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Algorithm Rates Trustworthiness of Wikipedia Pages 175

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday August 31, 2007 @07:38AM from the getting-it-right dept.

paleshadows writes "Researchers at UCSC developed a tool that measures the trustworthiness of each Wikipedia page. Roughly speaking, the algorithm analyzes the entire 7-year user-editing-history and utilizes the longevity of the content to learn which contributors are the most reliable: If your contribution lasts, you gain 'reputation,' whereas if it's edited out, your reputation falls. The trustworthiness of a newly inserted text is a function of the reputation of all its authors, a heuristic that turned out to be successful in identifying poor content. The interested reader can take a look at this demonstration (random page with white/orange background marking trusted/untrusted text, respectively; note "random page" link at the left for more demo pages), this presentation (pdf), and this paper (pdf)."

Submission + - Wii breaks records in the UK (telegraph.co.uk)

Submitted by

pluke

on Friday August 31, 2007 @05:54AM

pluke writes: "According to the Daily Telegraph, the Wii has sold 1,000,000 units during 38 weeks in the UK. This makes it the UK's fastest selling console ever, beating the Playstation 2 (50 weeks) and the XBOX 360 (60 weeks). Some industry analysts are also reporting that the Wii has overtaken the XBOX 360 to now become the worlds market leader across console and handheld fields. http://www.vgchartz.com/"

Submission + - Entering Passwords Through Eye Movement (net-security.org)

Submitted by Stu Dennison on Friday August 31, 2007 @05:39AM

Stu Dennison writes: EyePassword is a system that mitigates the issues of shoulder surfing via a novel approach to user input. With EyePassword, a user enters sensitive input (password, PIN, etc.) by selecting from an on-screen keyboard using only the orientation of their pupils (i.e. the position of their gaze on screen), making eavesdropping by a malicious observer largely impractical.

Comment Re:We have forgotten (Score 1) 738

by shockwav1 on Tuesday January 06, 2004 @04:03PM (#7894524) Attached to: SCO - What have WE Forgotten?

But what would happen if another company, say IBM maybe, buys out SCO? Answer: typically all unvested options are immediately vested and available for exercise. You are right. SCO is most likely not trying to pump and dump. The SEC makes it too difficult to do that. Getting someone to buy you, however, can be relatively easy and makes for some interesting scenarios.

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