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Watson

Cidu Bill on Feb 21st 2011

I think people are making way too big a deal about the fact that a computer beat two former champions on Jeopardy. When a computer creates a game, and a human has to spend a full year learning how to play it, then we’ll talk.

Filed in Bill Bickel, Jeopardy, Watson, computers | 70 responses so far

1998 Flashback

Cidu Bill on Jul 30th 2010

I’d have called you crazy if you told me that 12 years later, I’d be carrying around a cell phone with more than 8 gigabytes of memory.

Filed in Arlo and Janis, Jimmy Johnson, comic strips, comics, computers, humor | 43 responses so far

Arlo and Janis, 1998

Cidu Bill on Jan 12th 2010

No comment.

Filed in 1998, Arlo and Janis, Jimmy Johnson, comic strips, comics, computers, humor | 28 responses so far

spamspamspamspamspam

Cidu Bill on Sep 6th 2009

If anybody has expertise in this sort of thing, I’d appreciate some suggestions:

My brother apparently picked up a computer virus or trojan that accesses his Yahoo Mail account and sends spam to people in his address list (the spam includes an .exe link). He uses a Mac 98% of the time and typically insists that his Mac can’t possibly have this sort of problem. Working under the premise that this is true, I told him to shut down his PC, since the virus/trojan can use it to do its work even if he rarely uses it himself.

I’m working under the assumption that the problem has to be with the computer and can’t be with, say, a Yahoo Mail account itself.

Is he safe as long as he only uses his Mac? Is this the sort of thing an anti-virus program could fix? Does he need something else? Might reverting his PC to an earlier restore point help?

Thanks.

Filed in Bill Bickel, Yahoo Mail, computer viruses, computers, spam, trojans | 16 responses so far