Are artificial stupidity of the latest developments? - IDG.se

K Soren Pecén is verbose columnist for CS.

Privatize Wikileaks? It is Bahnhofs latest business idea, but it ran into opposition. Jon Karlung, CEO of Bahnhof, proffering WikiLeaks server to the highest bidder. The server had been in Bahnhofs caverns in southern Stockholm.

Class=”paragraphIntro”> Neither the NSA or FRA la bids – they had everything already – but the server went to Portugal for 33 000 dollars.

class=”paragraphIntro”> After club team received Jon Karlung a call from a concerned father in Portugal. It was his “crazy conspiracy” 17-year-old son who had placed the highest bid on the server – and paid with daddy’s credit card.

Happy owner of server is now in Instead, the sender 32,900 dollars.

WikiLeaks takes away from the store. The hard drive was picked clean by the way. Sorry.

Speaking of conspiracies have one of my correspondents told of a conversation with a well-known telecommunications companies support department. If it was Telia, I would say it was hittepå.

First he sat on hold for twenty minutes. Then he switched to another hold. After 18 minutes, he was disconnected. New attempt. After 21 minutes, he got to talk to a human. My correspondent says that he can not get his email from Telia due to server error. People want to know what his email program.

– But is your e-mail server that is experiencing the problem, not my equipment.

– Then I can not help you.

Next man he talked to said that he must have premium support.

In his deep quandary emailed him to Telia’s press service on press@telia.se. He got the answer: “Could not find the email address you provided.”

Then he wrote to me.

He wonders if it’s best to call directly to Uzbekistan.

Microsoft, I read, is working on artificial intelligence. The project, named Cortana, will beat Apple’s Siri in the virtual fingers. Cortana is as superhuman intelligence that it beats IBM’s Watson on the virtual cortex. And everything will be completed within a year – just in time to come when Steve Ballmer stops.