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NEOLOGISMS- A WAY AROUND CENSORSHIP
NY TIMES - It began on Feb. 12, 2006, when viewers of the ABC series
"Grey's Anatomy" heard the character Miranda Bailey, a pregnant doctor
who had gone into labor, admonish a male intern, "Stop looking at my
vajayjay." The line sprang from an executive producer's need to mollify
standards and practices executives who wanted the script to include
fewer mentions of the word vagina.
The scene, however, had the unintended effect of catapulting vajayjay
(also written va-jay-jay) into mainstream speech. Fans of "Grey's
Anatomy" expressed their approval of the word on message boards and
blogs. The show's most noted fan, Oprah Winfrey, began using it on her
show, effectively legitimizing it for some 46 million American viewers
each week. . .
Vajayjay found its way into electronic dictionaries like Urban
Dictionary, Word Spy and Merriam-Webster's Open Dictionary. It was
uttered on the television series "30 Rock." It was used on the Web site
of "The Tyra Banks Show." Jimmy Kimmel said it in a monologue. It has
appeared in the Web publications Salon and the Huffington Post and on
the blog Wonkette.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/fashion/28vajayjay.html?ex=1351224000&en=63ef015ec978209a&ei=5124&partner=digg&exprod=digg
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ATT'S ALGORITHMS OF SUSPICION
FREEDOM TO TINKER - According to government documents studied by The New
York Times, the FBI asked several phone companies to analyze phone-call
patterns of Americans using a technology called "communities of
interest". Verizon refused, saying that it didn't have any such
technology. AT&T, famously, did not refuse.
What is the "communities of interest" technology? It's spelled out very
clearly in a 2001 research paper from AT&T itself, entitled "Communities
of Interest" . . . They use high-tech data-mining algorithms to scan
through the huge daily logs of every call made on the AT&T network; then
they use sophisticated algorithms to analyze the connections between
phone numbers: who is talking to whom? The paper literally uses the term
"Guilt by Association" to describe what they're looking for: what phone
numbers are in contact with other numbers that are in contact with the
bad guys?
When this research was done, back in the last century, the bad guys
where people who wanted to rip off AT&T by making fraudulent credit-card
calls. (Remember, back in the last century, intercontinental
long-distance voice communication actually cost money!) But it's easy to
see how the FBI could use this to chase down anyone who talked to anyone
who talked to a terrorist. Or even to a "terrorist."
ANALYSIS
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1219
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NEOLOGISMS- A WAY AROUND CENSORSHIP
NY TIMES - It began on Feb. 12, 2006, when viewers of the ABC series
"Grey's Anatomy" heard the character Miranda Bailey, a pregnant doctor
who had gone into labor, admonish a male intern, "Stop looking at my
vajayjay." The line sprang from an executive producer's need to mollify
standards and practices executives who wanted the script to include
fewer mentions of the word vagina.
The scene, however, had the unintended effect of catapulting vajayjay
(also written va-jay-jay) into mainstream speech. Fans of "Grey's
Anatomy" expressed their approval of the word on message boards and
blogs. The show's most noted fan, Oprah Winfrey, began using it on her
show, effectively legitimizing it for some 46 million American viewers
each week. . .
Vajayjay found its way into electronic dictionaries like Urban
Dictionary, Word Spy and Merriam-Webster's Open Dictionary. It was
uttered on the television series "30 Rock." It was used on the Web site
of "The Tyra Banks Show." Jimmy Kimmel said it in a monologue. It has
appeared in the Web publications Salon and the Huffington Post and on
the blog Wonkette.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/fashion/28vajayjay.html?ex=1351224000&en=63ef015ec978209a&ei=5124&partner=digg&exprod=digg
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ATT'S ALGORITHMS OF SUSPICION
FREEDOM TO TINKER - According to government documents studied by The New
York Times, the FBI asked several phone companies to analyze phone-call
patterns of Americans using a technology called "communities of
interest". Verizon refused, saying that it didn't have any such
technology. AT&T, famously, did not refuse.
What is the "communities of interest" technology? It's spelled out very
clearly in a 2001 research paper from AT&T itself, entitled "Communities
of Interest" . . . They use high-tech data-mining algorithms to scan
through the huge daily logs of every call made on the AT&T network; then
they use sophisticated algorithms to analyze the connections between
phone numbers: who is talking to whom? The paper literally uses the term
"Guilt by Association" to describe what they're looking for: what phone
numbers are in contact with other numbers that are in contact with the
bad guys?
When this research was done, back in the last century, the bad guys
where people who wanted to rip off AT&T by making fraudulent credit-card
calls. (Remember, back in the last century, intercontinental
long-distance voice communication actually cost money!) But it's easy to
see how the FBI could use this to chase down anyone who talked to anyone
who talked to a terrorist. Or even to a "terrorist."
ANALYSIS
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1219
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