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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. |
| 10 Best Geek Jobs |
| 1:02:17 am mst / 26 February 2001 found by diana / filed in humor / source Daily Radar 335 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| Daily Radar informs us of the 10 best geek jobs, from militia member to demolitions engineer. |
| It's quite a range of professions! |
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| Bush and Blair want internet IDs for all users |
| 3:31:11 am mst / 26 February 2001 found by paul / filed in politics / source Cryptome 135 hits / 1 comment / 1 e-mail |
| US President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair have expressed support for "measures to ensure that all internet users are clearly identified", because of the alleged threat posed by online traffic in child pornography. |
| I guess only trustworthy government agencies like the CIA should have the ability to surf and/or post anonymously... |
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| College students swept up in stock market mania |
| 6:18:53 am mst / 26 February 2001 found by paul / filed in business / source San Francisco Chronicle 91 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| More college students are engaging in online stock trading, often to the point of addiction like compulsive gamblers. Nevertheless, many are making large amounts of money from their trades. |
| Some are also learning the valuable lesson that stocks can go down as well as up. |
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| I can't get laid off |
| 7:07:55 am mst / 26 February 2001 found by diana / filed in humor / source Salon 185 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| It used to be that getting laid off was bad. But these days, not getting laid off can be worse. This author looks enviously upon all all those pink-slipped workers with their juicy severence packages. |
| A very amusing perspective on the downturned dot-conomy! |
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| Cyber-forensics |
| 9:38:01 am mst / 26 February 2001 found by paul / filed in legal / source San Francisco Chronicle 115 hits / 1 comment / 0 e-mails |
| An overview of the booming field of computer forensics -- using forensics technology to extract data from computer systems, usually as part of a criminal investigation or lawsuit. |
| It sounds like it pays quite well, given that experts are being lured from law enforcement agencies into the private sector by salaries that are "$100,000 more than what they used to make annually". |
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| Super-sensitive cars |
| 10:27:23 am mst / 26 February 2001 found by paul / filed in inventions / source Asiaweek 78 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| Inspired by (of all things) cockroaches, Japanese car designers are working on the next generation of "super-sensitive" cars that senses adjacent traffic conditions and guides the driver accordingly. One Honda executive said, "One day you could drive without using your hands". |
| At some point, it stops being driving and becomes more like riding in a car-sized robot train. |
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| Minsky on emotional machines |
| 1:55:32 pm mst / 26 February 2001 found by paul / filed in robotics / source ZDNet 136 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| In this fascinating interview, MIT professor Marvin Minsky discusses his ideas on how to get a machine to not just think but also to have emotions. Needless to say, many people will find his ideas controversial. |
| If this interview is representative, his upcoming book "The Emotion Machine" should be quite interesting. (Alas, it's not yet available for pre-ordering at Amazon.) |
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| Napster alternative: crack others' hard drives |
| 6:16:49 pm mst / 26 February 2001 found by paul / filed in security / source Register 94 hits / 0 comments / 0 e-mails |
| A new startup ShareSniffer is offering software that allows users to look for MP3 files on others' unprotected hard drives. Some people are voluntarily leaving their drives open to facilitate file transfers, although others are leaving their files exposed without realizing it. |
| Perhaps there should be a way for drive owners to indicate that they are explicitly consenting to allow others to copy what they can. |
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