Category: Internet

[singlepic id=34 w=320 h=240 float=left]The attached image is floating around the Internet and claims to be a screencap of a Facebook page with some very questionable posts. According to thecoffeedesk.com this is actually a hoax and was the result of a Christian dating site being compromised by hackers which gave them access to various site users Facebook accounts. I can only imagine the embarassment caused by the morons that thought it was hilarious (although I'll admit, I laughed when I first saw the image) and I'm unsure if the dating site was found responsible but it's a good example of how vulnerable we can be on the Internet. Click the above image to view. Click again to close.

For those that remember dialup, an interesting trip back in time using a circa 1964 Livermore Data Systems “Model A” Acoustic Coupler Modem to surf the net. [youtube]X9dpXHnJXaE&hl[/youtube]

Have you tried WolframAlpha yet? No? You're not alone but I'm guessing that will change in the near future. WorlframAlpha is a new type of online tool being developed by the Wolfram Research Company in Champaign, Illinois. It's not a search engine but a computational knowledge engine: it generates output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base, instead of searching the web and returning links. Sounds pretty nerdy, huh? But think of the implications. Here's how Wolfram Research explains it: Wolfram|Alpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build…