Given Google’s strategic location, handling by far the majority of the internet searches, and those searches themselves being effectively the ‘interface’ by which most people retrieve information from the internet, it should come as no surprise that spooks are interested in having some kind of relationship with google. I don’t see why this would come [...]
It seems to me that this legal judgement, to the effect that it is for Parliament and not for the Courts to regulate the behaviour of MPs is entirely right. And if MPs do not do that, it is for the electorate to replace them.
This tool aims to predict the gender of the writer of a passage of text. The paper on which that tool is based is also on the internet. Interestingly, the prediction is based on things such as pronouns (women use more, it seems) and preferences for particular grammatical constructs (men prefer to say ‘garden of [...]
Thursday, October 26, 2006
The Telegraph blog has a piece comparing British and NYC medical practitioners.
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
No smiling please, we’re hunting terrorists with computer software that is almost, but not quite, entirely incapable of the task. As a result, we reserve the right to make your lives more awkward. We now return you to your regular programming.
How many Americans share your name?
The place that I’m working uses VoIP telephones. What that means is that the call is routed, at least here in the office, over the internal computer network, not over a dedicated set of telephone cabling. If the computer network fails, so do the telephones. There are some fringe benefits: the system is much easier [...]
Spare a thought for the people who made your computer, who may have given part of their lives to give you computing power. Are you making good use of it?
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
An EU Directive may ban myspace. Their problem, of course, is their attempt to define ‘television’ in a way that will cover video on the internet, but only some of it. An attempt in futility, surely. Not that that has stopped the TVLA in the UK attempting to fine people using the BBC Website.
Beware the Internet
Official: The internet is a ‘dangerous’ tool of ‘radicalisation’.