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Comment Re:"In other news..." (Score 1) 3

by Decius6i5 on Sunday October 31, 2010 @08:15AM (#34078666) Attached to: Can you use Wikipedia to decide who to vote for?

An overview of the wikitrust algorithms is here. In a nutshell, new text is less likely to be reliable than stuff that has been subjected to a lot of peer review and survived. Couple that with the matter of whether or not your edits tend to get reverted...

Submission + - USB "Dead Drops" (datenform.de) 1

Submitted by Okian Warrior on Saturday October 30, 2010 @03:03PM

Okian Warrior writes: Aram Bartholl is building a series of USB dead drops in NYC.

Billed as "an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space", he has embedded USB sticks as file cache devices throughout NYC.

From the Hackaday link: "Upload what you want, download what you want. They are completely offline which means monitoring gets a lot harder.

Current locations (more to come) include: 87 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn, NY (Makerbot), Empire Fulton Ferry Park, Brooklyn, NY (Dumbo), 235 Bowery, NY (New Museum), Union Square, NY (Subway Station 14th St), and West 21st Street, NY (Eyebeam)

Comment er... (Score 1) 3

by Decius6i5 on Saturday October 30, 2010 @02:31PM (#34074262) Attached to: Can you use Wikipedia to decide who to vote for?

I meant to write "maybe" rather than "made." Could an editor fix?

Comment Re:Official reply from Obama campaign (Score 1) 940

by Decius6i5 on Monday September 22, 2008 @02:48PM (#25108591) Attached to: Obama Significantly Revises Technology Positions

Given that Biden's name hasn't been added to the PDF, and the structural changes that were made to the web page version of the plan haven't been reflected in the PDF, it seems reasonable to wonder whether the PDF is soon going to get a similar face left. Therefore, the question of what Obama/Biden's actual technology plan is remains an open one. If the campaign is signaling that they have no present plan to change that PDF, it would be appropriate for the campaign to issue a more authoritative and comprehensive statement than "I got this email from this guy who says he got it from a campaign staffer."

Thanks!

Submission + - See Who Is Whitewashing Wikipedia (virgil.gr)

Submitted by

Decius6i5

on Tuesday August 14, 2007 @10:13AM

Decius6i5 writes: "Caltech grad student Virgil Griffith has launched a search tool that uncovers whitewashing and other self-interested editing of Wikipedia. Users can generate lists of every edit to Wikipedia which has been made from a particular IP address range. The tool has already uncovered a number of interesting edits, such as one from the corporate offices of Diebold which removed large sections of content critical of their electronic voting machines. A Wired story provides more detail and Threat Level is running a contest to see who can come up with the most interesting Wikipedia spin job. I'll bet Slashdot readers know of some interesting IP address ranges to check."

Feed Science Daily: Features Of Replication Suggest Viruses Have Common Themes, Vulnerabilities (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Tuesday August 14, 2007 @10:13AM

A study of the reproductive apparatus of a model virus is bolstering the idea that broad classes of viruses -- including those that cause important human diseases such as AIDS, SARS and hepatitis C -- have features in common that could eventually make them vulnerable to broad-spectrum antiviral agents.

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