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Calif. Initiative To Regulate Search Engines?
Lauren Weinstein writes to tell us about CIFIP, the California Initiative For Internet Privacy — his attempt to get search engines off the dime on questions such as how long they retain search data. The initiative aims to explore "cooperative and/or legislative approaches to dealing with search engine and other Internet privacy issues, including a possible California initiative for the 2008 ballot." There is a public discussion list.
I don't mind people paying bills with paper checks, what I can't stand are the people in supermarket checkout lines that still write paper checks to pay for groceries. These paper check holdouts are the women who won't even open their purse to get out their checkbook until the order is totalled up, they write REAL slow, they wait until the check is OK'ed and they are handed their receipt before they write the purchase in their check register, and then they won't move along until they finish balancing their checkbook and everything is put away nicely in their purse. After carefully putting their checkbook and pen away, some of them continue to block the checkout line while they carefully reapply their lipstick.
Don't get me started on the use of hand sanitizer.