ACLU: Face-recognition systems won’t work Now let me get this straight, the systems would have only stopped 2 of the 19 terrorists, maybe, if they worked perfectly and the CIA had good accurate pictures of them. The system only works about 90% of the time, meaning hundreds of people everyday are going to be misidentified…
AOL Releases New Version of ICQ Messaging Service I use 2000b and it already had more features than I ever knew what to do with. I suppose the multilingual spell check is a nice feature if you don’t speak English, but that’s about it really. Personally I just downloaded Trillian and will be testing that…
Sites Blocked by Internet Filtering Programs This is actually very interesting research into what sites are being blocked by this sort of software. And it should give pause to the typical knee-jerk demands to have it installed everywhere where there might possibly be a kid. Unless of course, you attend the kindergarten in Estonia who’s…
Powerpuff DVD spreads “FunLove” virus Is there no one at Warner Brother’s who would be responsible to check the programs for this before they get shipped out? And if there isn’t, why?
As far as work went, well, naturally we had a computer get a corrupted registry, one with an improper install of Office 2000, which no one found because the bad install was in Publisher and no one had ever tried to use it until Monday. And another problem discovered when I was trying to install…
Back to work today, after a nice three day weekend in New York. The city seems to still be recovering, and I guess I can’t blame it. As I suspected, looking south along the skyline and not seeing the WTC made it seem like a different city than the one I grew up looking at…