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...Aurora, the feds may have found a needle in a haystack. But how many are in the process of disappearing right now? How much more should be done to find them? And how long will it be before one of them jabs us again...
Claude Monet: I feel like I've seen this haystack before...
...pages rise to the top of Google's search results according to, in part, how many links point to them, which tends to favor older pages that have had time to build an audience. That's a fantastic solution for finding high-quality needles in the immense, spam-plagued haystack that is the contemporary Web. But it's not a particularly useful solution for finding out what people are saying right now, the in-the-moment conversation that industry pioneer John Battelle calls the "super fresh" Web. Even in its toddlerhood, Twitter is a more efficient supplier of the super...
...anyone noticing what happened," says Erin McDevitt, a habitat coordinator with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and one of four divers who assessed the underwater damage off Palm Beach on Tuesday. Unless someone comes forward, finding the culprit is extremely difficult. "It's a needle in a haystack...
...Civil liberty groups are also skeptical about whether the plans will work. "What is the point of this? To build this massive haystack of information is not helpful, and does not make sense," says Tony Bunyan, head of London-based Statewatch. "The E.U. is actually ahead of the U.S. in creating a surveillance society. This proposal means that within ten years, all the population in Europe will be fingerprinted...