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- Report: Data-mining for terrorists doesn't work
- Report: Data-mining for terrorists doesn't workAnother well DUH! moment in US historyHow can anybody be this ignorant? Well of COURSE it doesn't work! Gee, could have used the money wasted on this to bailout some home owners! ]:)
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- News to know: Clickjacking redux; SAP pricing; BlackBerry Storm; Windows 7
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Webcam hijack demo highlights clickjacking threat Dancho Danchev: Atrivo/Intercage's disconnection briefly disrupts spam levels Adobe posts workaround for clickjacking flaw, NoScript releases ClearClick ...
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- I'm well aware what I pay for Google's services
- I'm well aware what I pay for Google's servicesI agreeOther than search, I don't use a lot of Google's offerings. But I do use Google Earth. 33 years ago a buddy & I travelled from Montreal to Prince George, BC. where we ended up working in an isolated sawmill for...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Report: Data-mining for terrorists doesn't work
- After years of the federal government grabbing all the data it could find, building huge collections through which to data-mine for connections that would yield leads to terrorism suspects, a 352-page study released on Tuesday by a committee of the National Research Council warned that such goals "will be...
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Washington Times amongst newspapers putting semantic technologies to work with help from Inform Technologies
- New York-based Inform Technologies issued a press release earlier this week, reporting the success of their recent partnership with the Washington Times on a major website redesign. Having spoken to both Inform's CEO Jim Satloff and the Washington Times' Executive Editor John Solomon, there's an interesting story to tell of...
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- ChunkIt Internet Explorer (exe)
- Give your favorite search engine super strength by transforming your favorite search engine into an information powerhouse. ChunkIt! searches within the pages of your engine's results to find your search terms in context. ChunkIt! also searches web pages and discovers information that conventional search tools may have never revealed. In...
- Software downloads 2008-10-03
- Web 2.0: Unprecedented data liabilities for users and businesses
- Guest post: Drew Bartkiewicz is a Technologist and Author of the Upcoming Book, Unseen Liability. He is a Graduate of Yale and West Point. He insures Web 2.0 business risks with The Hartford. His post is a follow-up to a recent talk he gave on Web business risk. ...
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Memory exhaustion DoS vulnerability hits Google's Chrome
- Memory exhaustion DoS vulnerability hits Google's ChromeWhat to do?I can find loads of information on what it is this vulnerability can do. But as a user what can I do to minimize the risk of this happening to my machine?www.GetFirefox.comReally, why even bother with Chrome, especially when there are solid...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-26
- Dell: Netbooks won't change shape of PC market
- Company founder Michael Dell expresses doubts about the netbook form factor and discusses the company's push into services, as well as growing customer interest in green IT. Netbooks are unlikely to change the shape of the PC market, according to Michael Dell. A number of hardware...
- News items 2008-09-25
- Oracle: CRM software demand bubbly; Social networking meets enterprise data
- Oracle's Anthony Lye, senior vice president of the company's customer relationship management software unit, said demand is growing at a rate he hasn't "seen since the bubble times." Lye also argued that social networking is rapidly becoming another dataset for enterprise applications to analyze. When coupled with business analytics from...
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- Google: Chrome likely to land on Mac before Linux
- Google: Chrome likely to land on Mac before LinuxTestTestRE: Google: Chrome likely to land on Mac before LinuxHiRE: Google: Chrome likely to land on Mac before Linuxbig deal the browser is useless anyway, im way happier with my ff3 :)RE: Google: Chrome likely to land on Mac before LinuxAwww poor...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-18
- Open source spying means military intelligence
- Open source spying means military intelligenceReading between the lines......is what intelligence analysts are supposed to do and I'm told that the CIA is particularly good at it. There's simply a lot more publicly available data to analyze than there used to be.What they Say and What they MeanThey say...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-18
- Sophisticated Customer Relationship Collaboration with MindTouch & SnapLogic
- In another sign of the continuing maturity of Enterprise 2.0 technologies, open source social enterprise collaboration vendor MindTouch and open source data integration framework company SnapLogic announce a new partnership today. SnapLogic have a terrific reputation in the open source data integration world, linking (with 'pipelines') ...
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- ChunkIt Firefox (xpi)
- Give your favorite search engine super strength by transforming your favorite search engine into an information powerhouse. ChunkIt searches within the pages of your engine's results to find your search terms in context. ChunkIt also searches Web pages and discovers information that conventional search tools may have never revealed. In...
- Software downloads 2008-09-12
- Coal's outspoken enemy and his uphill battle
- Coal's outspoken enemy and his uphill battleMore FB-SMore faith Based Science. Explain exactly how this is a problem when the average temperature hasn't increased in the last decade and the polar icecap was 10% larger in 2007 than in 2006.Coldest summer in Alaska, on Record?James Hansen would prefer us all...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-09
- Constructive Data Mining: Modeling Argentine Broad Money Demand
- This paper assesses the empirical merits of PcGets and Autometrics - two recent algorithms for computer-automated model selection - using them to improve upon Kamin and Ericsson's (1993) model of Argentine broad money demand. The selected model is an economically sensible and statistically satisfactory error correction model, in which cointegration...
- White papers 2008-09-01
- Eco-friendly explosives?
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory LLNL researchers have added 'green' solvents to an explosive called TATB (1,3,5-triamino-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene). As a result, these explosives may soon get a little greener and a little more precise. As said the project's principal investigator, 'Improving crystal quality and purity leads to explosive materials that are safer...
- Blog posts 2008-08-31
- The biggest health tech story of our time
- The biggest health tech story of our timeOf course, the analysis has to be validBut that's what real statisticians are for (all sorts of possible complications when you're working with data from many sources).I see we're identifying Moody fans today color seems a little off on the record cover. ...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-29
- Reconstructing Chemical Reaction Networks: Data Mining Meets System Identification
- This paper presents an approach to reconstructing chemical reaction networks from time series measurements of the concentrations of the molecules involved. The solution strategy combines techniques from numerical sensitivity analysis and probabilistic graphical models. By modeling a chemical re-action system as a Markov network undirected graphical model, the paper shows...
- White papers 2008-08-27
- The Cost of Privacy: Destruction of Data-Mining Utility in Anonymized Data Publishing
- Re-identification is a major privacy threat to public datasets containing individual records. Many privacy protection algorithms rely on generalization and suppression of "Quasi-identifier" attributes such as ZIP code and birthdate. This paper asks whether generalization and suppression of quasi-identifiers offer any benefits over trivial sanitization which simply separates quasi-identifiers from...
- White papers 2008-08-27
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