20% off on Delta Sky Club signup/renewal
Delta Sky Club promo ends tonight. Use DSC20 for 20% off
Alaska Airlines Promo Code: 10% off on Select Cities
Alaska Airlines has released their latest promo code, and it can save you up to 10% on flights to/from select cities in Canada and the American West. Save on airfare to/from Los Angeles, Seattle, Vancouver, and more.
This promo offer ends May 3, but it’s good for travel between May 11 and June 30, 2009. Visit Alaska Airlines for more details, and use the promo code EC043709.
Source: Farecompare.com
Conficker Visual Test
Visual Test to Check Conficker Infection
The April Fools Day Special Conficker worm and its variants have been dreaded by computer users across the world for some time now.
Even though it may seem that the virus has been maintaining a low profile for the past few days, security experts warn that the virus is still a threat. In reality, it has already attacked thousands of personal computers in India and nearly 15 million computers globally till date.
So how do you protect your PC from this devastating worm? You can, if you are able to spot whether your PC is infected by it. How do you do that?
Thanks to Joe Stewart, director of malware research at SecureWorks, you can now see if your computer is affected by Conficker with a simple eye test. Stewart came up with a Conficker Eye Chart, which is a simple visual test you can use to evaluate a PC just by surfing to that page and looking at the images. Below the images, there is also a guide on how to interpret the results. It couldn’t be simpler!
However, the test doesn’t work if you’re behind a web proxy.
The worm is programmed to update itself from domains it randomly generates. For the latest version, Conficker C, this amounts to nearly 50,000 domains a day. The virus author needs to use only one of these domains to host the update, thus making tracking nearly impossible.
Use the test to check whether your PC is infected with Conficker and take the necessary remedial measures. To read more on Conficker, click here.
Source: Techtree.com
Book your next vacation in space
Did you know that you can now book your vacation in space? Expedia now offers $99 ticket to Mars. Watch the video here and visit Expedia to book your tickets http://www.expedia.com/daily/mars/flights-to-mars/?mcicid=Mars_home_us
BTW today is April 1st
Gmail on April 1st
Wondering what Gmail’s prank for April Fools Day is?
“Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity
* Introducing CADIE
* Technical Specifications
* CADIE’s homepage
Announcement
March 31st, 2009 11:59:59 pm
Introducing CADIE
Research group switches on world’s first “artificial intelligence” tasked-array system.
For several years now a small research group has been working on some challenging problems in the areas of neural networking, natural language and autonomous problem-solving. Last fall this group achieved a significant breakthrough: a powerful new technique for solving reinforcement learning problems, resulting in the first functional global-scale neuro-evolutionary learning cluster.
Since then progress has been rapid, and tonight we’re pleased to announce that just moments ago, the world’s first Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity (CADIE) was switched on and began performing some initial functions. It’s an exciting moment that we’re determined to build upon by coming to understand more fully what CADIE’s emergence might mean, for Google and for our users. So although CADIE technology will be rolled out with the caution befitting any advance of this magnitude, in the months to come users can expect to notice her influence on various google.com properties. Earlier today, for instance, CADIE deduced from a quick scan of the visual segment of the social web a set of online design principles from which she derived this intriguing homepage.
These are merely the first steps onto what will doubtless prove a long and difficult road. Considerable bugs remain in CADIE’S programming, and considerable development clearly is called for. But we can’t imagine a more important journey for Google to have undertaken.
For more information about CADIE see this monograph, and follow CADIE’s progress via her YouTube channel and blog. ”
Triple elite qualification miles on Northwest
Register now to earn up to triple flown miles towards elite status for every Northwest and Delta flight you purchase and fly between March 23 and June 15, 2009. KLM trans-Atlantic and India flights are also eligible for this offer. Registration is required prior to travel.
100% bonus on Delta Skymiles
Buy or Gift Miles by March 31, 2009, and you will score a 100% mileage bonus with your transaction. That means that if you buy 10,000 miles, you’ll get an extra 10,000 miles for a total of 20,000 miles!
Visit Delta.com
Northwest Delta Update
Starting March 1, 2009, bookings in Y, B and M classes will earn a 50% mileage bonus which also counts towards Elite Qualification
Get a free domain from GoDaddy! on Buy.com
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Your unique free domain redemption code will be sent to your registered Buy.com email address within 48 hours of your purchase
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* Transactions completed using Google Checkout are not eligible
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