Curbing Bad Behavior
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Curbing Internet Gambling
Curbing Internet Gambling
01/05/2005 07:28 PMChristian Science Monitor Jan 5 2005 11:08PM GMT
Curbing piracy via digital radio?
Curbing piracy via digital radio?
06/19/2004 07:47 PMiafrica.com Jun 19 2004 10:28PM GMT
California Senate Approves Bill Curbing
Gmail
California Senate Approves Bill Curbing
Gmail
05/31/2004 08:30 PMSource: ClickZ - The California State Senate has approved a bill
putting strict curbs on e-mail providers intending to scan customer
messages for advertising and other purposes. The bill, authored by
Sen. Liz Figueroa, D-Fremont, was written in response to...
The Behavior Without A Name
The Behavior Without A Name
08/17/2004 05:32 PMBack in September 2003, conservative pundit Tucker Carlson told Salon
about an experience he had with the Bush campaign back…
Google and Mob Behavior
Google and Mob Behavior
08/11/2004 09:58 AM(This is also toda
y's column in the San Jose
Mercury News.)
Suddenly, Google Mania has turned into Google Depression.
In the past few weeks, healthy skepticism about the upcoming Google
public stock offering has morphed into fear and loathing.
This is not exactly a surprise, given the rare hypefest that prevailed
through the first half of 2004. The prospective initial public
offering of an excellent company with amazing profit margins and a
valuable brand captured imaginations and looked likely to also capture
big money in the public markets.
More...
Mac OS X Window Behavior
Mac OS X Window Behavior
03/14/2005 06:09 PMJeff Carlson (~990 words)
When Apple thrust Mac OS X upon us, it was
quite a change. I remember one colleague remarked that his head was
filled with all sorts of Mac OS 9 troubleshooting arcana, nearly all
of which would be rendered moot once Mac OS X gained its footing. Some
behaviors in the new operating system changed enough that they
disrupted the flow of how we'd been using the Mac for years.
Subsequently, several utilities appeared to bring back those behaviors
(see "Top Mac OS X Utilities: Restoring Mac OS 9
Functionality" in TidBITS-622).
PHP Bug or Expected Behavior?
PHP Bug or Expected Behavior?
01/16/2004 10:59 AMI lost this post, weird. So here it is reconstructed from memory.
Kung-Log sends dates in an ISO 8601 format, 20040114T13:14:15. PHP's
strtotime function...
Ban Behavior, Not Code?
Ban Behavior, Not Code?
05/10/2004 02:32 PMDeclan McCullough has a roundup of
plent
y of dreadful legislation that has been proposed to ban certain
applications, pointing out how many would ban perfectly legitimate
applications as well. His recommendation is that instead of banning
applications, politicians should focus on banning behaviors. As has
been said many times here, banning technology makes no sense. Banning
bad behavior is perfectly reasonable. However, it's not necessarily
so easy with software. If you asked the politicians and looked at
some of the bills McCullough mentions, many would say that they
are trying to ban behavior and not the technology. For
example, with spyware, they're trying to ban the behavior or sneakily
sending private info without the user knowing it. That's what the
various laws propose - and it's clearly targeting a behavior. The end
result, though, is that it bans any technology that automatically
performs that "behavior." So, separating out software from behavior
isn't always so easy.
Immature behavior
Immature behavior
06/18/2004 07:48 AMI finally found a man to love after a painful divorce, but I lied to
him about my age.
Petco's Good Behavior
Petco's Good Behavior
05/20/2004 12:56 PMThe company deserves a treat for its first-quarter showing, but
investors should keep it on a short leash.
Behavior: A Warm Welcome to the World
Behavior: A Warm Welcome to the World
04/12/2004 06:07 PMKangaroo care, a technique for soothing premature babies with
skin-to-skin contact, can help calm babies born at full term as well.
Semantic Behavior Index
Semantic Behavior Index
06/20/2004 11:16 AMJon Udell speculates on what our OS would do if Google wrote it
instead of Microsoft: On the Google PC, you wouldn’t need third-party
add-ons to index and search your local files, e-mail, and instant
messages. It would just happen. The voracious spider wouldn’t stop
there, though. The next piece of low-hanging fruit would be the Web
pages you visit. These too would be stored, indexed, and made
searchable. More ambitiously, the spider would record all your screen
activity along with the underlying event streams. ... Interesting
idea! And couldn't we implement enough of this to test its usefulness
pretty...
"Disney's Craven Behavior"
"Disney's Craven Behavior"
05/08/2004 02:09 AMBehavior: The Dangers of Yo-Yo Dieting
Behavior: The Dangers of Yo-Yo Dieting
06/07/2004 09:57 PMLosing weight is good, but losing and regaining weight over and over
can damage the immune system, according to a new study.
Bad laws, bad code, bad behavior
Bad laws, bad code, bad behavior
05/10/2004 01:16 PMCNET News.com's Declan McCullagh explains why laws regulating
technology often invoke an even more powerful rule: the law of
uninintended consequences.
Behavior mod: Overload your C# operators
Behavior mod: Overload your C# operators
10/31/2002 03:16 AMCNET Oct 31 2002 1:58AM ET
Behavior-based Robotics and AI
Behavior-based Robotics and AI
08/17/2004 01:32 PM
David P.
Anderson of the Dallas Personal
Robotics Group has written a
combined review of two books recently added to the DPRG library,
"Cambrian
Intelligence The Early History of the New AI" by Rodney A.
Brooks and "Introduction
to Autonomous Mobile Robots" by Roland Siegwart
and Illah R. Nourbakhsh.
One of the books is based on the traditional
artificial intelligence approach to robotics while the other presents
Brook's behavior-based
subsumption approach.
This difference makes them ideal for a comparative review. Readers may
also wish to read the review of the Siegwart and
Nourbakhsh book posted last month here on robots.net. Readers
wishing to learn more about Brook's ideas should visit his online
archive of papers. Read on for the full review.
"Democrat Party behavior like this"
"Democrat Party behavior like this"
09/17/2004 04:04 PMEnvironment, scripting, and behavior
Environment, scripting, and behavior
03/21/2003 10:17 AM
Jython, as we've seen, succeeds by the extraordinary measure of
rewriting the Python interpreter in Java. In the .Net world, early
efforts to make Perl and Python into first-class .Net languages ran
aground. Both projects have now retreated to a dual-run-time strategy.
Scripts can produce and consume .Net interfaces but rely on their own
virtual machines, not the CLR.
Is there a better solution for these environments? The designers of
Parrot [6], the Perl 6 virtual machine, think not and have struck out
on their own. "Why not compile to JVM/.Net?" the Parrot FAQ asks
itself. And it answers: "Those VMs are designed for statically typed
languages." That's true, sadly. It's a question of priorities, and
support for dynamic languages isn't high on the list for Java or .Net.
If I could make one change to both of these environments, that would
be it. [Full story at Inf
oWorld.com]
Mark Dulcey wrote to point out that the Parrot VM is not intended to
support Perl only, but any dynamic language. Yes, I should have made
that clearer. It would be best, in my view, if the JVM and CLR could
serve this purpose. My gut tells me the obstacles are cultural, not
technical.
...DidTheyReadIt and Civil Behavior
DidTheyReadIt and Civil Behavior
05/23/2004 10:32 PMA company launching a new
application claims it can tell senders of e-mail whether the
recipient has opened it, and for how long (and even, in many cases,
the location of the reader). "Creepy" doesn't begin to do justice to
this concept.
Imagine if someone sent you a piece of junk mail using the Postal
Service, and included a tracking device that radioed out whether you'd
opened it or tossed it out. This is roughly the same idea, and it
stinks.
So I will now look for a tool that discovers if someone has sent me
such a message. No doubt there are people working on it already.
And if or when I discover anyone sending me mail this way, I make the
following promise: I will filter that person's mail straight to the
trash. Perrmanently.
Describing and predicting behavior: The
Big Five
Describing and predicting behavior: The
Big Five
03/28/2005 05:57 AM The answer to the question "What is personality?" depends very much
on why the question is asked. There are many ways to deal with this
question. Here, I will focus on the trait-based approach, which is
one attempt at describing individual differences and predicting
individual behavior. This knowledge is useful. For example,
research shows that companies that use knowledge of personality as
part of their selection procedures have higher productivity, less
employee turnover, and higher employee satisfaction than those that
don't. The last twenty years, personality research has been
centering around a model known as the "Big Five," and sometimes
referred to as the "Five-Factor Model of Personality". This is the
culmination of nearly a hundred years of research. I will sketch the
history of the Big 5 here, provide a brief presentation of the
factors, and mention the MBTI in passing.
Consciousness and Adaptive Behavior
Consciousness and Adaptive Behavior
03/14/2005 06:03 PMA new paper by
Richard Sieb attempts to explain how subjectivity could arise and how
a
subjective system might be more adaptable by utilizing changing points
of view to respond to change. In the paper, he proposes that voluntary
intentional actions arise from an animal's (or machine's) unique point
of view - and if the physical mechanism responsible for the production
of the action can be found, it may also explain the point of view
(which
he identifies with consciousness).
fvwm iconification behavior
fvwm iconification behavior
12/02/2003 12:18 AMI'm not sure if anyone will know this, but it's finally time to try
and figure out what's going on. Besides, it's been a while since I
abused by blog for free tech support. :-) For ages, I've had a heavily
customized ~/.fvwm2rc file that makes my "desktop" workspace suit me
quite well. It sure beat the bloat that is GNOME/KDE and such. I have
this bit in my file: # Button 2 + Alt/Meta in Window iconifies it.
Mouse...
"this behavior from B4B and Cheese &
Crackers"
"this behavior from B4B and Cheese &
Crackers"
02/05/2005 09:45 PM10.3: Strange DNS behavior and
workaround
10.3: Strange DNS behavior and
workaround
12/10/2003 11:28 AMSometimes, when trying to get to a web site, I'd get redirected to a
strange location. I thought perhaps I was getting hijacked or
something. After spending some time analysing the problem with
Ethereal, I came to the conclu...
Household Emergent Behavior?
Household Emergent Behavior?
02/05/2005 09:08 PMBehavior: An Epileptic Child's Best
Friend
Behavior: An Epileptic Child's Best
Friend
06/21/2004 08:23 PMWhen a child has a seizure, the family dog may be the first to
respond, according to a recently released study released.
"cynical, greedy, and evil behavior"
"cynical, greedy, and evil behavior"
05/26/2004 04:41 AMAsk Jeeves Research on Consumer
Behavior:
Ask Jeeves Research on Consumer
Behavior:
12/02/2003 01:52 AM"...nteresting article about what shoppers want. An Ask Jeeves study
showed that consumers didn't consider themselves shoppers, but
researchers. They like information, and don't really care as much
about prices as they do the information about what they are buying."
Surprisingly irksome airline behavior
Surprisingly irksome airline behavior
04/11/2005 03:44 AMI'm on the first of three trips to Phoenix over the next eight days,
for three unrelated events at which I'm speaking. Weird. On the
America West ride from Boston, the guy in the seat ahead of me was
surprisingly annoying. He was about my age (115+) but he rocked in his
seat like a 5 year old. And for much of the trip he sat with his hands
clasped behind the top of his seat. They were lovely hands —
pale, freckled, soft red hair. But they were 4 inches from my face. I
didn't have the nerve to...
Safari's Table-Copying Behavior
Safari's Table-Copying Behavior
04/10/2005 12:18 PMSafari's table-copying sucks. By Erik J. Barzeski, NSLog();
Teens' Risky Behavior Down Since 1993
(AP)
Teens' Risky Behavior Down Since 1993
(AP)
03/30/2005 03:12 AMAP - In many ways, children today are doing better than their parents
did. They take fewer drugs, commit fewer crimes and have fewer babies.
If they would just lay off the chips and soda.
The web search behavior of adult
learners
The web search behavior of adult
learners
06/16/2004 09:05 PMSource: Pandia - An EU Socrates project has mapped the search
strategies of adult learners. There is something in it for other
searchers and search engine marketers as well....
"there is homosexual behavior in the
animal kingdom"
"there is homosexual behavior in the
animal kingdom"
02/10/2004 03:20 AMAir Marshals Use Behavior to Spot
Threats (AP)
Air Marshals Use Behavior to Spot
Threats (AP)
04/16/2004 03:57 PMAP - When someone at an airport is sweating, is it because he's
running late or trying to hide something? Could hand signals between
people in a terminal be part of an inside joke or a terror plot?
Strange system behavior in G5s tied to
bad RAM
Strange system behavior in G5s tied to
bad RAM
12/03/2003 11:02 AMI just purchased two PowerMac G5 2.0 GHz DP machines, each with the
default 512 MB of RAM. I purchased aftermarket RAM to save some money
over Apple's prices. Hopefully this story will save someone some hours
of OS X trouble...
violating the norms of international
behavior
violating the norms of international
behavior
03/21/2003 09:13 AMreports
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SAS Acquires Customer Behavior Tracking
Tech
SAS Acquires Customer Behavior Tracking
Tech
03/14/2003 01:28 AMThe SAS Institute, a business intelligence vendor, has acquired
certain technology assets of Verbind, a provider of real-time customer
behavior and event-triggering technology. The extended product will
allow users to determine significant changes in customer behavior as
they occur in real-time, according to the company.
* Massachusetts calls Microsoft's
behavior 'troubling'
* Massachusetts calls Microsoft's
behavior 'troubling'
01/18/2004 02:42 AMTaipei Times Online Jan 18 2004 6:39AM GMT
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