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Streisand strikes again
Some things are unfortunately inevitable: death, taxes, another cold album. Essential essentials, a long time ago it was demonstrated in a reasonable doubt, if you try to eliminate the embarrassing story, only that you will attract more attention.
This phenomenon is called the Streisand effect, after an incident in 2003, when Barbra Streisand had a aerial photo taken on the Internet. The shooting was part of a series that documents the coastal erosion of California, but he identified his cliff palace. He lost, and focused on the process. After downloading six times ahead (twice his lawyers) he entered hundreds of thousands of thousands.
And so tired of tiring, accumulated the meta, Mark Zuckerberg’s personal empire includes Facebook, Instagram, threads, Whatsapp and Distinguishable part of Hawaii. In March, Sarah Wynn-Williams – Formal Facebook Public Policy Director – he put his memory in the company, with a gatsby-esque degree Carelessness. The opinion will not repeat specific complaints, because the meta has a very high-strength book lawyer and we do not want to take care of New scientist ‘s in-house lawyers were thrown away from the dead. It’s enough to say, it’s a real page.
Meta responded by taking legal response. Taking advantage of an outreach agreement, he signed when Wynn-Williams left the company, prevented the promotion of meta Carelessness. The interviews you saw before the Meta was ordered.
The result? The book has become global bestseller, and you read about this on the back New scientist.
Offensive Paridae
Feedback tells the story of the Nicolas Guégu researcher who has pulled his paper back. About the benefits of being big breasts while hitchhiking – Data Sleuths as a result of research by Nick Brown and James HeathersMarch).
So we’ve created natural brown, when we met our coverage, “Google Alert” has created for Nicolas Guéguen ‘. We asked the wrong detail, or otherwise we bleed the story.
However, he was writing to another element in the same column. This related to the PERENNAL SCOUNTHORPE problem: The fully innocent words can be chains of insulation offensive, so the automated systems that block the controversial words often damage the network.
“I worked there before a scientist did,” brown explains. “Around 1999, someone came with a question. He rebelled the e-mail address of the Royal Bank of Scotland and rejected notes:” reason: dirty words “.
Readers: Take a moment to recover from shock. We also surprised that the automated system used the “dirty word” phrase: We didn’t have the RBS systems based on the orientation of primary school behavior.
Brown examined the message, “it was completely innocent and mentioned no references to birds in Paridae.” He then used a text editor to see the email header, and found the “dirty word”.
“We were in France and used names Nahy Comics for our servers, “Brown says.” One of the mail servers passed the message was named ‘PetuSuix’. “It’s a host that appears in three Nahy Volumes: Its name is Parody of Petit-Suisse CheeseIf you didn’t get it. So brown says, email headers “had something similar ‘Via: petitsuix.domain.com’So he hit the problem of Scunthorpe. “
This directed brown to ask what happened, according to some coincidence in Inhlern, his employers used the same spam anti-software. “Our spam filter server” I answered “” ” ” ” ” ” ” No,” don’t you say “?”
So what happened next? “I remember that at the time,” well, that the bank will go bust, “said Brown, and the legal feedback should say that he had happened to the bank: the government confronted the bank.
Up the queue
Sometimes the opinion is given a solution to a problem with excellent and stupid stone at once. Such solution was our attention to journalists Matthew Sparkes.
Three lethal researchers tried to put fewer queuing, so they developed a robot to play queue. As explained, it is called robot “Social row“The robotic Stanchion is also a robotic pole with a sensitive tentacle that interact with people, who interact with people. Apparently, people improve people ‘enjoyment.”
Review is not robotic: Not for lack of technical capacity, think of thought – it’s just that we’ve seen Battlestar Galactica And the robot’s apocalypse does not want to be complicated. However, this seems like engineering feat.
But we asked why would anyone go to design a row robot, set up an input system and delete the queue.
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