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...similar concerns. In the days after 9/11, it asked Hayden to push the edge of existing technology and come up with the best possible program to track the terrorists. The result was the now infamous NSA data-mining operation, which began months later, in early 2002. Vast amounts of phone and computer communications by al-Qaeda suspects overseas, including some messages to people in the U.S., could now be scooped up and quickly analyzed...
...WHAT'S THE TRICK TO STRIKING THE PROPER BALANCE? We need to develop a new set of protocol about answering messages and all the rest. I have a cell phone and fax machine and I check my email several times a day. But I don't answer the phone during family dinner, for instance. You can't make love by e-mail-yet. But you sure can court by e-mail and it can be wonderfully helpful to relationships. On the other hand, I have a patient who calls her husband's computer his plastic mistress because they hardly ever...
...THAT SOUNDS EASY, BUT THEY FEEL LIKE A NECESSITY. Feels is the operative word. That's the trap. You set it up that you have to instant message, you have to e-mail and keep your cell phone on endlessly. I'm not saying don't do those things. Properly used, they are wonderful. Improperly used, they are destructive. So I think it's a matter of our learning how to use our technology properly, instead of letting...
...Democratic candidate John Hillman (get it?) who is having an affair with a married political journalist, Cox making waves in the same mainstream media that she saucily disses. This week, she sold her second book to Riverhead with typical Wonkette fanfare. We caught up with Ana Marie by phone on a train to D.C., returning from a publicity trip to New York, with her husband, Chris Lehmann, an editor at Congressional Quarterly Weekly...
...companies are not equipped to offer all three services easily - hence a wave of strategic mergers. Late last year NTL, a U.K.-based telephone, cable and broadband company that emerged from bankruptcy just three years ago, proposed to buy Virgin Mobile for $1.4 billion so it could add mobile-phone service to its mix in a "quadruple play." Virgin Mobile's board rejected the initial offer but analysts now expect NTL to increase its bid by around 10%. "The market is telling us that it's still expecting this deal to go through," says Laura Mills of Merrill Lynch...