As such it could be of tremendous value to entertainment companies or retailers. Google is quiet about what if any plans it has for commercializing its vast store of query information. "There is tremendous opportunity with this data," Mr. Silverstein said. "The challenge is defining what we want to do."
I guess we'll see more tailored spam in the future, wether it's email, mail or by phone... it's going to be more of "what you want".
The author, Edwin Black, says the scale at which the holocaust took place would not have been possible without the help of IBM's machines, and their engineers.
Did IBM supply computers to the Hutus, just so that they could pull through the 1994 massacre? 800,000 people in 100 days... that would make even Hitler green with envy.
Good or bad? Well, the communist regime is scared to death of letting the information flow freely inside of China. That would jeopardize their position. Personally, I want the information to be free. But it doesn't matter what you, me or Amnesty says... the communist regime does what they think is necessary to keep their country together under their control.
As for the US filtering technology they bought... it's just an interim solution. There's a love and hate relationship between the communist regime in Beijing and the US... they love getting the new technology, but they don't trust the US. Once the software shops inside of China are up to speed, they're going to build their own filtering software. All in the plan of being self-sufficient.
With Iridium it is much cheaper to call phone-phone. Landline LD to an Iridium phone is abour $10/min. whereas Iridium to Iridium is about $1/min.
With 10-10-220, you could talk up to 20 minutes, anywhere in the U.S. and to Canada for just 99. I'm sure Iridium serve some purpose, but not for city slickers.;)
Why haven't NASA used the Hubble telescope to take a picture of the flag? That might have nailed the mouth shut on the skeptics... but hey... they'd just claim it to be a faked photo to cover up the "moon landing lie".
"It would be possible for a group of people, not necessarily a small group, but not necessarily huge, either to repeat this. 100 people, each with $3,000, could do it. The group would need to find some space to house the thing, and would probably have to do it in a climate where it could be relatively naturally cooled, which definitely rules out Phoenix."
Who'd pay the insurance and electric bills?
"Granted, I don't know what the hell they'd do with the computer..."
They'd spend another amount of cash on a OC-48 connection to the internet and then offer webhosting to website owners who think they might be next in line of getting linked in a story at slashdot.com...
Nearly 13 years ago, a cancer-therapy machine was removed from the Medical Center for Specialities in Ciudad Ju rez and taken to a Ju rez junkyard that later sold the machine along with other scrap metal to two steel foundries for recycling. The machine contained 6,000 tiny pellets of radioactive Cobalt-60, which contaminated thousands of steel rebars (used to reinforce concrete) and furniture parts.
Very interesting story! The amazing part was the way they found out:
"The contaminated steel rebars soon found their way to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, where they triggered a radiation detector."
"Oh no... my master drug dealer won't support the stuff anymore, now I better migrate to Linux to get my daily kick." said Fred, a diehard MS DOS freak. You can see the emptiness in their eyes... Their illusions are shattered. "This is the end... our civilization is doomed..." said one guy. "Why do they do this to us???" was the most common remark.
Sonera monitored the records to find out who had leaked information about internal management disputes in 2000 and 2001.
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Sonera, Finland's largest telecommunications operator, is in the midst of finalizing a merger with Telia AB, Sweden's largest operator. Telia said Thursday that shareholders owning 95% of Sonera's shares had accepted its takeover offer.
Showed off what has been unanimously voted "My next laptop" by half of my company.
Same thing happened in my company... My company is a family run business. Half of the company wanted it, but then the other half - my wife - said "No, you don't!" No transmeta... for a while...:(
Well, it seems that 50% wants a Transmeta powered laptops.:)
You want to walk around with a clunky 15" screen? Well, not me.:) Mobile phones will not replace computers anytime soon for browsing the web, but the SSR (Small-Screen Rendering) is a step in the right direction. It will make it easier to browse websites in the mobile phone. No more need to scroll the screen sideways. Anyway, see the mobile browser as a complement rather than replacement for the real thing.:)
I truly believe that nanotech will bring us way better stuff in the future. I read an article about ABB a while ago (I tried to find the article again... but failed) about their efforts in this area. They're doing R&D on lowering the resistance in conductors. They believed they would have products ready in five to ten years. I searched the ABB website to see if they had a press release or something, and this is the only article in English I found. It's an interesting article since it mention other potential (besides their line of business) technological breakthroughs by using nanotech.
The sites are/.ed, but after reading the intro, it all sounds like those Heaven's Gate people... they didn't need a real spaceship in 1996 when they all took off on the Hale-Bopp comet.
There was this story 1 1/2 month ago about the bank robbers who killed five people and got tracked down by the satellite navigation system installed in the car they stole.
Slashdot Mirror
Regarding the search logs...
As such it could be of tremendous value to entertainment companies or retailers. Google is quiet about what if any plans it has for commercializing its vast store of query information. "There is tremendous opportunity with this data," Mr. Silverstein said. "The challenge is defining what we want to do."
I guess we'll see more tailored spam in the future, wether it's email, mail or by phone... it's going to be more of "what you want".
The author, Edwin Black, says the scale at which the holocaust took place would not have been possible without the help of IBM's machines, and their engineers.
Did IBM supply computers to the Hutus, just so that they could pull through the 1994 massacre? 800,000 people in 100 days... that would make even Hitler green with envy.
Good or bad? Well, the communist regime is scared to death of letting the information flow freely inside of China. That would jeopardize their position. Personally, I want the information to be free. But it doesn't matter what you, me or Amnesty says... the communist regime does what they think is necessary to keep their country together under their control.
As for the US filtering technology they bought... it's just an interim solution. There's a love and hate relationship between the communist regime in Beijing and the US... they love getting the new technology, but they don't trust the US. Once the software shops inside of China are up to speed, they're going to build their own filtering software. All in the plan of being self-sufficient.
With Iridium it is much cheaper to call phone-phone. Landline LD to an Iridium phone is abour $10/min. whereas Iridium to Iridium is about $1/min.
;)
With 10-10-220, you could talk up to 20 minutes, anywhere in the U.S. and to Canada for just 99. I'm sure Iridium serve some purpose, but not for city slickers.
"Who are they screw-heads, and why should I PAY them?!"
They're representing the Danish record industry as well as individual artists... in other words... they're about the same as RIAA, but in Denmark.
Why should you pay them? Ask yourself why anyone should have to pay for things you try to sell?
it's not Disney.
(I just hope Spielberg will do his best...)
Why haven't NASA used the Hubble telescope to take a picture of the flag? That might have nailed the mouth shut on the skeptics... but hey... they'd just claim it to be a faked photo to cover up the "moon landing lie".
"It would be possible for a group of people, not necessarily a small group, but not necessarily huge, either to repeat this. 100 people, each with $3,000, could do it. The group would need to find some space to house the thing, and would probably have to do it in a climate where it could be relatively naturally cooled, which definitely rules out Phoenix."
...
Who'd pay the insurance and electric bills?
"Granted, I don't know what the hell they'd do with the computer..."
They'd spend another amount of cash on a OC-48 connection to the internet and then offer webhosting to website owners who think they might be next in line of getting linked in a story at slashdot.com
It happened!
Nearly 13 years ago, a cancer-therapy machine was removed from the Medical Center for Specialities in Ciudad Ju rez and taken to a Ju rez junkyard that later sold the machine along with other scrap metal to two steel foundries for recycling. The machine contained 6,000 tiny pellets of radioactive Cobalt-60, which contaminated thousands of steel rebars (used to reinforce concrete) and furniture parts.
Very interesting story! The amazing part was the way they found out:
"The contaminated steel rebars soon found their way to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, where they triggered a radiation detector."
Maybe they can make glow in the dark furniture out of those trees?! :)
A guy who listens to death metal would get a funeral home ad...
"Oh no... my master drug dealer won't support the stuff anymore, now I better migrate to Linux
to get my daily kick." said Fred, a diehard MS DOS freak. You can see the emptiness in their
eyes... Their illusions are shattered. "This is the end... our civilization is doomed..." said one guy.
"Why do they do this to us???" was the most common remark.
Opteron will be mega expensive, probably price-competetive with the Itanic.
AMD knows very well that if they raise the price to match Intel's price, people would choose Intel, since the Intel brand is stronger than AMD.
According to their website: "Dubbed XPC, short for 'Next Generation 'PC'"
:) It actually stands for eXpired Personal Computer... in other words... it's a recycled computer. ;)
That's the official name...
... and the ACHME power supply is a nice touch!
:)
Is that wave stamped S/N a copy protection feature?
More info on the Sonera scandal...
:)
Sonera monitored the records to find out who had leaked information about internal management disputes in 2000 and 2001.
---
Sonera, Finland's largest telecommunications operator, is in the midst of finalizing a merger with Telia AB, Sweden's largest operator. Telia said Thursday that shareholders owning 95% of Sonera's shares had accepted its takeover offer.
Takeover is the more correct word of the two.
Showed off what has been unanimously voted "My next laptop" by half of my company.
:(
:)
Same thing happened in my company... My company is a family run business. Half of the company
wanted it, but then the other half - my wife - said "No, you don't!" No transmeta... for a while...
Well, it seems that 50% wants a Transmeta powered laptops.
It's not that you can't read Slashdot and some other sites - I can do without that for a week or two (honestly, I swear!! :-)
;o)
As true of most drug dependents, they deny their addiction.
Dammit. Make the moille screens decent first.
:) Mobile phones will not replace computers anytime soon for browsing the web, but the SSR (Small-Screen Rendering) is a step in the right direction. It will make it easier to browse websites in the mobile phone. No more need to scroll the screen sideways. Anyway, see the mobile browser as a complement rather than replacement for the real thing. :)
You want to walk around with a clunky 15" screen? Well, not me.
Did someone else get the feeling of an AA meeting when you watched the I Am Farscape commercial?
I truly believe that nanotech will bring us way better stuff in the future. I read an article about ABB a while ago (I tried to find the article again... but failed) about their efforts in this area. They're doing R&D on lowering the resistance in conductors. They believed they would have products ready in five to ten years. I searched the ABB website to see if they had a press release or something, and this is the only article in English I found. It's an interesting article since it mention other potential (besides their line of business) technological breakthroughs by using nanotech.
The sites are /.ed, but after reading the intro, it all sounds like those Heaven's Gate people... they didn't need a real spaceship in 1996 when they all took off on the Hale-Bopp comet.
Take the test and find out... ;)
Now Spam Radio got an archive to dig out new infomercials from. :)
There was this story 1 1/2 month ago about the bank robbers who killed five people and got tracked down by the satellite navigation system installed in the car they stole.