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Comment Ahem (Score 2, Funny) 110

by Bugsquash on Tuesday December 11, 2007 @08:11PM (#21664953) Attached to: Team Fortress 2 Stats Confirm Every Suspicion

I for one would like to welcome our new Blue overlords...

Feed The Register: Teen accused of hacking emergency 911 system (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Wednesday October 17, 2007 @09:52PM

Bogus call sends SWAT team to home of unsuspecting family

A 19-year-old Washington state man is due in court on Monday to face accusations he hacked into emergency 911 systems and faked a call that a sent SWAT team to the home of a sleeping family 750 miles away.

Infrequent Anonymous Cowards Reliable on Wikipedia 264

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 17, 2007 @09:36PM from the a-visit-from-the-correction-fairy dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "Researchers at Dartmouth University have recently discovered that infrequent anonymous contributors, so called "Good Samaritans," are as reliable as registered users who update constantly and have a reputation to maintain. A graph from page 31 of the group's original paper (pdf file) shows that the quality of contributions of anonymous users goes down as the number of edits increases while quality goes up with the number of edits for registered users."

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