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Monthly Archives: november 2002

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woensdag, november 27, 2002

Ephraim Schwartz: Excuse me, but I thought the dream of office automation was a shorter work week? You know, more time for the family? But of course, no one has ever left the office even five minutes early since the introduction of the PC. Glenn Fleishman: It’s one of my pet peeves that productivity is [...]

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maandag, november 25, 2002

Wired: Laptop manufacturers were tight-lipped Friday about a Swiss man who allegedly burned his penis while using his portable computer. BBC: Record industry attempts to stop the swapping of pop music on online networks such as Kazaa will never work. Mercury News: A computer may spend its working days in a comfortable home in Boston [...]

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dinsdag, november 19, 2002

Wired: IBM announces plans to build a pair of supercomputers so fast and powerful that they’ll begin to approximate some functions of the human brain. Infoworld: Cloudmark, which earlier this year made waves with the launch of a peer-to-peer spam-fighting service, on Monday at Comdex here introduced a predictive Bayesian engine designed to identify and [...]

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maandag, november 18, 2002

NYT: In the case of the Bogdanovs, twin brothers known in France for a best-selling book on science and religion and for popular TV science shows, a more interesting possibility has been raised: that several impenetrable papers they have managed to get published, speculating on nothing less ambitious than how time and space began, are [...]

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vrijdag, november 15, 2002

NYT: The Pentagon is constructing a computer system that could create a vast electronic dragnet, searching for personal information as part of the hunt for terrorists around the globe

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donderdag, november 14, 2002

NYT: Eperts Say a bin Laden Impostor Could Fool a Lot of People. The science of using computers and linguists to identify individuals by their speech has improved, but it still involves considerable guess work. By Michael Moss.

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dinsdag, november 12, 2002

Wired: In the interests of record-keeping and tighter security, industry analysts say a growing number of companies that allow instant messaging in the office are also monitoring its usage.

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maandag, november 4, 2002

Paul Graham: “I think it’s possible to stop spam, and that content-based filters are the way to do it. The Achilles heel of the spammers is their message.” Emerce: “Er moet iets gebeuren”, zegt Kaspersky. “Over een paar jaar bezwijkt het internet gewoon. Internet wordt een vies woord. Iets dat je niet aan je moeder [...]

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