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Microsoft Developing News Sorting Based On Political Bias
wiredog writes "The Washington Post is reporting that Microsoft is developing a program that classifies news stories according to whether liberal or conservative bloggers are linking to them and also measures the 'emotional intensity' based on the frequency of keywords in the blog posts." If you would like to jump right to the tool you can check out "Blews" on the Microsoft site.
Microsoft is the best software maker in the world! ..and now to Jeff for the weather..
"Persistance is Fertile" - Me. I can quote myself if I want to.
Come on, that's just too obvious a joke for /.
Like emacs vs. vim?
...Mays, that is /. reader in the US was in the Same Country as this hate-peddler, all US citizens can share the guilt!
Not to worry: just reach for the Moral Equivalency Card!
You can show that, since slavery was once acceptable in the US, any amount of counter-vitriol is OK!
But wait! There's More!
Because any
Call now, and we'll send you videos of white preachers blaming the US for 9/11, too!
As an added bonus, speak the word "homophobia", and we'll toss in a copy of Fred Phelp's Greatest Hits!
(don't forget to pray that Christians would actually read the Bible for themselves, and not lend creedence to any of these nitwits)
I can guarantee there are going to be some false positives in links to blogs about people loving bush
Excuse me while I gather the virgin sacrifice and assemble the pentagram required to solve your problem
Please, please don't do that. Treat us as real people and react to what we're saying instead of the potential that we have breasts. Please?
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
Any guest worker system is indistinguishable from indentured servitude.
Don't knock the Big Mac. The Economist has been leveraging it for years as an economic oracle, and everybody tries to be on their front cover, even Britney Spears. So who are you to contradict them?
Now this exactly the sort of bias that this thing finds: republic vs democratic, yin vs yang, sucks vs blows.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
In other news, the democrats, with the inventor of the Internet, developed a system that automatically makes any republican text display in white on a white background, so that it is impossible to read.
Let's test this software:
In a meeting today, Bush said, "
."
See, the system is working.
And before long we'll have News for Nerds!
In Repressive Burma, it's not just your connection that dies. slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=314547&cid=20819199
I guess this means that we can expect some form of "Blews" Screen of Death
Cheers, Chris
Replyiing twice to the same post is bad form but I feel I must.
Once I was employed at a major chip vendor's technology development lab that was being downsized. A coworker suggested I might find work at Microsoft.
My reply: My local septic tank cleaning company has openings too. I will try them first. At least it's honest work.
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