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- Software to ID gender, age of online writer
- Gone are the innocent days of the Internet when one could identify oneself as a man, woman or dog and know that the other person couldnt really verify. A new technology claims to be able to profile a user just by how they write online. If it works, the development...
- Tags: Education Technology, Neal Krawetz
- Blog posts 2006-11-17
- Warner Bros. partners with 180solutions
- This news came as a shock to me. From Media Post:AN ONLINE COMPANY THAT HAS been asked to clean up its act, is now using a soap - and other programming - to market controversial adware software to consumers. 180solutions has quietly begun offering streams of two Warner Bros shows...
- Tags: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-05-14
- Blogger asks, 'Wanna trade a paper clip for a house?'
- Blogger asks, 'Wanna trade a paper clip for a house?'Blogger asks, 'Wanna trade a paper clip for a house?'This guy has been trading for what, almost a year now and ZDNet just now gets around to posting about it? Hilarious. Digg had it since the beginning. Good...
- Tags: Litigation, Whoop, paper clip, Wanna, deception, Blogger, fraud
- Discussion threads 2006-04-14
- Future computerized lie detectors
- According to vnunet.com, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is investing $3.5 million to develop future computer-based lie detectors. Traditionally, law enforcement personnel have relied on simple fact checking or on polygraphs to detect hostile intents or plain lies. But these approaches are not always effective. Now, computer scientists from...
- Tags: deception, computer
- Blog posts 2005-09-04
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- Open source and the blame game
- Open source and the blame gameHmmm..So Open Source isn't magic beans in a tin. The problem with these ventures is the delusional prospects these guys cook up.How many social networks do people want to set up? It's like treating a commodity market as a broad base offset market. You run...
- Tags: history lesson, banking, Federal Reserve Board, open source, game
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Apple won't face lawsuit over iPhone battery life
- Bloomberg is reporting that Apple won't face a lawsuit claiming that the company didn't immediately tell customers about the limited life of batteries for its iPhone or their $86 replacement cost including delivery. A U.S. District Judge in Chicago granted Apple's request that he dismiss the lawsuit on the evidence...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Lawsuit, Battery, Apple Inc., Engineering, 3G, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- In court: iPhone suit dismissed, Qwest conviction reviewed
- Lots of court action today: Apple won a summary judgment in a class-action lawsuit charging the company with deceiving consumers on iPhone batteries, Bloomberg reports. ``Apple disclosed on the outside of the iPhone package that the'' battery has ```limited recharge...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Qwest Communications Inc., Arbitration, Apple Inc., Conviction, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- Comcast details changes for managing Web traffic
- Comcast details changes for managing Web trafficJust web traffic?Im wondering when they say "web traffic" - do they mean all traffic put on the pipe from the sub? or just Port 80 http traffic? If they get caught "slowing down" VoIP I could see where regulators could come back down...
- Tags: Cable, Network technology, TVs, TV & Home Theater, ATT, Comcast Corp., digital reciever, paid-for, reciever
- Discussion threads 2008-09-22
- AMC Spies: A Cold War Daybook (exe)
- AMC Spies: A Cold War Daybook is a calendar, daybook and screen saver of stories from the dark history of 20th century espionage. Display a different story for each day of the year. You can configure AMC Spies: A Cold War Daybook to run on command or add it to...
- Tags: Screensaver, Alchemy, Espionage, Spy, Alchemy Mindworks
- Software downloads 2008-08-21
- Voters disconnected from their health policy reality
- Voters disconnected from their health policy realityMedicare tends to keep costs downInsurance companies don't seem to worry as much as politicians when it comes to health care costs. Doctors therefore accept less for Medicare patients than they do for private insurance patients.The reason for this is that private insurance...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Health care inflation, Medicare, insurance
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- White iPhone 3Gs prone to hairline cracks?
- White iPhone 3Gs prone to hairline cracks?It's a "feature" of injection molding[url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/09/29/apple_denies_cube_is_cracking/] It was a feature in the Apple Cube too! [/url]Don't worry Apple fans, it improves your [b]USER EXPERIENCE!!![/b] There is no problem. Look the other way. If you insist that it is a problem, it is the fault...
- Tags: WIRELESS, White iPhone 3Gs, Apple Inc., 3G, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-07-30
- Should the Empire strike back?
- Should the Empire strike back?Proof that Apple pays astro-turfers![i]When I was at Apple, one the competitive team’s central goals was to goad Microsoft and Intel into targeting us in public. ... [b]We hounded them in online discussions.[/b][/i]Well, that explains many of the talkbacks! I've always suspected that Apple paid these...
- Tags: UNIX, apple ad, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Empire Strike Back
- Discussion threads 2008-07-15
- Gmail, PayPal and Ebay embrace DomainKeys to fight phishing emails
- Brad Taylor, Google's Gmail Spam Czar, has just posted details on the ongoing cooperation with PayPal and Ebay, two of the most targeted brands in phishing emails, the effect of which is rejecting compared to flagging as spam each and every email pretending to be coming from paypal.com and ebay.com...
- Tags: Google Gmail, DomainKeys, PayPal, eBay Inc., Authentication, E-mail, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- OpenSUSE 11 RC1: The Mercedes-Benz to Ubuntu's Volkswagen
- OpenSUSE 11 RC1: The Mercedes-Benz to Ubuntu's VolkswagenSuSE is the best distro going.Especially if your a Windows person looking for a place to start in Open Source. YAST is the very best configuration interface in the Linux world today. No other distro has anything close.If you want to make the...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, KDE 4, YaST, SuSE, Ubuntu, distro, Novell OpenSuse, OpenSUSE 11 RC1, OpenSUSE 11, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen AG
- Discussion threads 2008-06-03
- Microsoft wants to "buy" your searches - but are they for sale?
- Microsoft wants to "buy" your searches - but are they for sale?Microsoft wants to "buy" your searches - but are they for sale?I don't see the problem with getting cash back on my purchases. If it saves me some money then so be it. I see it as...
- Tags: SEARCH, Web browsers, Google Inc., Microsoft Wants, Microsoft Corp., neutrality, toolbar
- Discussion threads 2008-05-21
- Ballmer egged in Hungary
- Ballmer egged in HungaryM$ thugs got exposed in HungaryHere we see a concern citizen that fights against M$ plundering his country using a non violent protest.Of course Ballmer had nothing to say about acusations because they are real and he can't accept any meaningfull debabe about M$ dirty deeds.RE: Ballmer...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Steve Ballmer, Linux, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-19
- Firefox 3.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is released - complete with sneaky change
- Firefox 3.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is released - complete with sneaky changeChanging the default BrowserI'm not sure I see that as a big deal except if you decide not to make it your default browser and later want to make it the default browser I presume there's some way...
- Tags: Web browsers, Web browser, Mozilla Firefox, Firefox 3.0 Release Candidate 1, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, RC1, sneaky change
- Discussion threads 2008-05-17
- Nanny state resentment is universal
- Nanny state resentment is universalLeave me to my obesitybut you'd better help me with a free crane when I need to get to my fat sucking operation.Yup, me-me-me'ism does have its downside. LOL.BMIYes, by all means let's cut benefits for those who have let themselves go to seed by overeating...
- Tags: Insurance, Financial Planning, Nanny state resentment, BMI
- Discussion threads 2008-05-06
- NYT: Yahoo, Microsoft in talks; Media pawns abound
- NYT: Yahoo, Microsoft in talks; Media pawns aboundGluteus maximus I suspect you mean ;-)Unless America has its own stupid version of that too.RE: NYT: Yahoo, Microsoft in talks; Media pawns aboundEmjoyed the English (and correct spelling ;)) of the glutus maximus area.Boo WhooI should feel bad the media is being...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Yahoo! Inc., media, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-02
- Recent CNN Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack explained
- According to Netcraft: "The CNN News website has twice been affected since an earlier distributed denial of service attack last Thursday. CNN fixed Thursday's attack by limiting the number of users who could access the site from specific geographical areas. Subsequently, an attack was purportedly organised to...
- Tags: Denial Of Service, Distributed Denial Of Service, CNN, Attack, Danchev, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
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