The Dirty Data Saga Continues: Newspapers Doing More Damage Than Good

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HD DVD vs. Blu-Ray, The Saga Continues

HD DVD vs. Blu-Ray, The Saga Continues 09/01/2004 01:19 PM

LIAM "THE INTERN" MCNULTY -- As the DVD format gets older more and more people are talking about what is going to take its place. I personally don't think DVD as a media will be getting "old" anytime soon - but since when did my opinion matter? [Excellent point. -ed.]

Most people involved in the argument feel that one of two next-generation optical media types will replace DVD - either HD DVD (for "High Definition DVD," or Blu-Ray (which somehow ends up being a "BD-ROM"). Since Sony (among others) has already quietly released Blu-Ray devices to the public, and announced that the Playstation 3 will utilize Blu-Ray, we can easily see that Sony is pioneering the format, and likely the one with the most proverbial ass on the line. I could go into the specifications of each format more, but that's what Google is for, slack.

All this is to say, when you hear an announcement about Blu-Ray, don't expect an announcement about HD DVD to be far behind. In fact, today saw both announcements.

The saga continues (and hopefully ends
here)

The saga continues (and hopefully ends
here) 08/29/2004 05:16 AM
I wrote recently on a company which sends advertisements disguised as bills. I sent an email to the Finnish Consumer Ombudsman, and finally received a reply.

The official response says that the company "has agreed to stop such advertising, and is also closing down their web page. Closing of the web page has been influenced by a disagreement between the company and their ISP". So, perhaps the ISP should've sent their bill disguised as an advertisement *grin*.

I have to say that I found it quite pleasurable to talk to the Consumer Agency. If only they would respond faster to the initial email: "Yeah, we have received your mail, and are processing it." Now there was no indication that they actually had received the mail, which was kinda annoying. But all in all, I like the fact that we are moving towards a state where we can talk to the government agencies and bureucracies using email and other electronic ways of communication.

But is it always good? Before, you needed to talk to a faceless bureucrat in some gray building deep in the city center, but at least it was personal. These days, you send an email, and you have no idea who responded, as personalities are hidden behind catch-all email addresses or switchboard numbers.

However, it's not an "or" question. We can still choose to go and meet the bureucrats in person, if we choose to. And probably get a better service than before, because they now have less people coming to meet them. That's what the Internet gives us - more choices to pick from. That's why it's good, I think.

The XP SP2 Deployment Saga Continues

The XP SP2 Deployment Saga Continues 09/07/2004 04:21 PM
Hardware and software vendors, including Microsoft itself, are continuing to issue warnings and guidelines in an attempt to help users avoid Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) deployment problems.

MCI's saga continues

MCI's saga continues 04/01/2005 12:12 PM
Blog: The saga continues. In response to Qwest's latest offer to buy MCI, MCI's board of directors has agreed to re-open talks with...

The Sony/MP3 Saga Continues

The Sony/MP3 Saga Continues 04/13/2005 02:30 PM

Copyright Bill saga continues

Copyright Bill saga continues 07/23/2004 09:35 PM

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As ignorance of the unknown continues to push forward, Wired News reports that the Senate Judiciary Committee be considering a bill that will place liability of technology companies when their product or service is used to violate copyright law. Certain groups are concerned that this would effectively outlaw Peer-to-Peer networks and the software that they run on….

Microsoft's antitrust saga continues

Microsoft's antitrust saga continues 12/18/2003 08:33 PM
CNET Dec 18 2003 7:41PM ET

Skeptical Environmentalist Saga
Continues

Skeptical Environmentalist Saga
Continues 12/24/2003 05:56 PM
belmolis writes "In the latest episode of the The Skeptical Environmentalist affair, The New York Times reports (December 23, p. F2) that the Danish Ministry ...

Wiki Spam, saga continues

Wiki Spam, saga continues 06/06/2005 12:11 AM
Ever since I implemented the SpamFilter module for JSPWiki, the WikiSpam situation has improved dramatically. It works in two ways: first, it checks the submitted text against a list of regular expressions (typically domain names, but this is user-editable). This is what most blacklists do. In addition, it also has a limit how many pages the user can edit in one minute. If the user submits more than X number of edits, their IP address gets automatically blacklisted for a limited period of time.

In case the user is blacklisted or submits a blacklisted URL, he gets redirected to a page called "Rej ectedMessage", which describes the reason for the rejection of the edit. Most bots (and clueless spammer slaves, working in Brazil or China or wherever, and submitting spam manually) will continue to attempt editing this page, but since they are already blacklisted, they'll keep failing.

In addition, all the non-current revisions of pages at jspwiki.org have the Google rel=nofollow attribute set, so any WikiSpam that goes to the repository has no impact on search engine rankings. The spam is relatively trivial to remove as well, as one single spammer usually makes only about four-five changes to the site before getting blacklisted. They want to work fast to spam as much as possible, and this system forces them to work slow...

Of course, all this means that Rej ectedMessage has become the most accessed page in the history of JSPWiki. That's fun.

Japan's FTC VS Microsoft - the saga
continues

Japan's FTC VS Microsoft - the saga
continues 07/26/2004 06:06 PM

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Once again, Microsoft has declined to heed the latest Japanese Fair Trade Commission (FTC) warning against their anticompetitive practices. Microsoft has made their stance clear with the statement that “Contracts with Japanese PC makers do not violate the Japanese antimonopoly law”. As things stand right now, Microsoft holds contracts with 15 Japanese PC makers. The FTC does not have a problem with the fact MS is doing business with these companies. The FTC’s concerns actually…

RE: Copyright Bill saga continues

RE: Copyright Bill saga continues 07/24/2004 04:34 PM

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Well, by now you’ve read the item where Matt Hartley mentions a certain piece of legislation coming up for a vote in the not-too-dsitant future. While it’s true that this Act would seek to prevent people from releasing technolog that would ‘aid and abet’ those intent on breaking the copyrights of whatever intellectual property is for sale out there, a few moments deep thought would tell you why this legislation will either never see the…

The EU-Microsoft Antitrust Saga
Continues

The EU-Microsoft Antitrust Saga
Continues 04/23/2004 10:45 AM
The EU blasts Microsoft. Microsoft blasts back.

Western Press Review: The Yukos Saga
Continues, Religious Tolerance In
Georgia, And Regulating The Internet

Western Press Review: The Yukos Saga
Continues, Religious Tolerance In
Georgia, And Regulating The Internet 10/31/2003 07:26 PM
Radio Free Europe Oct 31 2003 5:51PM ET

IPTV Saga: Verizon Sticks With Good Ol'
Lobbying, Adds Cash Incentive

IPTV Saga: Verizon Sticks With Good Ol'
Lobbying, Adds Cash Incentive 06/17/2005 03:33 PM
SBC may have stopped negotiating with lawmakers on IPTV requirements, but Verizon is still working the legislative angle. The issue surrounds current (and probably outdated) laws that would force the telcos to obtain franc hisee licenses with every municipality it wants to offer video services. The telcos have been trying hard to change those laws, without much luck. So last week, SBC gave up on negotiating and brashly said it was going to offer IPTV anyway. Their attitude: if someone wants to sue us, go ahead. Meanwhile, Verizon has come up with a new plan for gaining statewide (rather than local level) approval for their video service. Om Malik notes a WSJ story that says Verizon is offering New Jersey a deal in which it will ki ck back to the state 3% of TV revenues, up from 2%. Verizon and SBC have tried the statewide approach already in Texas, where the telcos' proposal went down in flames. But this time around with NJ, it appears that Verizon is sweetening the pot a bit. Hmm. Give us approval and we'll pay you more? That certainly sounds like a bribe. Or maybe it's just business as usual.

Hurricane Leads to Data Center Damage

Hurricane Leads to Data Center Damage 09/21/2004 03:04 PM
theWHIR Sep 21 2004 6:49PM GMT

Is Dirty Data From Registrations An
Advertising Scandal Waiting To Happen?

Is Dirty Data From Registrations An
Advertising Scandal Waiting To Happen? 08/11/2004 06:13 AM
Adam Penenberg is on a roll. After pointing out that the NY Times is missi ng out on the internet due to its registration system, and then admitti ng to contributing to the dirty data in most registration databases, he's now suggesting this may be an even bigger scandal waiting to happen. There have been a bunch of stories over the past few weeks concerning newspapers admitting to over-stating their circulation numbers. The problem with this, of course, is that advertisers buy print ads based, in part, on circulation and demographics. If the circulation is wrong, they've been sold something under false terms. On the web, it's that demographics part that's the problem. With all that dirty data, will sites need to admit to advertisers that the demographic info they're selling is contaminated? While many sites insist that there isn't that much dirty data, it's increasingly looking like they're trying to play down a serious problem. Just as advertisers are asking for refunds for bogus circulation data for print newspapers, how long will it be until online advertisers ask for refunds on bogus web demographic information?

E-Data Continues To Sue Just About
Anyone They Can

E-Data Continues To Sue Just About
Anyone They Can 08/04/2004 08:38 PM
E-Data, emboldened by their success against Microsoft and not waiting around to see how their case against Corbis and Getty Images goes is now suing a bunch of other online companies including Amazon.com, the NY Times, American Greetings and Hallmark. E-Data, of course, claims all of these companies are violating its patent on downloading media. Even worse, the patent actually expired last year, but E-Data is suing them for violations while the patent was still valid. This is a perfect example of just how stupid patents work. The point of getting a patent is to encourage the inventor to come up with the idea in the first place and then to publish the idea so others can make use of it -- while licensing it from the inventor. Patent violations should be for companies that actually do "violate" the patent -- and take what they learned from the patent and make use of that "non-obvious" idea without compensating the inventor. Does anyone really think that Amazon decided to get into the business of offering downloadable media after first reading this patent? Meanwhile, E-Data has done nothing themselves to further innovation with this patent other than to make plenty of other companies waste money. How does this encourage innovation in any way? The patent system is broken.

Good data needs good plans

Good data needs good plans 07/30/2004 08:31 AM
Express Computer India Jul 30 2004 12:31PM GMT

Contractor served troops dirty food in
dirty kitchens

Contractor served troops dirty food in
dirty kitchens 12/14/2003 08:37 PM
Contractor Halliburton served troops dirty food in dirty kitchens Well, Bush served up clean turkey and these guys were busy overcharging the Pentagon on energy so they could reap big bucks...Cheney remains in his gopher hole.

Teradata Continues BI, Data-Warehousing
Strategy

Teradata Continues BI, Data-Warehousing
Strategy 04/08/2005 10:50 PM
Still following the lead of former CEO Mark Hurd, the database vendor will focus on resource management, real-time enterprise and packaged BI with the release of Teradata Warehouse 8.1 later this year.

New Kevin Sites dispatch from Iraq:
Dirty for Dirty

New Kevin Sites dispatch from Iraq:
Dirty for Dirty 06/01/2004 02:09 PM
NBC combat correspondent and weblogger Kevin Sites is in Iraq today. He's just posted a new entry on his blog -- a series of interviews with American soldiers.

[O]nce they finally do get home--they will still be faced with the complex task of finding their way in a civilian society again. And while they're eager to leave their weapons and Kevlar behind, the violence they've experienced here will likely be with them in one way or another, always.

Derek Ellyson says his memories have already hardened, fixed in his mind. "You never forget the faces. I can describe to you every dead person I've seen out here. What their faces looked like, the position they were laying in." Sorokin agrees, "War brings a lot of ugly things, you see a lot of ugly things you see other people dead and sometimes when you see somebody dead you see the face of death--the way the guy died. It could be an enemy it could be an ally it doesn't matter."

Yet living with those images of death is part of the job--the same one that requires them to pull the trigger. Before going to war soldiers have always had to ask themselves if they'd be willing to die for their cause. But there is a second part to that question which for some, is more difficult to answer: would they kill for it? For most if not all in the 3rd Platoon--the question is already moot.

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Global Data Systems Continues Its Rise
In Annual VAR 500 Ranking

Global Data Systems Continues Its Rise
In Annual VAR 500 Ranking 07/16/2004 03:11 AM
VARBusiness magazine recently released its 16th annual ranking of the largest technology solution providers in North America, and Global Data Systems rose to No. 324. The company was ranked No. 332 in 2003 and No. 410 in 2002 after entering the list at No. 491 in 2001. [PRWEB Jul 16, 2004]

The Good and Bad of Data Collection

The Good and Bad of Data Collection 05/27/2004 05:10 PM

Genesis: Data in good condition

Genesis: Data in good condition 09/13/2004 02:21 PM

Dirty dirty foreigners

Dirty dirty foreigners 05/26/2004 05:54 AM
As the dirty immigrants we are, we bring not just noxious cooking smells and our weird culture to this place, but disease too: Anna and I have utter bastard colds, and we're feeling quite sorry for ourselves in the process....

""I'd just like to get together with a
guy from time to time just to -- just to
play. I'd like him to be, uh, in very
good shape, flat stomach, good chest,
good arms, well-hung, cut, uh, just get
naked, play, see what happens, nothing
real heavy ..."

""I'd just like to get together with a
guy from time to time just to -- just to
play. I'd like him to be, uh, in very
good shape, flat stomach, good chest,
good arms, well-hung, cut, uh, just get
naked, play, see what happens, nothing
real heavy ..." 08/31/2004 08:45 PM

SAGA

SAGA 04/18/2005 06:15 AM
Open Source Award for SAGA GIS

The Saga of Katie.com

The Saga of Katie.com 08/05/2004 10:46 AM

Saga Java RPG

Saga Java RPG 04/18/2004 03:03 AM
At last: R018 slapped together

Solar Saga

Solar Saga 10/29/2003 08:15 PM
Design needs futher work

Celebrate The Saga

Celebrate The Saga 03/25/2005 12:46 PM
With epic offers from Kellogg's! If you haven't been to the grocery store lately you might be missing out on some cool collectibles. Kellogg's has several promotions going on with many of their food products. You can get saber spoons, Episode I on DVD, card game, saga poster, R2-D2 bowl, Darth Vader voice changer, FX plate, Episode III poster or three different cookie jars! Each offer involves sending in an order form, a few UPC's and a check for a few bucks! Click here for the official Kellogg's Star Wars promotional website, where you can read up on all the details and see images of the special products offered! Special thanks to all of those who wrote in!

The GMail Saga

The GMail Saga 04/23/2004 09:32 AM
Brad Templeton's essay .. Gmail Privacy Saga .. Do read it

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The Unfolding Saga of the Web

The Unfolding Saga of the Web 05/12/2004 05:46 AM
The Web seems to have been with us for a long time, but its life story is just beginning. Where is it headed? A Wired News interview with IBM's Dr. Stuart Feldman by Michelle Delio.

The 3Com Saga

The 3Com Saga 05/30/2004 09:52 PM

Live The Saga.com

Live The Saga.com 01/22/2004 02:13 AM
LucasArts has just launched a slick new Star Wars Galaxies website. The site is designed to educate visitors on what the online game is about, allowing you to explore "the cantinas and bazaars of Tatooine and Naboo. Learn the details of character species, profession building and find out the state of the Galactic Civil War." There is also a download area with wallpapers, screenshots, and video of Jedi in battle. Good stuff - check it out.

A look back at the IBM PC saga

A look back at the IBM PC saga 12/19/2004 03:48 PM
SiliconValley.com Dec 8 2004 12:49PM GMT

EA's Ubisoft Saga

EA's Ubisoft Saga 01/06/2005 05:07 PM
It's probable that EA will eventually move to buy Ubisoft outright, but there's no pressure to do it now.

iPod Battery Saga Goes On

iPod Battery Saga Goes On 05/26/2004 09:03 AM
Reuters is carrying a story that claims that the iPod's rechargeable batteries can falter after only a year, and criticises their charging limitations. By Macworld UK (via MyAppleMenu)

Saga Ends And OTC Begins

Saga Ends And OTC Begins 05/11/2004 10:31 AM
Hasbro has confirmed that the Saga Collection is ending this spring as we move into the OTC packaging, celebrating the release of the Original Trilogy DVDs, which I'm guessing we'll see until we have the final episode toys early next year. As such, we've renamed our Saga forum category to Saga Toys (2002-2004) and added a new category called Origin al Trilogy Collection (2004 to present).
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