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War words top useless terms list
(Reuters)

War words top useless terms list
(Reuters) 01/01/2005 01:03 AM
Reuters - The U.S. presidential campaign, the Iraq war and television broadcasts have all provided words and phrases that feature on a year-end list of misused, overused and generally useless terms compiled by a Michigan university.

"An exhaustive, deceptively simple list
of overused cliches"

"An exhaustive, deceptively simple list
of overused cliches" 08/18/2004 08:34 PM

list of words

list of words 01/01/2004 08:40 PM
metrosexual .. [Details]

lssu.edu/banished/archive/2004.php
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List of unusual words

List of unusual words 05/06/2004 09:50 PM
Gary sez: "This guy has an amazing collection of word lists: included are word lists for various topics: manias & obsessions, philosophical 'isms'--you name it. Also feathers The International House of Logorrhea, a 14000-word dictionary of obscure and rare words. The only people who won't like this site are morosophs and misosophs!"

cynartomachy -- bear-baiting using dogs

gigantomachy -- war of giants against the gods

pneumatomachy -- denial of the divinity of the Holy Ghost

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"2004 List of Banished Words"

"2004 List of Banished Words" 01/04/2004 09:35 AM

Banished Words List :: 2005

Banished Words List :: 2005 01/01/2005 04:29 AM
New Year's Tradition: Banishing Words .. LSSU's Banished Words List for 2005 .. Banned phrases in 2005

lssu.edu/banished/current.php
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From Wish List to Check List: Customer
Input Drives Microsoft Office OneNote
2003 Service Pack 1

From Wish List to Check List: Customer
Input Drives Microsoft Office OneNote
2003 Service Pack 1 04/20/2004 11:26 PM
In an academic setting, a score of 90 percent earns an automatic "A". By that measure, the team shaping Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 merits a similar high passing grade. When the innovative application debuted last October, it reflected the pioneering edge of the digital note-taking category. Today, Microsoft honed that edge by announcing the preview release of Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 Service Pack 1 (OneNote SP1). Ninety percent of the features included in the software update are a direct result of customer input and feedback -- with the remaining 10 percent coming from indirect customer feedback.

Banished Words List: Lake Superior
State University

Banished Words List: Lake Superior
State University 01/02/2004 05:57 AM
Words and phrases banished from the Queen's English for Mis-, Mal-, or Over-Use, as well as General Uselessness .. Banished Words List: Lake Superior State University .. 2001-word/phrase

lssu.edu/banished
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yourDictionary.com • Top Ten Words of
2003

yourDictionary.com • Top Ten Words of
2003 12/27/2003 06:40 AM
"Embedded" just beat out "blog" for the top word of 2003

yourdictionary.com/about/topten2003.html
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"yourDictionary.com • Top Ten Words of
2003"

"yourDictionary.com • Top Ten Words of
2003" 12/27/2003 08:57 PM

The Banished Words of 2004! And 2003,
and 2002, and 2001, and...

The Banished Words of 2004! And 2003,
and 2002, and 2001, and... 01/01/2004 12:14 PM
Every year the folks at Lake Superior State University get together and banish a whole bunch of words from the English language -- the words that were the most overused, overbearing, and just plain irritating. This year was the 28th...

Top Searches of 2003, A Dave Odyssey,
Banned Words for 2004

Top Searches of 2003, A Dave Odyssey,
Banned Words for 2004 01/01/2004 03:25 AM
Slashdot Jan 1 2004 2:17AM ET

Top Searches of 2003, A Dave Odyssey,
Banned Words for 2004

Top Searches of 2003, A Dave Odyssey,
Banned Words for 2004 12/31/2003 11:59 PM

Many of the defining moments of 2003
spawned their own words and phrases. Now
in its fifth year, the E-cyclopedia
again takes stock of these additions to
the news lexicon

Many of the defining moments of 2003
spawned their own words and phrases. Now
in its fifth year, the E-cyclopedia
again takes stock of these additions to
the news lexicon 01/01/2004 07:54 AM
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news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3357885.stm
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CIO Wish List for 2003

CIO Wish List for 2003 03/14/2003 01:28 AM
At first glance, the dynamics operating today in the CRM industry -- flat sales, tight budgets, vendors cannibalizing each other's market share -- seem to create a CIO's dream scenario. But many do not see the supposed silver lining in the economic clouds.

SMS 2003 - Microsoft KB List

SMS 2003 - Microsoft KB List 08/31/2004 07:24 PM

Treatments for Menopause May Be Overused
(AP)

Treatments for Menopause May Be Overused
(AP) 03/23/2005 07:50 PM
AP - American women may be overusing treatments for symptoms of menopause, including hormone therapies that can pose a risk, a National Institutes of Health consensus panel said Wednesday. "For women who don't have very serious symptoms, waiting it out may be the best strategy," said Dr. Carol M. Mangione of the University of California, Los Angeles.

Is 'nanotech' label overused?

Is 'nanotech' label overused? 04/12/2004 10:14 AM
CNET Apr 12 2004 2:08PM GMT

"TOP500 List for November 2003"

"TOP500 List for November 2003" 11/18/2003 10:22 AM

TOP500 List for November 2003

TOP500 List for November 2003 11/16/2003 04:00 PM
TOP500™ SuperComputer Sites List for November 2003
http://www.top500.org/list s/2003/11/

The 22nd TOP500 List will be introduced during the Supercomputer Conference (SC2003) in Phoenix, AZ. The BOF session will be held Tuesday, November 18, 5:00PM - 6:00PM, Room 36-37 at the SC2003 conference. A comprehensive list of the top 500 supercomputers throughout the world.

Concerns That Nanotech Label Is Overused

Concerns That Nanotech Label Is Overused 04/12/2004 12:54 AM
What exactly is nanotechnology? The definition is no longer academic as more investors become attracted to anything that carries a nanotech label.

Jobs makes 2003 Scientific American 50
list

Jobs makes 2003 Scientific American 50
list 11/19/2003 01:02 PM
Apple CEO Steve Jobs is among the 2003 Scientific American 50 List of Winners in the Communications category for starting "an online music service that serves as a model for the rest of the record industry."...

Windows Server 2003 Vanishes From
Vulnerability List

Windows Server 2003 Vanishes From
Vulnerability List 06/26/2004 11:05 AM
There are some lists that you don't want to be on, and Microsoft may have finally managed to avoid this one. By Wayne Rash, InfoWorld (via MyAppleMenu)

2003 Microsoft Security Bulletin List -
Final

2003 Microsoft Security Bulletin List -
Final 12/29/2003 10:29 PM
We'd just like to remind you that the full 2003 Microsoft Security Bulletin list is up for your perusal. All 51 bulletins are listed with links to the specific Microsoft page. Also, at the bottom of the list are links to the full 2002 & 2001 bulletin lists. Double check the list to make sure you haven't missed any for 2003!

Black Friday - After Thanksgiving Day
Sales List 2003

Black Friday - After Thanksgiving Day
Sales List 2003 11/19/2003 12:31 AM
Techfocus Nov 19 2003 0:05AM ET

603 cities list. Peace rallies worldwide
Feb 14-16, 2003. Google ...

603 cities list. Peace rallies worldwide
Feb 14-16, 2003. Google ... 02/14/2003 07:41 PM
Police estimated 150000 people participated, while organizers put the crowd at 200000." San Francisco Bay Area Indymedia shows up often in top 10 of Google ...

25-Sept-2003 -- Court Hangs Up on
Anti-Telemarketing List

25-Sept-2003 -- Court Hangs Up on
Anti-Telemarketing List 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
Court Hangs Up on Anti-Telemarketing List -- "Several telemarketing firms and the Direct Marketing Association sued to block the measure...

"Imagine living in a world without
words. Then imagine getting pregnant,
perhaps as a result of rape, giving
birth alone, being arrested - and not
having the words to explain, or to
understand what is happening."

"Imagine living in a world without
words. Then imagine getting pregnant,
perhaps as a result of rape, giving
birth alone, being arrested - and not
having the words to explain, or to
understand what is happening." 04/13/2004 03:29 AM

can't see useless

can't see useless 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
I want to tell the story of the powerless man who watches his wife cry herself to sleep at night. The man who can't provide for his family, the man who can't protect them from the Bogeyman. The man who wanders his empty house at night, looking for the joy he knows once lived there. The man who waits for exhaustion to claim him in the deep of night, and give him a brief reprieve from his sadness.

Useless Question Of The Day

Useless Question Of The Day 05/18/2004 10:47 PM
Why is the metal interface of iTunes on Windows so much better-looking than QuickTime Player on Windows?

In the (useless?) polls

In the (useless?) polls 09/24/2004 04:10 PM
It's been said that the 2004 election would be a challenge for pollsters, and today's polls are a fine demonstration. Put simply, side by side they make little to no sense.

Why IP banning is useless

Why IP banning is useless 02/10/2004 02:38 PM

Many proposals for eliminating comment spam are focused on banning or throttling comments from the IP address of the spammer. This is fundamentally flawed because it assumes IP addresses are both unique and hard to come by.

Banning an IP address can have severe consequences. Many ISPs (including AOL) and companies use a proxy server that makes it appear as if all users are coming from a single (or a handful) if IP addresses. By blocking an IP address, you might be preventing a substantial portion of AOL users from commenting. Depending on your point of view, eliminating AOL may not be a great loss; however the same thing would happen to millions of users behind other proxy servers.

The other problem is that IP addresses are very easy to get or fake for spammers who care about such things. There are hundreds of thousands of open proxies that will let anyone direct Web traffic through them. When I’m using an open proxy, my IP address is effectively masked. And I can use simple software to switch to a different open proxy (and thus a different IP address) every few minutes. So my spamming activity isn’t tied to a specific IP address.

Hypothetically speaking, if the problem of open proxies were to disappear overnight, there are two other mechanisms that provide a limitless set of IP addresses to spammers: dialup and spoofing.

Most dialup ISPs provide a different IP address each time you dial in. If a spammer were to find that their IP address had been banned, they could simply disconnect and redial. It would be trivial to automate the process of dialing in, spamming, disconnecting, and dialing back in.

IP addresses are easy to fake as well. The design principles of TCP/IP allows the sender of a packet to specify its IP address. The message will still be routed to its destination using the fake origin address. Return packets would be mis-routed, however, because TCP/IP would send responses to the true location of the IP address rather than where it actually came from. This means that IP spoofing is ineffective in situations where you need to interact with a remote server, but very effective in a one-way conversation. I can’t retrieve a Web page using a spoofed IP address because I need to make the request and then have the server send me the page. But I can send requests all day long if I don’t care about the response.

Posting a comment (or TrackBack) doesn’t require interaction. I can send a comment in a POST or GET message and not worry about the response if I don’t care about receiving acknowledgment that it was successful.

Why IRC is crap, yet useless

Why IRC is crap, yet useless 06/07/2004 05:57 AM
After several (well, since 1989 anyway) years of experience on IRC, I still probably can count the useful hours I've spent there using one hand only. (Then again, I can count in binary.)

But the reason why IRC is interesting is that it functions as a collective subconscious. On some channels certain things pop up constantly, even though nobody really cares about them. For example, on #go.fi people talk about EGF rating points. These have no significance for any player whatsoever, unless you are a very strong. But they are a slightly-better-than-randomized way of evaluating performance. So everybody has some interest. On #joiito, most of the discussion is completely incomprehensible, yet those people feel a strange connection, and gather together at conventions.

IRC is like a common subconscious, where thoughts come and go, tucking in different directions, yet never converging. Most of the discussion on any channel is bullshit. Pure and honest crap. Nothing but the equivalent of waving your lips in the wind in the faint hope a meaningful sentence will appear, if you keep producing syllables just long enough.

But it's common crap. That crap which binds us together, and builds communities. Some people have this odd notion that "social activity" is the same as sitting in a pub, drinking beer and talking horseshit. Fine. The important thing is "crap".

All of social software is mostly about crap. This is what the CSCW folks never realized - they thought it was important to increase productivity and get more achieved through computer-assisted work. The social software phenomenon (weblogs, Orkut, LinkedIn, IRC, chats, bulletin boards, ...) is built on the notion that people wish to talk crap. They enable you to use your time idly, do nothing, because conscious thoughts (and the inevitable good ideas) rise from the subconscious soup of crap. I think that's why Wikis haven't really flown is that they are not that good places for crap: the community deletes anything that is not considered to be in line of the other contents of the wiki. They don't allow the subconscious simmer of thought in the same way as IRC. It remains to be seen how much crap will surface on Orkut or Friendster, and whether that amount is enough to allow them to survive. (I've noticed I don't use Orkut anymore, even though I am listed. There's just so little point.)

The Finnish IRC service IRC-galleria, is really a place for IRC regulars to post their picture and have comments appended to it. However, there are now many young people, who put their pictures on the IRC gallery, and then "go ircing" on it - meaning posting comments on other peoples pages on the IRC gallery, creating large amounts of anger among those who know what IRC really is. I think this is a wonderful example of "crap in action" - if you build a way for people to discuss, they will come.

The societies are built on crap. The internet is built on crap.

Crap is good. Keep talking bullshit, and while the world may not be better, at least it will be a far more interesting place. :-D

GPRS considered useless

GPRS considered useless 12/08/2003 05:57 PM
I've played with my GPRS connection for a few days now. It really doesn't work very well at all, at least not here in Los Angeles or with my phone or with my usage. And yes, the phone is reporting decent coverage when GPRS doesn't quite work. Sometimes ssh works alright (with the ~1 second lag), but sadly it's not very consistent. Packet loss has occasionally been 20-30%, enough to combined with Other Factors make ssh not able to even...

90% of All Usability Testing is Useless

90% of All Usability Testing is Useless 06/16/2004 10:11 AM
lane's stint in jakob's headline writing classes has really paid off

The Useless Hysteria over Mydoom

The Useless Hysteria over Mydoom 01/29/2004 01:59 PM
Business Week Jan 29 2004 5:49PM GMT

useless miscellany Returns, Too!

useless miscellany Returns, Too! 01/16/2004 11:28 AM

Excellent - not only is Library Techlog back, but so is ...useless miscellany! Welcome back, Eric!

This is one of the great things about RSS. Both Matthew and Eric had taken a hiatus from blogging for several months. If I still checked web sites manually, they would have dropped out of my daily/weekly routine, and I wouldn't know that both had new content today.

But with RSS, I just left my aggregator subscribed to them, patiently waiting for their return, and today they magically appeared. Three cheers for RSS!

CAN-SPAM Law: Even More Useless Than We
Thought

CAN-SPAM Law: Even More Useless Than We
Thought 12/28/2004 01:24 AM
Information Week Dec 28 2004 5:19AM GMT

Enough With The Useless Enterprise
Software Upgrades

Enough With The Useless Enterprise
Software Upgrades 07/09/2004 11:41 AM
For Techdirt Corporate Intelligence, we've used Quickbooks to keep track of our bookkeeping. It's a decent, though not spectacular program. We bought a copy of Quickbooks Pro 2001 about the time it came out and have used it ever since. There was never any reason to upgrade, because the product worked fine as is, and none of the upgrade features were worthwhile. Our accountant, always looking for ways that we can save money, specifically recommended that there was absolutely no good reason to upgrade. However, at the end of April, Intuit "sunset" the product. This is fair. It makes sense for a company to eventually stop supporting old products. What is not fair, is that the product suddenly lost features because of this. We weren't worried about it being sunset, because we had never needed support from Intuit. However, starting in May, when we went to email out our customer invoices, the software said that it could no longer send emails because the product was sunset and we needed to upgrade. In other words, they didn't just sunset support for the product, they sunset features of the product and held our invoices ransom until we would pay for an upgrade. I called up Intuit and was told repeatedly that they needed to do this in order to give "the best support possible." I explained repeatedly that I understood the need to sunset support of products, but could not understand the need to sunset features that worked the day before. I had been a happy Intuit customer until the day they decided to hold my invoices for ransom, and now I was being forced to upgrade. The Intuit customer service rep promised to "escalate" the issue, and insisted I would hear back within a week. "Within a week" apparently means "never" to people at Intuit. Over at News.com, Charles Cooper is noting that companies are increasingly tired of the forced enterprise software upgrade path, which only helps the enterprise software company. He points out that these companies are reaching a point where they're simply not going to accept it any more, and software vendors need to realize this -- or someone else is going to come along who does things better. In the meantime, does anyone know of a good alternative to Quickbooks? So far, investigations into their main competitors suggest every one is just as bad. It's no fun going with the best of a terrible group. There must be a better solution out there, and if there isn't, shouldn't that represent an opportunity for someone to do things right?
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