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(This article describes the spam-filtering techniques used in the new spamproof web-based mail reader we’re building to exercise Arc. An improved algorithm is described in Better Bayesian Filtering.)
I Particulary liked this comment As a rule of thumb, the more qualifiers there are before the name of a country, the more corrupt the rulers. A country called The Socialist People’s Democratic Republic of X is probably the last place in the world you’d want to live
The story of Brent Townshend who is going to collect over $55m for the patent that increased modem speeds from 36K to 56K. One patent that proved very worthwhile. Wonder what is bill for legal costs came to? InfoWorld: Analog Devices settles lawsuit over modem technology: December 02, 2003: By : Telecommunications: “lawsuit over modem technology
Analog Devices to license the patented dial-up modem technology
By Tom Krazit, IDG News ServiceDecember 02, 2003
A California inventor of a standard for dial-up modem technology has settled a patent infringement lawsuit with Analog Devices Inc. over charges that the company was improperly using patented technology”
Wow this is just amazing set myself with a photo weblog herePhlog – geofonesit just took a few minutes. I can now post there direct from my treo.
Lovely story here about Neil Bush (Dubyas younger brother) as detailed in his divorce.
Just love how he was to be paid $2million from a Chinese semiconductor company. In questioning by his exs lawyer Brown. You have absolutely no educational background in semiconductors do you?” asked Brown. “That’s correct,” Bush, 48, responded in the March 4 deposition
And all time favourite. The women, he said, simply knocked on the door of his hotel room, entered and had sex with him. He said he did not know if they were prostitutes because they never asked for money and he did not pay them.
“Mr Bush, you have to admit it’s a pretty remarkable thing for a man just to go to a hotel room door and open it and have a woman standing there and have sex with her,” Brown said. Obviously its what the Bush fellows were bought up with.
