Comment Re:Work? (Score 1) 287
59 more days, just 59 more....
59 more days, just 59 more....
First I format the drive.
Then I install an OS copy that I got from Microsoft
Then I install the drivers I d/l from the machine site.
And I make an image (in case the app install fails badly).
I install the basic applications I use.
I make the recovery image.
Once in a while I format the drive and re-image using the recovery image.
Well yes, but "million" sounds more impressive.
If you own a Web site, then you are forced to install this.
Otherwise how could you know what insightful comments have been posted against your web pages.
And then, of course, you will be tempted to comment on other pages.
Exponential growth!
Unless someone (including Ohm) pipes up with a plausible means for identifying the original subjects, I call BS on Ohm's "law."
Is EVERYTHING anonymized? Did you leave in real eye colour, hair colour, height, sex and so on? Did you anonymize city names? States?
Enough correlation and you can start matching to real people. I did some similar work, including free form entry fields. For a name of "Prince" which was anonymized to, say, "NAME001" and "Albert" to NAME002", the city name "Prince Albert" became "NAME001 NAME002". A little reading around the free form text and you could equate NAME001 to Prince, then go back through the name column and make the changes. I had to put in an exception list for common phrases (slow as hell).
Any sort of real analysis of information must include real world information. You cannot hide everything. And once you have real information you can start correlation. Do this across enough data and you can find real people and suddenly you know that Joe Blow has cancer and you can reject him for health insurance.
This is not new.
The look of disappointment on the faces of the major news anchors was priceless and underscored their severe lack of understanding of technology.
It was if someone had said that a bridge needs repairs (the experts can see the rot), the billions were spent fixing the bridge and when the first person crossed the bridge it did not collapse. Then they whine that there is no sensational story, that the bridge would not have fallen anyway and why was the money spent, what a waste?
I hate news people. I find them shallow, news bite hunting morons.
I believe your headline should have been "Chicks Tweet".
So in Britain they would be known as "Tweety Birds"?
2009.08.12 16:32
For the first generation or so.
Then it will be put on a single chip and mass produced. Look at cell phones. The first ones used discrete circuits and were big and heavy.
Just need some moral outrage from some news (um entertainment) channel, some mother wailing about "child privacy", and a politician needing exposure.
Rinse, lather, repeat...
And then the box detects its 'blind' and refuses to run your movie
At which point I return the box/tv set, yell at the salesperson, and behave badly.
This is like the Panasonic patent which blocks channel changing during commercials. Some *AA exec is wetting his pants, but the public WILL NOT put up with this.
This kind of intrusion is a revolution just waiting to happen, sheeple or not.
Then I patch it as far as I can over their 56k modem.
Get Autopatcher and update it from a CD BEFORE you connect it to anything.
You can always use a splitter. It has one male and two female ends.
Can't find one? Then splice some Cat wire together
Offtopic?
Threads on Fark have reached over 20K posts. People are setting up proxy servers to allow outgoing Twitter messages (bypassing Iranian firewall filters), with several people giving out do-it-yourself proxy kits. There is an active Go Green campaign and protests planned in many cities. Posting of relevant Twitter messages to keep everyone informed.
Somewhat on the forefront of the Netwar I would think.
Hardly any time to post. Spending most of my time on Fark
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