Popular computing

I am interested in High-performance computing exploration and research, comparison of algorithms and platforms and tools. Example applications are optimization algorithms are Monte Carlo Simulations of Lattice QCD.

Google Book Search

from:

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/google_inc/google_book_search/index.html?inline=nyt-org

Judge Chin also echoed comments made by the Justice Department last week that the settlement, if properly revised, could offer great benefits, most notably, by providing broad access to to millions of out-of-print books that are largely locked up in a small group of university libraries.

“The settlement would offer many benefits to society, as recognized by supporters of the settlement as well as D.O.J.,” he wrote, referring to theDepartment of Justice, which filed its own brief in the case last week. “It would appear that if a fair and reasonable settlement can be struck, the public would benefit.”

WOW

The new book “Exploiting Online Games” by Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw explains how cheaters are winning at online role-playing games such as World of Warcraft where millions of players compete in the virtual world to win battles or treasure that is sometimes later sold to avid game players for real money.

wetbacks bucks

Hispanic Ad Spending Still Climbing
Ad spending in Spanish-language media is growing twice as fast as the general market, a report says. But what about Hispanic Americans who visit English-language sites?
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Web 2.0

Is RSS the Best of Web 2.0?
RSS is the most valuable Web 2.0 application, a survey says. Social network and blog proponents may feel differently.
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IBM tells employees to behave in Second Life

Big Blue guidelines say don’t discriminate, harass or use inappropriate avatars

By Jon Brodkin, Network World, 07/27/07

 

Online Office

Can tiny Zoho beat Microsoft and Google in online office apps?
Google recently admitted that it is competing with Microsoft Office, but the biggest threat to Microsoft Office may be from tiny startup Zoho, which has an online office suite with better features than Google and more Web savvy than Microsoft. TechRepublic’s Jason Hiner looks at whether Zoho’s challenge can succeed where IBM, Sun, and open source have failed.

Internet radio

Net radio talks may prevent doomsday

It may not be doomsday after all for the smaller Internet radio stations that feared the onset of new royalty fees would kill off their operations. But contrary to some published reports traversing the blogosphere on Thursday and Friday, SoundExchange, the nonprofit group charged with collecting the payments, has not made any sort of blanket pledge to delay enforcing the contentious new Webcaster payments established earlier this year by the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board.
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 Court rejects Webcasters’ plea for relief
 Congress urges peace talks in Net radio conflict
 Senators want to overthrow new Net radio fees

The five monkeys in Internet

Does any one knows the origin of the tale about the five monkeys on a torture cage? It´s all over in many languages almost verbatim indicating an specific recent source. If you know please tell me.

Spammers talking spam

Stopping Image-based Spam
MX Logic
Images have long been part of e-mail communications—from corporate logos in signatures, to scanned documents and more. But recently, spammers have started using a variety of techniques to embed unsolicited messages into images, in order to bypass increasingly sophisticated spam filters used by companies and Internet service providers. The question is, what are you going to do about it?
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