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POPSThe Song Decoders What an interesting concept. Would any clippers like to share some of their favorite tunes and why they think they like them?
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POPSTaxpayer Funded Serve.gov Filtering Activists to ACORN
The Obama Administration has placed a large premium on what it calls “national service.” It has launched a website, www.Serve.gov, that is reported to act as a clearing house for Americans eager to “give back” to their communities. Unfortunately, Americans looking for an opportunity to volunteer may get something they weren’t expecting. By typing “ACORN” into the search field entitled “What interests you” at Serve.gov, you’re transported to allforgood.org where you can choose from a list of volunteer opportunities, including “healthcare activist.” So after they assist you in procuring housing for your brothel of underage girls, ACORN can also assist you in skirting your taxes, in keeping with the law of probability. Serve.gov is just one of many projects managed by the Corporation for National and Community Service, a federal agency which oversees various government service agencies, including Americorps, the outfit at the center of the . . .
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POPSSocial search puts the power of people above the power of algorithms My entire career has been dedicated to the belief that (i) people can do a better job of filtering the information that's available on the web than any algorithms; (ii) serendipitous discovery of information is often more compelling than structured information organized in channels; (iii) people are interested in learning about more topics than they're aware of or have time for but can only do so thru the findings of others. Twitter has proven these to be true on a massive scale. In my opinion, Clipmarks offers a very compelling user experience outside of twitter and amplify is quickly becoming a compelling solution for users of twitter. the game is most certainly not over!
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POPSHow the Internet Works in Iran " But if the destination is not on the forbidden list, it's allowed to go through. Outside Iran, the proxy servers are like transit points. Activists set up proxy servers on their own computers, using Internet Protocol numbers that don't appear on the forbidden list. Traffic from Iran can go through to those addresses with no problem. The data traffic is then forwarded to wherever it's destined to go, even if that destination is supposedly forbidden. During the post-election crisis, proxy servers have been popping up like thousands of computerized "Casablanca" cafes around the world. The Pirate Bay, a popular file-sharing site based in Sweden, launched an anonymous Net-surfing forum to help Iran's opposition - but most of the proxy providers are amateurs."
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POPSHumans filtering for humans - now why didn't i think of that? Ok, i'd by lying if i didn't acknowledge a little bit of frustration these days. With everyone jumping on the concept of human filtered search, i can't help but feel a little bit of "wtf do you think clipmarks.com has been doing for years?". That said, i suppose the time has come when the market is listening to this kind of talk so we better make sure we're in the conversation.
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POPSDentist, tuckshop cited on web blacklist Lists like this are akin to the police ringing a crim to ask his whereabouts so they can arrest him. And will always have errors, are open to mischief, the filters will stuff the system (as the idiots in power have been told on more than one occasion).
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POPSArtificial Liver Shows Early Promise Toxins in the plasma flow through the fiber membrane, where they are metabolized by the liver cells. The cells also synthesize essential proteins, such as blood-clotting factors, which diffuse back into the plasma. The filtered plasma is then recombined with the cellular components of blood and returned to the patient. A clinical trial in China found that patients treated with the ELAD fared significantly better than those who did not get the treatment. Another study began in the United States in October. Artificial Liver Shows Early Promise
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POPSDoes Earth harbour a 'shadow biosphere' of alien life? "Our search for life based on our assumptions of life as we know it. Weird life and normal life could be intermingled, and filtering out the things we understand about life as we know it from the things we don't understand is tricky." The tools and experiments researchers use to look for new forms of life - such as those on missions to Mars - would not detect biochemistries different from our own, making it easy for scientists to miss alien life, even if was under their noses.
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POPSWeb censorship plan heads towards a dead end The pressure groups are still making the minister act as if he wants it to have a chance. There is only one answer - supervise your kids, talk to them, take away the "forbidden booty" aspect, check the history regularly (if trust is not there). Being inquisitive is ahead of education according to Einstein.
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POPSDemocrats Sneak Net Neutrality Rules Into 'Stimulus' Bill last year that they could "inefficiently skew investment, delay innovation, and diminish consumer welfare, and there is reason to believe that the kinds of broad marketplace restrictions proposed in the name of 'neutrality' would do just that, with respect to the Internet." A report from the Federal Trade Commission reached the same conclusion in 2007. As recently as one day ago, a Democratic Senate aide was saying the topic would be addressed in the Judiciary Committee in the near future; there seems little reason to rush to lard up this particular legislation. But it always seems to happen. Last fall's TARP bailout bill included IRS snooping. A port security bill included Internet gambling restrictions; the Real ID Act was glued onto a military spending and tsunami relief bill; a library filtering law was attached to a destined-to-be-enacted bill funding Congress itself. It's enough to make you want to force our elected representatives to actually read the bills they pass.
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POPSIslamicGoogle: A Search Engine For Information About Islam, Muslims “IslamicGoogle is powered by Google using "safe search" technology, it produces results from all over the internet with more weighting to given to famous Islamic websites and eliminates the vast majority of unsavoury content, such as pornography, it apply strict filtering for both explicit text and explicit images.” The website, however, is not associated with the search giant Google.com “The site is not associated or affiliated with Google.com, we work closely with Google to help ensure that the results are not objectionable in nature, however, some of the results and adverts that are displayed may not be in line with Islam and we do not endorse any of the results or adverts displayed on Islamic Google.”
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POPSBig ISPs snub internet filter trial The censorship system doesn't work. Suspect that they are just going through the motions. Must remember that most politicians are there because they can't make it in the real world. Not very bright and bad egos.
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