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New Powermacs from Apple. Incremental imporvement. All dual processors. Finally two internal optical drive bays. The low end is most noteworthy: $1699 (no monitor) gets you a pretty smoking machine. Have to wait and see how much of a difference 166 mhz system bus makes. I can't imagine the IBM chip will surface (if at all) until next summer.
- jim 8-13-2002 6:23 pm [link] [add a comment]

Just renewed this domain. It will be three years old on Wednesday. Thanks to everyone who has taken part.
- jim 8-12-2002 10:20 pm [link] [9 comments]

I'm really getting mad at all the "terrorist profiling" stories in the news. It's like no one can think clearly any more. Not only does profiling not work, it actually opens up a huge security hole. The only arguments I hear in the news media against profiling are all based on some lame political correctness angle. That's not the point! The fact is profiling is worse than completely random searches at catching the bad guy. Why can't the media grasp this?

Here's an MIT student paper explaining why this is so. The paper is padded quite a bit (reminded me of some things I wrote back in school) with a lot of unnecessary math to make it seem more complex than it is. But the main idea is right on. If you use a profiling algorithm (like: stop all arab men) then it is trivial for your enemy to defeat this (don't send arab looking men.) D'uh.
- jim 8-12-2002 9:33 pm [link] [add a comment]

Is blogs.salon.com making any impact? Anybody read any of them?

In related news, it looks like blogger is going to do something that may be like that as well (userland powers the salon blogs.)

Sometime later this month, the first public, large-scale, non-Pyra-run installation of Blogger will go live.

- jim 8-12-2002 6:02 pm [link] [1 comment]

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