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Skipper Accessibility Suite 1.6.0 Released
Semi-Anonymous Reader writes "Skipper 1.6.0 is a GPLed Linux accessibility suite for the severely physically disabled - cerebral palsy, road traffic accidents, motor neuron disease, Parkinsons etc. It takes input from multiple devices like graphics tablets and microswitches connected directly to the printer port, does input switching and processing (configured graphically like modular synthesisers), and provides clever genetically annealed menu systems for application and desktop control. With just one detectable click, people can have full Web and email access - in fact the whole Linux desktop - in complete privacy. Now the problem's getting it to people who need it. Charities and institutions think physical, Windows and money, so it's down to the geeks. Set up a kid near you this Fall - they might not be the next Einstein or Mozart, but you'll be giving them a lifetime of education, activity, self-expression and self-determination."
Set up a kid near you this Fall - they might not be the next Einstein or Mozart, but you'll be giving them a lifetime of education, activity, self-expression and self-determination."
More like a lifetime of Slashdot and Everquest addiction.
Oh, and fp.
from a guy with no hnds!
great, as if the handicapped didn't have enough trouble already - now they have to worry about configuring their kernel and dicking around with XFree86Config!
...an exploit in Skipper has been found that allows hosts to run arbitrary code on the Skipper host machine.
...is like winning the Special Olympics.
Even if you make Linux useable by retards then only retards will use it.
...getting linux ready for windows users.
As it were, they just might be the next Stephen Hawking.
Ya never know.
KFG
A friend of mine who is a Linux whizz and who is looking into setting up a charity organisation for techies to be able to contribute time & know-how for good causes might well be interested in this project.
I guess that if anything is going to help spread news about its availability, this is the right place to be.
A little planning goes a long way...
Does this mean that gimps now can use "The Gimp" ?
and provides clever genetically annealed menu systems for application and desktop control.
:-)
Genetically annealed menu systems? What the....?!? Well, I have been following bionics and cybernetics for a little while now, and this is certainly new to me.
Seriously though, what are they talking about?
Visit Jonesblog and say hello.
Skipper Overlords welcome YOU!
So that's what y'all are calling it now? doesn't that require women (preferabbly one married to you) first?
I mean, not so familiar with these things, /. regular and all...
[ducks]
My life in the land of the rising sun.
In the Information Age we can see more clearly than ever before that what makes human beings precious is creativity, intelligence, wit and determination.
And here I thought it was how much money you make. Guess I'm still stuck in the Capitalism Age.
Could someone help me with this one?
Charities and institutions think physical, Windows and money, so it's down to the geeks.
What the hell is he trying to say with that sentence?
What does "genetically annealed" mean? All I can guess is, umm, my Dad's name is Neal, so I guess I'm "genetically anNealed"?
Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
We haven't had a story just for the immature and cruel Slashdotters in a while. It's like adult swim, but backwards. Have fun, guys.
My father has a very rare motor neuron disese, multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN). A treatment has been discovered which has reasonable effect, but it is possible he'll be paralysed eventually.
;)
He aquired a device which reads your EEG and uses it to control a computer. Check out http://www.brainfingers.com/ for details. So far he hasn't needed to use it, but in the future it might be a necessity.
Anyway... This seems like ideal technology to combine with the stuff mentioned above. This should be at the OS level after all.
(Just before everyone asks... the device does work, but you need to learn how to control your brainwaves. It's sort of like Palm's Grafiti for your head
.: Max Romantschuk
what the fuck? this is Corporate-USA, helping people is for communists and terrorists.
an OS for the disabled, called Windows?
I have over 70 freaks, do you?
...a mare could use.
What's accessibility?
You are not a girl, you're just an annoying guy trying to karma whore. This sort of thing was discussed in trolltalk (sid 31337) a few days ago, and I expected this sort of trolling. Please, fuck off and die.
No, but they very well might be the next Stephen Hawking.
I lost most of the use of my fingers and 40 percent of my vision in a chemical accident 15 years ago. I am so glad to see linux taking steps to make things more usable for people like me. I truly feel linux will soon take the lead in accessibility (not to mention stability and performance) from Microsoft very soon. Thank you linux hackers! --Berry
The linux hacker
- Slink around, shuffling your feet and bobbing your neck like the lazy retard
you are.
- Walk down the middle of the street because you don't know what a sidewalk is
for.
- Hang out at carwashes and mini-marts because everybody knows these are the
best places to be a dope, I mean dope.
- If you're a nigger bitch, shit three nigger babies into the world before 17
years of age. This assures that welfare money will support you, so your
nigger men have more time to commit crimes. Oh yes, make sure each nigger
baby has a different father.
- Bastardize the English language in the name of nigger culture. Make sure
that several terms have multiple meanings and others have ambiguous meanings
and that only 50% of nigger words are even complete words. Real niggers will
know what you're trying to say.
- As a culture, make sure there are always more bucks in prison than in
college at any given time.
- Hang out in packs of 10 to 15 and make sure everyone acts as annoying as
possible. This helps to promote nigger individuality.
- Always talk loud enough so everyone in the 'hood' can fucking hear you, and
if they are niggers, they will know what you're saying, bro.
- Wear clothes that are 10 sizes too big, making sure the pants hang off your
ass. Also huge pants facilitate stealing (let me translate that: "it be
easier to lift dat 'box at the Kmart, homes"). If you have to hold them up
while you walk, it only looks badder.
- Park at least 5 junk cars in your yard while being careful not to use the
driveway. It's OK to abandon them in the street as long as it's in front of
someone else's crib.
- Exaggerate every motion, every tonal inflection and grab your dick a lot.
Have red carpet, blue walls, brass and overstuffed furnishings (all rented),
purple bathrooms and keep all windows covered so that no light can enter and
no cops can see in while you...
- Do drugs, sell drugs, make drugs.
- Turn your backyard into a junk yard. If you don't have a backyard, turn
your mother's into a junk yard. Eliminate every blade of grass.
- Travel around leaching off relatives, friends, salvation armies. Abandon
your children with them also.
- Smack your kids and yell at them a lot. Make them feel less than human and
that they have no future, which they don't because they're niggers like you.
- Drink cheap wine and malt liquor every day, forgetting that "malt liquor" is
just fortified cheap beer.
- If you're a nigger buck: fuck anything that moves, no matter how ugly she is.
After two eight-balls, even the ugliest, fattest nigger bitch will look good.
- Be charitable and covet fat, ugly white chicks. After all, they're niggers
too. They can't help being so undesirable to white men that they have to
fraternize with black dudes on a 20/20 trip. And white ho's are a special
trophy too, especially the not so ugly ones.
- Spray paint everything in sight with scribbles that mean nothing to White
people but mean things to fellow niggers (except niggers from another hood
who will probably try to kill you for tresspassing on their turf)
- Use the term "motherfucker" in every sentence. It's one of the most
versatile words in the nigger language, being a noun, verb, adjective and
complete mini-sentence in event you run out of thoughts.
- Stop in the middle of the street, blocking all traffic to converse with
fellow niggers and have complete disregard for everyone else.
- Delay everybody at the checkouts while you and 3 other dudes fumble around
for the $1.42 for the bottle of Magnum.
- Clog isles at Kmart with strollers, bastard kids and your fat selves. If
you're a cashier, never look at or be cordial to a customer and always talk
to other niggers while you ring up the customer.
one of the best articles I've seen on /. in recent memory. It really does make you feel good to belong to a group of people that would actually do something like this.
You know, I really can't see the Microsoft community banding together like this. Kudos to the open source community, you should really feel proud of everything you've accomplished so far and about the direction you're heading.
I love the smell of Karma in the morning
I love when idiots claim the first post, when in reality it was SECOND. Idiot.
Phoenix Freeway Update
Well, I went to the South Mountain Corridor public meeting today (10/01), and let me just tell you guys right up front, this freeway *is* going to be built. There's really no way around it at this point.
The meeting I attended was near the Pecos alignment, the very same alignment that has been so controversial the last few years and the very same where there has been so much public opposition. In fact, the school where the meeting was held was actually 2 blocks away from Pecos alignment (ironically, the high school it was held at would face destruction in ROW acquisitions).
The atmosphere was tense. People were shouting and acting irrationally. These people do NOT want the freeway built in their backyard. Heated words were exchanged. The ADOT staff tried very hard to be calm and to respond to these people rationally. One lady, Janet Wood, even went so far to suggest that, since it is going to be a hazardous cargo route (which there is no evidence of), there is the possibility of a nuclear incident in her backyard!!
There are 5 options being studied right now. Every single one of those options has the South Mountain Freeway aligned at Pecos Rd for the east-west segment but varies in the north-south. Generally speaking, there are 3 basic north-south corridors; one connecting to Interstate 10 at 55th Ave, one connecting to Interstate 10 at 75th Ave, and one connecting to Interstate 10 at the 101 freeway (its actually one mile off the 101 but will have direct ramp connections). The latter will have 3 different alignments of getting to the 101.
There is still only the Pecos Rd alignment officially at this point, but the Arizona Department of Transportation has given us their assurances that they are speaking with the Gila River Indian Community (GRIC) to discuss the possibility of building an alignment on their farmland. This would make most of the Awkatukhee residents happy, but since the GRIC is a sovereign nation, the Government has no control over what to do. In fact, the GRIC residents passed a proposal in 2000 that no new freeways could ever cross their land.
The timeline for this freeway is relatively high-speed. A final location will be chosen within the 7 months, unless the GRIC suddenly allows an alignment on their property. After that, the final Design Concept Report will be filed with the Federal Highway Administration. This DCR is expected to be completed by the end of 2005.
From there, if the sales tax extension is passed this May, then it will be funded in Phase II. It will be constructed between 2010-2015. This is going to be the *first* Arizona Freeway to build HOV lanes at the same time as regular lane. It is expected to have an Average Daily Traffic of more than 155,000 by 2025. Thus it will be built to that capacity - 3 general purpose lanes and 1 HOV lanes each direction.
If you are curious about other Arizona freeways and highways, some of it did get brought up at the meeting. Here is what I know. The SR 85 between I-8 and I-10 (in the Canamex corridor) is being widened to 4 total lanes for its entire length of ~40 miles, but it will NOT be upgraded to full freeway until after 2025. There are funding limitations.
Furthermore, the current corridor study of the collector-distributor roadway in between Baseline Rd and 32nd St is going well. Get this -- they are looking at building a 22 or 24 lane freeway (!!!!!!!) in this portion to handle the 2025 Average Daily Traffic of 450,000+. And the 22 or 24 lane freeway is what they are looking at *assuming* the South Mountain is built - if its not, it could easily be at 30! A 22 lane freeway is easiest the largest freeway in North America, and as far as I know, the world..
This update was brought to you by the GNAA - Gay Niggers Association of America. Are you gay? Are you a nigger? Are you a gay nigger? Then join us in #gnaa on EFnet.
that your dad is, in fact Cowboy Neal!
He has spawned.
How does this relate to or even integrate with the new accessibility features in GNOME 2.4?
Man, I just wasted 6 month reading this crap before I figured out it's totally useless shit. Worse than XML shit.
...as the BSD community has a lot of retards. Oh and it is dying, so get over it.
Only Windows software is described on the site. I wonder, what will happen when Win crashes or locks up (which happens invariably to me at least) and the user won't even be able to push the reset button?
But that's beside the point. Since you have already had hands-on experience with the device and the company that sells it, could you tell if they will provide low-level technical documentation, so that it would be possible to make use of that in Linux? That sounds like one of those projects I've always been drooling over doing but lacked appropriate hardware.
In Soviet Russia... RUSSIANS comment on YOU.
what a bunch of crap, this post is the weakest post ever.. you know how many cripples or tards would ever use Linix let alone windows xp? man give yourself a blow job while you'r at it
But the box labled "MsCock" in the diagram on the Skipper front page disturbs me...
Yarrr there matey! This is clearly some sort of pirate lingo. Guess the RIAA will set their sights on the handicapped next. Arrr, Shiver me timbers!
assuming that's a serious question, because it's seriously not funny...
What arse wiping dick head moded this as offtopic?
Whoops, spoke too soon. Linux support is only planned for the future, not currently available.
This sort of thing could be useful for wearable computers.
Control by using thought/brainwaves would help too.
Planned for the future is good enough - gives me time to save up the money. :)
In Soviet Russia... RUSSIANS comment on YOU.
Give me CowboyAnnealed any time.
Sean
No, I'm New Here
Optimisation: Genetic Algorithm and Simulated Annealing
"The working principle of simulated annealing is borrowed from metallurgy: a piece of metal is heated (= the atoms are given thermal agitation), then left to cool slowly. The slow and regular cooling of the metal allows the atoms to slide progressively in their most stable ("minimal energy") positions. (Rapid cooling would have "frozen" them in whatever position they happened to be at that time.) The resulting structure of the metal is stronger and stabler. Here we do not minimize the energy of a block of metal, but some cost function relevant to the problem at hand."
-kgj
Seems like this might be real usefull as well for surfing uhm interresting sites when, .. er .., I only have one hand available.
I can't sanction it's use. Notice in the diagram on the home page of the linked article. It has two copies of MS Cock built in. (Seriously, look closely at the diagram abd you will see I'm not lying) Aside from the fact that most Microsoft employees aren't noted for being well endowed. I just can't sanction the use of Microsoft software in an open source product!
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