Slashdot | Tivo Tracks Superbowl Viewing Habits. ThePretender writes “Sprinkled in the Janet Jackson boob stories is an alarming bit of information: Tivo tracks subscribers' viewing habits. They know how many times the boob was viewed, among other good-to-have (meaning data worth $$) information. Yes, if you agreed to Tivo's privacy policy you knew they… Continue reading Slashdot | Tivo Tracks Superbowl Viewing Habits
Month: February 2004
More speech suppression: From the Tampa Tribune
More speech suppression: From the Tampa Tribune. More speech suppression: From the Tampa Tribune : After moving to Florida from Pennsylvania this summer, [Krista] Abram, 16, spent her first few days attending Tarpon Springs High School bewildered by her peers' and teachers' ambivalence to the daily sight of Confederate battle flag images at the school's… Continue reading More speech suppression: From the Tampa Tribune
Exciting New Catholic Blawg
Exciting New Catholic Blawg. A group of Catholic law professors (including yours truly) have started a group blog Mirror Of Justice. The introductory post explains: This blog will not focus primarily on the classic constitutional questions of Church and State, although some of our members are interested in those questions and may post on them… Continue reading Exciting New Catholic Blawg
Technology and Worker Efficiency
Technology and Worker Efficiency. Researchers seem confident that technology has made American workers more efficient. Now some think they even know why. By Steve Lohr. [New York Times: Technology]
Viva La Wi-Fi
Viva La Wi-Fi. Cox Communications built a Wi-Fi network in the MGM Grand, covering all 5,034 rooms: The cable company also won a bid to unwire the Hard Rock. A Cox exec says that it installed enough access points that only one or two people will share an access point. I wonder if that's based… Continue reading Viva La Wi-Fi
Content-aware search
Content-aware search. At InfoWorld's 2002 CTO Forum, Google co-founder Sergey Brin threw cold water on the idea of instrumenting content for intelligent search. “I'd rather make progress by having computers understand what humans write,” he said, “than by forcing humans to write in ways that computers can understand.” Brin's pragmatic stance sharply opposes the idealistic… Continue reading Content-aware search
Gaming resumes
Gaming resumes. Gaming resumes: Good multi-screen essay on how to get hired for a game-programming job at one company. I suspect much of this will generalize to most tech-oriented gigs. … [JD on MX]
Panopticon and the Police State
Panopticon and the Police State. Security expert Bruce Schneier's latest essay bluntly describes the Bush administration as setting up a police state under the aegis of fighting terrorism. He states that such a strategy sacrifices much of the freedom that Americans believe in for little in the way of actual security. Terrorism is no different.… Continue reading Panopticon and the Police State
The First Truly Thinking Machines?
The First Truly Thinking Machines?. Stephen Thaler is the CEO of Imagination Engines, Inc. (IEI) and has designed and patented a computer program called the Creativity Machine. His idea was simple: introduce noise in a rigid rule-based neural network. This noise disrupts the connections and helps generating new ideas. With his Creativity Machine, he invented… Continue reading The First Truly Thinking Machines?
Handling IM as business tool
Handling IM as business tool. The rapid adoption of IM to conduct business proves that it can be an effective business tool — but its use brings potential liabilities. Experts recommend that instant messages be handled in the same way as e-mail, which can be considered records and be subject to legal discovery and records… Continue reading Handling IM as business tool