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  1. Re:All your face are belong to us on Computer Vision Tech Grabs Humans In Real-Time 3D · · Score: 1

    I will explain more. A sun has a spectrum based on its position in the sequence and each sun then is like a different light source and the data spectrum of the different reflections could be combined to produce a 3D of the galaxy. I think that I could devise the python script for that from 2D images which have spectral data.

  2. All your face are belong to us on Computer Vision Tech Grabs Humans In Real-Time 3D · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That is a fantastic leap in thinking!
    I am wondering if this technique could be used with the spectrum of stars to identify the 3 dimensional structure of distant galaxies and clouds of gas?

  3. Re:Why is MeMaw hiding the game? on Is Mimas Hiding Pac-Man? · · Score: 1

    It was a rhetorical question. It is a figure of speech, like having the name idontgnome for a KDE fan.
    I can make a python script in gimp that translates a gray scale to color so I comprehend that data can be represented in many ways including adding dimensions by converting gray scale to a bump map.
    My real question was whether the image actually imparted more information in the form of false coloring or if it made the matter more confusing like a term paper with so many different fonts that it looks like a ransom note.
    <mauve> S0m371m35 m0r3 D4t4 c4n B 1mp4r73d</mauve> , but seems to distract instead of enhance,
    simply my opinion.

  4. Why is MeMaw hiding the game? on Is Mimas Hiding Pac-Man? · · Score: 1
    That is what I thought when I read it.
    And seriously, why do they have tri-color on a temperature scale?

    A quantity that has one dimension, such as temperature can be a graded scale of a single color and when you use purple and mauve and hot pink it simply confuses the interpretation. If you were trying to represent two or three dimensions of data then I could see that using RGB would allow quick interpretation of the data once an association was learned, however in this case it simply serves to obscure the data.

  5. Re:Now we will see on 9 MA Cyberbullies Indicted For Causing Suicide · · Score: 1

    It is far worse when you transfer from another location and have no friends. I can also relate to this, but it is a fact of life and it happens in work, military, law enforcement and in homes. Some people have a different social outlook that is very caustic and centric. Whatever the ultimate origin, it is a root cause of many evils that can culminate in serial killers, terrorists, and nationalistic imperialism.
    The public schools are absurd in their policies and my experience is being placed in the remedial classes because the school could not verify my straight A academic record. As a result, I learned what a switch blade was and how desperately disturbed some people really are.
    The problem is that there is a fairly large population of people who cannot function as social individuals for what ever reason. I just consider it the poisonous natural flora. Many things are dangerous and some people fall in that category also. Strangely, the reaction is often prompted by their fear of people who are far more competent and talented.

  6. Re:Engineering new jobs on Open Source, Open Standards Under Attack In Europe · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There is a point there, what politicians want is a revenue stream to support them. Open source does not provide that. There is an advantage for slaves layman in open source or open technology, as they work less to achieve the same effect with open source, but this is counter to the interests of government. I doubt that anything that people say will be heard as the one common interest all political parties have is to keep the revenue stream and companies that sell products can take money from people and give it to them and in return they support monopolies and those who keep them in power.
    If open source simply established a trust that sold compiled versions of open source software and used the money to <strike>bribe</strike> pay sales tax and place ads, they could possibly supplant Megalosoft..

  7. Re:more than just 2+2 on Math Skills For Programmers — Necessary Or Not? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Absolutely. I do blender and if I didn't understand vector rotation and normals it would be virtually impossible to any good work. You can get the computer to do the heavy lifting, but you have to know what you are asking for. The advantage that exists now is that if anybody is weak on math skills, MIT and others have plenty of open course ware to cover the bases all the way to multi variable calculus.

  8. Re:It's pretty amazing on New Ancient Human Identified · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That is very strange talk from a Pak Protector.
    I saw a very interesting Ted Talk by Elaine Morgan and it seems to me that a single non mutation change in the apes could have fostered any number of branches in the early evolution. I agree that there is no great genetic difference across the planet.
    It seems to me that a single change in the ability to control breathing consciously could have been the difference that makes us the human branch. There is no strong linear delimiter that I have seen which would cause speciation from the apes.
    It seems that an ape that could escape from others by traveling through deep water to safety or isolation would allow a population to become isolated. It would allow a new dominance similar to the ability to escape predators in trees.
    I believe that it might be proved or disproved by the genetic SNP distance of the change which defines the ability to control respiration. If it were the oldest conserved gene, then it would seem that it could be possible.
    It also leads to the ability to communicate. Apes have intelligence and hands, but lack effective communication due to the inability to control vocalization ( like birds ).

  9. Re:Finally.. on First Anti-Cancer Nanoparticle Trial On Humans a Success · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well I can finally go to California, everything is known to cause cancer in California,
    Or "its known to the State of California to cause cancer".
    I could never figure it out, so I just stay away from California.

  10. Re:LiquidRescale on Photoshop CS5's Showpiece — Content-Aware Fill · · Score: 1

    I believe this includes liquid rescale and I just got it.
    apt-get install gimp-plugin-registry
    Thanks again. I looked at your blog and found the Ted Talk by Rebecca Saxe on the brain, that was very informative and a bit scary.The other discussions and links were useful too.
    I agree about python too. Don't know how I got anything done before I learned it.

  11. Re:Gimp Resynth on Photoshop CS5's Showpiece — Content-Aware Fill · · Score: 1

    Thanks for that, I am always looking for new tools. I have a script that I created that explodes images to parts by texture type and allows then to be layers. The video was interesting, but it is one of many things which can be done. The combination of ImageMagick, Inkscape, blender, gimp and shell scripts allows me to do many more things with images. There are so many ways to achieve a specific result that a -single- closed method seems limiting.
    Nice that it only took a few seconds to open a console and
    apt-get install gimp-resynthesizer
    By taking an image or series of images or layers it is possible to import them into blender as 3D objects and then export / render back to a flat with better results. The python and scheme scripting extensions are one of the many advantages of gimp and blender.

  12. More evil than alternative? on Flaw In Emergency Response System May Have Killed Hundreds · · Score: 1

    It seems that what is lacking is the ratio ( deaths in mode X / deaths in mode Y ). So if they change it to category A and something else becomes category B by falling off the end, what death toll does that have and do they even know?

  13. Re:Planning? It's not enough! on Mozilla Plans Fix For Critical Firefox Vulnerability In Next Release · · Score: 1

    There appears to be a critical vulnerability in your logic and why did you not fix it before you posted? Were you not aware of it? Did you not research the problem and preview before submitting a solution? As a result, you created a second and worse vulnerability.
    As others have pointed out, there is already a patch and I have looked at it myself.

  14. Re:so how big is it? on Quantum State Created In Largest Object Yet · · Score: 1

    Some have said this is a small thing. That is 10 times greater than the size of the human genome in atoms.
    I had a thought, if the transporter held an anti-copy and as long as the anti-copy existed, the real person would exist at some distant point. When the anti-copy is destroyed it returns the person to the teleporter.
    It seems that from my understanding of the process that this would in fact produce an effective object at the remote point. I suppose it could be considered the inverted object of a lens system as an analogy in 2D instead of 3D.
    Conservation of momentum would seem to imply that for every Shrodinger cat there would be an equal and opposite tac regnidorhS.

  15. Re:Nosferatu on The State of Robotic Surgery · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I see I have been labeled off topic. I find that amusing, considering my relationship to the person in the video. I plan to have a WebGL interface to the operating system later this year. I suppose I got marked off topic , just for the Nosferatu label. I am sure that when it is done, Google will know. Google seems to know about everything. You seem to have a reasonable knowledge of the field from your posts. It is certainly an area that will yeild many new technologies. The ability to convert a skin cell to an omnipotent stem cell is one. The interesting thing is that contained in the genetic code is the instruction for that transform and once found is just a string of bases. It is very much like writing the code for life.

  16. Nosferatu on The State of Robotic Surgery · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A member of my family has been doing this type of work for several decades. I have been studying genetics and developing a mitochondrial operating system. It is merely a concept which I think is workable. It would transform the organism in such a way that it could function as several trillion parallel process control computers. It takes a long time to bring a concept as complex as this from idea to implementation. I have been working on it for seven years now and expect that it will be a reality eventually if nothing else seems a better approach.
    I do wonder what it means though. At first it seemed a really neat idea and the methods are not much more difficult than maintaining an open source OS. It does seem that if every cell contains the necessary data to evoke the organism, it would be no different than a liquid terminator or vampire in its result.
    There are organisms which regenerate themselves from their parts. Members of Planariidae, for one. As it becomes more feasible it occurs to me that it is very odd in its consequence. I had a bad feeling when I first cloned an organism, as if I should not be allowed to do such a thing.
    DARPA is considering experiments with genetically engineered soldiers merged with nano technology and electronic extensions. To paraphrase a common meme at slashdot , on the Internet, technology advances you.

  17. Re:All of My Electrons are Certified Organic on Attack of the Killer Electrons · · Score: 1

    I enjoy discussing the subject and perhaps what you see as ignorance is merely a different perspective. I deal in all areas of science and names is a particularly irritating thing for me personally. If I were programming, I would not call the USB interface mouseDriver, for example. Lambda is also used as Lambda calculus. I am required to use German, French and Latin to relate things. Entegegen and Zusamen in biochemistry. It isn't necessary for me to have a car analogy, as I understand the underpinning of the nuclear process. My brother is a nuclear engineer and we discuss these things.
    Not so oddly, we have this same conflict. I rearrange things in hopes of finding new solutions and he finds that disturbing. It seems to help my creative process to tear down things once in awhile and put them back together. I suppose it is all relative or relativistic and that, I think, in this context, is a triple entendre.
    So there is no reason for you to be prompt critical of my perspective. And that has two meanings also.
    Life is like a box of chocolates, some have 2/3 charge and some have integer charges.
    Shakespeare has some interesting thoughts about fools and sometimes insight and inspiration come from the court jester.

  18. Re:and end to cancer in our life time on Golden Nanocages To Put the Heat On Cancer Cells · · Score: 1

    There is a TED talk that is relevant. http://www.ted.com/talks/catherine_mohr_surgery_s_past_present_and_robotic_future.html Gene therapies are also advancing rapidly.

  19. Re:All of My Electrons are Certified Organic on Attack of the Killer Electrons · · Score: 1

    Homeless electrons get excited and rape virgin satellites. Technically, electrons which are unbound to an atom are homeless by analogy. Satellites have never had sex and thus are virgins.
    There is nothing in a name except what communicates. There is still no murder victim and the perp is a [] beta- particle.
    A quark by any other name would still smell as sweet.
    It really makes no difference what they are called, and names that overload unrelated concepts in the same field seems like a "strange" leap to me. It has to do with charge and so it is called color. Perfectly logical.
    Etymology Gell-Mann originally named the quark after the sound made by ducks.
    I would have responded earlier, but Big Bang Theory was on, with Evil Wil Wheaton.

  20. Re:All of My Electrons are Certified Organic on Attack of the Killer Electrons · · Score: 1

    I believe that OP^2 is saying that it is pure gutter science for the masses and serves no scientific purpose. I am quite aware that ESD or CMEs or any number of other effects are deleterious to the function of electronic systems. It isn't living and so cannot be "killed". We had a joke in the labs years ago for noobs, that we were getting too many heavy electrons from the power company and that is why the design didn't work. It is true in relativistic terms that moving electrons would a more likely the problem in a circuit.
    If a quark does not absorb or reflect light, why would you use the term "color" as a label. I feel that quarks should be categorized by degree of smell, boolean, and repugnance, instead of charm, polarity, and color. For a science that deals with some of the most interesting and complex phenomenon, it seems strange they need to gluon vajazzles.

  21. Re:Awwwww, hes just so cute and innocent... on Yale Law Student Wants Government To Have Everybody's DNA · · Score: 1

    None of this operates in a vacuum. Data must be stored and verified. As a result it is subject to data security. How secure and impenetrable is the data base? Once it has been corrupted, what will you use to repair it? What if the backup is corrupted and the current is valid and you are tricked into restoring from backup. The very word database adds every problem that comes with computer security to a method which has some weak points that can be exploited also.
    RFLP stands for Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism, do you realize what that means? I do and I also know what SQL injection is and I know what jury selection algorithms are. If people were "nice" everything would be perfect and then we would all be killed by the first new predator that evolved intelligence.

  22. Re:Awwwww, hes just so cute and innocent... on Yale Law Student Wants Government To Have Everybody's DNA · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I agree completely with what you say, and beyond that it is worse and wasteful. I recently completed courses in genetic analysis and RFLP along with cloning. There are some very serious logical flaws in the assumptions. I think you are giving too much credit to say 5 year old and it looks more on the order of the terrible twos. Or maybe terrible binaries of good and evil.
    The person is acting from a legal perspective and does not understand the technology. I can see many different places where the technology will change and much like the internet, people will be surprised when the first SQL injection happens or the first BOT. It is a complex technology and it is the same fricking problem that happens with everything. A linear system cannot control and manage a system which is NP hard.
    I am certain from my studies that most people do not even understand what the RFLP measures. They seem to think it measures something which is related to the person, and it really doesn't. That fact really shocked me when I was in the lab.
    I wonder whether the drone that bombs a city has a DNA to tell you who is the culprit? Or does the BOT net give a signature that says it is created by some unique UUID?
    This is an extension of methods which worked in another world before the internet.Fingerprinting, DNA and many other forensics were great when this began, but it is a new world and the threat is not cloaked in DNA or doesn't sneak into your data base in a meat suit.

  23. Re:Not Super Mario Bros. on Mario Reduced To 8x8 With Open Source and Arduino · · Score: 1

    The electronics and programming may be fairly rudimentary for an EECS major , but the the fact that she is a cyborg and can do this is what surprises me.

  24. Re:Who would take the $2 ? on Classmates.com Settles Lawsuit Over Phony Friends · · Score: 1

    perfect_victim.com It would seem that this is the sweet spot for any company. The list of people who can be milked like LOLcows forever. If I had a list of people who would fall for any trick and had money from some source it would be the most valuable list. It is also sleezy. A list of free thinkers that are not easily manipulated would be useless except as an exclusion.
    I have some sigs that you can buy if you upgrade to the premium sig store. All your friends already got one here. Have your credit card ready and sign in at sigmates.com.

  25. Pirates on Long-Running Underwater Robot Lost At Sea · · Score: 1

    I was going to ask if they suspected that I had hacked the OS and made it meet me at sea so I could steal it ( as a joke ), and then
    I realized that this would make a good drug smuggling bot and really with all seriousness, isn't it possible that foul play could be at work and I'm guessing the device is worth at least a couple bucks to somebody who wants to get under the radar, so to speak.
    From TFA, it seems also that it could be asleep. Maybe it just overslept.