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Porn Rewards Users To Get Past Anti-Spam
Captchas

Porn Rewards Users To Get Past Anti-Spam
Captchas 01/28/2004 10:17 AM

Captchas as random poetry

Captchas as random poetry 11/10/2003 11:24 PM
Patrick Swieskowski has written a scraper that sucks in four random captcha words from AOL Instant Messenger's sign-up screen and arranges them as serindipitous, random poetry. Link (Thanks, Patrick!)

"Free porn pictures"

"Free porn pictures" 03/26/2005 09:40 PM

Web porn law violates free speech: U.S.
court

Web porn law violates free speech: U.S.
court 06/29/2004 07:10 PM
CTV.ca Jun 29 2004 11:11PM GMT

Danish IT firm gives workers free Net
porn

Danish IT firm gives workers free Net
porn 05/27/2004 07:49 AM
Luncheon vouchers, Scandinavian style

żGoogle pone captchas a subredes
infectadas por virus?

żGoogle pone captchas a subredes
infectadas por virus? 06/22/2005 02:14 AM

Court Says Web Porn Law Blocks Free
Speech (Reuters)

Court Says Web Porn Law Blocks Free
Speech (Reuters) 04/09/2004 09:18 PM
Reuters - Just as the U.S. Supreme Court is preparing to review the Child Online Protection Act, a Virginia court has declared unconstitutional a state law that aims to block sexually explicit material on the Internet.

Supreme court rules web porn is free
speech

Supreme court rules web porn is free
speech 06/29/2004 12:00 PM
Today, America's highest court ruled that a law intended to punish child pornographers is an unconstitutional restriction for online free speech.

The high court divided 5-to-4 over a law passed in 1998, signed by then-President Clinton and now backed by the Bush administration. The majority said a lower court was correct to block the law from taking effect because it likely violates the First Amendment. The American Civil Liberties Union and other critics of the law said that it would restrict far too much material that adults may legally see and buy, the court said. "Today's ruling from the court demonstrates that there are many less restrictive ways to protect children without sacrificing communication intended for adults," said ACLU associate litigation director Ann Beeson in a statement. Beeson argued the case before the court in 2001 and again last March.

Link

China Sets An E-Porn Free Deadline Not
only has China's government cracked down
on Internet and electronic por

China Sets An E-Porn Free Deadline Not
only has China's government cracked down
on Internet and electronic por 08/21/2004 11:11 AM
AVN Online Aug 21 2004 2:07PM GMT

Court Ruling on Internet Porn Favors
Free SpeechOriginally published
Wednesday, June 30, 2004

Court Ruling on Internet Porn Favors
Free SpeechOriginally published
Wednesday, June 30, 2004 07/01/2004 05:25 AM
Magicvalley.com - Thu Jul 1, 08:43 am GMT

Prosecutors, citing child porn
investigation, try to halt free speech
suit by Internet firm

Prosecutors, citing child porn
investigation, try to halt free speech
suit by Internet firm 07/11/2004 06:20 PM
San Francisco Chronicle Jul 11 2004 9:39PM GMT

CSS Problem-Solving

CSS Problem-Solving 04/09/2004 04:01 PM
Save your sanity. After spending an hour debugging CSS with Tim Bray this morning, I've written up some of my handier CSS problem-solving techniques.

Solving the gay marriage mess

Solving the gay marriage mess 03/06/2004 01:59 AM
Massachusetts' old-style (= corrupt) House Speaker, Thomas Finneran, no longer backs a compromise amendment to the state constitution that would permit civil unions but ban same-sex marriages. Instead, he wants two amendments. The first would say: "It being the public policy of this Commonwealth to protect the unique relationship of marriage, only the union of one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in Massachusetts." According to the report in the Boston Globe, the second amendment "would include language saying that the Legislature 'shall establish civil unions,' but would call for the Legislature to define...

Solving Puzzles with LM-Solve

Solving Puzzles with LM-Solve 11/17/2003 07:51 PM
A great many puzzles and games, such as Solitaire or Sokoban, are of the form of a "logic maze" -- you move a board or tableau from state to state until you reach the appropriate goal state. Shlomi Fish presents his Games::LMSolve module, which provides a general representation of such games and an algorithm to solve them.

On Solving Solved Problems

On Solving Solved Problems 04/06/2005 12:02 AM
I found this rather amusing. In an email thread at work about a new "feature" someone wanted to introduce, I said: ... In other words, it sounds like we're trying to solve a solved problem. A coworker responded privately with: But solving solved problems is *so* much easier than solving unsolved problems! :-) Well said. Even more amusing is that I could see his facial expression as I pictured him saying that in my head. The current solution, in case...

Solving comment spam

Solving comment spam 01/27/2004 10:57 PM

There are two main schools of thought concerning comment spam: the optimists and the defeatists. Optimists believe that comment spam can be beaten with technology; defeatists (maybe I should call them pessimists) believe that comments are as doomed as email and we're all going to hell in a hand basket.

The story so far

I fall squarely in to the techno-optimist category. Back in September I started blacklisting domains linked to from spam comments, defending against return visits from spammers and allowing others to syndicate my block list to run on their own site. Then in October I tweaked my comment system to eliminate PageRank from links in comments, making spamming for search engine optimisation a futile exercise. Of course, this measure only works if spammers realise it's there (I know at least one has) which is why I'm personally very happy to see that the latest release of Moveable Type has adopted the technique - to mixed reviews from the MT community.

There have been a whole bunch of other technological innovations over the past few months. Sam Ruby has implemented throttling to ban people who post three consecutive comments, and has some great ideas about guarding against strangers. Jay Allen's MT-Blacklist makes the blacklisting concept available to a wide audience. Meanwhile, James Seng's MT-Bayesian introduces trainable spam filters adapted from the fight against email spam.

The challenges ahead

So those are the solutions so far; the critical question is whether they work. The amount of spam I've been getting has definitely decreased, but as I run a completely custom blogging system I'm safe from the automated scripts that target more widespread systems - other sites make easier targets. Now that the less ethical search engine optimisers have started to catch on to the potential of comment spam to improve their PageRank the amount of spam can only increase. Some bloggers have already started to disable comments entirely (thankfully Dan turned them back on again shortly afterwards), setting a worrying precedent for the elimination two way interactions comments allow between bloggers and non-bloggers.

I'll put it in writing now: I will never disable comments on this blog. In the past few months the comments here have proved far more interesting and valuable than my actual posts, and I really appreciate the quality of the discussions that have arisen here. I will take whatever steps are necessary to keep this a useful environment for discussion.

Many people have hailed user registration as the ultimate solution to spam. It isn't, because the value of PageRank is just too high - and writing a script to automatically create accounts (even with email confirmation required) is child's play to anyone who is competent in an internet-aware scripting language. Even accessibility-impeding captchas are no defence against spammers who can afford to employ cheap labour to defeat them - and with search engine rankings as critical as they are there's no shortage of spam dollars.

With those ruled out, let's look at the remaining solutions:

The killer

Without links, comment spam has no purpose. To eliminate spam, eliminate links. Redirecting them through a PageRank killer already achieves this, but proves too subtle for spammers intent on spreading their links as widely as they can. Too truly eliminate spam, strip out links and anything that even looks like a URL and force the spammer to preview their carefully crafted advertisement before hitting submit. Seeing as hyperlinks are the single most important feature of the web this may seem draconian - and indeed it is. But on a site that serves more as a discussion forum than a farm and where the alternative to killing links is killing comments entirely this could be the saving factor.

For most blogs however links are an essential part of the discourse - I certainly wouldn't want to disable them here. Now only do they add huge value to the discussions, but more importantly they act as a "signature" for many commenters - knowing a comment is by "Dan" is far less useful than knowing that it's by Dan from www.simplebits.com.

Finding a compromise

Draconian measures such as the above wouldn't be necessary if spammers would wise up to the fact that their carefully crafted missives were having no effect on their precious PageRank. The real challenge then is to make anti-PageRank measures obvious to even the most brain-addled viagra peddlers. I've taken the first step towards this by turning on compulsory previewing for comments, which should have the added benefit of reminding legitimate commenters to use paragraph tags. I'll be working on ways of making the anti PageRank measures more obvious over the next few days, as and when work permits.

I've seen people argue that depriving legitimate commenters of PageRank is a poor compromise. I disagree: if the only cost of eliminating the incentive to spam is the loss of some Google ego then I see it as a price well worth paying. Of course, I say that as someone who's already built up their Google ego but at the end of the day it's my blog, my rules. One solution I've considered is creating a whitelist of sites that frequent commenters use in their signatures, causing them to be displayed without a redirect.

Comment spam is a solvable problem. Furthermore, blogging about comment spamming is almost as dull as blogging about blogging. Let's hurry up and solve it so we can go back to blogging about cats.

Solving the in-home TV distribution
problem

Solving the in-home TV distribution
problem 03/29/2005 06:51 AM
The “Triple Play” chorus has become deafening. Everyone and their brother has a triple play strategy – big telcos, little telcos, PTTs, IOCs, just about any size, shape or form of telco wants to head off the cable guys at the pass with a TV strategy.

Solving the "what you're looking at"
problem with Video Conferencing

Solving the "what you're looking at"
problem with Video Conferencing 06/30/2004 11:07 AM

Great article in the Beeb News about a research project which is actually reaping great benefits.

For years - I believe one of the things holding up video conferencing was that the viewer sees the other person either looking up or to the see - there's no eye contact, as the camera on the others side is NOT the screen. This creates a very disturbing anomaly that (IMHO) has prevented everyone but very geeky people to utilize this breakthrough technology.

So now.......

i2i, in development at Microsoft's research lab in Cambridge, UK, is a two-camera system which very carefully follows an individual's movement.

It uses a specially developed algorithm to fuse what each camera sees to create an accurate stereo "cyclopean" image.

This means it looks as if users are looking each other in the eye. It can also display floating 3D emoticons.

"We were able to come up with an algorithm that was able to take two images and capture a corresponding map in 3D," said Antonio Criminisi, lead researcher of Microsoft's Machine Learning and Perception Group.

"Using this powerful technology, we can now synthetically create an image as if the person is looking at you."

I don't necessarily buy the synthetic character angle, but just getting cameras to show you eye contact is huge....

So whwther or not thsi works - will depend on the issue of "are peopel willing to trade off and NOT see teh actual human (but a synthetic one) - all for the purpos eof seeing that person - in the eye.

But WAIT@! It's a synthetic person, so why....

[via techdirt]

Solving NI's policing dilemma

Solving NI's policing dilemma 04/15/2005 10:06 AM
BBC News website reports from Belfast on the thorny issue of policing.

Statistical Education Through Problem
Solving

Statistical Education Through Problem
Solving 03/27/2005 08:10 AM
Statistical Education Through Problem Solving
http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/st eps/

Statistical Education Through Problem Solving (STEPS) was a collaborative project between seven universities throughout the United Kingdom "to develop problem-based teaching and learning materials for statistics." The materials draw on specific problems arising in Biology, Business, Geography and Psychology to help students learn that statistical issues are "important natural parts of the process of reaching conclusions." The software developed as a result of this project, which utilizes the computer and graphical illustration to support learning, is available to educational institutions free of charge and can be downloaded from this website. (Note that other organizations are expected to purchase the software.) A glossary of statistical terms is provided in the software program as well as on this website. Although the funding for the project ended in 1995 and the website was last updated in January 2004, the material is still current and useful for teaching statistics. The authors note that the STEPS modules are intended to be used to support existing coursework, and "not intended to replace lecturing staff or to provide a self-study course in statistics. This has been added to Statistics Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005. http://scout.wisc.edu/

E-gov experts emphasize problem-solving
skills over IT

E-gov experts emphasize problem-solving
skills over IT 09/14/2004 08:26 PM
ITBusiness.ca Sep 14 2004 10:46PM GMT

Internet Problem Solving Contest 2004

Internet Problem Solving Contest 2004 05/20/2004 02:43 AM

Creativity techniques and creative tools
for problem solving

Creativity techniques and creative tools
for problem solving 09/07/2004 07:43 PM
Creativity techniques and creative tools for problem solving (lots)

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Contests as the path to solving complex
technological problems

Contests as the path to solving complex
technological problems 02/13/2004 03:48 PM
Perhaps one of the best ways to get the US economy going again is for the Government to dive into the business of contests.  Simply, cash awards to organizations that engineer and demonstrate breakthrough technology that solves specific problems.  We have seen a few minor efforts in this direction recently.  NASA has launched their "Centennial Challenges" program with $20 m for key technological breakthroughs.  DARPA is even getting into the act with a $1 m "Grand Challenge" for an autonomous ground vehicle that can navigate between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.  These contests compliment the now famous privately funded X-Prize that will award $10 m to the first organization that can get 3 people to 100 km above the earth and back twice within two weeks.  What do you think about contests (or a sequence of increasingly difficult contests that build on each other) for the development of unmanned Mars missions (at much less expense than the $820 m spent on Spirit and Opportunity), extremely low cost hydrogen fuel cells, 20 hour laptop batteries that cost less than $100, and more?  In my view, a billion $$ spent this way over the next couple of years would prove true McLuhan's dictum that for every great problem there is someone that doesn't see it as a problem.

BTW: there needs to be a lot of academic work done on how to make these contests effective.

Solving the mysteries of Mercury with a
probe called Messenger

Solving the mysteries of Mercury with a
probe called Messenger 07/31/2004 07:07 PM
US News Jul 31 2004 10:18PM GMT

Demo 2004 offers new ideas for IT
problem-solving

Demo 2004 offers new ideas for IT
problem-solving 02/17/2004 05:18 PM
A hand-picked group of 67 innovative IT vendors began showing wares yesterday, hoping to pique the interest for their nascent products with those in the audience of around 550 enterprise IT leaders.

Microsoft counsel sees shift in problem
solving

Microsoft counsel sees shift in problem
solving 05/02/2004 05:50 AM
SiliconValley.com May 2 2004 10:41AM GMT

Electronic Replicas of Newspapers:
Solving a Non-Existent Problem

Electronic Replicas of Newspapers:
Solving a Non-Existent Problem 05/07/2004 12:06 PM

jack Shafer (Slate): Honey, They Shrunk the Newspaper: Reading the electronic versions of the New York Times and Washington Post.. That these editions induce claustrophobia, even when displayed on a large flat-panel monitor, cannot be denied. For a sense of how poorly the facsimile of a broadsheet newspaper translates onto a computer screen, imagine reading a newspaper through a six-pane colonial window in which five of the panes have been blacked out. I haven't had this sort of tunnel vision while reading since the last time I endured newspaper microfilm at the city library.

California Police Get New High-Tech
Crime-Solving Tool

California Police Get New High-Tech
Crime-Solving Tool 09/16/2004 05:14 PM
Officer.com Sep 16 2004 9:53PM GMT

Web Crossing Brainstorm plug-in aids
team problem-solving

Web Crossing Brainstorm plug-in aids
team problem-solving 04/26/2004 11:42 AM
Web Crossing Inc. on Monday released its new Brainstorm Plug-in, an add-on for the company's eponymous online collaboration software. The new plug-in uses a three-stage brainstorming process to help online teams work through problems. It's free for a limited time and available for download now.

where skin porn and food porn collide

where skin porn and food porn collide 03/23/2005 10:09 AM

It's fun to use google and see what it returns when searching for 'sticky buns' as, well, the imagination is a poor substitute for reality. When food and skin porn collide it gets fairly ugly pretty quickly. Sticky buns are likely the source of inspiration for the Finnish bostonkakku which are served like a pie rather than the individual buns. One of the guys at work quipped that it is served this way because you can feed 20 instead of 8 people.

I figured that since I was making dallaspulla that I'd make the inspiration for texaspulla and bostonkakku so that my test subjects would know just what they had been missing all these years. :) The dough is a snap to make even without a mixer and is much easier to work with than the pulla dough. The only drawback is the time spent waiting for the dough to rise. With a four-day weekend approaching where absolutely nothing will be open and we'll likely have crappy weather given that it's a holiday, what could be better than making a pan of sticky buns and eating them instead of chocolate eggs? These are, by far, the best cinnamon rolls I've ever made and my test subjects consumed them in a shark chum feeding frenzy. Two guys even asked me for the recipe.

Sticky Buns, a.k.a. caramel rolls or cinnamon rolls

Makes: 12 sticky buns
Time: ~30 minutes prep, 3 hours for dough rising
Source: Cook's Illustrated

This recipe has four components: the dough that is shaped into buns, the filling that creates the swirl in the shaped buns, the caramel glaze that bakes in the bottom of the baking dish along with the buns, and the pecan topping that garnishes the buns once baked. Although the ingredient list may look long, note that many ingredients are repeated. Leftover sticky buns can be wrapped in foil or plastic wrap and refrigerated for up to 3 days, but they should be warmed through before serving. They reheat quickly in a microwave oven (for 2 buns, about 2 minutes at 50 percent power works well); they can also be put into a 325F/175C-degree oven for about 8 minutes.

Dough

• 3 large eggs at room temperature
• 3/4 cup buttermilk (2 dl piima) at room temperature
• 1/4 cup (.5 dl) granulated sugar 
• 1 1/4 teaspoons table salt 
• 2 1/4 teaspoons instant yeast  (1 packet sunnuntai dry yeast)
• 4 1/4 cups (10,5 dl) unbleached all-purpose flour, plus additional for dusting work surface
• 6 tablespoons (85g) unsalted butter, melted and cooled until warm

1. In bowl of standing mixer, whisk eggs; add buttermilk and whisk to combine.
2. Whisk in sugar, salt, and yeast.
3. Add about 2 cups (5 dl) flour and butter; stir with wooden spoon or rubber spatula until evenly moistened and combined.
4. Add all but about 1/4 cup (1/2 dl) remaining flour and knead with dough hook at low speed 5 minutes.
5. Check consistency of dough (dough should feel soft and moist but should not be wet and sticky; add more flour, if necessary); knead at low speed 5 minutes longer (dough should clear sides of bowl but stick to bottom).
6. Turn dough out onto lightly floured work surface; knead by hand about 1 minute to ensure that dough is uniform (dough should not stick to work surface during hand kneading; if it does stick, knead in additional flour 1 tablespoon at a time).
7. Lightly spray large bowl or plastic container with nonstick cooking spray. Transfer dough to bowl, spray dough lightly with cooking spray, then cover bowl tightly with plastic wrap.
8. Set in warm, draftfree spot until doubled in volume, 2 to 2 1/2 hours.

Caramel Glaze

• 6 tablespoons or 85g unsalted butter 
• 3/4 cup (1,75 dl) light brown sugar, packed
• 3 tablespoons corn syrup, light or dark
• 2 tablespoons heavy cream 
• 1 pinch table salt 

1. Meanwhile, combine all ingredients for glaze in small saucepan.
2. Cook over medium heat, whisking occasionally, until butter is melted and mixture is thoroughly combined.
3. Pour mixture into nonstick metal 13- by 9-inch (33cm x 23cm) baking dish.
4. Using rubber spatula, spread mixture to cover surface of baking dish.
5. Set baking dish aside.

Cinnamon-Sugar Filling

• 3/4 cup (1,75 dl) light brown sugar, packed
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves 
• 1 pinch table salt 
• 1 tablespoon or 15g unsalted butter, melted
• Raisins (optional)

1. Combine brown sugar, cinnamon, cloves, and salt in small bowl.
2. Mix with a fork until thoroughly combined, using fingers to break up sugar lumps.
3. Set aside.

To assemble and bake buns:

1. Turn dough out onto lightly floured work surface.
2. Gently shape dough into rough rectangle with long side nearest you.
3. Lightly flour dough and roll to 16-inch x 12-inch (40cm x 30cm) rectangle.
4. Brush dough with 1 tablespoon melted butter, leaving 1/2-inch border along top edge; with butter remaining on brush, brush sides of baking dish.
5. Sprinkle filling mixture over dough, leaving 3/4-inch border along top edge; smooth filling in even layer with your hand, then gently press mixture into dough to adhere. Add rasins if you desire.
6. Beginning with long edge nearest you, roll dough into taut cylinder.
7. Firmly pinch seam to seal and roll cylinder seam-side down.
8. Very gently stretch to cylinder of even diameter and 18-inch (45 cm) length; push ends in to create even thickness.
9. Using a serrated knife and gentle sawing motion, slice cylinder in half, then slice each half in half again to create evenly sized quarters.
10. Slice each quarter evenly into thirds, yielding 12 ~1.5 inch (3,75 cm) buns (end pieces may be slightly smaller).
11. Arrange buns cut-side down in prepared baking dish.
12. Cover tightly with plastic wrap and set in warm, draft-free spot until puffy and pressed against one another, about 1 hour.
13. Meanwhile, adjust oven rack to lowest position, place pizza stone (if using) on rack, and heat oven to 350F/175C degrees.
14. Place baking pan on pizza stone; bake until golden brown and center of dough registers about 180F/82C degrees on instant-read thermometer, 25 to 30 minutes.
15. Cool on wire rack 10 minutes; invert onto rimmed baking sheet, large rectangular platter, or cutting board.
16. With rubber spatula, scrape any glaze remaining in baking pan onto buns; let cool while making pecan topping.

Pecan Topping

• 3 tablespoons or 50g unsalted butter 
• 1/4 cup (.5 dl) light brown sugar, packed
• 3 tablespoons corn syrup, light or dark
• 1 pinch table salt 
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract  or vanilla sugar
• 3/4 cup (1,75 dl) pecans or walnuts, toasted in a skillet over medium heat until fragrant and browned, about 5 minutes, then cooled and coarsely chopped

1. Combine butter, brown sugar, corn syrup, and salt in small saucepan and bring to simmer over medium heat, whisking occasionally to thoroughly combine.
2. Off heat, stir in vanilla and pecans until pecans are evenly coated.
3. Using soup spoon, pour heaping tablespoon of nuts and topping over center of each sticky bun.
4. Continue to cool until sticky buns are warm, 15 to 20 minutes.
5. Pull apart or use knife to cut apart sticky buns; serve.

Baxa Corporation Completes Six Sigma
Training for Problem-Solving and Process
Improvement

Baxa Corporation Completes Six Sigma
Training for Problem-Solving and Process
Improvement 06/11/2004 02:01 AM
Baxa Corporation announces the completion of a pilot training program in the Six Sigma methodology. Funded by a government grant, Baxa trained a select cross-functional team in the process and practices of Six Sigma to kick off a broader-based program. The ten-week course recently "graduated" its attendees to move on to create measurable results through hands-on implementation of the program's tools and methods throughout the company. [PRWEB Jun 11, 2004]

Partner: Ten Steps to Solving Cooling
Problems Caused by High-Density Server
Deployment

Partner: Ten Steps to Solving Cooling
Problems Caused by High-Density Server
Deployment 04/13/2005 05:53 PM
Download this white paper

US rules all porn is child porn

US rules all porn is child porn 06/24/2005 04:04 PM
Prove otherwise

CPS: DAVE
POLLARD'S CREATIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING
PROCESS

CPS: DAVE
POLLARD'S CREATIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING
PROCESS 12/28/2004 02:53 PM

In previous articles I've described the Innovation Process of gurus like Clay Christensen and Peter Drucker (and my own), and a process for tapping the Wisdom of Crowds. Since then, I've talked to several business leaders about these processes, and they suggested I integrate them together to create a Creative Problem-Solving Process. The diagram above is the first draft of this CPS process. It appears there may be as many as 12 steps in the process involved in solving problems or making critical decisions, whether in a business context or a broader social context. In most cases, many of these steps are side-stepped or short-circuited, often because the problem-solvers or decision-makers think they already have the information or perspective that doing them would provide. Perhaps this is why so many unimaginative solutions are developed and so many bad decisions are made? The process of solving problems, when it's undertaken thoroughly, can involve three different forms of interactivity (conversation, collaboration and canvassing), in engaging the energies of three different aggregations of people (individuals, teams, and 'crowds'). The following table summarizes the 12 steps, and the interactivity, methods, deliverables and some facilitation tools for each: Action Interactivity Methods Deliverables Some Tools A Teach Conversation Training Competencies Creativity Techniques, Collaboration Skills B. Listen Canvassing Continuous Scan, Intelligence-Gathering Identified Needs, Insights Environmental Scanning, Minto Fact-Based Research C. Understand Conversation Analysis Root Causes Root Cause Analysis, Fishbone Diagrams D. Organize Collaboration Coordination Solution Team, Improvisational Plan 'Getting Things Done', PKM, Improv E. Think Ahead Conversation Iteration Future State Visions Thinking-Ahead Process, Future-State Visioning F. Reach Out Canvassing Engagement Commitment, Attention, Status Quo Dissatisfaction 'ChangeThis' Manifestos G. Brainstorm Conversation, Collaboration Creation, Ideation Solution Alternatives, Innovation Culture Accelerated Solutions Environment H. Survey Canvassing Qualifying Collective Wisdom, Consensus Wisdom of Crowds process I. Design Collaboration Crafting Prototypes Rapid Prototyping, Natural Design J. Experiment Collaboration Parallel Processing Proof of Concept True Collaboration Training K. Challenge Collaboration Questioning, Critical Thinking Solution Qualification, Issues & Landmines Seven Thinking Hats L. Deploy Canvassing Offering Solutions Project Management, One-Step-at-a-Time Applying the process to a business problem: Nash Instruments makes digital thermometers and other medical instruments for hospitals. They manufacture in Mississippi, taking advantage of low labour costs, but foreign competitors manufacturing in China have undercut them. The company is on the verge of bankruptcy, and 300 employees are depending on Nash's ingenuity to reinvent their company to save their jobs. So we start by teaching the core Solution Team of Nash the process, and creativity techniques so they can imagine a successful future for their company, not limited to incremental improvements. Then, with the Solution Team, we canvass customers and end-users of the company's products and other similar instruments, and find out what untapped needs they have. We also study trends in the market, and scan across other industries, science, technologies, and nature, to surface new developments that might be adapted or applied to Nash's products, processes, platforms, technologies, supply chain or distribution channels, core competencies, customer experience, brand, service or community wrap-arounds, or business model. Perhaps we discover that what customers are most unhappy with is the poor quality, ambiguity and reliability of these instruments -- and that what customers want aren't cheaper instruments, but simpler, more durable, more accurate ones. That they are buying the cheap ones made in China only because none of them differentiate themselves in other ways. The third step is to analyze the root causes of the company's current predicament. We know from the previous step that price really isn't the differentiating factor that's hurting the company's sales, but why isn't the company, with its skilled, domestic workforce, able to produce a better product? And are there other aspects to the undifferentiated 'customer experience', such as service quality? Or a distribution or marketing problem? Or lack of product diversity or innovation? Suppose we discover that the root problems are that the company has compromised on materials quality to try to reduce cost, that it's slow to exploit new technologies, and that it has developed a reputation for unresponsive service. Once we know this, we refine the Solution Team, and develop the plan and timeline for solving the root problems.and meeting the untapped customer needs. Then we conduct Thinking-the-Customer-Ahead sessions, using an iterative 'what-if' process to enable some of Nash's most forward-thinking customers and potential customers to understand where their businesses, and instrumentation needs, are headed, which in turn allows Nash to craft a Future State Vision that satisfies those needs. Maybe we discover that the future of medical instrumentation is wireless, that displays are going to have to be flatter and sharper, that measurements in several medical technologies will need to be two orders of magnitude more precise, and that in some cases the tools will become so sophisticated that the instrument manufacturer will have to become part of the virtual medical team, on call 24/7 to assist in interpretation of the results. And then we reach out to the larger constituency, all current and potential customers and end-users, articulating the promise that Nash could deliver and fomenting dissatisfaction with the status quo, creating a sense of urgency in the minds of customers and end-users, articulating the unmet need, and also creating that sense of urgency in Nash's own people. Next we do the creative work of inventing or reinventing products, processes, platforms, technologies, channels, brands, and even business models, and growing the core competencies needed to deliver on them. But we don't put all our eggs in one basket: We develop a suite of alternative solutions. And then we use the Wisdom of Crowds process to present them to the 'crowd', as large a group of existing and potential customers and users and employees as possible, and use the crowd's collective intelligence to help us select the best of these alternatives before taking them to market. Nash's reputation is a problem -- trying to go upscale with a new generation of sophisticated, precise instruments will be a marketing nightmare. maybe a whole new division with a new name is needed? And should the company try to overcome its employees' near-total ignorance of how hospitals use its instruments, so they can offer virtual interpretation, or leave this niche to others? And should it overhaul its supply chain in favour of better-quality material suppliers, or even bring production of these materials in-house and cut out the middleman? Now, with the confidence that we have the optimal solutions, we can design working prototypes of these solutions, and we can collaboratively run parallel experiments with different implementations of these solutions, failing fast and inexpensively to winnow out the implementations that don't work in practice. How would wireless instruments avoid interference with, and from, other medical technologies in the operating room and on the patient's night-table. What different techniques can be used to increase read-out precision without a commensurate increase in equipment cost? And when medical instruments need to be made in two 'flavours', one for sophisticated hospital use and the other for patients to self-diagnose and self-monitor, how do the price points differ and how should functionality and ease-of-use be traded off? Should Nash even be in both markets? And then the implementations that succeed must pass the final hurdle, another collaborative process that encourages skeptical, critical thinking people in the organization to challenge whether this solution really is optimal, and unearth landmines and other problems the developers may not have thought about. Maybe the designers didn't consider that baby-boomer patients' eyes are weakening and the display in a new consumer product just isn't large enough? Or that one of the new suppliers of a critical material is in financial difficulty? Once the solutions have passed this final test, they're ready for launch. The launch of dramatically new products, processes and technologies is a difficult process, and if not done properly and quickly can make an enormously promising innovation into a production or market failure. The launch needs careful project management, using a rigorous, tightly-controlled, one-step-at-a-time process. It's all common sense. The reason it is so rarely used is that few organizations have the competencies to do more than two or three of the 12 steps effectively. I've worked on all 12 steps at one point or another in my career, and they are not easy to master, but when they're done well, they yield astonishing results. The answer, I think, isn't just to bring in consultants to facilitate the process and then breeze out again. Advisers need to teach businesspeople how to do this for themselves, and then steward them through the process a couple of times to ensure they follow it properly. In a world where innovation will soon again be recognized as the only sustainable competitive business advantage, learning this process may the most important education for tomorrow's business leaders. And there's no reason to believe this same process couldn't be used to effectively address broader social, economic and environmental problems as well. I'll explore that in a future article.

“Solving Difficult Design Engineering
Challenges with High-End CAD” –
Presentation by Design Visionaries at
the Bay Area CDI - CAD Event

“Solving Difficult Design Engineering
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Solving The Online Music Format Mess...
With Another Format?

Solving The Online Music Format Mess...
With Another Format? 12/11/2003 02:43 AM
Now that every other company is starting a music download store (even if no one is making any money off of it), people are beginning to realize that maybe it makes sense to come up with a single format that works for anyone. Of course, some might say that we've already got formats that work, but the folks over in the recording industry seem to have a mental block when it comes to the formats that everyone likes to use. So, now, Microsoft, Universal Music and others, under the title of the Content Reference Forum, are teaming up to create a new music format - but one that makes it easier for them to make you buy the music. There aren't all that many details, but it appears to be going back to some of the very original concepts behind a hypertext system: that content only needs to be available once, and any time you want to access it, you just link to it. In other words, instead of offering downloadable music, the plan is to offer links to music that is served up remotely. Of course, one of the "features" of such a system is that the content providers can know (and, potentially, charge you) every time you want to hear that certain song. It's an interesting idea, but it seems to make the music less valuable. Suddenly, it can only be listened to from an internet connected machine, you don't actually own anything, and the big content providers get to keep a big database of exactly what songs you listen to when. Doesn't sound all that appealing to me. The one thing that it does have going for it, is that it allows people to "share" - if, by share, you mean point someone to a link and let them pay for it themselves.

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Google wants your DIY porn videos

Google wants your DIY porn videos 04/05/2005 02:02 AM
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Prosecutors to Crack Down on Internet
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Prosecutors to Crack Down on Internet
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Porn star privacy and the adult
industry's HIV scare

Porn star privacy and the adult
industry's HIV scare 04/22/2004 10:44 AM
Fleshbot asks: do porn stars have the same right to medical privacy as the rest of us?

It's a tough call, especially since the difference between public and private personas tend to get conflated for adult performers more than they do for other types of celebrities. In a new article at LA Voice, Mack Read says that AIM "may have done a wrong thing for all the right reasons, but without considering all the legal and ethical consequences," while Gay Porn Blog noted the issues at stake in a post last week. Both entries are open to comments if you want to have your say.

"Does HIV List Invade L.A. Porn Stars' Privacy?" (lavoice.org)
"Str8 Star with AIDS - Partners Named" (gaypornblog.com)
See also: "Four Women That Worked With James Have Negative HIV Test Results" (AVN)

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Police to crack down on porn services on
line 04/02/2005 12:13 AM
China Economic Net Apr 2 2005 4:29AM GMT

Chinese Cops Crack Down on Mobile Porn

Chinese Cops Crack Down on Mobile Porn 03/29/2005 01:56 PM

If you're a conessiour of mobile porn and happen to be travelling in China, a word of advice: they don't take kindly to your smut around those parts. The China Press is reporting that pornographic or even just 'lewd' images on mobiles are an infraction, and Chinese police reserve the right to conduct surprise checks on moblile phones users. I don't know if pornography in general is illegal in China, but it will probably be best to keep it off your phone and on your laptop, where it belongs.

And no, I have no idea what these Chinese characters mean, but I bet it's something vulgar.

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China continues to crack down on
Internet porn

China continues to crack down on
Internet porn 08/01/2004 08:03 AM
Peoples Daily Online Aug 1 2004 11:46AM GMT

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More anti-porn online propaganda videos 05/02/2004 04:55 PM
Following up on this post about the Newsweek "Porn Puppet/XXXChurch" article BoingBoing reader Jake points to another odd bit of Christian anti-porn propaganda. This short movie from "Project God" is "very 'Office Space' meets the prude," says Jake, and ends with the biblical quote, " If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away."

One of the great things about America is that here, you're perfectly free to gouge your right eye out if the spirit moves you (IANAL, but I'm thinking there's probably some kind of religious freedom protection for faith-based body modification). And until what's left of our constitution is gouged out, everyone else is free to watch, read, or listen to all the smut they like in the privacy of their own laptops.
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Porn Star, Publisher Sue Over Reality
Show (AP)

Porn Star, Publisher Sue Over Reality
Show (AP) 04/14/2005 10:34 PM
AP - "How to Make Love Like a Porn Star" author Jenna Jameson has filed a federal lawsuit to bar her publisher from getting a cut of a proposed reality show featuring the adult film actress.

Microsoft creates tools to crack child
porn cases

Microsoft creates tools to crack child
porn cases 04/07/2005 05:00 PM
Microsoft, in a joint effort with Canadian law enforcement agencies, has developed a system to help track down people who prey on children online, the company said Thursday.

Italian police crack down on Internet
child porn ring

Italian police crack down on Internet
child porn ring 06/17/2005 04:27 PM
Xinhua News Agency Jun 16 2005 8:53PM GMT

Overseas Movies Risk Porn Stars' Health
(AP)

Overseas Movies Risk Porn Stars' Health
(AP) 04/21/2004 06:17 PM
AP - For the past few years, the adult film industry has operated on a closed set of sorts, with many actors preferring to work within a few San Fernando Valley communities using a testing system that made them feel relatively safe from AIDS.

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Another Porn Actress Tests Positive for
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Porn gets spammers past Hotmail, Yahoo
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Porn gets spammers past Hotmail, Yahoo
barriers 05/06/2004 02:47 PM
Junk e-mailers set up porn sites and use visitors to bypass defenses used by Hotmail and Yahoo to stop bot software from automatically opening e-mail accounts.

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CNN.com - Blockbuster sued for porn on
PG movie - Jan. 24, 2004

CNN.com - Blockbuster sued for porn on
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Moonlighting Cops Star in Porn Movie?
(Reuters)

Moonlighting Cops Star in Porn Movie?
(Reuters) 05/27/2004 07:55 AM
Reuters - Two San Francisco police officers have come under investigation after their departments discovered they had starred in a pornographic movie entitled "Bus Stop Whores" that is circulating on the Internet.

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Last year, Helsinki lost a stately old willow tree in a freak storm. The city decided to leave it be and see if it would sprout in the coming spring. In October, the stump was declared dead although enough material from the tree was saved to grow some saplings so the tree lives on. The Sanomat mentioned this week that there is now a small booklet, Vanhan Piilipuun Alla available at the Helsinki City Museum with stories about the tree and pictures over the past 100 years. Perhaps they'll plant some of the saplings grown from the dead willow in the new Kampinkeskus when it's done.

We spent all day Saturday watching all of the Lord of the Rings extended DVD editions with friends of ours in one 13-hour marathon. The movies and company were great, even if I did feel like a Hobbit towards the end of the day. The new material in Return of the King was good but it didn't complement the movie as well as the previous 2 extended editions had. I think there should be some sort of medal that one should receive for managing to make it through all 3 DVDs within an 18-hour period of time. I went to sleep with the visage of Gollum speaking like Yoda, maybe because the last time I sat through a trilogy in one sitting was Star Wars which also had a short, green creature with a raspy voice. "My pressssious you are!"

I was leafing through Deko, a new magazine that is mostly just pictures and design voyeurism that I suspect won't last very long, when I saw a little blurb about giving a fairly useless object d'art, a mini Alvar Aalto dish in the famous lake shape, a purpose by using it as a cookie cutter. I decided to give it a try and my analysis is that it is the most ineffective 15 euro cookie cutter anyone could ever purchase since the glass edges are far too thick which renders it unable to make a clean cut no matter how thick or thin the dough is. It would be much easier if someone just made a 2 euro cookie cutter in the same shape. Maybe use the dish as a cheese dip mold....perhaps there should be a contest to discover an actual useful purpose for these little tourist trinkets. :)

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Down wit porn, what? 08/15/2004 07:11 PM
When did Porn become mainstream? John Walsh asks the question in the Independant. The question might seem silly save for this. People in Buffulo asked to pose niked in public? Why not, Ameri can athletes do it, Spike Lee endorses it, and even Matt Damon wants to screw in front of you. Bosnian men don't seem to share Matt's fervor for the camera, but everyone is talking sex, even those icky old folks who frequent online football magazines. Why not have your tittilation in-your-face! Does the line between erotica and pornography even exist any more? many of the links via World Sex News.

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