dave sgonechina's Public Library

addictive

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videogames

"numbers beyond Yottabytes haven't yet been named" - James Bamford

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NSA surveillance espionage history datamining

"In 2007, the majority of the internet’s traffic came distributed by 30,000 blocks of servers around the net (technically Autonomous System Numbers). In 2009, 150 blocks served up half of the net’s traffic."

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google internet

Radical Militant Librarian T-Shirt

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libraries

New technologies and a closely related culture of collaboration present radical new models of social organisation. This project brings together leading practitioners and thinkers in this field and asks them to determine the opportunity for government.

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datamining dataspills film video UK socialnetworking socialinformatics

Last October, Vice Premier Li Keqiang said in a speech after inspecting China's Statistics Bureau, "China's foundation for statistics is still very weak, and the quality of statistics is to be further improved"

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statistics china economics agriculture population

the top 50 companies affirmatively state that they share data with affiliates

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datamining privacy

After a few minutes' work on www.192.com and Google, I knew the traveller's full name, date of birth, address, the names of his wife and grown-up children, how much he had paid for his home and the size of his (substantial) remuneration from various directorships.

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datamining privacy UK Cell_Phone

This glossary of approximately 1000 terms is built on 20 years of joint discussions on nuclear arms control, nuclear nonproliferation, nuclear energy, and regional security issues

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nuke 中文 translation military China U.S.

below is the inside front and back cover of a Red Guard passbook

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China history CulturalRevolution security

Jinjiang (晋江原创网), a site for original writing by women started in 2003 out of a BBS hosted in a small city in Fujian Province

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中文 literature internet

Persian and Arab Muslim intermarriage in Ming era Quanzhou

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China religion islam Iran middleEast history quanzhou

Chinese money has always been very focused on politicians.

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China banking economics history

Zhu Xi was somewhat critical of reading. Book learning is a secondary matter for students.

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China education

Below we see the 1604 optimus, top scorer on the exam, being given the answers by the god of literature while he is passed out drunk in the exam cell.

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China education history

PSB draft law restricting names for PIMS

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china 人口信息管理系统 身份证 金盾工程 中文 datamining crime surveillance privacy

2004年12月12日，中共中央办公厅、国务院办公厅联合发出《关于加强信息资源开发利用工作的若干意见》（34号文）

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金盾工程 人口信息管理系统 surveillance police

Centers in Kansas and Rhode Island are the only two focused solely on counterterrorism

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datamining FBI terrorism crime

Confidential details of every one of Britain's 11 million children, along with their parents and carers, are to be gathered in the ContactPoint database accessible to over 300,000 people

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UK datamining children privacy police

The project, known as the National Security Analysis Center (NSAC), is supposed to bring together "hundreds of millions of electronic records created or collected by the FBI and other government agencies,"

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FBI NSA datamining surveillance privacy