Som noen kanskje har fått med seg har politiet tatt ut tiltale mot to personer for å ha lurt en robot. Den uheldige roboten eies av det utenlandske meglerhuset Timber Hill. Roboten ble visstnok lurt 2200 ganger og var således ikke av den mest lærenemme varianten.Saken er helt spesiell siden det normalt...
Commercial web scanners and the word "suck"
I had an interesting debate on a public mailing list today. It might have started with me casually claiming that commercial scanners are "sucky" - and escalated with both the former CTO of SPI Dynamics and the former director of Watchfire both expressing their displeasure. Their take is fair - but this...
On designing UIs for non-robots
In a typical, attentive human subject, the usual latency between a visual stimulus and a voluntary motor response is between 100 and 300 milliseconds. As should be evident, we do not pause for that long to assess the situation after each and every muscle movement; instead, we routinely schedule series...
BP, oljekatastrofer og risikospredning
Oljefondet har fått mye ufortjent kritikk for sin eksponering mot det brittiske oljeselskapet BP i etterkant av oljekatastrofen i Mexicogulfen. Siden oljerelatert virksomhet utgjør en betydelig del av verdens verdiskapning...
Cookies v. The People
For some reason, The Wall Street Journal launched a new, large-scale offensive on web cookies - and decided to focus on the purported malice of Microsoft in particular:"All the latest Web browsers, including Internet Explorer, let consumers turn on a feature that prevents third-party browser cookies...
