“we ask local residents to name their favorite sounds of the city. We then seek out those favorite sounds and make field recordings, which are available to the public as MP3s on our web site.”

“The technology is mature enough now that there’s a growing sense in the community that it’s time [to test applications in the real world]. We’ve done all we can in the lab.”

“The threat from botnets is growing fast. The latest generation of botnets uses particularly aggressive techniques such as fast-flux networks and striking back with DDoS attacks against security vendors trying to mitigate them. “

“When thousands of people compete for a few hundred ordinary jobs, trend watchers say it’s an indication not only of a less-than-stellar economy but also of a workforce short on marketable skills.”

“It isn’t that reputation is irrelevant. But when a situation is too complex for an amateur to grasp you probably shouldn’t expect to get a purely objective diagnosis from someone who has a financial incentive to give you something else.

“The best way to use Wikipedia is to get a global picture of a topic,” Ordonez said. “It’s not a primary source, and in college, you probably should not be citing an encyclopedia.”

‘It turns out the ballots were misprinted. Instead of asking if voters wanted to pay an additional $.02 per $100 of assessed value — 2 cents — the amount printed on ballots was “.02¢.”’

“Just like simply referring to the latest opera at the Met should not be equated with expertise in the genre, a throw-away comment about Google should not make us think people know how to find information online.”

“Roosevelt: yah thats right biznitch im comin for ya”