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The Weekly Round-Up: 23.01.09
Round-Up If the designers are looking for upgrade options for version two, The Round-Up would suggest a plagiarism detection system that reads an essay and spiders the entire web, in less than five nano-seconds. [23 Jan 2009]
Google bans essay writing services
News And now essay writing services: all items Google will refuse to carry advertising for. The search giant confirmed to silicon.com it will not carry any advertising for companies offering dissertation or... [23 May 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Prince2
Cheat Sheet The foundation exam is a one-hour, multiple choice exam, while the practitioner test is a three-hour, essay-type exam. Has the diminutive popstar changed his name again? Funny. But no, it's got nothing to do with him. [07 Nov 2006]
Leader: Could IT suffer a Carr crash?
Leader Nicholas Carr has thrown fresh salt into the wounds of an IT industry that appears to still be smarting from his 2003 critical essay entitled 'IT doesn't matter', which appeared in the Harvard Business Review. [05 Oct 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Two-factor authentication
Cheat Sheet Respected security guru Bruce Schneier wrote an essay on the problem which begins positively for advocates of two-factor authentication. What's that? Well that's a question more and more people are asking at the moment... [24 Oct 2005]
Gates offers chance to meet, er, Gates
News To entice essay submissions, the company is offering a number of prizes, including the chance to meet its chairman, Bill Gates, in Seattle and appear in the ad campaign. Microsoft is looking for true stories about people... [25 May 2005]
Is it still OK to say offshoring?
News US corporations say that they are no longer 'offshoring' our middle-class jobs," Hightower wrote in an essay published Friday. Euphemism is alive and well again when it comes to axing jobs in America. [27 Sep 2004]
Computerised exams to be in school in "next few years"
News With essay or project type of exams, it doesn't lend itself so easily.it's a matter of how to introduce [the technology] sensibly," the spokesman said. While the government has long been touting the benefits of computers... [08 Jan 2004]
Gates v Orwell: Security needn’t mean a Big Brother state
News Orwell, the British author whose works include Animal Farm, 1984 and the essay Politics and the English Language was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair. On the 100th anniversary of George Orwell's birth, Microsoft... [26 Jun 2003]
Make money out of your spam email
News Brad Templeton, who wrote an influential essay around 1995 about charging for email, says those shortcomings could doom the concept. An Australian entrepreneur has made what could prove to be a major breakthrough in the... [20 Feb 2003]
Teen hacker faces two years for DeCSS 'offence'
News In an essay, Norwegian law professor Jon Bing said it is uncertain whether the law applies "to a situation where someone breaks a code or other security measure in order to access material on a device of which that... [10 Dec 2002]
Segway scooters on sale to public
News Eager customers who want to write a 75-word essay on why they like the Segway can win a chance at early delivery in time for the holidays. By John Borland If you've got $5,000 burning a hole in your pocket and you're... [19 Nov 2002]
Open source: From techie backwater to mainstream success
Comment What Eric Raymond and his acolytes realised however, as described in his seminal essay the Cathedral and the Bazaar, is that the internet provided a hitherto unimaginable boost to this process, particularly in relation... [05 Feb 2002]
Microsoft's brotherhood of silence
News Microsoft recently published an essay, on its TechNet support site, entitled The end to Information anarchy, which condemned security professionals for openly discussing hacker exploits. Security professionals have hit... [19 Oct 2001]
Is this the world's thickest criminal?
News In support of his guilt, the Inner London Crown court was presented with a 775 word essay, written by the hapless Kearns, on how to rob a bank. A so-called computer hacker who bungled a blackmail attempt on Barclays Bank... [23 Aug 2001]
