Re: [silk] [info] Project ‘Gaydar’

2009-09-21 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Eugen Leitl wrote, [on 9/21/2009 8:59 PM]: > http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/09/20/project_gaydar_an_mit_experiment_raises_new_questions_about_online_privacy/?page=full > > The Boston Globe > > Project ‘Gaydar’ > > At MIT, an experiment identifies which students are gay, r

Re: [silk] An Operating System for the Mind

2009-09-21 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Jim Grisanzio wrote: > > I tend to agree with Downes. He is articulating a fresh approach. And it > seems like an empowering and flexible approach, too. My complaint with the > common core view of the world is that although I value a Liberal Arts > education to a c

Re: [silk] An Operating System for the Mind

2009-09-21 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Udhay Shankar N wrote: Very cogent, but my thoughts in response to this are somewhat jumbled. Do folks here have any responses? Udhay http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2009/09/operating-system-for-mind.html Saturday, September 19, 2009 An Operating System for the Mind I tend to agree with D

Re: [silk] maybe it is't a scam (was "another scam yahoo")

2009-09-21 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Giancarlo Livraghi wrote, [on 9/21/2009 9:20 PM]: >> FWIW, Searching for [www] in Google shows Yahoo >> as the first hit (i.e.the "I'm Feeling Lucky" hit). >> This may not be the yahoo toolbar in action, >> but the browser trying to be intelligent. > > Strange as it sounds, I guess that may, inde

[silk] maybe it is't a scam (was "another scam yahoo")

2009-09-21 Thread Giancarlo Livraghi
Thaths wrote: > FWIW, Searching for [www] in Google shows Yahoo > as the first hit (i.e.the "I'm Feeling Lucky" hit). > This may not be the yahoo toolbar in action, > but the browser trying to be intelligent. Strange as it sounds, I guess that may, indeed, be the answer. I wish software didn't

[silk] [info] Project ‘Gaydar’

2009-09-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/09/20/project_gaydar_an_mit_experiment_raises_new_questions_about_online_privacy/?page=full The Boston Globe Project ‘Gaydar’ At MIT, an experiment identifies which students are gay, raising new questions about online privacy By Carolyn Y.

Re: [silk] another scam (yahoo)

2009-09-21 Thread Giancarlo Livraghi
Kiran wrote: > Do you have yahoo toolbar or any other addon/plugin > supplied by yahoo installed on your browser? and also: > The yahoo redirect is due to addon/plugin/toolbar > you have installed. Either that or your default > search engine is yahoo. No. I use Firefox and I don't have any yah

Re: [silk] another scam (yahoo)

2009-09-21 Thread Thaths
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: >> Do you have yahoo toolbar or any other addon/plugin supplied by yahoo >> installed on your browser? >> >> If so, disable that and see if it works fine. It seems to work fine for me. >> > > Nope. I see what the problem is. The url is ma

Re: [silk] another scam (yahoo)

2009-09-21 Thread Kiran K Karthikeyan
2009/9/21 Kiran K Karthikeyan > 2009/9/21 Giancarlo Livraghi > > If I remember well, one of the threads in silk a while ago was about yahoo >> being up to some mischief. >> >> Here is another example. In a recent review of one of my books (in case >> anyone is interested... it's "The Power of St

Re: [silk] another scam (yahoo)

2009-09-21 Thread Kiran K Karthikeyan
2009/9/21 Giancarlo Livraghi > If I remember well, one of the threads in silk a while ago was about yahoo > being up to some mischief. > > Here is another example. In a recent review of one of my books (in case > anyone is interested... it's "The Power of Stupidity") there are links to my > websi

Re: [silk] another scam (yahoo)

2009-09-21 Thread Giancarlo Livraghi
Udhay Shankar wrote: > Can you post the URL? I can't comment without looking at it. Here it is http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2186713/book_review_the_power_of_stupidity.html?cat=9 The link that gets de-routed is in the third (and last) line of the first paragraph of the review, wher

[silk] An Operating System for the Mind

2009-09-21 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Very cogent, but my thoughts in response to this are somewhat jumbled. Do folks here have any responses? Udhay http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2009/09/operating-system-for-mind.html Saturday, September 19, 2009 An Operating System for the Mind The core of the opposition to what are being called

Re: [silk] another scam (yahoo)

2009-09-21 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Giancarlo Livraghi wrote, [on 9/21/2009 4:33 PM]: > If I remember well, one of the threads in silk a while ago was about > yahoo being up to some mischief. > > Here is another example. In a recent review of one of my books (in case > anyone is interested... it's "The Power of Stupidity") there are

[silk] another scam (yahoo)

2009-09-21 Thread Giancarlo Livraghi
If I remember well, one of the threads in silk a while ago was about yahoo being up to some mischief. Here is another example. In a recent review of one of my books (in case anyone is interested... it's "The Power of Stupidity") there are links to my website. But one of them doesn't work - it

[silk] Cafe Coffee Day scam alert

2009-09-21 Thread ss
Well since we have discussed coffee here - just want to relate my experience. I saw a Coffee day temporary outlet at the golf club serving free tasteless coffee but was attracted by a lovely looking dark brown tin labelled "Dark Forest" coffee - pure coffee powder from the Baba Budanagiri hills