proudfoot - Slashdot User

Comment Re:I, for one (Score 1) 701

by proudfoot on Friday July 25, 2008 @09:57PM (#24344697) Attached to: No Gap Found In Math Abilities of Girls, Boys

You really don't know what a mean is do you?

An average of salaries should show a slightly higher mean wage for women since as a higher percentage of the population they have a slightly higher probability of being in very high paying positions.

Think about this for a second. Second issue is this - women are generally considered the primary caretakers of children, and at the same time, are more likely to take time off, or prefer to work less hours. This is probably a good reason why they make less.

Submission + - Google develops Wikipedia rival (news.com)

Submitted by

eswarjj

on Friday December 14, 2007 @04:14PM

eswarjj writes: "Search and advertising giant Google is developing a user-generated online encyclopedia that could rival Wikipedia. Google has named the encyclopedia the "knol project," a knol being a "unit of knowledge," according to a blog post by Google engineering vice president Udi Manber. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.html"

Google's "Knol" Reinvents Wikipedia 272

Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday December 14, 2007 @09:31AM from the only-a-matter-of-time dept.

teslatug writes "Google appears to be reinventing Wikipedia with their new product that they call knol (not yet publicly available). In an attempt to gather human knowledge, Google will accept articles from users who will be credited with the article by name. If they want, they can allow ads to appear alongside the content and they will be getting a share of the profits if that's the case. Other users will be allowed to rate, edit or comment on the articles. The content does not have to be exclusive to Google but no mention is made on any license for it. Is this a better model for free information gathering?"

Submission + - Knols Project - Google is trying to compete with W (zedomax.com)

Submitted by

zedomax

on Friday December 14, 2007 @06:55AM

zedomax writes: "Google is trying to compete with Wikipedia with its new Knols Project. We don't know how successful it will be as we have seen Google Video and Youtube before. Maybe Google will buy out Wikipedia like it did with YouTube."

Submission + - Y2K Bug in NASA's Climate Data (dailytech.com)

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proudfoot

on Saturday August 11, 2007 @05:47PM

proudfoot writes: "NASA has now silently released corrected figures, and the changes are truly astounding. The warmest year on record is now 1934. 1998 (long trumpeted by the media as record-breaking)all occur before World War II. Anthony Watts has put the new data in chart form, along with a more detailed summary of the events.moves to second place. 1921 takes third. In fact, 5 of the 10 warmest years on record now all occur before World War II. The effect of the correction on global temperatures is minor (some 1-2% less warming than originally thought), but the effect on the U.S. global warming propaganda machine could be huge."

Submission + - FBI - Reading Material Suspicous - Man Questioned (creativeloafing.com)

Submitted by

proudfoot

on Saturday July 28, 2007 @04:59PM

proudfoot writes: "The FBI questions a "dark haired, bearded" man, based off a tip off that he was reading something suspicious. They managed to find his mother, and from her, tracked him down. The reading material in question? Hal Crowther's "Weapons of Mass Stupidity" from the Weekly Planet, a free independent out of Tampa, an article that criticizes the actions of the current administration.

From the agent involved: "In this post-911 era, it is the absolute responsibility of the FBI to follow through on any tips of potential terrorist activity," Parris says. "Are people going to take exception and be inconvenienced by this at times? Oh, yeah. ... A certain amount of convenience is going to be offset by an increase in security.""

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