many poor choices were made during the Bush administration and there was little concern about the availability of e-mail records despite the fact that they were contending with regular subpoenas for records and had a legal obligation to preserve their records."

"We may never discover the full story of what happened here," said Melanie Sloan, CREW's executive director. "It seems like they just didn't want the e-mails preserved.""
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Censorship

Australian Internet Filtering Scheme Gets Green Li->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Yes, folks, it's true: the Australian Government, on the back of the technical trials, has declared that it will be introducing legislation to make Internet filtering mandatory for all Australian ISPs. Watch the speed of Australian 'net access slow significantly; innocent websites get blocked; and the bad guys accessing the stuff they want regardless. Sigh. Anybody have a good job going in New Zealand, by any chance?"
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Censorship

Internet Censorship for Australia gets greenlight.->

Submitted by taksraven
taksraven writes "The Australian Federal Government has announced that it is going to go ahead with plans to filter the internet for all Australians. This is despite the fact that it has been shown by previously released lists, that more than just child porn sites would be blocked."
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Australian Gov introduces mandatory ISP filtering->

Submitted by Sharky2009
Sharky2009 writes "The Australia Government will introduce legislative amendments to the Broadcasting Services Act to require all ISPs to block Refused Classification (RC)-rated material hosted on overseas servers. The introduction of mandatory ISP-level filtering follows the release of the Enex TestLab report which trialed the viability of ISP-level filtering among nine Australian ISPs."
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Manditory Net filter to be introduced in Australia

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "New legislative amendments to be introduced to the Broadcasting Services Act when parliament resumes next year could see all internet service providers block refused classification-rated material hosted on overseas servers.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/isp-filtering-plan-to-go-ahead/story-e6frgakx-1225810665832"

Australian internet censorship to go ahead->

Submitted by rocketpants
rocketpants writes "Hot on the heals of the proposed, and long awaited R18+ rating for games in Australia, the government has announced it will proceed with it's controversial internet filtering policy. Legislation will be introduced next year to force ISPs to filter all refused-classification material."
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Google

Google Opens Up (Some) Search Algorithms 86

Posted by CmdrTaco
from the nobody-else-has-a-million-servers-anyway dept.
overmars writes "After years of closely guarding the formula for its search algorithms, Google is opening up a little. The search engine company has kept its search formula a closely guarded secret for two reasons: competition and to prevent abuse, said Udi Manber, Google's vice president of engineering, search quality, in a post on the corporate blog. Manber said the blog post is the first part of a renewed effort at the company 'to open up a bit more than we have in the past.' Manber said the most famous part of Google's ranking algorithm is PageRank, an algorithm developed by Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. While PageRank is still in use, it is a 'part of a much larger system,' he said. 'Other parts include language models (the ability to handle phrases, synonyms, diacritics, spelling mistakes, and so on), query models (it's not just the language, it's how people use it today), time models (some queries are best answered with a 30-minutes old page, and some are better answered with a page that stood the test of time), and personalized models (not all people want the same thing),' he said."

I request a weekend in Havana with Phil Silvers!