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Intelligent Clouds

by Cooee on October 31, 2008

The increasing number and diversity of interactions will not only direct more information to the cloud, they will also provide valuable information on how people and systems think and react.  

 As systems are allowed to learn from interactions at an individual level, they can provide results customized to an individual’s situational needs: where they are located, what time of day it is, what they are doing.

googleblog.blogspot.com

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The planet-sized “Web” computer

by Cooee on October 31, 2008

 

“You aren’t going to turn passive consumers into active trollers on the Internet.”

The planet-sized “Web” computer is already more complex than a human brain and has surpassed the 20-petahertz threshold for potential intelligence as calculated by Ray Kurzweil.

  Ten years ago, Netscape’s explosive IPO ignited huge piles of money.

 The brilliant flash revealed what had been invisible only a moment before: the World Wide Web. As Eric Schmidt (then at Sun, now at Google) noted, the day before the IPO, nothing about the Web;

  At the suggestion of a computer-savvy friend, I got in touch with Nelson in 1984, a decade before Netscape.

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Spam flood goes on despite bust

by Cooee on October 20, 2008

Atkinson and those working with him allegedly controlled a “botnet” of 35,000 malware-infected computers, which were used to send the spam messages.

Ducklin said the only clear-cut way to make a visible dent in spam volumes was for PC users around the world to ensure their computers were clean of the malware that allows spammers to hijack their computers for use as part of a botnet.

theage.com.au

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