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- 12 terabytes of YouTube data
- 12 terabytes of YouTube dataHorrible loss for ConsumersThis Judge needs to be taught what he has the power to do, and not to do. This is a clear violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act. Not to mention a major privacy issue for all of us that have ever watched...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Working online from home in your pyjamas
- A good proportion of a working day in the average office, is indeed working outside of the office. It seems nowadays though, the opportunity has arisen to let those who can't get a job - students for example - to utilise their skills for the online market. Working from home...
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Thinking -- Or Feeling -- Like A Computer
- So an unknown billionaire named Jeffrey E. Epstein has spent millions trying to develop a thinking and feeling computer. But winds up in jail instead. This sounds eerily like a wish to build a HAL 9000 computer that was the central character of Arthur C. Clarke's science...
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Autonomy CEO: Web 2.0 'under all the hype, there is something there...'
- An intriguing article by 'meaning based computing' company Autonomy's CEO Mike Lynch in today's Financial Times: Embracing the friend, taming the beast – Web 2.0 in the enterprise. Autonomy are mature and stable (with a 4 billion market capitalisation), rapidly becoming the second largest pure software company...
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- What is a company blogger good for?
- I often hear from companies that want to "be social" or "hire a blogger." Usually, there hasn't been any effort put into the question of what they'd like to accomplish from the effort, so I send out the following. Now, you can call me to talk when you have an...
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- SlideShare: user communication failure
- While Enterprise 2.0 applications can be useful, hassles sometimes abound. In this case, I innocently tried to upload a simple file to SlideShare, only to learn things aren't always straightforward.After attempting to upload the file, I received an error message stating in part: There's a big chance this is...
- Blog posts 2008-06-29
- MSDN Webcast: Demystifying Office Business Applications for the Developer (Level 200)
- This webcast provides an introductory look at how to build and deploy Office Business Applications OBAs, specifically focusing on what and the how. It discusses Microsoft Office client application customization, integration of custom Office client applications with Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies, SharePoint Products and Technologies Business Intelligence BI features,...
- Webcasts 2008-06-27
- Dustan Soul Adventures CD/DVD Creator (exe)
- Create your Custom Business Card or full size CDs that share the Gospel of Jesus. Dustan Soul Adventures is a multimedia, interactive; fully Customizable Adventure program that uses Microsoft Accessibility options such as text to speech, and a built in artificial intelligence, to compares what you believe today with what...
- Software downloads 2008-06-27
- Reformed computer criminals - your country needs you
- And trust me, they really do. Over the last year, the UK and US Governments have had an awful problem in keeping basic data protection rules in check, almost to the point where they may have been broadcasting over the radio minutes of the intelligence committee meetings. ...
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- VivaKi, dude, where is my code?
- VivaKi, dude, where is my code?Geesh!Do you think it's possible that an ad company might use the term "open source" in a different sense than the coding community? Consider that "open source" was used in the intelligence community PRIOR to being used in the coding community and it does...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- Global warming is a security issue say American spies
- Global warming is a security issue say American spiesDead on[i]If global warming is real and it's consequences are as serious as some say which I doubt it will case major instability across the globe[/i]I think we've seen it repeated many times in history: Everyone's content and willing to lend a...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- Global warming is a security issue say American spies
- Sixteen American spy agencies combined their intelligence to report to the nation on global warming...as a security threat. To everyone's great surpise the spies found that our future is perilous...and we need continuied spying...to forestall governments toppling, more terrorist attacks by folks driven to violence by hunger, etc. etc....
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- Only the Truth Counts (exe)
- Dustan Soul Adventures, Only the Truth Counts. Is a multimedia, interactive, adventure, that explains how mankind can be saved in an easy to understand format. This program uses Microsoft Accessibility options such as text to speech, and a built in artificial intelligence, to compares what you believe today with what...
- Software downloads 2008-06-25
- Only the Facts (exe)
- Dustan Soul Adventures, Only the Facts. Is a Multimedia, Interactive, Adventure, that explains how mankind can be saved in an easy to understand format. This program uses Microsoft Accessibility options such as text to speech, and a built in artificial intelligence, to compares what you believe today with what God...
- Software downloads 2008-06-25
- diversITy: can being gay hold your career back?
- Edit: Just a couple of grammatical tweaks. This series of entries, called diversITy, continues from the previous topic, all concerning the diversity of people within the IT industry. This time, I'd like to put forward: sexual orientation in the workplace, can it set you back? ...
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- Wiretapping: This was no time for a compromise
- Wiretapping: This was no time for a compromiseThis was not a compromise...it was a SELL-OUT.RE: Wiretapping: This was no time for a compromiseHardly a compromise. And hardly adequate. You admit it yourself -- seven years with no attack, and just because the White House didn't invite you personally to...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
- Plagiarism detection style software identify authors of terrorist propaganda
- Universities around the world have been using plagiarism software for a good few years now, to crack down on the amount of copied work. This, after all, is defrauding a university for the purpose of gaining a qualification, which can and has been classed as a criminal offence at...
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- (Gallery: Roadrunner: World's fastest supercomputer)
- (Gallery: Roadrunner: World's fastest supercomputer)Wow...I am seriously in love.How long to have a petaflop desktop?mputer)Well if you install Linux, you'll be halfway there already. The operating system that makes all this hardware work at petaflop speeds is Linux and Free Open Source Software.RE: (Gallery: Roadrunner: World's fastest supercomputer)Remember just how...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-18
- Robofish teams of underwater robots
- Robofish teams of underwater robots'Skills' broken down into specified tasksFor some reason this reminds me of Stanislaw Lem's "The Invincible", where a ship of that name is brought down...depending on your point of view, by either a supercomputer or a bunch of crystals. The kinds of preconceptions we unknowingly...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- Kenzo (zip)
- Kenzo is a popular game of dice, also known as Yahtzee, Maxchen, Kniffel or Pokerdice. Kenzo is a colorful game with nice sound effects and a strong artificial intelligence AI.Kenzo can be played with up to 6 players human or computer on one computer. Age: 5+ This game even has...
- Software downloads 2008-06-17
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