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| - This article describes the metadata, a set of information contained within the PBS file "metadata.txt" which defines some important information. There are two parts to the metadata: global metadata and map-specific metadata.
- There are a number of definitions for "metadata" (or "data about data") including:
- Metadata is literally "data about data." This term refers to information about data itself -- perhaps the origin, size, formatting or other characteristics of a data item. In the database field, metadata is essential to understanding and interpreting the contents of a data warehouse. Examples: The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is a metadata format used to define other data objects.
- In the Barack Obama years, America voted for change and began crippling itself not from incompetence but overt self-hate. The NSA began collecting metadata, such as the time, phone number, and length of all your phone calls. The NSA does not listen to the calls. That would be data. The NSA only wants metadata (unless the metadata makes it suspicious). Your privacy is protected because the NSA cannot tell what you said to your bookie, your pimp, or your mistress.
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| - This article describes the metadata, a set of information contained within the PBS file "metadata.txt" which defines some important information. There are two parts to the metadata: global metadata and map-specific metadata.
- There are a number of definitions for "metadata" (or "data about data") including:
- Metadata is literally "data about data." This term refers to information about data itself -- perhaps the origin, size, formatting or other characteristics of a data item. In the database field, metadata is essential to understanding and interpreting the contents of a data warehouse. Examples: The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is a metadata format used to define other data objects.
- In the Barack Obama years, America voted for change and began crippling itself not from incompetence but overt self-hate. The NSA began collecting metadata, such as the time, phone number, and length of all your phone calls. The NSA does not listen to the calls. That would be data. The NSA only wants metadata (unless the metadata makes it suspicious). Your privacy is protected because the NSA cannot tell what you said to your bookie, your pimp, or your mistress. The U.S.A. P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act was an emergency wartime measure, even though Congress never actually declared war, Bush did something involving a lot of troops but it wasn't war (nor in the right country), and Obama refuses even to name the enemy, because it probably looks like his son would look if he had one. Collecting metadata is as harmless as looking at the envelope when you write a letter. The postman obviously cannot read the envelope carefully enough to avoid putting it in your neighbor's mailbox, so the Post Office photographs all of them. But this doesn't threaten privacy either, because the NSA cannot tell what you wrote to your bookie, your pimp, or your mistress. Likewise, your neighbor never learns anything that might come back to haunt you when she looks at your mail in her mailbox, because she is merely reading metadata (unless she takes it indoors and uses the iron to steam the letters open). Moreover, an administration whose Homeland Secretary called the Tea Party movement terror waiting to happen, and whose IRS made sure to audit any group with Tea Party in its name, surely doesn't care if the recipient of one of your phone calls or letters is a Tea Party member. You are not even at risk of investigation if you receive one of their robo-dialed calls. With email, the metadata and the data are in the same place. However, after the NSA vacuums up your emails, a computer program scans for that blank line that separates the "header" from the "body." Then it stops and only stores the header, because the government is all about protecting your privacy.
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