Lateral Thinking

Q: A married couple went to a movie and the husband strangled the wife during the show. How was he able to get her body home without attracting attention?

A: The movie was at a drive-in theater, and their car had tinted windows.

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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. ~ Isaac Asimov

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Neglexting – short for “neglecting to text” it is a text messaging slang term used to describe a person who fails to respond to a text message.

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Scott Fahlman is a computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University know as the father of the smiley emoticon.

Falhman was born in Ohio US in on 21 March 1948. He studied in MIT during 1973-77 and is now a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.

Fahlman is known for his early work on automated planning in a blocks world and both on semantic and neutral networks.

Recently he has been constructing a Knowledge Base, “Scone”, based in part on his thesis work on the NETL Semantic Network.

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Sneezer is an online marketing slang term coined by Charles Nicholls, founder of SeeWhy, to describe any customer that spreads your offers and promotions through social networks.

Social networking sites make it incredibly easy for your “sneezer” customer to share promotions and positive word-of-mouth marketing about your business in a single click with his or her network of friends.

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Lateral Thinking

Q: You can take away the whole and still have some left. You can take away some and still have the whole left. What is it?

A: The word ‘wholesome’

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“Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology” ~ John Tudor

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Short for radio frequency identification, a technology similar in theory to bar code identification. With RFID, the electromagnetic or electrostatic coupling in the RF portion of the electromagnetic spectrum is used to transmit signals.

An RFID system consists of an antenna and a transceiver, which read the radio frequency and transfer the information to a processing device, and a transponder, or tag, which is an integrated circuit containing the RF circuitry and information to be transmitted.

RFID systems can be used just about anywhere, from clothing tags to missiles to pet tags to food — anywhere that a unique identification system is needed.

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Q: Is it legal for a man to marry his widow’s sister in the state of California?

A: Probably not, since he’s dead.

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Norio Ohga was the former president and chairman of Sony and the driving force in the invention and development of the CD.

Born in 1930 in Numazu, about 75 miles from Tokyo, Ohga spent most of his childhood studying music.

During his studies at the National University of Fine Arts and Music in Tokyo, the forthright Ohga caught the eye of powerful figures resulting in job offers from the chairman of Yamaha as well as from one of the founders of Sony.

In his life, Ohga tried to combine his love for music with a corporate career. He is said to have insisted that CDs store 74 minutes of sound so he could listen to the Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony without interruptions.

During his time at Sony, Ohga held positions of Head of Tape Recorders and Design, Head of Design Centre, Managing Director and Deputy President.

Ohga died on April 23 2011 at the age of 81.