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Obama continues Bush's secrecy policy on mysterious IP trade deal

Obama continues Bush's secrecy policy on mysterious IP trade dealGestapo?Secret laws.DOH!Can someone explain this in English. I don't get this. What's this all about? Some easy explanations would be welcome.Plain EnglishThere is an international treaty being drawn up. It includes agreements to, we think, treat certain uses of intellectual property...

Tags: Network technology, Obama, Bush, IP

Discussion threads 2009-03-13

Same old - Same old - and we're not learning from it

Same old - Same old - and we're not learning from itOf course there is no need to "process" data at allThe data processing approach is based on the idea that you take some input from a file or files, transform it somehow, and write the output to other files.As...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, inference

Discussion threads 2007-09-17

Verizon treads into the realm of The Prince

Verizon treads into the realm of The PrinceSo don't use VerizonWhy am I supposed to get up in arms about a company enforcing it's service agreement?Don't people read contracts before the sign them?[b]If you had used this story for factual reporting rather than political grandstanding, it would be useful. ...

Tags: Cellular phones, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Broadband Internet, arbitration, Verizon Communications Inc., inference, EVDO, Vcast

Discussion threads 2006-07-06

Additional Resources

Windows 7 hourly tracking

?won't it be better to check at the end of every week instead? If you check every day you won't see any big changes but at the end of every week the increase will be more obvious.I'll say it before others do"look, it already has a larger market share than...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Desktops, Microsoft Windows 7, operating system, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Apple Q4 '09 earnings result - Most profitable quarter ever

moron servicemoron service, where are you?Ghost of PsystarSee? ... it just goes to show ya! If Apple doesn't get their act together and start licensing their operating system for Mac clones, there's no hope for them. How long can they expect to keep a drowning company afloat selling...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows NT, Desktops, Apple Inc., big word

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

SMART Selling in the SaaS world

What we all could learn from Sonar6 Post #3 from the HR Technology show SaaS software as a service is supposed to cost less. At least that’s what all the vendors tell me. It’s also supposed to be easier to use and easier to...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Katherine Jones, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Sales Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-09

Apology solicited for death of computing founding father Turing

Point of clarification He was convicted of sodomy, not homosexuality. There is a difference.Indeed he wasHe was convicted of sodomy - but as I wrote, this was covered under an act of law (which for the life of me, cannot find a link or a name of the act of...

Tags: monarch, homosexuality

Discussion threads 2009-09-01

Detailed Diagnosis in Enterprise Networks

By studying trouble tickets from small enterprise networks, the paper concludes that their operators need detailed fault diagnosis. That is, the diagnostic system should be able to diagnose not only generic faults (e.g., performance-related) but also application specific faults (e.g., error codes). It should also identify culprits at a fine...

Tags: Diagnosis, Association For Computing Machinery, Enterprise Network

White papers 2009-08-21

Writers who call MPAA or RIAA awful need to look in the mirror

"Sitting on your rear end"?I think the authors did more then just sit on their rear ends: They wrote the books. (OK they sat on their rear ends while writing it, but that is better then standing the entire time)Everyone forgets that without that author writing the book, it would...

Tags: awful need, MPAA, RIAA, reasonable time, patent

Discussion threads 2009-08-19

Architectural Considerations for Distributed RFID Tracking and Monitoring

This paper discusses architectural challenges in designing a distributed, scalable system for RFID tracking and monitoring. The paper argues for the need to combine inference and query processing techniques into a single system and consider several architectural choices for building such a system. Key research challenges in designing the system...

Tags: Monitoring, Association For Computing Machinery, RFID, Productivity, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics

White papers 2009-08-12

The next oil crisis: is your state immune or addicted?

You want a planned commune? or Liberty?"The political issues these rankings bring to mind? Sprawl and zoning, or lack thereof. Government regulation of housing and development. Lack of urban concentration of population. Mass transit or not. Trains. Buses. Bicycles. Sidewalks, which have become a sign of downscale housing in some...

Tags: oil company

Discussion threads 2009-08-11

Apple claims jailbreaking will destroy cell towers

Apple claims jailbreaking will destroy cell towerscome on keep politics out of it"It?s good to know not every scare tactic from the Bush Administration has been eradicated. Things like companies yelling ?terrorism? to protect their bottom lines are still in good stead."Yada yada. Don't care. Bush isn't President...

Tags: Apple Inc., cell tower, Bush, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-07-30

A Global Perspective on MAP Inference for Low-Level Vision

In recent years the Markov Random Field MRF has become the de facto probabilistic model for low-level vision applications. However, in a Maximum A Posteriori MAP framework, MRFs inherently encourage delta function marginal statistics. By contrast, many low-level vision problems have heavy tailed marginal statistics, making the MRF model unsuitable....

Tags: Vision, Strategy, Management

White papers 2009-07-29

Lottery Picker Professional - MegaMillions Edition 3.2 (Mobile)

The odds of winning the lottery are tremendously low. With 56 regular numbers and 46 separate megaballs, there are millions of combinations of numbers. However, what if the drawings aren''t as truly random as it appears? For the numbers selected to be truly random, the weight of each ball would...

Tags: Mobile, Productivity

Software downloads 2009-07-16

Differentially Private Recommender Systems: Building Privacy Into the Netflix Prize Contenders

The paper considers the problem of producing recommendations from collective user behavior while simultaneously providing guarantees of privacy for these users. Specifically, the paper considers the Netflix Prize data set, and its leading algorithms, adapted to the framework of differential privacy. Unlike prior privacy work concerned with cryptographically securing the...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Privacy, Security

White papers 2009-07-01

PwC: rotten to the core or just plain stupid?

I hope that my good friend Vinnie Mirchandani doesn't take offense to the title of this post. PwC is his alma mater in a past life. However, events at Satyam in India, which have not received the attention they deserve in the US, have taken a decidedly weird or comic...

Tags: PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Satyam, Francine McKenna, Financial Accounting, Outsourcing, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-30

Green Dam Watch: Software dates from '06, Sony is shipping, vendors will uninstall.

Item: Green Dam Youth Escort - the Chinese net nanny software that must be installed on PCs sold in China starting Wednesday - is largely stolen from a 2006 version of Solid Oak's CyberSitter software. For proof, see this post. Item: Rebecca MacKinnon...

Tags: Software, Sony Corp., McKinnon, Tools & Techniques, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-29

What really happened with SAP Business ByDesign?

Many of us who have been following the SAP Business ByDesign saga have used a combination of first hand accounts, intuition, inference and plain guess work to figure out what's been going on with the product. Or is it service? As far as I can gather, those commenting in detail...

Tags: Team, SAP NetWeaver, SAP AG, BYD, Engineers, Team Management, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-22

Semantic Search Round Table at the Semantic Technology Conference

Wednesday's opening Keynote here in San Jose sees Guidewire's Carla Thompson joined on stage by senior representatives from many of the more interesting players in the Semantic Search space; Tomasz Imielinski from Ask, Peter Norvig from Google, Riza Berkan of Hakia, Scott Provost from Microsoft, William Tunstall-Pedoe of the UK's...

Tags: Result, Search Engine, Search Result, Question, True Knowledge, Carla, Tomasz, Questions, Wolfram Alpha Team, Search, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-06-17

Kyocera Jax S1300 (Virgin Mobile)

The Kyocera Jax for Virgin Mobile is the opposite of the carrier's Kyocera X-tc. While the X-tc offers a midrange feature set and a full keyboard for texting, the Jax is just a simple handset for making calls. The basic candy bar design holds no surprises and the feature set...

Tags: Cellular phones, Voice Dialing, Virgin Mobile, candy bar handset, Kyocera Jax, Kyocera Corp.

Product reviews 2009-05-21