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| Notice: GeekPress is back up and running, thanks to Paul! It's still a not-so-serious tech news blog, but the format is significantly looser. Diana, having given up programming for philosophy, has her own philosophical blog NoodleFood. More of her work can be found at DianaHsieh.com. |
| PayPay pissing people off |
| 2:20:27 am mst / 23 February 2001 found by paul / filed in business / source Salon 173 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| From the article: "Aggressive anti-fraud tactics at the first widely used online payment company are spurring a consumer backlash." |
| Unfortunately, there isn't (yet) a comparably large alternative for disgruntled customers to switch to. But the marketplace may change that. |
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| The perils of online dating |
| 8:38:58 am mst / 23 February 2001 found by paul / filed in culture / source Register 128 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| I just hate it when I start an internet romance with a 30-year old woman, and she instead turns out to be a 65-year old woman who keeps the mutilated corpse of her former roomate in her freezer... |
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| Digital audio players to add speech recognition |
| 9:42:29 am mst / 23 February 2001 found by paul / filed in hardware / source EE Times 33 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| Because the next generation of digital audio players may be able to hold as many as 2000-4000 individual songs, manufacturers plan on including speech recognition interfaces to help the users navigate through the large selections. |
| This could be quite useful, if the speech recognition algorithms are accurate and if the interface is sufficiently flexible. "Computer, I want the last good song that the Band X did before they sold out and went corporate..." |
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| Oh, Those Clumsy Anna Copycats |
| 11:09:19 am mst / 23 February 2001 found by diana / filed in legal / source Wired 47 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| From the article: "The Anna Kournikova worm may have infected more people than it did computers. Since Anna made the rounds, it certainly seems as if a lot of humans' hard drives have been attacked by some kind of brain-sucking ailment." Too many people (particularly government officials) are offering jobs to script kiddies with highly questionable ethics. |
| Nothing like hiring the fox to guard the chicken coop! |
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| Don't Read Aloud This Version of Alice in Wonderland |
| 1:41:06 pm mst / 23 February 2001 found by diana / filed in legal / source The Standard 221 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| A Glassbook version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (itself a painstaking reproduction of Carroll's original 1865 London edition, now in the public domain) has quite a crasy list of rules, including "This book cannot be read aloud. " Abode's response to the controversy, detailed in this article, is even crazier than the list of rules. |
| Quite the strange story! |
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| Beware Those Insidious Vcards |
| 2:38:32 pm mst / 23 February 2001 found by diana / filed in software / source Wired 76 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| Those Vcards that MS Outlook users attach to their e-mails are more than annoying: crackers can use them to crash or remotely control computers and entire networks. A patch is available. |
| Yikes! |
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| FAQ on Dihydrogen Monoxide |
| 3:22:09 pm mst / 23 February 2001 found by diana / filed in humor / source Misc 169 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| BBspot pointed us towards this very classic information on the dangers on Dihydrogen Monoxide. (The research reports are also worth checking out.) |
| When will this terrible substance be banned?!? |
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| Fake Microsoft Web site makes the rounds |
| 6:58:54 pm mst / 23 February 2001 found by paul / filed in humor / source CNN 149 hits / 1 comment / 0 e-mails |
| From the article: "Microsoft Corp. became the victim of a hoax Thursday when a link to a parody Web page based on one of its 'How to' instructional sites spread rapidly around the Internet via email. The Web site, entitled "HOWTO: Read the F---ing Manual," is a spoof of one of Microsoft's information pages, and aims its caustic and profane comments at users who ask obvious questions about how to use their computers." |
| You can see the site here. |
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