tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54320645619851595832011-09-26T13:27:15.121-07:00A repository for April Fool publications and stories, past, present, and future. No Computer Professionals were harmed in the preparation of this blog. Compliance monitored by PETA.Jim Horninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01813631663553781471noreply@blogger.comBlogger1251100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432064561985159583.post-61783610365604488172010-04-28T07:57:00.000-07:002010-04-28T07:57:46.513-07:00

From the Risk Archives: A computer game retailer revealed that it legally owns the souls of thousands of online shoppers, thanks to a clause in the terms and conditions agreed to by online shoppers. [Source; FOXNews.com, 15 Apr 2010; PGN-ed] http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/15/online-shoppers-unknowingly-sold-souls/

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ThinkGeek is supposedly selling a cabinet that makes a retro arcade game out of an iPad.

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Awww. They didn't get the joke. TechCrunch reported that the newspaper of record, the NYT, would be offered on the iPad. Actually, they reused an article from the NYT from 1996, replacing "WWW" with "iPad". And the article actually reads just like it might have come from a NYT newsdesk, even if people such as Martin Nisenholtz are now Senior VP for Digital Operations and no longer president of

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TÚAW (The unofficial Apple Weblog) thinks that there have been a few last-minute changes to the iPad, including a forward facing camera, an SD card slot and a Flash. Fuzzy pictures included.

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Lifehacker also has a collection of April Fool's pranks.

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YouTube announces a high-resolution text mode for its videos that has this Matrix-like feel to it.

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Slashdot announces that it is including a roulette chat in a a parody of Chatroulette.  It's been a long time coming, but we're pleased to announce the latest updates to our discussion software. We've been paying a lot of attention to what other websites have been doing in the space, and as we are only too happy to steal good ideas, from now on all Slashdot stories will now be accompanied

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And Topeka renamed itself Google. In fact, Topeka Google Mayor Bill Bunten expressed it best: “Don’t be fooled. Even Google recognizes that all roads lead to Kansas, not just yellow brick ones.”

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The German national news tagesschau reports this morning that there are no IP numbers left because the Chinese have been sucking every available free address. No one has "returned" and numbers they are not using. So the Internet will be down for 24 hours while ICANN switches to IPv6. The tagesschau reports that it will be increasing its videotext news and still has a teletype in the basement.

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The student-run newspaper of Concordia College in Moorhead, Montana, got an early start on silly season, publishing their April Fools edition in March: "This article was published as part of an April Fool's Edition of The Concordian Concordia students have voiced their true feelings about their professors for quite some time via the Web site RateMyProfessors.com. Many students turn to the

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Mobile phone with many surprising built-in functions. Must be seen to be believed.

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Woopra, the world’s fastest growing Web Analytics provider, today announced that the next version of its wildly popular real-time Website monitoring application will allow users to remotely activate and view Website visitor’s built-in Webcams.The company’s chief scientist, Dr. Lirpa Sloof, said, “Woopra already provides the most robust, feature rich and easy to use Web analytics available. Today

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Playing fetch is so last year!

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Microsoft requested on Tuesday some $20 billion in bailout funds from the federal government, claiming that as the company controlling an overwhelming share of the OS market, it is too big to fail. The company said low adoption rates for Windows Vista, the ensuing ad campaign trying to convince people that they really do like Vista, and the increased need for development resources to rush Windows

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The US Patent and Trademark office published an Apple patent filing on Wednesday that analysts are calling a bold attempt by the Cupertino Fruit Company to protect its core corporate values and business practices.Since the return of Steve Jobs to the consumer electronics giant and sometimes computer maker in 1997, Apple has become famous for its secrecy - so much so that many a journalist has

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As more and more everyday communication takes place over email, lots of people have complained about how hard it is to read and respond to every message. This is because they actually read and respond to all their messages.

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Ubiquitous Digital NetworkingInterconnectivity has never been more important. Digital networks serve up more and more of our entertainment, information, and communication than ever. Indeed, our ability to easily connect with each other is the foundation of our daily lives.Qualcomm, with its newly developed convergence program, seeks to create the first truly ubiquitous digital network so that

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After years of hostility, lawsuits, police raids and heated invective between the two groups, the Pirate Bay has today announced they have settled their differences with US media conglomerate Warner Bros. The largest BitTorrent tracker has sold out to Hollywood and the two have agreed a deal.The deal, worth over $13 billion (10 billion euros) came about after the recent performance at the Pirate

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Starting August, half of parking spaces in the inner cities will be reserved for women and designated with a special purple sticker on each car. Ministers will be coordinating the free give-away, today only, of the stickers in Munich & Regensburg. As well, the first 100,000 men have a chance to obtain a sticker as well.

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LONDON - The City's surplus pigeon population is to be tagged with GPS technology to launch a new media vehicle for clients wanting to target consumers directly outdoors.The initiative, developed by creative advertising agency Creative Orchestra, uses GPS technology to sync-up with users mobile phones.Using electromagnetism, the birds are able to navigate the location of their targets, using new

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Early this morning we launched a brand new cloud computing service. This revolutionary new technology will change the way you think about the cloud.For a while the cloud was simply a metaphor meaning "a bunch of computers somewhere else." Until now, somewhere else meant good old terra firma, the Earth itself. After extensive customer research we found that this rigid, antiquated way of thinking

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Consolidating its position at the cutting edge of new media technology, the Guardian today announces that it will become the first newspaper in the world to be published exclusively via Twitter, the sensationally popular social networking service that has transformed online communication.The move, described as "epochal" by media commentators, will see all Guardian content tailored to fit the

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That's right! Expedia has dropped all booking fees—including fees on flights to Mars. Right now you can save over $3 trillion on a Mars vacation—and in this economy, you can't afford NOT to go!Only on Expedia!

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For once, BMW is happy to be behind the competition.

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Google Code Search has a special syntax to search for lolcode only. Just use lang:lolcode when searching for something, and you’ll get lots of OM NOM NOM. The Google Code Search homepage is full of other lolcat-related examples.

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This weekend around the country, the gBall(BETA) will change Australian rules football as we know it.Building on our core strength in search, Google was approached by a number of Australian rules football leagues to apply our technology in their search for new talent. In response, Google, in partnership with the official supplier of matchballs to the AFL, Sherrin, has developed the gBall.

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In a surprise announcement, on Wednesday April 1st, Jeff Bezos, Chairman and CEO of Amazon.com, personally contacted owners of the Kindle 2 e-book reader via Whispernet-o-gram, reportedly to offer them a special deal on Amazon's new Pay-Per-View service designed specifically for the newest Kindle reading device.

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For several years now a small research group has been working on some challenging problems in the areas of neural networking, natural language and autonomous problem-solving. Last fall this group achieved a significant breakthrough: a powerful new technique for solving reinforcement learning problems, resulting in the first functional global-scale neuro-evolutionary learning cluster.

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The German computer magazine c't reports in their issue of the week of April 1 that since ink jet ink is more expensive than silver, that you can pay small amounts by having your printer fill a page with black ink, and the printer producers will send the money they will get back from you when you refill on to whomever you wanted. The protocol is called PPP, Picopayment Protocol.It is such a crazy

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Not published on April 1, but nonetheless a worthy contender.

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Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the first lady of France, has been appointed by Gordon Brown to spearhead a government initiative aimed at injecting more style and glamour into British national life.

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In a surprise move that left Kindle owners speechless, Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, announced today that the new SuperKindle will be available only as a free upgrade for Kindle early adopters. Optional features include a dishwasher attachment and DVD player.

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Device-free state-of-the-art wireless technology in your hand.

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Join the Club. Club membership has its perks!

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SophosLabs is today announcing ground-breaking technology that detects hackers using facial recognition. By identifying and stopping the virus writer, we can stop malware from even being written, tested and released.Utilizing the webcams built into many modern computers, SophosLabs is able to produce a real-time forensic analysis of a PC user’s facial features to determine if they are exhibiting

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New space station robot asks to be called "Dextre the Magnificent."

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Now, the really surprising part is what the trojan does. Normal banking trojans would insert extra transactions or change the deposit account numbers on-the-fly. However, Win32.Pril.A doesn't withdraw money from you - it actually inserts money TO your account. This looked so weird we had to test it several times, on all of our accounts.

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One of the lessons we’ve learned from Al Gore is that it’s possible to have too much of a good thing. We all like to tool around in our SUVs, but too much driving leads to global warning. We must all take responsibility for our own carbon emissions.The same goes for online privacy, except that there the problem is storage rather than carbon emissions. We all want more and bigger hard drives, but

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I was flying back from California last week, watching a video on my iPhone, and next to me was this guy who kept glancing at me and smirking. "Is that an iPhone?", he finally asked. I nodded. "Humph," he grunted and assumed an air of superiority. I was a bit taken aback so I asked him why he didn't like iPhones. "Oh," he said, "they're okay, I guess," and then he mumbled under his breath "if you

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Each year WCRS (BMW's advertising agency) produces a tactical April Fool's day advert which appears in the broadsheet press on April 1st only. BMW ensures the cameras always lies (2000)SHEF Technology (2001)Marque Wiper (2002)Tyre Pressure (2003)No Flies (2004)Midnight in the City (2005)BMW uninvents the wheel (2006)BMW Instant Messaging (2007)Canine Repellent Alloy Protection (2008)

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Google Weblogs, or “GWeblogs,” or “Gblogs,” which will launch later this year in a public beta, is the next revolution in personal publishing. Here’s what you can expect:Don’t limit yourself to “reverse chronological” publishing. Our advanced Google algorithms put your best content at the top of your blog. Even if your later work goes downhill your previous posts will still shine.

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Dell, Intel to team on low-cost laptopsCompanies will build hardware to foster education in the developing worldIBM targets Global Services customers with System zNew mainframe product automates accounts payable, invoice fulfillment for Global Services engagementsApple's plans for iPhone Enterprise Server revealedBootleg download from anonymous source provides details of centralized management

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Enterprises seeking a modicum of certainty in the ever-evolving threat landscape finally have it: No matter how much human, technological, and financial resources you commit to securing your enterprise, you're hosed.In a recent paper published by the Foundation of Underground Developers (FUD), an all-star team of high-ranking experts assembled from a collection of the industry's leading

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It was with great anticipation that I unboxed two new routers in the lab a few days ago. Both Cisco and Black & Decker had sent me their best entrants in the hotly contested medium-workload router market. Both had promised the sun, the moon, and the skies above, claiming that their product was simply the best available. I was anxious to put these claims to the test.

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Organizations seeking to leverage cutting-edge technology in service of business goals, look no further: Don't Know is fast shaping up as the long-sought-after paradigm shift to competitive advantage, one that has tech departments across all sectors scrambling to implement Don't Know into every facet of the enterprise.

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If your last customer service call sounded as if it were fielded by an 8-year-old, it probably was. Outfitted with technology donated by the One Laptop Per Child program, overseas firms -- spearheaded by a new breed of young, ambitious technologists -- are bent on filling what some are calling a growing offshore void.Long the bread and butter of major Indian and Chinese outsourcers, back-office "

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In a move that stunned Silicon Valley, Google announced it will purchase popular social network Facebook in a cash and stock deal valued at $25 billion. Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg held a hastily arranged press conference where they outlined the key elements of the agreement. Technically, Zuckerberg explained, Google is purchasing 98.4 percent of Facebook, leaving

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They came alone or in groups, giddy with excitement or hushed with awe. They brought flowers and ribbons and broken-down PowerBooks. They lined the sidewalks of this quiet suburban neighborhood, patiently waiting to see what everyone had been talking about.There, on the wall of the garage where it all began more than 30 years ago, stood a six-foot-tall slime mold in the shape of Steve Jobs. Angus

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After much internal debate and industry speculation, Yahoo today agreed to be acquired by Microsoft, adding $2.6 billion to Redmond's original offer of $44.6 billion on Jan. 31. The agreement was reached near midnight last night, thus closing a contentious quarter for the Web company, one rife with in-fighting and power jockeying since Microsoft's initial offer. Of the agreed $47.2 billion, $10

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On the first day of the new quarter, it's a good time to take a look back at the first three months of 2008 and expose some of the coolest software downloads that you might not know about. From innovative new games for your PC or mobile devices to creative accounting tools and invaluable utilities for Windows Vista 64-bit users, there's something in this list for all of you friendly PC users.

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One of the great perks of working at Amazon is that you get to work with a bunch of great people and also with their dogs!

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs broke his time-honored mold today, quietly announcing the framework for the much-anticipated Mac OS XI, an iTunes-based operating system that, as he said to a small audience of industry pundits, "really sings between system calls."

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One line or two. Yes or no. Pregnancy tests are binary by their very nature. So when we found p-Teq's USB Pregnancy Test Kit that's chock full of extra scientific information, we knew we had to get this geeky goodness to our potentially spawning fans.

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For thousands of years, the human race has spread out across the Earth, scaling mountains and plying the oceans, planting crops and building highways, raising skyscrapers and atmospheric CO2 levels, and observing, with tremendous and unflagging enthusiasm, the Biblical injunction to be fruitful and multiply across our world's every last nook, cranny and subdivision.An invitation.Earth has issues,

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In a stunning move that caught the blogosphere off-guard, TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington announced Monday that his fast-growing blog empire is acquiring the venerable teen magazine and Web site Tiger Beat from the magazine's parent company, Laufer Media. Exact terms of the deal weren't disclosed, but Arrington made it clear he intends to shut down the magazine and go online-only with

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Search tomorrow's web today! [...] Google spiders crawl publicly available web information and our index of historic, cached web content. Using a mashup of numerous factors such as recurrence plots, fuzzy measure analysis, online betting odds and the weather forecast from the iGoogle weather gadget, we can create a sophisticated model of what the internet will look like 24 hours from now.

Debora Weber-Wulffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01602911135725939409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432064561985159583.post-33417660896948572942008-04-01T13:22:00.000-07:002008-04-01T13:26:55.480-07:00

Michael Dell: We'll Be A Strong Channel Partner, Microsoft To Open Source: Let's Be Friends, AMD Begs Market To See Forest For The Quads, Best Buy Sued For $54 Million For Missing Laptop, Intel Breaks Up Its Channel Team, Lenovo Pledges Safety First After ThinkPad Fire, Apple Quietly Launches New MacBook Notebooks, CDW Bought By Private Equity Firm, Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion For Yahoo,

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CAMBRIDGE, UK (EnglishClub.com) Tuesday April 1, 2008 — The United Nations is to hold its first debate on language redundancy amid warnings that the problem is “a major contributor” to climate change, a “massive threat” to international security and the cause of “rifts and divisions” within society.

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Hillary Clinton shocked the nation by announcing early this morning that she was pulling out of the Democratic presidential race and throwing her support to Barack Obama. “I cannot in good faith continue my candidacy when the math says I cannot win,” Clinton stated, surprising a crowd of supporters at a breakfast event in Philadelphia.

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Microsoft finally acquired Yahoo. All the silence we have been hearing was confidential discussions between Yahoo's executive team and Microsoft's executive. It really didn't even take that long, but most of us expected that Microsoft would own Yahoo in the long run.At this point, Microsoft tells us that they will leave Yahoo as a standalone property. They did not yet decide if they will

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Microsoft executives, worried that the plan to acquire Yahoo for an estimated $40 billion might not happen, have hatched an alternative plan that might bring about success over Google at a much cheaper cost. To win in search, Microsoft may pay people not to use Google. And pay a premium, up to $1 million per year, over the next three years, to anyone within the United States.Called the "$1

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WASHINGTON, D.C.--Struggling to put his presidency in a favorable historical light, U.S. President George W. Bush has announced a dramatic shift in his attitude toward science. "Critics have accused my Administration of ignoring scientific advice and even of twisting science to suit its own political agenda," Bush said at a speech today at the National Center for Biochemical Medicine here. "Today

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And you thought that MOSAIC lost out to Netscape, which lost out to...

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In a move that could affect as many as 20 million Americans, the U.S. District Court for New York has ruled that a Poughkeepsie man will need to retain all the email in his inbox, and must respond to it with all due haste. The man, 37-year-old Bob Sneed, a sales executive at a local ISP, was intending to delete over 7,500 unread email messages until halted by a court order.

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Apple's iPhone has proven wildly popular around the world, even in countries where there's no official carrier (see "iPhone the Hot Ticket Item in... Syria?," 2008-03-24).Although Apple will continue to negotiate deals with carriers in larger countries, we've learned that the company has quietly been working on an innovative plan that will enable the iPhone to work literally anywhere in the world.

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If you create a new document in Google Docs, you’ll see a number of options in the “File” pull down menu. One of those options, which as far as I can tell wasn’t there yesterday, is “New airplane.” It’s right there after “New document.”Choosing it opens a new file with folding instructions to build a paper airplane.

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How do I use it? Just click "Set custom time" from the Compose view. Any email you send to the past appears in the proper chronological order in your recipient's inbox. You can opt for it to show up read or unread by selecting the appropriate option.

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Abstract: Many issues have been identified with the use of general-purpose character sets for internationalized domain names and similar purposes. This memo describes a fully unified coded character set for scripts based on Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and Chinese (CJK) characters. It is not a complete specification of that character set.

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Abstract: This document proposes a new revenue source for the IETF to support standardization activities: protocol field naming rights, i.e., the association of commercial brands with protocol fields. This memo describes a process for assignment of rights and explores some of the issues associated with the process. Individuals or organizations that wish to purchase naming rights for one or more

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As if there aren't enough problems in the world, we are now on the verge of a phenomenon that will dwarf the projected scenarios of global warming. The cause is the alarming and accelerating loss of Earth's weight and mass by the burning of fossil fuels.Every year that goes by, millions of tons of coal and millions of barrels of oil are burned. Nothing is left but ashes, soot, and gases, and

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The Daily Telegraph sensationally reveals, on this sensational day, that a fantastic episode of belligerent combat erupted early this morning on the streets of Kings Cross, right outside a Hungry Jack's, where the NRL holds its informal 5am league meetings.The fight began when a booth of footy players at the restaurant started arguing about whose name appeared most on the Wikipedia entry "List of

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Tony Finch notes:DST is beneficial provided it is applied consistently over a reasonably large area. However it is a crude and arbitrary mechanism. It offends those who think time should be a matter of natural philosophy, not of politics. It is a great inconvenience to us technologists when the politicians cannot stop themselves from messing around with the schedule. It causes many problems when

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Lauren Weinstein comments on the Congressionally-ordered Development Initiative for Return to Edison Current Technology (DIRECT), and its core requirement for all public and private power grids in this country to be converted from AC to DC systems by 2020, with all new consumer and business devices using electricity to be capable of operating directly from these new DC power grids without

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Classic Internet insider jokes.

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Bill McKeeman found this article in the Mathematical Association of America's Math Horizons, April 2007, regarding newly-discovered letters from Leibniz to Newton.It appears that Newton inititated a fake priority dispute over Calculus, with Leibniz's collaboration, but both were secret motivated to punish Johann Bernoulli, Leibniz's "mediocre" student.In return the younger Bernoulli was

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The German language "Chaos Computer Club" posted a report on April 1, 2007 that they had found a so-called "Federal Trojan Horse Virus" (Bundestrojaner) in the official on-line tax-form submitting software ELSTER.Germany is currently debating whether the federal government should be allowed to snoop personal computers of its citizens (and as the government had to admit on April 25 that they have

Debora Weber-Wulffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01602911135725939409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432064561985159583.post-75176892054356581982007-04-25T16:13:00.000-07:002007-04-25T16:14:59.106-07:00

The milestone is often used as a measure of project progress on large scale software developments. In this report, a quantitative measure of the milestone is developed and shown to be consistent with existing estimating techniques.

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By Dave Parnas. BLOWHARD is a new programming Language. Its name is an acronym: Basic Language - Omnificent With Hardly Any Research or Development.

Jim Horninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01813631663553781471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432064561985159583.post-60598598206828415752007-04-16T00:55:00.000-07:002007-04-16T00:56:17.088-07:00

At Google our mission is to organize the world's information and make it useful and accessible to our users. But any piece of information's usefulness derives, to a depressing degree, from the cognitive ability of the user who's using it. That's why we're pleased to announce Google Gulp (BETA)™ with Auto-Drink™ (LIMITED RELEASE), a line of "smart drinks" designed to maximize your surfing

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The Ültimate Firefox extension. Brings together three of the newest, finest, leading edge technologies available today. No third party applications required. Everything is built into the extension.

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A recent study shows that after just 3 months into the year, the number of people using the Internet has dropped by a staggering 80 percent.

Jim Horninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01813631663553781471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432064561985159583.post-15225467625791910842007-04-16T00:26:00.000-07:002007-04-16T00:29:46.450-07:00

This document specifies a method for encapsulating and transmitting IPv4/IPv6 packets over the Semaphore Flag Signal System (SFSS).

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After years of being disparaged by some in the software development community, the waterfall process is back with a vengeance.

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The new technique has already revealed important results: errors in the existing geographical databases. These errors were revealed when geographers in Cambridge compared the full scale map with the terrain and discovered that they didn't fit precisely: Several structures, including a college building and several roads were determined to be in the incorrect location.

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Hampstead, MA. Motorist Peter Newone said he felt as if a nightmare had just ended. Newone, 53, was driving his newly purchased luxury car when he entered the traffic circle in the city center around 9 AM yesterday, Friday. The car was equipped with the latest safety features, including a new feature called Lane Keeping. "It just wouldn't let me get out of the circle," said Newone.

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Computer scientists have discovered a way to recycle previously used computer cycles and previously generated data. The trick is first to compress newly written programs using an approach similar to Kolomogorov Complexity analysis, and then map the results into callable elements of old programs that can directly give the desired results in return. Research is underway that would even enable the

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As regular RISKS readers will note, I always enjoy a new addition to the "for Dummies" series. This time the imprint has outdone itself with a lighthearted romp through network naughtiness, by two of the least known, but most accomplished, practitioners of the field.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Department of the Treasury announced today that responsibility for enforcement of new federal regulations of the software industry will fall under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF). As the regulations come into effect, the bureau will be renamed to be the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Software (ATFS).

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first virus unable to spread through Microsoft Outlook.Researchers shocked to finally find virus that email app doesn't like.

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Microsoft Corp.'s decision last week to give its 1,000 top U.S. enterprise customers access to the Windows 2000 source code has been sharply criticized by smaller customers.

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While reading several articles on the Y2K problem in the 1 April 1999 issue of RISKS-20-26, I noticed that none addressed the actual problem facing working programmers: there isn't enough time to finish the job before December 31. As we all know from The Mythical Man Month, we can't add more people to the project: the project will just take longer. What we need is another month.I propose Caligua.

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In a sweeping move to alleviate the problems generated by the switch to daylight savings time early on Sunday morning, Congress voted today to move the switch to Monday.

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Insisting that "there's nothing funny about things that aren't funny," Professor Wiley T. Langweile of the Palo Alto (CA.)-based Institute of Internet Reevaluation has written a searing letter to *The New York Times* (1 Apr 1999) protesting that the American media are so bored with the Year 2000 problem that they're mentioning it only once in every 94.5 sentences (by the professor's own

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Despite all of the hooplah about Y2K, computer programmers and protocol designers have not really learned from Y2K. Just because a problem seems far off, it should NOT be ignored. 30 years ago, the year 2000 seemed unimaginably far off and many protocols and programs were not designed to deal with it. Now, we see a similar problem on the horizon and we fear that most computer professionals are

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... it is not surprising in our litigious society to hear of the recent passage of the new Computer Anti-Defamation Law (CADL) protecting computer system developers against people making public remarks detrimental to computer programs and hardware. Apparently, this law was in part a response to the fact that specific cases of shoddy software are frequently mentioned in the Risks Forum and other

Jim Horninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01813631663553781471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432064561985159583.post-58919483648438632102007-04-15T23:04:00.000-07:002007-04-15T23:06:15.373-07:00

A small team of researchers has succeeded in building a prototype of the so-called "quantum computer" that can factor large numbers quickly and defeat public-key cryptosystems. The researchers cracked the DES-IV-1 challenge, revealing the message"Can't anyone around here keep a secret?"

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Rivers summarized, "So, the typical program is overloaded with code that is rarely used, that may not work, and whose output is likely to be ignored anyway." He concluded, "With this code removed, programs will be dramatically smaller and will run somewhat-to-noticeably faster."

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Redmond WA, March 31 (Routers) - Microsoft Corporation announced after the close today that it will buy Sun Microsystems in a deal valued at $11.7 billion. The price works out to $50 a share, which is a premium over Sun's close at $34. ... Bill Gates, Microsoft's Chairman said "It's time to kill Unix. ..."

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Since, by [2100], software will be even more difficult to fix than it is today, I humbly propose that it would be simpler to fix the erroneous definition of the "second" than to fix the software. According to my calculations, by lengthening the second by only 0.00001312449483, which surely will be not noticeable, leap-years will occur every four years without the clumsy and error-prone

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The French Ministry of Informatics (MOI) today announced that they have determined that French computer systems will not be affected by the year 2000 problem. An extensive series of tests have been run on a wide range of applications within the country and on no system has a Y2K problem been apparent.

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