Articles tagged as "technology"

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SPAM is a truly egregious problem. This article does some analysis of popular spam filtering software. It is no surprise to me that signature-based programs tend to have slightly higher false positive rates and that Bayesian filters work best when trained properly, and have low or zero false positive rates.

Sorry for not keeping up. Been enjoying the summer too much!

This does not look good for Netflix, which is too bad. They have been a great service.

" This museum is a celebration of fascinating devices that don’t work. It houses diverse examples of the perverse genius of inventors who refused to let their thinking be intimidated by the laws of nature, remaining optimistic in the face of repeated failures."

Like ‘click-through’ or ‘clickwrap’ licenses before, Lawrence Lessig publishes what may be described as an ‘e-mail through’ or ‘e-mail wrap’ license:

New Scientist

A slashdot article about a book (see below) researching whether the sci-fi Space Elevator could be practically manufactured is out:

Cool!

BlackBox Voting is reporting on a whistleblower lawsuit filed here in Washington state by a software engineer against his former employer VoteHere. He alleges that he was wrongfully terminated to silence his complaints while third party “certification” of the VoteHere system was being conducted. The lawsuit enumerates many of the system’s flaws that he documented in defect reports. It is a must-read.