Researchers at Microsoft are working on an ambitious new project to hunt down and neutralize large-scale search engine spammers.
So, if by some miracle, they actually discover a way to hunt down and nuetralize the search engine spammers, what are the odds that they share this information with other Search Engine companies?
I do not see robots being useful though later on in the program though.
Agreed. Most of this stuff was kids play, this recognizing whether or not your hit a wall and which direction you were going. It could become very interesting though if it were in an artificial intelligence course. There are several additions you can get such as a device that determines what color surface you're on, what temperature it is, etc. Programming, for example, a bot that could complete a maze (remembering where it has already been, where the exit is, etc.) can be very interesting.
My undergraduate cs department purchases some Lego Mindstorms off eBay and used them in the intro courses. They don't cost much (couple hundred max), so our tuition didn't go up anything. You got to write programs for them in Java. It was very exciting and sparked lots of interest (everybody wanted to take the class). Although it's not as cool as each student getting an individual robot, it is as close as some of the smaller campuses can get, and it's a great idea!
As well as the safety concerns, using stem cells to create sperm also raises ethical questions.
Has anybody thought of the mice? Aren't we playing GOD with them? Shouldn't they have a right to live and roam free and not be subject to those humans obsessed with fertilizing them? Disgusting and definitely unethical.
Haven't you ever gone to a Major League baseball game, signed up for like 5 credit cards, then immediately left to go home and max the cards out playing online poker? Conclusion... baseball leads to gambling addictions.
I think it's all a big game, but seriously I think there's a point where you have to cave in and raise the numbers. Developers can't be all gung-ho about NOT raising the version numbers cause otherwise users will never feel the need to update to the newer version. Example :
You have FireFox 1.1, Now FireFox 1.2 has come out... probably not a big change, not going to upgrade. Now 1.3 comes out, same thing, who cares. 1.4 hmmm they must just be fixing minor things. 2.0 comes out, hmmm gotta get that right now, must be something important.
You have IE 5, Now IE 6 comes out... gotta upgrade, something important. Now IE 7 comes out, gotta upgrade, something important.
Yes, there can be too many version changes (case in point Opera)... but sometimes there can be too few also.
Is the new release really deserving of the 2.0 moniker? It's hard to say, given the fact that it looks and feels very much like 1.x.
Hey, to be honest, if you want to keep up with IE, you gotta start jumping up in numbers. To the general jo-blo user, IE is light years ahead of FireFox just simply cause it's on version 7 versus version 2.
I can just picture it now. DVR is going to push TV channels to start putting on-screen ads up during the show (sorta like what you see splashed across every single frickin' page on the internet).
Why aren't there any games made about the Vietnam War? I'm telling you, it'd be a tough game to conquer!
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Politics, yuck. But here goes : The keyword was eventually. But still, I believe that something will happen. Either we start putting in / switching over to Ethanol which will lower the price. Or we will start drilling on our own land and say screw you to the environmentalists. Or we'll tap into our doomsday reserve that we're never going to use. Or we'll kill everybody in the middle east and claim it as our 51st state.
"I can do you an Office 2003 [Microsoft software] without a licence for eighty-five quid. The licensed version is one hundred and eighty-five quid. With the eighty-five quid one we're not lining Bill Gates's pocket. If he's installing it in a business or something he might want to do the licence. He might want to do it properly." Hill claimed that his remarks were taken out of context
What? How possibly could this be taken out of context???? Unless of course you were saying something to the effect of "Well, if you want to get sued by Microsoft then I can do you an Office 2003 [Microsoft software] without a licence for eighty-five quid. The licensed version is one hundred and eighty-five quid. With the eighty-five quid one we're not lining Bill Gates's pocket. If he's installing it in a business or something he might want to do the licence. He might want to do it properly."
Hell, I admit, even I'm not immune. Talk of lawyers sets me off.
Sorry, couldn't resist:-P
Did you make a donation?
At the United Way in a fairly small town a volunteer worker noticed that the most successful lawyer in the whole town hadn't made a contribution. This guy was making about $600,000 a year so the volunteer thought, "Why not call him up?"
He calls up the lawyer.
"Sir, according to our research you haven't made a contribution to the United Way, would you like to do so?"
The lawyer responds, "A contribution? Does your research show that I have an invalid mother who requires expensive surgery once a year just to stay alive?"
The worker is feeling a bit embarrassed and says, "Well, no sir, I'm..."
"Does your research show that my sister's husband was killed in a car accident? She has three kids and no means of support!"
The worker is feeling quite embarrassed at this point. "I'm terribly sorry..."
"Does your research show that my brother broke his neck on the job and now requires a full time nurse to have any kind of normal life?"
The worker is completely humiliated at this point. "I am sorry sir, please forgive me..."
"The gall of you people! I don't give them anything, so why should I give it to you!"
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Researchers at Microsoft are working on an ambitious new project to hunt down and neutralize large-scale search engine spammers.
So, if by some miracle, they actually discover a way to hunt down and nuetralize the search engine spammers, what are the odds that they share this information with other Search Engine companies?
I do not see robots being useful though later on in the program though.
Agreed. Most of this stuff was kids play, this recognizing whether or not your hit a wall and which direction you were going. It could become very interesting though if it were in an artificial intelligence course. There are several additions you can get such as a device that determines what color surface you're on, what temperature it is, etc. Programming, for example, a bot that could complete a maze (remembering where it has already been, where the exit is, etc.) can be very interesting.
My undergraduate cs department purchases some Lego Mindstorms off eBay and used them in the intro courses. They don't cost much (couple hundred max), so our tuition didn't go up anything. You got to write programs for them in Java. It was very exciting and sparked lots of interest (everybody wanted to take the class). Although it's not as cool as each student getting an individual robot, it is as close as some of the smaller campuses can get, and it's a great idea!
As well as the safety concerns, using stem cells to create sperm also raises ethical questions.
Has anybody thought of the mice? Aren't we playing GOD with them? Shouldn't they have a right to live and roam free and not be subject to those humans obsessed with fertilizing them? Disgusting and definitely unethical.
Now I'll have to learn all the moves all over again. Well, that should take up my entire weekend.
whoohoo! First reply to the first post that claimed it was the first post but really wasn't!
Apple hires only people who are passionate about what they do
But are they as passionate as this sales clerk who just wanted to sell a yo-you?
Nice Post. It would've taken me till January to write such brilliance. And you did it in a matter of minutes. Karma onward!
About 15 percent of the results came back from legitimate Web sites hijacked by malicious hackers and seeded with executables
/. was hijacked! But the /. masses were not affected because the executables don't run on linux!
Little did you know, even
I see your $1 and I raise you $5
(* cue the poker face)
Haven't you ever gone to a Major League baseball game, signed up for like 5 credit cards, then immediately left to go home and max the cards out playing online poker? Conclusion ... baseball leads to gambling addictions.
Your username: 192939495969798999
If that's your username, I can't imagine how crazy your password is!
Does that strategy actually work?
... probably not a big change, not going to upgrade. Now 1.3 comes out, same thing, who cares. 1.4 hmmm they must just be fixing minor things. 2.0 comes out, hmmm gotta get that right now, must be something important.
... gotta upgrade, something important. Now IE 7 comes out, gotta upgrade, something important.
... but sometimes there can be too few also.
I think it's all a big game, but seriously I think there's a point where you have to cave in and raise the numbers. Developers can't be all gung-ho about NOT raising the version numbers cause otherwise users will never feel the need to update to the newer version. Example :
You have FireFox 1.1, Now FireFox 1.2 has come out
You have IE 5, Now IE 6 comes out
Yes, there can be too many version changes (case in point Opera)
Does Firefox 2.0 meet your needs?
Pron on demand. I want everything, from the advertisements, the logo, the menu backgrounds, everything to have pron.
Get the password /. user you'll ace it.
Take the practice test
Odds are since you're a
Is the new release really deserving of the 2.0 moniker? It's hard to say, given the fact that it looks and feels very much like 1.x.
Hey, to be honest, if you want to keep up with IE, you gotta start jumping up in numbers. To the general jo-blo user, IE is light years ahead of FireFox just simply cause it's on version 7 versus version 2.
I can just picture it now. DVR is going to push TV channels to start putting on-screen ads up during the show (sorta like what you see splashed across every single frickin' page on the internet).
Why aren't there any games made about the Vietnam War? I'm telling you, it'd be a tough game to conquer!
Politics, yuck. But here goes : The keyword was eventually. But still, I believe that something will happen. Either we start putting in / switching over to Ethanol which will lower the price. Or we will start drilling on our own land and say screw you to the environmentalists. Or we'll tap into our doomsday reserve that we're never going to use. Or we'll kill everybody in the middle east and claim it as our 51st state.
Hah, Lawyers
"I can do you an Office 2003 [Microsoft software] without a licence for eighty-five quid. The licensed version is one hundred and eighty-five quid. With the eighty-five quid one we're not lining Bill Gates's pocket. If he's installing it in a business or something he might want to do the licence. He might want to do it properly." Hill claimed that his remarks were taken out of context
What? How possibly could this be taken out of context???? Unless of course you were saying something to the effect of "Well, if you want to get sued by Microsoft then I can do you an Office 2003 [Microsoft software] without a licence for eighty-five quid. The licensed version is one hundred and eighty-five quid. With the eighty-five quid one we're not lining Bill Gates's pocket. If he's installing it in a business or something he might want to do the licence. He might want to do it properly."
Hell, I admit, even I'm not immune. Talk of lawyers sets me off.
:-P
Sorry, couldn't resist
Did you make a donation?
At the United Way in a fairly small town a volunteer worker noticed that the most successful lawyer in the whole town hadn't made a contribution. This guy was making about $600,000 a year so the volunteer thought, "Why not call him up?"
He calls up the lawyer.
"Sir, according to our research you haven't made a contribution to the United Way, would you like to do so?"
The lawyer responds, "A contribution? Does your research show that I have an invalid mother who requires expensive surgery once a year just to stay alive?"
The worker is feeling a bit embarrassed and says, "Well, no sir, I'm..."
"Does your research show that my sister's husband was killed in a car accident? She has three kids and no means of support!"
The worker is feeling quite embarrassed at this point. "I'm terribly sorry..."
"Does your research show that my brother broke his neck on the job and now requires a full time nurse to have any kind of normal life?"
The worker is completely humiliated at this point. "I am sorry sir, please forgive me..."
"The gall of you people! I don't give them anything, so why should I give it to you!"
If you spill soda in the exact spot right under the Print Screen button, it becomes much easier.
I was trying to view this story but it kept telling me ...
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
But I found a work around!
Part of their Military Initiative to kill first, ask questions later.
The Military is going to patent "bringing people back to life", so then the above statement will actually be legit.