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Re:Err, not always
Not whta you asked for but anyway http://www.collisiondetection....
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Time to go back to phone banking
Hmm maybe we should go back to phone banking. It's not like phones can be easily hacked to sniff passwords.
Oh wait, I forgot, we aren't in the 1980s any more. Nevermind.
I think I'll do my business in person now. I'll just have to make sure the Russian Mafia doesn't set up a look-alike storefront down the street that looks like my bank's latest branch office.
Sigh.
Well, at least I know my currency is real.
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Re:Reminds me of Razors.
This, too, is required reading on the subject.
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Clive Thompson's Article in WiredClive Thompson has an artical in Wired on this game. He has a permanent link to it http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/200
7 /01/i_barrel_into_t.html#001615 in his blog that I found quite interesting.I am not AT ALL interested in playing the game but I like his write up on it.
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News?
This is not news, oh this is
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Haven't you heard?
Gillette is approaching a Singularity... http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/200
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ATMs considered unsafe
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Re:Columbine ...
FPSes don't train you for firing a real weapon, are you sure those kids didn't have range training?
Well, in this case, a 14 year old boy who had very little experience with 'real' weapons had a higher accuracy than trained officers would have had in similar circumstances. They believe the reinforcement of video games was mostly the explaination for his accuracy, as opposed to real world practice.
Here is another article -- the author (a non shooter) gets to play on a range with a qualified military shooter. His accuracy is astounding because he's practiced the technique in video games for a very long time. Even with a .45, he's effective. The military officer believes that since the video games mimic the way they train people to become more accomplished shooters, that the very act of playing this style game increases your skills in the real world.
As to the specific previous firearms experience the kids who did Columbine had, I can't dredge up any links, so I can't address how much experience they may have had prior to the event.
The point is, the video games are being demonstrated to increase the effectiveness of first time shooters way beyond what one would expect.
So when someone who has never really fired a weapon, but has played lots of simulations/games, is handed a real weapon, they perform at a level which belies their lack of actual experience in handling weapons.
Heck, I've never fired a handgun before -- but I would know how to hold the weapon in two hands ('punch in' I believe it's called), put myself into the weaver stance, and I would aim the same way I do in video games. I don't think it's too big of a stretch to say that, if nothing else, the video games re-inforce the techniques, even if there are differences between them and the real world. -
Re:Turing Test is dumb
A google AI might be able to pass the other turing test.
i.e. pass for female in the imitation game.
Which, it may be argued, has already been done in the online chat world... -
Re:The Trojan Defense
In fact, he was acquited.
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Misleading title
Politics-Oriented Software? Oh... I thought it was about the developement of something like Campaign 84 for the Colecovision...
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Re:Well Blow Me Down!
I never could stand dygad boy. He always reminded me of Eddie Haskell.
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Re:Learning Curve
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Re:Clive Thompson knows his stuff...
he's also keeps a pretty good blog.
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Re:Sounds Tempting!
Probably because Powerpoint Makes You Dumb. By sleeping through the classes, you're saving your brain cells.
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That's not what Proctor & Gamble found.
Apparently, the guys at Television Week haven't read the Proctor & Gamble study which found that Tivo users remember ads about as well as other viewers, either because they're too lazy to skip ads, or because they're watching shows as they're being broadcast instead of time-shifting, or because they actually want to watch the ads, or because the ads are effective even at fast-forward speeds.
Personally, I sometimes forget that I'm watching through Tivo and that I can skip the ads. Other times I do skip the ads I'd have otherwise ignored, but I stop for ads that I enjoy. Still other times, I watch ads at high speed that I recognize. Frankly, I think I harbor less ill will toward companies whose ads would otherwise annoy me, and I still feel pretty good about companies whose ads (and more importantly, products) I like. So what's the harm? -
another blurb and pics
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In related news
Researchers have after years of study finally discovered a polynomial time algorithm for using toilet paper, refuting the conjecture set forth by many researchers that this problem was intractable.
The related problem of determining whether the toilet seat should be up or down has, on the other hand, been proven to be NP-complete. -
the marketing possibilities are endless!The Access Point Burger
Two all-beef patties lettuce, tomato and special sauce with a pair of fries sticking out from the top at either end
WANBurgler Special - A.K.A. The Unhappy MealAn edible, fiber optic light source on the burger (yes, they make edible fiber optic light sources) shines when it detects kismet or netstumbler scans during your WiFi session
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Long Time Subscribers...
... are hard to come by. I have been getting the mag erratically (on their part, not mine) for the past 3 years. At least three major makeovers, including an attempt to break into the US put the financial viability of the rag in question.
I really liked the social focus on technology. Early years helped look deeper than the "IT jobs are impossibly sexy and profitable" attitude many rags ran in the late '99, early '00.
Liked to look at the burnout rate and stress level as an indicator before big business ever could.
I first read Clive Thompson in Shift and loved his casual yet persistent writing style.
Haven't even got my last issue.
Don't imagine I'll see it or the rest of my subscription.
Rob.