Spam purveyors are apparently having a very tough time getting past Bayesian filters. Check out this one: Subject: If you had a gold fish, you would ask for a bigger instrument. Would you like to have as many women so you could forget their names? All that would be possible if you added some extra …
As it turns out, flipping a coin isn’t necessarily a very good way to get a random response.
I had an interesting e-mail discussion with Ploni Almoni the other day, about how I should set up my new MacBook‘s security. He suggested installing a separate firewall program, despite the fact that OS X already includes a built-in “application firewall.” After some web research, I told him that it looked like the built-in firewall …
This should go a long way toward preventing Wikipedia-spread hoaxes. With it, Wikipedia might actually become the all-around useful resource that it has long striven to be.
Very interesting information here.
Locked-room murders — where a dead person is found alone, locked inside a room that could only have been locked from the inside, and have no other way out — are a popular mystery-novel plot device. I don’t know whether anyone has ever tried one in reality, but if so, this guy could be on …
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Here it is. Humorous and completely true at the same time. 🙂 I’m tempted to print out a copy for a few of my relatives… (Via BoingBoing)
Neat information.
I have a love/hate relationship with upgrades. On the one hand, it’s exciting to have something new, especially since that something is almost always a major improvement over its predecessor. But on the other, it’s always a major pain to transfer all your data, reinstall all your software, and get used to the new quirks …
An interesting and in-depth look at why the Jedi in the Star Wars universe might logically choose to use lightsabers instead of something with more range. It all comes down to the Jedi ability to predict the near future.