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The Aching Arches

The Aching Arches 05/06/2004 08:58 AM
McDonald's is hurting at the top, but check out that bottom line.

Cow Suffers Bags and Bags of Indigestion
(Reuters)

Cow Suffers Bags and Bags of Indigestion
(Reuters) 05/06/2004 08:39 AM
Reuters - No one could figure out why Lara the cow stopped giving milk until an Albanian veterinarian pulled plastic from her guts as heavy as the average woman.

Wayport Raises $20M

Wayport Raises $20M 08/03/2004 12:47 PM
Wayport reports raising an additional $20 million in private placement: We try to avoid reporting on routine financial events such as funding rounds unless the company has critical importance to the industry or its financial well-being is in question. Wayport told me about a year ago that they were seeking additional funds in a round that would allow them to expand their sales force, among other purposes. That round just closed at $20 million. I'm not surprised that Wayport was able to raise these funds given their Wi-Fi World retail model of charging announced several weeks ago, which provides them a sustainable model from Day One for unwiring McDonald's locations, for which they have the exclusive franchise contract. Wayport was also selected as the managed services provider for SBC's FreedomLink to build out the several thousand UPS Store locations. In the wake of May's announced Cometa Networks shutdown due to lack of funds, it's useful to know that Wayport has these additional funds in hand. Wayport disclosed its revenue predictions in May when they announced their Wi-Fi World pricing model for partners....

Wyndham Re-Ups with Wayport

Wyndham Re-Ups with Wayport 06/21/2004 01:50 PM
Wyndham has long been the mainstay of Wayport's hotel market, and they've re-upped: The new contract will last three years, and comes at a time that Wayport is exploring new business models for providing flat-rate reseller access to their retail partners--hotels and other venues could follow, but not for months. Wyndham has both wired and Wi-Fi service, mostly in-room wired broadband and Wi-Fi in public spaces, and provides free Internet access at its 85 properties to members of its By Request affinity club. Membership in the club is free, but must be completed before checking in....

Wayport Metrics

Wayport Metrics 05/25/2004 04:20 PM
During Wayport's briefing yesterday, they shared key metrics about the company: It's rare to see this much data from any hotspot provider, which goes to show the confidence Wayport has in its current and future businesses. The old saying is, never write your competitor's business plan for them. Wayport fears no such animal, it's clear, especially with its Wi-Fi World partnership model ahead of it. In terms of core connections or 24-hour sessions, Wayport shows 124,000 in the first quarter of 2001, rising to 301,000 in first quarter of 2003, and 645,000 in the first quarter of this year. They estimate 714,000 connections for this current quarter, and over a million for third quarter. These connections include all direct and third-party pay-as-you-go and subscriber uses. Wayport also provided its raw revenue figures for the last three year. The company started with $1.5 million received in 2002's first quarter, rising consistently and steadily to $6.1 million in the first quarter of 2004. They estimate $6.7 million for second quarter, $8.7 million for third quarter, and over $10 million in the final quarter of 2004. The company's CEO expected to produce about $1.5 to $2 million per week within 12 months for an annual runrate of $75 to $100 million. Under Wi-Fi World, subscriber connections ostensibly won't be counted because Wayport will receive fixed fees per venue regardless of connections. However, Wayport will still collect walk-up fees for two-hour sessions ($2.95 for two hours) which they will share with the retail venue....

McDonald's Chooses Wayport for New Wi-Fi

McDonald's Chooses Wayport for New Wi-Fi 04/13/2004 03:05 AM
AP via Newsday Apr 13 2004 7:09AM GMT

Radio Free Wayport

Radio Free Wayport 03/14/2005 05:47 PM
Wayport streams music in Austin's airport: The streaming audio service is available to Wayport users at the Austin-Bergstrom airport through a relationship with the Texas Music Group, which features many local artists. The music service is free once you're connected to Wayport's network in the airport. The timing is perfect just before SXSW, which I'll be attending the interactive portion of....

McDonald's Chooses Wayport for New Wi-Fi
(AP)

McDonald's Chooses Wayport for New Wi-Fi
(AP) 04/13/2004 12:40 AM
AP - McDonald's Corp. has chosen Wayport Inc. to provide wireless Internet service in dining rooms and drive-through windows at several thousand of its U.S. restaurants.

Wayport Progress Report

Wayport Progress Report 01/09/2004 09:52 PM
Wayport has built Wi-Fi networks in over 800 locations, including 35,000 hotel rooms: The company has an additional 20,000 hotel rooms sold, soon to be built. In the last six months of 2003, Wayport logged a 113 percent increase in customer connections--defined as sessions of unlimited use in one location--over the same time frame a year earlier. Wayport's revenues for the fourth quarter 2003 grew 87 percent over the same quarter in 2002....

Wayport Hits 6,300 Locations

Wayport Hits 6,300 Locations 01/04/2005 02:27 AM
Wayport has 6,300 locations equipped; 5 million sessions in 2004: Wayport announced that they have exceeded 6,300 hotspots between locations with which they have directly contracted and those that they operate as a managed service, primarily for SBC Communications's FreedomLink network. The company also said that they had 5 million connections in 2004, with 600,000 in October alone. Wayport had about 1,000 location at the end of 2003, and a significant subset included in-room wired broadband hotels with Wi-Fi just in lobbies. Virtually all new locations are Wi-Fi only in retail establishments. Dan Lowden, vice president of marketing at Wayport, said in an interview on Monday that Wayport believes they are now the biggest Wi-Fi network in the U.S., having exceeded T-Mobile's count, which is just under 5,300 according to T-Mobile's location finder. (This doesn't include T-Mobile's fee-based roaming partners.) "We're very very excited about it; it's a big milestone for us. We're excited to be the biggest in the United States," Lowden said. Lowden said that Wayport is adding about 150 locations per week. They expect to exceed 6,000 McDonald's restaurants by third quarter of 2005, pushing their total over 10,000 locations. Because certain large footprints have already been tied up, such as many coffee chains, and because of Wayport's exclusive deal for fast-food restaurants with McDonald's, Wayport is pushing into different kinds of spaces and services. For instance, their deal with Hertz gives them an alternate presence at airports. And Wayport will work with venues that may not need public Wi-Fi at all, or it's an adjunct to the real purpose: private services like cashless transactions (which they're doing with McDonald's) and security. Lowden also noted that even with the hotel market so widely built out with high-speed services, there's still a lot of room to grow or rebuild. "We continue to see opportunities where folks have had three or four service providers over the last three or four years," he said. Wayport's now an established firm with major partners making it easy for them to bat clean up in cases such as these. The company has grown fairly rapidly in the last year to handle the new contracts with over 330 employees now, with 150 hired in the last year....

Wayport to be Replaced at SeaTac

Wayport to be Replaced at SeaTac 02/10/2004 02:40 AM
The new Wi-Fi network that AT&T Wireless is building at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport will replace the existing network which is owned and operated by Wayport: Wayport appeared unaware of the new network or the impending cancellation of its relationship with the airport. The airport will own the network that AT&T Wireless is building and AT&T Wireless isn't charging the airport for the equipment or installation. The Wi-Fi network comes for free as part of AT&T Wireless's contract to install cellular equipment that will improve cell coverage inside the airport. Airport officials have not decided who will operate the new Wi-Fi network but they are clear about the future of Wayport's network. "Wayport will depart," said Bob Parker, a SeaTac spokesman. Wayport has operated the network at SeaTac for over four years. Its contract ended last year and since then it has been on a month-to-month contract with the airport. "Wayport owns those hotspots. We imagine they will come in and remove them," said John Faulkner, aviation business manager for SeaTac. He hopes that the Wayport network can be shut down at a time that will correspond with the completion of the new network to avoid a breech of service. The new network should be finished by early 2005, though an AT&T Wireless spokesman said he expects it to be completed before then. Wayport seemed unaware of the changes taking place at SeaTac. "We know they're talking to AT&T. We haven't heard anything official," said Dan Lowden, vice president of marketing for Wayport. "We look to continue to work with SeaTac in the way we are." Wayport could be in the running to operate the new network, though it's more likely that if Wayport is involved in the future network it would be through roaming deals with the company that ultimately will operate the network, Faulkner said. As part of the request for proposals to build the cellular and Wi-Fi networks, the airport gave participants the option of bidding on the Wi-Fi operations business as well. AT&T Wireless was one of the bidders that expressed interest in operating the network but the airport has not yet decided who will operate the network. "We want to do the business planning to figure out how to parcel out the network and structure the revenue model," Faulkner said. SeaTac wasn't unhappy with the service from Wayport but the decision to build a cellular network...

Linux Powers Wayport

Linux Powers Wayport 02/18/2004 05:18 PM
Newly liberated ex-Wayport, ex-Musenki, ex-Vivato engineer Jim Thompson outs Wayport's hardware secret: Jim notes in his new blog that Wayport's success is definitely partly dependent on its choice long-ago of 802.11b (radical at the time) and Linux. Jim imagines having to fly out and remotely fix thousands of Windows-based authentication and billing modules when Windows viruses and worms hit -- not a problem for Wayport because of their non-MS infrastructure. Jim was CTO at Wayport for several years, and his work at Musenki led to the bridging box that Vivato sells now....

A Little Golden Book - My Little Golden
Book About Zogg

A Little Golden Book - My Little Golden
Book About Zogg 02/05/2005 09:55 PM
mash-ups are the future .. The Cuddly Menace .. More

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Free Times for Wayport Users

Free Times for Wayport Users 12/11/2003 04:47 PM
Wayport subscribers get full downloads of the electronic edition of The New York Times: This partnership with NewsStand provides Wayporters with the all-in-one edition, which is essentially the print version as an electronic document. Folks who subscribe to the electronic Times get a $25 Wayport prepaid card, which is probably three sessions....

McDonald's Taps Wayport for Wi-Fi
(NewsFactor)

McDonald's Taps Wayport for Wi-Fi
(NewsFactor) 04/13/2004 03:45 PM
NewsFactor - McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) has chosen Wayport as its preferred provider of high-speed wireless technology, now being rolled out in its fast-food restaurants across the country.

McDonald’s selects Wayport to serve up
Wi-Fi

McDonald’s selects Wayport to serve up
Wi-Fi 04/13/2004 04:52 PM
McDonald’s tapped Wayport to serve as its nationwide Wi-Fi service provider in a four-year contract covering its 13,000 U.S. outlets.

WAYPORT POWERS McDONALD'S U.S. WI-FI
SERVICES

WAYPORT POWERS McDONALD'S U.S. WI-FI
SERVICES 04/19/2004 10:59 AM
Wi-Fi Technology Forum Apr 19 2004 3:44PM GMT

Wayport fries competition for McDonald's
bid

Wayport fries competition for McDonald's
bid 04/13/2004 10:10 AM
The Wi-Fi company will be the sole provider of wireless Internet access at McDonald's restaurants in the U.S.

Wayport Plans to Serve McDonald's With
Wi-Fi

Wayport Plans to Serve McDonald's With
Wi-Fi 04/13/2004 01:58 AM
New York Times Apr 13 2004 5:55AM GMT

Wayport wins McDonald's hotspot gig

Wayport wins McDonald's hotspot gig 04/22/2004 06:33 AM
WLAN, burger and fries

McDonald's selects Wayport to serve up
Wi-Fi

McDonald's selects Wayport to serve up
Wi-Fi 04/13/2004 12:50 PM
Wayport Inc. said McDonald's Corp. has selected the company as its exclusive nationwide public access Wi-Fi provider, which could lead to deployment of the world's largest Wi-Fi network. Dan Lowden, vice president of marketing at Austin-based Wayport, said his company expects to install Wi-Fi service in about 3,000 McDonald's restaurants this year and eventually plans to extend the service to "as many as possible" of the 13,000 McDonald's outlets in the U.S. during the course of the four-year contract.

Wayport adds free NY Times downloads

Wayport adds free NY Times downloads 12/11/2003 03:42 PM

Wayport, McDonald's serve hot-spot deal

Wayport, McDonald's serve hot-spot deal 05/25/2004 10:18 AM
ZDNet May 25 2004 2:16PM GMT

Wayport, McDonald's cook up hot-spot
deal

Wayport, McDonald's cook up hot-spot
deal 05/24/2004 11:22 PM

McDonald's taps Wayport to add thousands
of Wi-Fi spots

McDonald's taps Wayport to add thousands
of Wi-Fi spots 04/13/2004 01:58 PM
USA Today Apr 13 2004 6:28PM GMT

McDonald's chooses Wayport for new Wi-Fi
restaurant service

McDonald's chooses Wayport for new Wi-Fi
restaurant service 04/13/2004 07:25 AM
Boston Globe Apr 13 2004 11:29AM GMT

Wayport To provide Wi-Fi Wireless
Internet Access For Handlery Hotels

Wayport To provide Wi-Fi Wireless
Internet Access For Handlery Hotels 07/14/2004 03:21 PM
Wi-Fi Technology Forum Jul 14 2004 6:57PM GMT

Wayport Brings Wi-fi Wireless Internet
Access To 6,500 Oakwood Apartments

Wayport Brings Wi-fi Wireless Internet
Access To 6,500 Oakwood Apartments 09/19/2004 11:08 PM
Wi-Fi Technology Forum Sep 20 2004 2:12AM GMT

Wayport to Give McDonald's Wireless
Internet Access (Reuters)

Wayport to Give McDonald's Wireless
Internet Access (Reuters) 04/13/2004 09:55 AM
Reuters - Wayport Inc. will provide wireless high-speed Internet access, known as Wi-Fi, to customers in McDonald's Corp. (MCD.N) restaurants in the United States, according to a deal announced by both companies on Tuesday.

STM bags now available in the US

STM bags now available in the US 07/28/2004 12:46 PM
STM, an Australian based company known for its laptop, iPod and camera bags, has set up shop in the US and are now available through selected campus store, online resellers and outdoor retailers.

CVS Bags Big 2003

CVS Bags Big 2003 02/12/2004 11:33 AM
A strong year for the drugstore giant has spilled into January.

Steven Bags PLA!

Steven Bags PLA! 12/19/2004 03:36 PM

Blogging at ALA Midwinter - Be a Part of it

I will be working with the Public Library Association on an official weblog (you heard that right - official). We will be kicking it off by reporting on PLA-related events at ALA Midwinter. This is going to be huge. Very huge. There will be photographs. There will be interviews with presenters, attendees, exhibitors, and PLA members. There will be reports from the meetings (if allowed), keynote addresses, dinner meetings and networking functions. There will hopefully be special reports from committee members. My point? We're going to blog it and we're going to blog hard. And, we're going to do it right.

Why do I say we? Because I need your help.

I am looking for a bunch of people (20 or so) who will be willing to report on the conference and post to the PLA blog....

Steven gets one of the biggies! Help him out, because this will be the start of something big. Congratulations, Steven - way to go!

Linux bags Bergen

Linux bags Bergen 06/18/2004 10:08 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Jun 19 2004 2:20AM GMT

RIAA Bags 493 More Swappers

RIAA Bags 493 More Swappers 05/25/2004 05:12 AM
The Recording Industry Association of America sues more people for copyright infringement. The music group has now ensnared nearly 3,000 individuals in its net since last September in its attempt to fight peer-to-peer file trading.

...but their bags stayed in Dayton...

...but their bags stayed in Dayton... 12/17/2003 02:44 AM
"We came down here for wind and sand, and we have got them."

Today is aviation's 100th birthday. At 10:35am Eastern, the Experimental Aircraft Association will attempt to re-enact the first flight of the Wright Brothers' "mar ginal" aircraft. (It's apparently very difficult to fly -- for one thing, the pilot must keep the airspeed between 27 and 32 mph, using an engine without a throttle.) Wish I could be there in NC at the Wright Brothers National Memorial. It's utterly astounding that only 66 years -- less than a lifetime -- elapsed between Orville Wright's twelve-second, 120-foot flight and the Apollo 11 moon landing.

15,000 Saved by Air Bags in Last 20
Years (AP)

15,000 Saved by Air Bags in Last 20
Years (AP) 07/10/2004 03:21 AM
AP - Terri Vaccher was driving along a California freeway in 1997 when a truck jackknifed in front of her. As her sport utility vehicle plowed into the truck, the expectant mother saw a white light and thought her life was over.

AMD bags Chinese giant

AMD bags Chinese giant 06/09/2004 07:00 PM
Lenovo embraces Athlon

CSC bags $600 million deal

CSC bags $600 million deal 07/22/2004 01:08 PM
ZDNet Jul 22 2004 5:34PM GMT

GOODHAPPYFUN Baby bags

GOODHAPPYFUN Baby bags 02/19/2004 04:57 PM
My friend Racelle has made some amazingly useful baby bags. They work well as computer bags, too. Carla and I use them all the time. (And I designed her website, too). Racelle's going to start offering dad-friendly patterns. I'm trying to talk her into making one with J.R. "Bob" Dobbs' smiling mug. Link
Grok Description matches for Wayport Bags Golden Arches
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A business that has exceeded the wildest
of dreams

A business that has exceeded the wildest
of dreams 11/01/2003 09:46 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Nov 1 2003 8:16PM ET

Pitfall Swings and Misses

Pitfall Swings and Misses 03/08/2004 11:27 PM
Activision's latest episode in the venerable line of Pitfall games builds on the exploration games of the past, but fails to improve on them. A review by Lore Sjöberg.

Notes and Tips: Palm Pitfall

Notes and Tips: Palm Pitfall 04/13/2004 10:04 AM
Ward Travis was surprised to find passwords weren't backed up from his Palm after hot-synching.

More on Nomadix

More on Nomadix 01/28/2004 03:36 PM
This poorly-written piece offers up some more comments from Nomadix on its redirect patent: While Joel Short, Nomadix's chief technology officer, says here that the company isn't focused on suing companies for patent infringement, he also repeatedly says that Nomadix will "encourage" companies to license its technology rather than infringe. I continue to make calls to operators and vendors that could be affected by this patent and generally find companies reluctant to talk about the issue. Many of them say that they believe many companies had redirection before Nomadix filed for the patent and as such the patent shouldn't be enforceable; this is called "prior art." But I suspect that few want to actually be the company that challenges the patent. They're likely waiting to see if Nomadix goes after them. My impression, based on the fact that I continue to feel like I'm informing companies of the patent, is that Nomadix hasn't yet approached vendors or operators that it feels are infringing on the patent. There are some companies supportive of Nomadix, however. STSN licenses the Nomadix redirection technology and believes others should too. "The Wi-Fi industry will come to a grinding halt if we don't support the private ownership of IP [intellectual property]," said David Garrison, STSN's CEO said in an exclusive interview today. "So, on one hand, we can say we want this industry to develop and have new technologies, but companies like ours aren't going to invest in the new technology and research if we can’t get protection around IP."...

Nomadix patents Wi-Fi hotspot log-in
tech

Nomadix patents Wi-Fi hotspot log-in
tech 01/27/2004 08:59 AM
The Register Jan 27 2004 12:34PM GMT

Industry Expert Analyzes Nomadix Patent

Industry Expert Analyzes Nomadix Patent 01/27/2004 12:36 PM
Jim Thompson of NetGate wrote a short analysis of the Nomadix gateway redirection patent, which he gave us permission to reproduce: Jim is the former CTO of Wayport, and an engineer with many years standing in the Wi-Fi industry. He writes about Rob Flickenger's response to the Nomadix patent on the NoCat mailing list. NoCat is an open-source authentication gateway project. Here's Jim's email to myself and a Freenetworks.org list. Some of the terminology may be obscure to those of you not in the industry, but I hope we can start a dialog to explain these parts. (Disclaimer: Jim is representing his own opinion on his own time and his opinion doesn't represent the view of this site or any of his employers past and present.) Jim writes: [Rob writes] specifically: I think the critical phrase from the press release is: "This redirection takes place regardless of the host computer's settings and without altering the user's browser settings." Unfortunately, that has little or nothing to do with the patent. When one reads patents, one has to read the claims. The other text is basically fluff. [Patent number] 6,636,894 has 11 claims. Of these, 2 are so-called "independent claims", and the other 9 depend on one of these two independent claims (or on another dependent claim.) The two independent claims are #1 and #6. 1. A method for redirecting an original destination address access request to a redirected destination address, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, at a gateway device, all original destination address access requests originating from a computer; determining, at the gateway device, which of the original destination address requests require redirection;storing the original destination address if redirection is required; modifying, at the gateway device, the original destination address access request and communicating the modified request to a redirection server if redirection is required;responding, at the redirection server, to the modified request with a browser redirect message that reassigns the modified request to an administrator-specified, redirected destination address;intercepting, at the gateway device, the browser redirect message and modifying it with the stored original destination address; andsending the modified browser redirect message to the computer, which automatically redirects the computer to the redirected destination address. and 6. A system for redirecting an original destination address access request to a redirected destination address, the system comprising:a computer that initiates original destination address requests;a gateway device in communication with the computer,...

HNS Learning Session: Session Hijacking
Explained

HNS Learning Session: Session Hijacking
Explained 04/22/2004 09:08 AM

[OT] Safe spam filtering methods (was:
Is predictable spam filtering a
vulnerability?)

[OT] Safe spam filtering methods (was:
Is predictable spam filtering a
vulnerability?) 06/22/2004 11:56 PM
The Fungi (Jun 20 2004)

Fixed-Rate vs. Adjustable-Rate Mortgages

Fixed-Rate vs. Adjustable-Rate Mortgages 06/09/2004 08:46 AM
Have you chosen the most sensible mortgage type for your needs?

Free open WiFi on Tacoma-Washington
train, courtesy WiFi hacker

Free open WiFi on Tacoma-Washington
train, courtesy WiFi hacker 03/24/2005 08:15 PM
Cory Doctorow: A Seattle wireless hacker rides a commuter train from Tacoma every day with a battery-powered WiFi hotspot in his backpack that's linked up to the Internet with a 14.4 144k wireless modem. Catch his train and get free WiFi on your commute.

The open wireless node can be found in the first car of the last morning train and in Car 403 on the 5:10pm return trip. Use SSID "FreeInternetAccess" or "seattlewireless" to connect - You may have to assign yourself an IP in the range 192.168.0.0/24 and use the Default Gateway 192.168.0.1 as the DHCP is sometimes flakey

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Hermosa Beach, California Launches Free
Citywide WiFi Service using advanced
WiFi-Plus obstruction penetrating
antennas.

Hermosa Beach, California Launches Free
Citywide WiFi Service using advanced
WiFi-Plus obstruction penetrating
antennas. 08/05/2004 03:39 AM
Los Angeles Beach Community WiFi service made possible by WiFi-Plus antennas. Makes internet available on the beach. [PRWEB Aug 5, 2004]

Review: WiFi Seeker / WiFi Spy

Review: WiFi Seeker / WiFi Spy 07/16/2004 04:50 PM
A few weeks ago I got Chrisalis Developemnt's WiFi Seeker, a convenient keychain-sized wireless network locator. Marware's recently announced WiFi Spy is a rebranded version of the same device, so it should perform identically.

To locate a wireless network simply press the button and watch the LEDs. When the lights stop sweeping back and forth, the number that remain lit will show the strength of the wireless signal. If the lights continue to sweep back and forth, you're not in range for any wireless network. Unlike other devices, the WiFi Seeker isn't fooled by other 2.5 GHz signals like microwave ovens or cordless phones, and it doesn't depend on 802.11 client activity to detect the access point. It detects both 802.11b and 802.11g.

Pre-Filtering The Spam

Pre-Filtering The Spam 06/29/2004 03:54 PM
My anti-spam system now uses a variety of server and client side filters to help keep the damn stuff out of the inbox. Now, some are suggesting an even earlier level "pre-filter" for spam. HP Labs has made a fairly simple discovery that even without various email authentication systems, it's pretty easy to get a quick determination as to whether or not an email is spam. The system they developed looks at whether or not the server sending you the email normally sends good emails or sends spam. With that one determination, they can properly pre-classify emails at a pretty high success rate. It's not a replacement for a spam filter at all. They know it's not that good. However, what it can do is do a pre-sort for prioritization purposes -- so that good emails tend to make it through the real spam filters faster. In a number of ways, it's pretty sad that we now need "quality of service" setups for our email.

html filtering

html filtering 07/01/2002 08:28 AM
Advogato Jun 29 2002 11:04AM ET

S. Korea's filtering

S. Korea's filtering 02/01/2005 09:09 PM
The OpenNet Initiative has found that in the process of blocking access to 31 pro-North Korea sites, the South Korean government has blocked 3,167 unrelated domains. Apparently this happened because the NK sites were on servers outside of NK that SK blocked. (The OpenNet Initiative is sponsored by the Berkman Center, U of Toronto and U of Cambridge.) [Technorati tag: korea]...

DDR *is* SDRAM, just Double Data Rate
(DDR) SDRAM versus Single Data Rate
SDRAM

DDR *is* SDRAM, just Double Data Rate
(DDR) SDRAM versus Single Data Rate
SDRAM 09/18/2004 10:13 PM
TechTree Sep 19 2004 2:41AM GMT

ATi Filtering Discussion Chat Log

ATi Filtering Discussion Chat Log 05/19/2004 04:37 PM

New Method of Spam Filtering

New Method of Spam Filtering 02/19/2004 02:06 PM

Is Google Filtering New Sites?

Is Google Filtering New Sites? 05/06/2004 11:40 AM
Search Engine Lowdown May 6 2004 4:13PM GMT

ATI cheating with Anistropic Filtering?

ATI cheating with Anistropic Filtering? 05/16/2004 08:41 PM

Mail filtering with procmail

Mail filtering with procmail 04/09/2004 04:09 PM
We've been using procmail for a few months to handle some mail processing for a project. It's really great, but...

NV40 Texture Filtering

NV40 Texture Filtering 07/08/2004 10:53 AM

TMDA Filtering via procmail?

TMDA Filtering via procmail? 03/11/2003 01:22 AM
Has anyone managed to write a procmail recipe that can effectively identify TMDA auto-replies? You know, the kind that say "To release your message for delivery, please send an empty message..." Having never used TMDA, I don't know what's commonly customized and what I can expect to see there. I note that the header has X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.62. Perhaps that's sufficient. :0 * ^X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA /dev/null Do folks commonly (or ever) modify their TMDA setup to get around the fact that...

Spam filtering, the next chapter

Spam filtering, the next chapter 05/24/2004 09:17 AM
I've been experiencing good results filtering out spam with a combination of Popfile (a Bayesian classifier) and the built-in filter in Eudora 6.  I get well over 1,000 spams a day, so I need accuracy both in identifying spams and avoiding false positives with legitimate mail. 

The biggest problem with my setup is that it all runs on the client side.  Popfile works as a transparent proxy that runs on my Windows machine.  I don't see the spam in my inbox, but I still have to download it before it can be filtered.  As the spam volumes have increased, that has become an increasingly significant burden.  Every check pulls down scores of messages, most of which wind up in the trash.  I've had several cases where the sheer numbers crash Eudora. Getting email through my Treo is basically a waste of time, because it doesn't have the filters.  If I'm on the road and don't check my mail, there are thousands of messages waiting for me when I get back. 

I finally had time this weekend to set up filtering on the server side.  Werbach.com and my other domains run through a Web hosting provider, Pair Networks, which offers a version of SpamAssassin.  The tricky part was configuring it to automatically filter or delete messages, using procmail, rather than just putting something in the email header for later processing on the client. 

I think I have it working now.  I'm using SpamAssassin on a forgiving setting, because the client-side filters are still running after the mail goes through.  If I can just weed out 60% of my spams before they reach my machine, life would be much better.  So far, it looks like I can do significantly better than that. 

I'm still tweaking the set-up, so it's possible some legitimate email will get stuck in the filters.  If you write to me and don't get a response for a while, please try again. 

ISP Hesitate Over Spam Filtering

ISP Hesitate Over Spam Filtering 06/03/2004 02:24 AM
As the spam battle wages on, most of the focus is on end-users and law enforcement. Not too many people seem to focus on the role of ISPs, who sometimes do take a more proactive role in stopping spam. The problem, though, is that when the ISP filters spam, they often run into issues with false positives. If the filters are too loose (to avoid false positives) then too much spam gets through, and users are upset. If the filters are too tight, important messages go missing, and users are upset. Many ISPs are realizing, at the very least, they need to let the end-user have access to the spam folder, so they can occasionally sort through it for false positives - but very few users ever bother to look through it. Some ISPs don't offer any kind of filtering at all, claiming that they don't see how to make money off of it - which seems especially short-sighted. If they can offer sufficient spam filtering, they're much more likely to keep customers than if they simply let everything through when customers are looking to their providers to provide protection from the onslaught of spam. No matter what, it's becoming clear that the spam fight needs to be approached from various angles, and many customers are likely to bail out on ISPs that don't at least offer a spam filtering option.

Nvidia Filtering Techniques

Nvidia Filtering Techniques 11/02/2003 07:36 AM

Regional Google Filtering

Regional Google Filtering 10/25/2002 07:23 AM
Jonathan Zittrain and Benjamin Edelman have released their latest report, systematic documentation of how Google.de and Google.fr filter controvertial sites. Google gives no notice that results are being filtered (as they do with the DMCA) and have nothing about it on their website (although they did acknowledge the practice in one email I found). Declan McCullagh asked for a list of blocked sites but Google refused to supply one. The authors list 113 sites they found thru trial-and-error to be blocked and again let you submit your own and record the results. Disclaimer: I assisted the authors with portions of the report....

PHP-Nuke Filtering Bugs

PHP-Nuke Filtering Bugs 05/24/2002 11:27 AM

Collaborative filtering with del.icio.us

Collaborative filtering with del.icio.us 06/24/2005 09:34 PM
There are currently 6550 del.icio.us folk with whom I share common bookmarks. As nobody will be surprised to see, my link affinity with that population displays the now-familiar long tail:

There's a recommendation engine lurking in there somewhere, and I've decided to try to flush it out. The prototype is a two-stroke engine. First, it captures the set of del.icio.us users on the steep part of the curve -- the ones with whom I have the most link affinity. Then it reads all their RSS feeds, coalesces the links, and applies another filter to select just the links above a threshold of commonality. ...

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