http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/01/uncle_sam_wants.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:44:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/01/uncle_sam_wants.html/comment-page-1#comment-60809 Josh Fri, 20 Jan 2006 10:20:38 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2006/01/uncle-sam-wants-you.html#comment-60809 Very interesting (and disturbing) - thanks very much for the link to the complaint. I do hope one (or more) of the Concurring Opinions bloggers will post his thoughts on this latest action by DOJ--particularly on the legality of such a subpoena. Very interesting (and disturbing) – thanks very much for the link to the complaint. I do hope one (or more) of the Concurring Opinions bloggers will post his thoughts on this latest action by DOJ–particularly on the legality of such a subpoena.

]]> http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/01/uncle_sam_wants.html/comment-page-1#comment-60808 Simon Fri, 20 Jan 2006 04:11:56 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2006/01/uncle-sam-wants-you.html#comment-60808 On page four, they don't request just "<i>a multi-stage random sample of one million URL’s from Google’s database</i>," but even better: "<i>an electronic file containing all URL's [sic.] that are avaiable to be located through a query on your company' [sic.] search engine</i>." Given that Google indexes the greater part of the web, giving the department of Justice that list would be far more effective than resisting it in court, since it would be roughly the equivalent of asking a computer to calculate the final digit of pi: even if it doesn't crash the justice department, it'll take them until the next administration to go through the list! On page four, they don’t request just “a multi-stage random sample of one million URL’s from Google’s database,” but even better: “an electronic file containing all URL’s [sic.] that are avaiable to be located through a query on your company’ [sic.] search engine.” Given that Google indexes the greater part of the web, giving the department of Justice that list would be far more effective than resisting it in court, since it would be roughly the equivalent of asking a computer to calculate the final digit of pi: even if it doesn’t crash the justice department, it’ll take them until the next administration to go through the list!

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