Here is an article from Physics today (Nov 2002) that has essentially the same story, but which provides lots of extra links at the bottom, and which is fleshed out much better.
well in general the stuff has too much distorted base. Maybe they like it this way, but it turns me off.
Some of the mixes work well with some of thrashier beatles material, but isn't so good with lyric stuff, like the samples of harrison's "my guitar gently weeps"
best free pr the guy ever had. Not all that great, but I can see that there would be a nitch for it.
the guy may have talent, but this is generally not quite ready for prime time. lots of smoke, some flashes of fire
Speaking from a position of ignorance, what is the Google toolbar, and why would anyone use it? I'm guessing it's like the somewhat annoying Google search box in Firebird and Galeon.
This desription is basically correct. The good bell and whistle that it includes simple to configure free pop-up blocker which is very useful for the average home user.
The complaint is that they changed the default action of the search function in the past week or so, so that it now supplies you with advertising for the first page of search results, which is not what they were doing a month ago. Which makes it far less useful.
and in a new twist, the latest version of the google toolbar returns results with the page one results being filled with nothing but ads related to the search. you have to go to page 2 for the standard results.
so the google toolbar, which is pretty cool because of the simplicity in design of the p[opup blocker, now has been twisted into a major marketing tool. Thankfully I have an earlier version I can use to install on client machines.
no more downloading the most recent version from the website.
RFID is such a potentially dangerous technology because RFID chips can be embedded into products and clothing and covertly read without our knowledge.
A small tag embedded into the heel of a shoe or the inseam of a leather jacket for inventory control could be activated every time the customer entered or left the store where the item was bought; that tag could also be read by any other business or government agency that has installed a compatible reader.
Unlike today's antitheft tags, every RFID chip has a unique serial number. This means that stores could track each customer's comings and goings. Those readers could also register the RFID tags that we're already carrying in our car keys and the "prox cards" that some office buildings use instead of keys.
The problem here is that RFID tags can be read through your wallet, handbag, or clothing. It's not hard to build a system that automatically reads the proximity cards, the keychain RFID "immobilizer" chips, or other RFID-enabled devices of every person who enters a store. A store could build a list of every window shopper or person who walks through the front door by reading these tags and then looking up their owners' identities in a centralized database. No such database exists today, but one could easily be built.
well, while a national database would be problematic, I can easily see localised versions of a database which get cross compiled later.
Makes me want to use cash for most of my small purchases. which I tend to do anyhow.
Plus there is this scenario when it comes to shrinkage:
"Sorry sir, but our database does not show your claimed purchased of the obviously worn item you are wearing. We'll have to call the police"
I'm betting he'll just send the spam to every address once for each of the sets of keywords.
to get the kind of granularity they would need, they would likely need hundreds of keyword profiles per individual state.
The math gets interesting quickly
The rich successful executive who goes to the Berkshires in Massachusetts might go to Mt Shasta or Burning Man when in California. It becomes completely localised after a while.
So we now have the field of keyword demography, an essential tool for spammers, but one which will be tremndously expensive to develop data on, and which will be sold dearly if the data is ever developed. They could probably sell this stuff for thousands of dollars per copy.
But I suppose you could discover a select set of keywords for specific demographics, if you defined them very precisely. This would move spam out of the normal "spew it everywhere" phase, where they would have to pay for real marketing data.
Which sort of misses the point of free advertising in the first point, at least for the small guy. Of course, the big boys can pay for this sort of thing.
When a message got through he trained an "evil" filter that helped to tune the perfect collection of additional words. Soon he had generated a short list of words that, if added to a spam message, would guarantee its safe passage into his inbox.
"The actual words it found were a total surprise," said Mr Graham-Cumming.
The list included words such as "Berkshire", "Marriott", "wireless", "touch" and "comment". Including just one of these words convinced Mr Graham-Cumming's real spam filter that a message was ham rather than spam.
My Graham-Cumming said defending against spam that uses these words would be very difficult because the words are tied to a person's job and lifestyle. But, he said, the good news is that the technique to discover these trigger words is very time consuming.
If the judges take 60 minutes to hear arguments from plaintiff and defendant, why do they take months to render a verdict?
Just my two bits
I imagine both sides are submitting piles of documents to go along with their cases, heavily footnoted. Add in similar documentation by people filing supplemental "friends of the court" briefs. Plus all of the case law and court decisions that are referenced. Stir well. Repeat for all of the other cases on their schedule.
IANAL, etc.
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Google executives also say they believe that Microsoft is systematically pursuing Web sites downgraded by Google, which punishes companies for trying to manipulate their rankings. The company is striking partnerships with unhappy Google customers.
I just got to wonder what this will do for the quality of results I see in the Microsoft product. What will it get, nothing but spammers as a result?
businesses should 'seek to ensure that the goods and services they provide will not be used to abuse human rights'. The article basically states that 'Gate's firm supplied technology used to trap Chinese dissidents'."
In other words, if Microsoft cared more about profits than what people and governments did/do with their technology, then they are breaking the code of conduct
Before you laugh too hard about the idea of Microsoft vs a code of conduct, consider Microsoft's legal twist that nobody ever owns the software they buy, that all people and companies ever do is license it from Microsoft.
Since Microsoft retains ownership rights on all software they "sell", then shouldn't they retain liability? Or is the Chinese EULA significantly different?
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You had a quantum foam vacuum of pure nothingness to pop universes out of? I WISH I had a vacuum of pure nothingness to pop universes out of.
But you are not telling the full story
to explain to the kiddies:
you know how physicists keep trying to meld particles together to show a unity of matter and energy, etc? getting particles that are more and more dense?
well way back then we had a unity of not only matter and energy, but space and time. It was beautiful. You could create little pockets of whatever combination you wanted. You guys do not even have the words to describe it these days.
then some of the younger squirts got jealous, and "spiked the punch".
And this place is the result of the hangover we all got.
Slashdot Mirror
Also seen on Slashdot here in May 2002, so it's a repeat, but from a while ago.
or polluting the Sun, conjuring up images of canisters scattered across the solar surface.
Some of the mixes work well with some of thrashier beatles material, but isn't so good with lyric stuff, like the samples of harrison's "my guitar gently weeps"
best free pr the guy ever had. Not all that great, but I can see that there would be a nitch for it.
the guy may have talent, but this is generally not quite ready for prime time. lots of smoke, some flashes of fire
Well in this case, the suaces are mostly to be found in MacDonald's Happy Meals.
It takes at least 3 to 5 MacJobs to replace a high paying high knowledge high quality job. It's not a straight swap. It's a sucker's deal.
possibly on way would be to make karma limited to a rating of the average of the past 100 posts, length of threads generated, or something like that.
But this has flaws, like karma whoring .... so who knows?
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500 email:georgebrush@whitehouse.com
etc. should be fun from a number of different angles
will have to look into this
hmmm. that may be possible, although there had just been a spyware hunt using a number of tools ...
This desription is basically correct. The good bell and whistle that it includes simple to configure free pop-up blocker which is very useful for the average home user.
The complaint is that they changed the default action of the search function in the past week or so, so that it now supplies you with advertising for the first page of search results, which is not what they were doing a month ago. Which makes it far less useful.
so the google toolbar, which is pretty cool because of the simplicity in design of the p[opup blocker, now has been twisted into a major marketing tool. Thankfully I have an earlier version I can use to install on client machines.
no more downloading the most recent version from the website.
A small tag embedded into the heel of a shoe or the inseam of a leather jacket for inventory control could be activated every time the customer entered or left the store where the item was bought; that tag could also be read by any other business or government agency that has installed a compatible reader.
Unlike today's antitheft tags, every RFID chip has a unique serial number. This means that stores could track each customer's comings and goings. Those readers could also register the RFID tags that we're already carrying in our car keys and the "prox cards" that some office buildings use instead of keys.
The problem here is that RFID tags can be read through your wallet, handbag, or clothing. It's not hard to build a system that automatically reads the proximity cards, the keychain RFID "immobilizer" chips, or other RFID-enabled devices of every person who enters a store. A store could build a list of every window shopper or person who walks through the front door by reading these tags and then looking up their owners' identities in a centralized database. No such database exists today, but one could easily be built.
well, while a national database would be problematic, I can easily see localised versions of a database which get cross compiled later.
Makes me want to use cash for most of my small purchases. which I tend to do anyhow.
Plus there is this scenario when it comes to shrinkage:
"Sorry sir, but our database does not show your claimed purchased of the obviously worn item you are wearing. We'll have to call the police"
to get the kind of granularity they would need, they would likely need hundreds of keyword profiles per individual state.
The math gets interesting quickly
The rich successful executive who goes to the Berkshires in Massachusetts might go to Mt Shasta or Burning Man when in California. It becomes completely localised after a while.
So we now have the field of keyword demography, an essential tool for spammers, but one which will be tremndously expensive to develop data on, and which will be sold dearly if the data is ever developed. They could probably sell this stuff for thousands of dollars per copy.
The keywords would be different for each person.
But I suppose you could discover a select set of keywords for specific demographics, if you defined them very precisely. This would move spam out of the normal "spew it everywhere" phase, where they would have to pay for real marketing data.
Which sort of misses the point of free advertising in the first point, at least for the small guy. Of course, the big boys can pay for this sort of thing.
"The actual words it found were a total surprise," said Mr Graham-Cumming.
The list included words such as "Berkshire", "Marriott", "wireless", "touch" and "comment". Including just one of these words convinced Mr Graham-Cumming's real spam filter that a message was ham rather than spam.
My Graham-Cumming said defending against spam that uses these words would be very difficult because the words are tied to a person's job and lifestyle. But, he said, the good news is that the technique to discover these trigger words is very time consuming.
the keywords would be different for each person.
Just my two bits
I imagine both sides are submitting piles of documents to go along with their cases, heavily footnoted. Add in similar documentation by people filing supplemental "friends of the court" briefs. Plus all of the case law and court decisions that are referenced. Stir well. Repeat for all of the other cases on their schedule.
IANAL, etc.
I just got to wonder what this will do for the quality of results I see in the Microsoft product. What will it get, nothing but spammers as a result?
I mean, think about...
;)
the controversy continues. and Nasa seems to be dragging its' feet in making certain changes
Online at Space.Com
The Online Columbia Loss Faq, compiled through March 2003 much of which might be outdated, but good for lots of small details, and a sense of the history as it happened.
The Columbia Accident Investigation Board Website, due to become inactive on February 1st, 2004 (!)
People might want to download the final report while they can, dated October 2003, although It is also available on the Nasa Website here
businesses should 'seek to ensure that the goods and services they provide will not be used to abuse human rights'. The article basically states that 'Gate's firm supplied technology used to trap Chinese dissidents'."
In other words, if Microsoft cared more about profits than what people and governments did/do with their technology, then they are breaking the code of conduct
Before you laugh too hard about the idea of Microsoft vs a code of conduct, consider Microsoft's legal twist that nobody ever owns the software they buy, that all people and companies ever do is license it from Microsoft.
Since Microsoft retains ownership rights on all software they "sell", then shouldn't they retain liability? Or is the Chinese EULA significantly different?
I think a lot of folks have mixed feelings on this on.
What about the second picture, taken from orbit, which shows green? you would think that the ground level shots would reflect the same reality.
Of interest is this one picture, which shows the Spirit Rover landed in an area that is green
and a tip of the hat to the what color is mars debate, with this image comparison
But you are not telling the full story
to explain to the kiddies:
you know how physicists keep trying to meld particles together to show a unity of matter and energy, etc? getting particles that are more and more dense?
well way back then we had a unity of not only matter and energy, but space and time. It was beautiful. You could create little pockets of whatever combination you wanted. You guys do not even have the words to describe it these days.
then some of the younger squirts got jealous, and "spiked the punch".
And this place is the result of the hangover we all got.
we have this picture of the rover platform as seen from earth and on mars. with a distinct color shift noted.