Archive for August 10th, 2003
glasscastle - August 10, 2003 @ 11:51 pm
· Wacky News
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IRVINE – A 10-month-old boy was pronounced dead today
shortly after police broke a window and pulled the child from a locked
car in
a parking lot of the UC Irvine campus, a university official said.
Michael Warschauer, whose father is a UCI professor, was discovered
in the car shortly before noon by students. The car was locked and the
windows were closed. Temperatures reached into the 90s.
from NapaNews.com
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glasscastle - August 10, 2003 @ 7:47 pm
· ESL Links
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Paul Graham writes extensively on the Spam Wars. His
article "A
Plan for Spam" explains Bayesian filtering, where an "intelligent"
filtering agent is continually learning according to your actions and corrections
of its efforts.
"The Achilles heel of the spammers is their message. They can circumvent
any other barrier you set up. They have so far, at least. But they have
to deliver their message, whatever it is. If we can write software that
recognizes their messages, there is no way they can get around that."
Now Graham has posted another
excellent article on the latest developments
in the Spam Wars and anti-filtering techniques.
"As I mentioned in Will
Filters Kill Spam? , following all the urls
in a spam would have an amusing side-effect. If popular email clients
did this in order to filter spam, the spammer’s servers would take
a serious pounding. The more I think about this, the better an idea
it seems. "
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glasscastle - August 10, 2003 @ 11:23 am
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The great state that brought us Richard Millhouse Nixon,
our nation’s only (half) Quaker president, the quintessentially American
idea of hiring an Actor to be President, the state which, together with
Texas, killed the Kennedy Camelot, the state responsible for Weapons of
Mass Destruction like the Los Angeles Lakers and Crimes Against Humanity
like “Gigli”, is cooking up another doozy. |
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The wacky way those Californians set up their ballot questions
leaves open the possibility that current Gov. Gray Davis could muster
a full 49% of the vote on the first question, being narrowly out-voted
by
the heterogeneous potpourri dying for the chance to cast a vote for Arnold,
or Uberroth or Angelyne, and that on the second question, among 155 candidates,
Arnold could take the governorship with 10 or 15% of the vote.
At which
point he would be in charge of the most populous of these 50 United States.
He would be running the WORLD’S 7th largest
economy! If the “Austrian Oak” isn’t the epitome of the
American Dream, I don’t know who is. Think he’ll play himself
in the movie?
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