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With Patrick Radden Keefe’s Chatter, the results are in: no, voice recognition technology probably isn’t up to the level where it could recognize and filter speech to this degree. However, the UK/USA alliance—a joint intelligence operation including the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, whose existence has yet to be confirmed or denied by member states—does indeed have the capacity to intercept phone calls, faxes, e-mails, and almost all imaginable forms of electronic communication. This interception is called “signals intelligence?...
...left as a scout sniper with a bunch of medals. But in 1993 he left the Marines and returned to Manhattan. He took night classes at New York University and worked by day as an energy trader for Goldman Sachs. After earning a degree in economics, he co-founded Filter Media, a company focusing on interactive TV. He grew long hair and wore flamboyant clothes. In 1999 he met a former model who had worked with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. They married and had a nice apartment on 43rd Street, next door to the Rescue 1 Fire House...
...would have leaders from both parties up to the White House to look for common ground. The re-election campaign machine is being retooled. Bush will hit the road for town-hall meetings designed to prove that inaction is dangerous, to demystify the policy and to fly over the "filter" of the national media. Rove is working the conservative interest groups, business lobbies and think tanks to use their leverage to sell the public and sway lawmakers. The 1.2 million Bush campaign volunteers will be called into service to create public pressure on lawmakers...
...spotty coverage in any given location, you can make it easier for others to hear you by investing in a better headset. The Jawbone has a sensor that rests on your cheekbone and picks up vibrations emanating from your head as you speak. It then uses those data to filter out background noise. You may not notice the difference, but the person on the other end will hear you much better...
...world in which e-mail and cell phones filter so much human interaction, Portman believes that many people feel a lack of intimacy. "Almost everyone has been on one or more of the sides of the stories in Closer," she says...