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> Everyone (who was someone) read Slashdot. ... as well as some of those that would eventually become someone. Like Mark Zuckerberg [0] who co-built an MP3 pla
by sah2ed 9y ago
> Everyone (who was someone) read Slashdot.
... as well as some of those that would eventually become someone. Like Mark Zuckerberg [0] who co-built an MP3 player that learns your taste [1] in 2003:
> "It looks like they're both college freshmen now. But last year, Adam D'Angelo went to Korea for the IOI contest. Apparently, the other one is a smart guy too. A friend at Exeter said Mark Zuckerberg was a bigshot in math there and had some interesting coding projects of his own. Go figure."
[0] https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=61425&cid=5774512 https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=61425&cid=5774512
[1] https://news.slashdot.org/story/03/04/21/110236/machine-learning-and-mp3s https://news.slashdot.org/story/03/04/21/110236/machine-lear...
- lucasverra 9y ago> I may be paranoid, but I'd prefer not to have anyone, even my own computer, perform data mining on me. - 2003 about MZ mp3AI player if the guy knew...
- icebraining 9y agoHe probably did, like the rest of us who read /. and e-zines: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/00/07/26/1217248/inside-echelon https://yro.slashdot.org/story/00/07/26/1217248/inside-echel... https://yro.slashdot.org/story/01/05/25/1312239/the-eu-report-on-the-echelon-system https://yro.slashdot.org/story/01/05/25/1312239/the-eu-repor... https://yro.slashdot.org/story/01/04/10/1626236/aclu-takes-out-ny-times-ad-against-echelon https://yro.slashdot.org/story/01/04/10/1626236/aclu-takes-o... https://news.slashdot.org/story/02/02/12/051200/australia-spying-on-its-own https://news.slashdot.org/story/02/02/12/051200/australia-sp... https://yro.slashdot.org/story/99/07/16/1025259/britain-tapped-communications https://yro.slashdot.org/story/99/07/16/1025259/britain-tapp...