Friday, May 3, 2002
Blogspace Under the Microscope
Jon Udell
Each article grew a tail of backlinks that pointed to pages referring back to it. Suddenly a new kind of feedback loop was created.
A few different implementations referenced in the article.
Archdiocese backing out of Geoghan settlement
The Archdiocese of Boston on Friday backed out of its settlement with 86 victims of defrocked priest John Geoghan, telling Cardinal Bernard Law the deal was too expensive as the list of potential victims grows.
Greenspan: Overhaul stock-options
Alan Greenspan
"The seemingly narrow accounting matter of option expensing is, in fact, critically important for the accurate representation of corporate performance", Greenspan told a financial markets conference convened by the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank in Georgia.
SonicBlue ordered to track ReplayTV users' viewing choices
Dawn C. Chmielewski
A federal magistrate in Los Angeles has ordered SonicBlue to spy on thousands of digital video recorder users — monitoring every show they record, every commercial they skip and every program they send electronically to a friend.
Dave Winer
I have an admission to make. For the first few weeks as a TiVO owner, I didn't skip over the commercials because it felt wrong to do so. Now I do skip them. If everyone does this (I'm sure they do) does this mean the end of TV as we know it? Yes, of course. Should the courts interfere? No, of course not. Should the entertainment industry adjust? They have no choice, imho.
Farhad Manjoo - They Know What You're Watching
One day after a federal magistrate judge ordered Sonicblue to monitor the TV-watching habits of people who use its ReplayTV 4000 personal video recorder, the company is hard at work on two separate tracks: While its legal team works on a way to stay or perhaps reverse the ruling, its engineers are trying to come up with software to track thousands of ReplayTV customers in the event that the ruling is not changed.
Discussion at Slashdot.
Genetic Fate Is in Venter's Hands
Kristen Philipkoski
Coming from a man whose life revolves around the study of genes, this might sound surprising: People are not the sum total of their genes.
REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS ASSISTANCE
Laurent Mpeti KabilaI stumbled into your contact by stroke of luck after a long search for an honest and trust worthy person who could handle issue with high confidentiality. I was so dilghted when i got your contact and i decided to contact you and solicite for your kind assistance. i hope you will let this issue to remain confidential even if you are not interested because of my status.
I am Laurent Mpeti Kabila (Jnr) the second son of Late President LAURENT DESIRE KABILA the immediate Past president of the DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO in Africa who was murdered by his opposition through his personal bodyguards in his bedroom on Tuesday 16th January, 2001. I have the privilege of being mandated by my father's colleagues to seek your immediate and urgent co-operation to receive into your bank account the sum of US $25m. (twenty-five million Dollars) and some thousands carats of Diamond. This money and treasures was lodged in a vault with a security firm in Europe and South-Africa.
SOURCES OF DIAMONDS AND FUND
In August 2000, my father as a defence minister and president has a meeting with his cabinet and army chief about the defence budget for 2000 to 2001 which was US $700m. so he directed one of his best friend. Frederic Kibasa Maliba who was a minister of mines and a political party leader known as the Union Sacree de,opposition radicale et ses allies (USORAL) to buy arms with US $200m on 5th January 2001; for him to finalize the arms deal,my father was murdered. f.K. Maliba (FKM) and I have decided to keep the money with a foreigner after which he will use it to contest for the political election. Inspite of all this we have resolved to present you or your company for the firm to pay it into your nominated account the above sum and diamonds. This transaction should be finalized within seven (7) working days and for your co-operation and partnership, we have unanimously agreed that you will be entitled to 5.5% of the money when successfully receive it in your account. The nature of your business is not relevant to the successful execution of this transaction what we require is your total co-operation and commitment to ensure 100%risk-free transaction at both ends and to protect the persons involved in this transaction strict confidence and utmost secrecy is required even after the uccessful conclusion of this transaction. If this proposal is acceptable to you, kindly provide me with your personal telephone and fax through my E-mail box for immediate commencement of the transaction. I count on your honour to keep my secret, SECRET.
Looking forward for your urgent reply
Thanks.
Best RegardsMPETI L. KABILA (Jnr)
OK, I know that everyone has heard of this scam. I thought it was cute though, because I've never gotten one before. I suppose I'll be getting a lot of them from now on...
