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Monday, November 7, 2005
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Mouse balls are now available: "It is recommended that each service technician keep a pair of balls for maintaining optimum customer satisfaction."
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What is Amazon Mechanical Turk? "When we think of interfaces between human beings and computers, we usually assume that the human being is the one requesting that a task be completed, and the computer is completing the task and providing the results. What if this process were reversed and a computer program could ask a human being to perform a task and return the results? What if it could coordinate many human beings to perform a task?"
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A bright and exciting future awaits us -- Comment()
Apple looses leadership to Microsoft! "Microsoft is the undisputed leader in color today. And it doesn't come out of nowhere. It is a result of a brilliant strategy that was perceived by Mr. Gates years ago, evident soon after by the release of Windows XP. The color scheme of XP was not copied from Apple's OSX, but - in a surprising move - from another leader in the field of color: FisherPrice. XP with its colorful GUI was a roaring success, pleasing the child inside every computer buying consumer."
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Bizarre fight between protection schemes on Windows -- Comment()
World of Warcraft hackers using Sony BMG rootkit: "Want to cheat in your online game and not get caught? Just buy a Sony BMG copy protected CD."
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