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Smarter Than Me

Smarter Than Me 12/29/2003 11:44 PM
Sometimes I'm accused of being "smart," which bothers me since I don't know what it means. It's a comparative label: if this one is smart, then others are equally smart, smarter, or less smart. Yet all generalizations are false, all comparisons fail. There's no way to measure these things, not really. It's a bogus idea. That's not exactly right. I quickly identify folks smarter than me, but it's not empirical, just a cocktail party chat I have with myself. Probably...

Smarter Than the CEO

Smarter Than the CEO 05/31/2004 05:26 AM
Success, most corporations assume, depends on the efforts of a few superlative individuals. As a result, they treat their CEOs as superheroes. In doing so, firms are neglecting their most valuable resource: the collective intelligence of the organization as a whole. By James Surowiecki from Wired magazine.

Buy smarter

Buy smarter 05/11/2004 11:56 AM
Computer Weekly May 11 2004 3:24PM GMT

Why MSN is smarter than AOL

Why MSN is smarter than AOL 01/11/2004 10:28 PM
ZDNet Jan 11 2004 9:16PM ET

"One of us is smarter than all of us"

"One of us is smarter than all of us" 03/28/2005 03:18 PM

Tinderbox Keeps Getting Smarter

Tinderbox Keeps Getting Smarter 03/22/2005 04:58 PM
Matt Neuburg (~210 words)

Tinderbox Keeps Getting Smarter -- Eastgate Systems' Tinderbox has been upgraded to version 2.4. Tinderbox (see my review in TidBITS-651) is a superb way to create heavily hyperlinked text; text snippets are stored in a hierarchical structure and can be exported as Web pages. I used Tinderbox to create the online help for the Perl editor Affrus, which blogger John Gruber has called "the finest software documentation," in part because it is "cross-linked out the ying-yang." Tinderbox 2.4 makes outlines smarter by permitting any entry to have a rule for updating itself periodically; for example, if you're using Tinderbox to maintain a to-do list, a parent item (representing a category or group of tasks) might have a rule that its "completed" attribute should be true if and only if the "completed" attribute of all its children (the actual tasks) is true. There are also many small bug fixes and aesthetic tweaks, and Tinderbox's Web-page export continues to evolve strongly. Tinderbox runs in both the classic Mac OS (Mac OS 9.2 recommended) and Mac OS X 10.0 and later. Tinderbox costs $165, plus $70 annually for free updates. A demo version is available for download. [MAN]

spambots get smarter

spambots get smarter 01/06/2004 01:03 PM

Since today started as a "spam kind of day"...

Something I noticed over the last few weeks is that I've started to receive spam that is way more targeted than before. In what sense?

Well, let's say this: I'm getting spam that not only knows my full name, but also my address. Okay, not my current address, but I've already gotten spam that explictly mentions both my New York address (from 5+ years ago) and my SF Bay address (from 2+ years ago). This is bad, not only they know my email address, but they also know where I live(d)! Yes, we know that with time and money you can get a lot of information on anyone, but this has to be done automatically and massively, or otherwise it wouldn't be a practical option for spammers.

Clearly, one way this could happen is if someone (say, buy.com) has been selling their customer information. Since I usually take care of buying online only when my privacy is more or less protected, this is unlikely, though certainly possible.

There's a more likely way in which this connection was made: Google.

Google not only knows the web, it also knows other information... like phone numbers (at least in the US). Jon mentioned this some time ago.

A spambot to get "connected information" would work like this. Say you write an automated script to go through phone numbers on Google. Then the script takes the address data and the person's name, and then googles the person's name. It takes the first few results (or maybe only the first one) and scans the resulting pages to match an email's name to the person's name. Sure, this won't be 100% correct, but spammers don't care about that. And Google's reach makes it reasonable to think that you'd have a reasonably high hit rate. You could even write a program that uses the GoogleAPI for it.

Sure, we could say, as Scott McNealy does, that "you're privacy is gone, get over it". Even if you don't agree with that statement (and I don't, at least I want to resist it!), this is nevertheless disturbing. And the question that follows is: does Google have any responsibility for this? They'd probably say that they're providing a service by integrating yellow pages information, which would be true.

I'm not picking on Google, rather Google is the example here because of its reach and pervasiveness, but I'm sure that similar things can be done with other search engines and if not it won't be long before you can. Can we fix this at all? If so, how?

Since this is the tip of the iceberg, my main thought at the moment is that I'm a character from Lost in Space and all I hear is "Danger Will Robinson! Danger!".

SAP CEO: Not more, but smarter IT
investments

SAP CEO: Not more, but smarter IT
investments 01/28/2004 12:06 AM
DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY - Accepting the idea that many businesses aren't prepared to spend more on enterprise application software, Germany's SAP AG aims to help them spend smarter.

Why small companies are smarter

Why small companies are smarter 07/20/2004 09:11 PM
ZDNet Jul 21 2004 1:27AM GMT

OkCupid! Smarter, Better Matching

OkCupid! Smarter, Better Matching 03/14/2005 04:50 PM
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Man smart, voter smarter

Man smart, voter smarter 05/15/2004 06:56 PM
Mid-Day Mumbai,India-3 hours ago ... They can just do a Google search right there in their own villages. ... They�re all too busy doing Google searches for Infosys results. ...

ICT venture coaching just got smarter

ICT venture coaching just got smarter 05/12/2004 01:21 AM
Sunday Times South Africa May 12 2004 5:54AM GMT

Designing a Smarter Shoe

Designing a Smarter Shoe 05/05/2004 09:28 PM
Adidas's new shoe, named 1, is sleek and lightweight despite its battery-powered sensor, microprocessor and electric motor.

Why small companies are smarter than big
ones

Why small companies are smarter than big
ones 07/18/2004 08:04 PM
ZDNet Jul 19 2004 0:31AM GMT

Sleep makes you smarter!

Sleep makes you smarter! 01/22/2004 02:45 AM
An AP article says that the first "hard evidence supporting the common sense notion that creativity and problem solving appear to be directly linked to adequate sleep" will be published in tomorrow's issue of Nature. Finally, proof that my nap habit is actually beneficial to my productivity! Link

Smarter Content Publishing

Smarter Content Publishing 08/26/2002 12:34 PM

E-mail viruses getting smarter

E-mail viruses getting smarter 08/18/2004 01:32 AM
CNET News.com Aug 18 2004 5:49AM GMT

Microsoft Word And "Smarter Than"

Microsoft Word And "Smarter Than" 08/30/2004 07:45 PM
What the Word team lacks, in my view, is an awareness that, when a user is trying to get his or her own work done, the user is always smarter than the technology. By Marc Hedlund, O'Reilly Network (via MyAppleMenu)

New Cell Phones Smarter, More Fun

New Cell Phones Smarter, More Fun 03/19/2003 10:27 PM
Record-breaking sales in 2002 put the cell-phone industry on top of the world. Manufacturers hope to stay there with a new crop of handsets that offer gaming, picture-taking, multimedia messaging and more. Elisa Batista reports from New Orleans.

The Perils Of Ego Surfing: There Might
Be A Smarter You Out There

The Perils Of Ego Surfing: There Might
Be A Smarter You Out There 08/17/2004 05:32 AM
An LA Times reporter finally did what most people discovered long ago: the ability to search Google for your own name. However, he came to a horrifying realization: he wasn't the only Geoff Boucher. Even worse, in his opinion, it looked like the other Geoff Boucher might be smarter than he was. Once again, we discover the dangers of a combination of too much free time and Google.

Phishers using smarter hooks

Phishers using smarter hooks 04/20/2004 11:19 AM
Personal Computer World Apr 20 2004 3:20PM GMT

Older siblings are smarter (Reuters)

Older siblings are smarter (Reuters) 03/14/2005 06:13 PM
Reuters - First born children in Norway get better education and as adults are more successful in the job market than younger siblings, a Norwegian-U.S. study shows.

Smart Cell Phones Become Smarter

Smart Cell Phones Become Smarter 04/16/2004 04:55 AM
Hankooki Apr 16 2004 9:07AM GMT

I See a Smarter SPOT Watch in Your
Future …

I See a Smarter SPOT Watch in Your
Future … 04/09/2004 03:56 PM
MSN is working on the next set of MSN Direct services that it plans to roll out for its smart watch customers. Among them: daily horoscopes, winning lottery numbers, dining info and movie times.

SAP aims to encourage smarter IT
investment

SAP aims to encourage smarter IT
investment 01/28/2004 07:18 AM
Computer Weekly Jan 28 2004 12:07PM GMT

If Ricky were any smarter, he'd be
broccoli

If Ricky were any smarter, he'd be
broccoli 04/11/2004 10:31 PM
I am down with Plato and Socrates, And I like to get busy with all the ladies. Grunt, grunt/ sumthin,' sumthin,' sumthin,'/ Grunt/ Up in ma shed, up in ma shed...
From Bubbles' first freestyle rap, to Mr. Lahey's ever-doomed attempts to keep control of Sunnyvale Trailer Park, to Randy's shirtless gut, to eight year old Trinity's nicotine patch, to J-ROC's genuine delusion that he is black: the brilliance of Trailer Park Boys rolls on. Season Four begins tonight in Canada on Showcase; and on April 15th Season One debuts on BBC America. Here's hoping that success won't change the best TV show ever to come out of Canada. Previously discussed on Mefi last year , but I hope the new season merits a revist to Sunnyvale. Pass the pepperoni and the rum and coke.

'Dummer' Academy Seeks Smarter Name (AP)

'Dummer' Academy Seeks Smarter Name (AP) 02/01/2005 09:23 PM
AP - The 18th century boarding school in Massachusetts — Governor Dummer Academy — wants to change its name to prevent any smart guys from making jokes about it.

Script your way to smarter wireless
content

Script your way to smarter wireless
content 08/07/2002 11:34 PM
CNET Aug 7 2002 10:40PM ET

CRM Tools That Make Self-Service Smarter

CRM Tools That Make Self-Service Smarter 03/14/2003 01:28 AM
Providers of self-service software have been forced to change with the times, as corporate emphasis shifts from warehousing information to making meaningful use of it, and as customers demand more intuitive ways to get help on their own.

New, smarter generation of Internet
crooks

New, smarter generation of Internet
crooks 04/11/2005 11:28 AM
San Francisco Chronicle Apr 11 2005 3:18PM GMT

Macromedia makes Web meetings smarter

Macromedia makes Web meetings smarter 02/10/2004 09:03 AM
ZDNet UK Feb 10 2004 12:12PM GMT

Smarter Image Hotlinking Prevention

Smarter Image Hotlinking Prevention 07/13/2004 01:32 PM
Most web professionals are all too aware of the problems caused by hotlinkers. Leechers. Bandwidth thieves. People who use images hosted on your web server on their own pages. With PHP and mod_rewrite, you can disallow embedding and allow linking while automatically creating gallery pages for those direct linkers.

Mac Tip: Smarter iTunes Smart Playlists

Mac Tip: Smarter iTunes Smart Playlists 07/16/2004 06:47 PM
G4 Tech TV Jul 16 2004 11:17PM GMT

Dialogue With Your Web Visitors Through
Smarter Writing Styles

Dialogue With Your Web Visitors Through
Smarter Writing Styles 04/12/2005 08:54 PM

Can Cisco Sell Its Smarter-Network
Vision?

Can Cisco Sell Its Smarter-Network
Vision? 06/24/2005 09:28 PM
Information Week Jun 25 2005 1:17AM GMT

Hard Drives Get Faster, Smarter (PC
World)

Hard Drives Get Faster, Smarter (PC
World) 08/02/2004 04:29 AM
PC World - NCQ technology allows drives to prioritize a PC's data requests.

New memory chips get closer, faster and
smarter

New memory chips get closer, faster and
smarter 09/09/2004 05:21 AM
ZDNet UK Sep 9 2004 9:38AM GMT

High-tech 'smart homes' just get smarter

High-tech 'smart homes' just get smarter 01/02/2004 11:00 PM
Japan Times Jan 2 2004 10:34PM ET

A List Apart: Smarter Image Hotlinking
Prevention

A List Apart: Smarter Image Hotlinking
Prevention 07/21/2004 08:00 AM
If you run a site heavy on images (or even just a popular site that people might grab the images from), you're all too familiar with the practice of "hotlinking" - the linking to of your images from other sites. Well, if you think there's not much you can do about it - you're wrong, and this new article from A List Apart proves it.
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