Archive: February, 2010
Orwellian Event Processing
Recently we completed the installation and training of an open source Bayesian classifier to replace a rule-based approach to manage forum spam. In a nutshell, we found the rule-based approach was highly prone to both false positives and false negatives; however, a statistical approach using a Bayesian approach has turned out to be far superior. [...]
Read moreWeb Cams: The Dark Side of the Net
No doubt everyone has read the story where the Lower Merion Township School District remotely enabled webcams on laptops to, in their words, “locate missing laptops”. What on Earth were they thinking? Imagine your daughter has her laptop set up in her room because she did her homework last night. She goes to the shower, [...]
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