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Comment Re:I don't get it. (Score 2, Insightful) 24

Are you an AI? Based on your response I'm seriously wondering. If I was for some reason going to look back at an email from 'doug' about planning a trip, I would search for emails with doug, then sort by date, and because I have a brain, I would remember the time frame that this occurred. I would find the email in seconds. Literally seconds. The hotel I stayed at in Miami? I would use my brain and just remember it, or, again, just remember the time frame, and perform a keyword search on my email, sorting via date and time. Those are not difficult searches at all.

Comment Re:Fear of terrorism = government propoganda (Score 1) 91

I disagree with your argument. Wearing a seatbelt prevents you from being flung about during an automobile crash. Refrigerating your food prevents bacterial growth. Studying helps you to recall knowledge. What all of these have in common is that they are preventing injury or failure against a non intelligent foe. Your test cannot adapt to your studying. Bacteria can not, likely, infect you if you choose to refrigerate your food. An obstacle hitting your car cannot correct for the fact that you are wearing a seatbelt and choose to do extra damage to you.
I would argue that until you have an idea of what or whom exactly people are targeting, it is a waste of money and time and energy to try and protect every possible target. I mean, while we are at it, lets add pat downs, screenings, and lie detectors, for every human interaction. It could be a terrorist I'm talking to! This is very much hyperbole, but I hope you can get the point.
You *cannot* protect yourself from an intelligent agent. So why inconvenience so many people?

Comment Re:Bullshit (Score 1) 379

FTFA

And now? Work has started on a sequel to 2001's Monsters, Inc, another film that's proven to be a continual success for Pixar. There's no release date as of yet, but it's a fair assumption to expect it in 2012, which would make Pixar's next three big summer movies sequels.

So the article is assuming 3 years since the announcement of the project to completion and working that in with information already available for the other sequels and non-sequels alike. TFS however does seem to play a bit of the telephone game.

Windows

Windows 7 To Come In Multiple Versions 821

Crazy Taco writes "Tom's Hardware reports on newly discovered screenshots that reveal Microsoft is planning to release their newest version of Windows in multiple confusing versions ... again. The information comes from the latest version of the Windows 7 beta, build 7025 (the public beta is build 7000), and shows a screen during installation that asks the user which version of the OS he or she would like to install. Who's up for guessing what the difference is between Windows 7 'Starter' and Windows 7 'Home Basic?'"
The Internet

China Makes Arrests To Stop Internet Porn 204

thefickler writes "The Chinese Government is expanding a crackdown on Internet pornography. Xinhua news agency, which is owned by the government and can safely be used for reporting in China, says the campaign to scrub the country's Internet of 'vulgar' content has so far resulted in 29 criminal cases. Police have ordered the removal of 46,000 pornographic and other 'harmful' items from websites. The latest crackdown comes after official warnings of rising social unrest as the economy slows. It's no coincidence that this year is the twentieth anniversary of Tiananmen Square, or, to use the acceptable nomenclature, 'the June 4th incident.'"
AMD

AMD's Plan To Recover From Its Perfect Storm 247

An anonymous reader writes "TG Daily has an interesting write-up on AMD's big Q1 loss and how the company plans to get back into the black. AMD admitted that Q1 was a meltdown and not just a miss. Looks like cost cutting, including layoffs, may be on the way. But the company says it won't change its overal direction. The CEO Hector Ruiz is quoted as saying, 'We are not going to change our strategy because of one lousy quarter.'"

The Cure for Information Overload 94

Ged writes "Those librarian blogerati have done it again: they've just discovered 'The Cure for Information Overload'. It's a very elegant formula if you ask me, with obvious SRU/SRW applications, and maybe even TLA ramifications. I'm not sure about all of the conclusions, but it sure is an interesting theory."

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