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Tuesday, August 3, 2004
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The Gorge of Eternal Peril: "It's rare for any speaker to draw a standing ovation from the OSCON audience, but that's what David Rumsey did last week. And Rumsey isn't one of the heroes of open source software. He's a philanthropist who collects historical maps, scans them at high resolution, and publishes them on the Internet as open content that anyone can access and repurpose." [Jon's Radio]
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How to destroy an analyst firm from inside: "You publish a biased report. Your report is shred to pieces. You "anonymously" post comments from your company's IP address. You send intimidating emails from the same IP address. You get caught by simple triangulation of your IP address." [vowe dot net]
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PCs hijacked to spew spam: "Potentially millions of home computers could unwittingly be helping the scourge of spam to spread." [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
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Computers Weighing in on the Elements of Essay: "Essay-grading computers, such as Educational Testing Service's e-rater, are proliferating throughout the U.S. testing industry, though not all scholars welcome the transition, as the programs' emphasis on grammar, sentence structure, and coherence may overlook important elements, such as thought and originality."
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Record number of spam messages -- Comment()
Yesterday I had a new record of junk e-mail, over 600 messages in a week. In June the amount of spam was halved, but in the spring the deluge was almost the same as it is now. I was hoping for a permanent degrease, but apparently this will not happen. A magazine editor told about his problem with junk e-mail: he can't use spam filtering because then many legitimate messages from writers of articles might go missing. So he has to browse through all of his spam by hand. My problems are small in comparison. I am now using a new server-side filtering system, which probably is better, but at the moment causes some inconveniences. The spam filtering of Mac OS X Mail work nicely, though. The biggest problem with spam filtering is the fact that once in a while some legitimate messages are classified as spam. This sometimes happens to messages from Amazon.com, for example.
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