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  1. Re:False positives? on Competition To Identify Sexual Predators In Chat Logs · · Score: 1

    winning in itself is a prize.

    I bet you have a loot of participation trophies on your shelf.

  2. Re:False positives? on Competition To Identify Sexual Predators In Chat Logs · · Score: 1

    You are if you are a 40 years old going after a 12 year old.

  3. Re:Simple algorithm on Competition To Identify Sexual Predators In Chat Logs · · Score: 1

    If that was boring, then you need to find some other site.

  4. Re:what about on Competition To Identify Sexual Predators In Chat Logs · · Score: 2

    There will always be false positives. This is why there is a procedure to follow that ends with setting a meeting with someone who thinks they are going to hook up with an underage person for sex.

    It's tough for a 35 year old male to claim innocents when they knowing go someplace to have sex with a 12 yer old..or so they thought.

    Yes, like all things it needs to be monitored and regulated.

  5. Re:What? on Do Tablets Help Children Learn? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Stop being myopic. Please THINK.

    Let me twist that around:

    How does connect the dots with a crayon increase creativity more than an iPad where they can learn to play music, finger paint, and read.

    It's what you DO. You sound like those people that complain TV is bad and then go off to read a 10 cent romance novel.
    It's a tool. Use it as such.

  6. what? on Do Tablets Help Children Learn? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Specialists warn that using tablets in excess could cause attention deficit disorder and even autism, particularly at a very young age.""

    Specialist in what, making scary shit up about technology?

    The tablet is a window to the world. Parents should control it, but that's about it. If it gets the child active in something, then it's good. The fact that it's a tablet is secondary.

    I ma from the era where for entertainment kids through rocks at each other. i.e. every generation prior to 1995.
    My kids are very much in the internet generation. And they can do and learn far more then I had the opportunity to.

  7. Re:Easy Fix on Smearing Toddler Reputations Via Internet: Free Speech Or Extortion? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because you going to jail would really help your family.

    How about you put your cock away and try to behave like your in a civilized society with laws, m'kay?

  8. Re:Reserving domain names is now smearing? on Smearing Toddler Reputations Via Internet: Free Speech Or Extortion? · · Score: 1

    Of course it can be smearing.

    damn_registraras_rapes_children.com.

    So registering a domain name can be a smear.

    I think that in this case, the smear' referred to her other stuff she was doing.

    http://randazza.wordpress.com/2012/03/30/judge-rules-again-that-blogger-crystal-cox-is-not-a-journalist-you-know-why-because-she-isnt-a-journalist/

  9. Re:Lucifer's Hammer, anyone? on Neil deGrasse Tyson Outlines a Plan For Saving Earth From Asteroids · · Score: 1

    yes, lets go to a fiction book based on decades old information to base science on.

    Great book, but we do get better at this stuff as time goes on.

  10. Re:It's not saving "Earth," it's saving "humans" on Neil deGrasse Tyson Outlines a Plan For Saving Earth From Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Which we all know that's what we mean. Only an ass would take it to a stupid extreme to make them selves look clever.

    That said, there are object large enough to destroy the earth.

  11. Re:Ridiculous paranoia! on Neil deGrasse Tyson Outlines a Plan For Saving Earth From Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Fact: An extinction event sized body will hit the earth.
    Unknown: When.

    I'm not sure why you think detecting and deflecting an object that will wipe us clean from the planet isn't a matter close to home.

    Oh, right, you're a short sighted ass.

  12. Re:15 Minutes on Neil deGrasse Tyson Outlines a Plan For Saving Earth From Asteroids · · Score: 1

    If by 15 years you mean more then a decade, then yes.

  13. Re:Let me guess... on Neil deGrasse Tyson Outlines a Plan For Saving Earth From Asteroids · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You're an ignorant ass.

  14. Re:When exactly on Neil deGrasse Tyson Outlines a Plan For Saving Earth From Asteroids · · Score: 5, Interesting

    " He's really articulate and informed, but so are a lot of people."

    Not scientists.

    Neil deGrasse Tyson is articulate, charismatic, reasonably good looking, and interviews very well. He is relatable. Anyone who can talk about accurately talk about science and still seem relatable to the average person is perfect to interview.

    For example: He was asked why he was able to get is point across so clearly on the colbart report. He said he timed the jokes from previous epsode and ew a bout how much time he had before the next joke. Then boiled his points down to fit into the times between the jokes.

    Not a lot of people think about interviews that way, and certainly not scientists.

    Now he has the rep to be the guy to go to, the media goes to him.

  15. ANother grain of sand on Up To 1.5 Million Visa, MasterCard Credit Card Numbers Stolen · · Score: 2

    on top of my theory that digital cash will prove to difficult to protect and ultimately fail; which is a shame, I like digital cash.

  16. Facebook users: on Teacher's Aide Fired For Refusing To Hand Over Facebook Password · · Score: 1

    You need to get active and start trying to get facebook to put some money into lobbying for a federal law that makes it illegal for companies to ask for this kind of personal information.

    Make Facebook aware that it is in their best interest to stop this type of BS.

  17. Re:I stopped flying. on Aviation Security Debate: Bruce Schneier V. Kip Hawley (Former TSA Boss) · · Score: -1

    someday you'll get employed again.

  18. Re:Reputation on Ask Slashdot: A Cheap, DIY Home Security and Surveillance System? · · Score: 0

    You din't understand crime, you don't understand people, and you boss doesn't understand liability.

    Maybe you should stop judging the crime of you're neighborhood with your biases? IT's probable not as bad as you think. Plus robbing a shop is a lot more riskier then an empty home.

  19. Re:Gun -- ? on Ask Slashdot: A Cheap, DIY Home Security and Surveillance System? · · Score: 1

    Since it's my day to help the slow witted, here you go:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner's_dilemma

  20. Re:I have been looking at this or a similar model on Ask Slashdot: A Cheap, DIY Home Security and Surveillance System? · · Score: 1

    outside lighting only helps to a point. 'Adding more' after that point is a waste.

  21. Re:Doing it wrong. on Ask Slashdot: A Cheap, DIY Home Security and Surveillance System? · · Score: 1

    Get a bigger safe.
    Get yourself a 500 pound safe, and they aren't carrying it anywhere.

  22. Re:Honeypot on Ask Slashdot: A Cheap, DIY Home Security and Surveillance System? · · Score: 1

    Just put the camera inside pointing out a window.

  23. Becasue thre gun on Ask Slashdot: A Cheap, DIY Home Security and Surveillance System? · · Score: 1

    is so damn useful against people who in your home when you are not. I'm sure the thief will enjoy acquiring you gun next time they break in.

    sigh. anyways.

    A) The events in your backyard may have been happening prior to the break in, but you didn't notice or put any pattern together. You increased awareness is not making a pattern.
    So, don't assume when you catch someone out there, there are the thief.

    B) Camera with motion detectors.

    C) Get vibration detectors on the windows. With them to your computers. if activated, have it send you a text. The you ca go online and check you're cameras.

    D) Do you trust your neighbors? Communicate with them, see if they have had in issues.

    E) Get a security company sign and put it in your front yard. Hell, but a fake key pad in plain sight with blinking LED.

    Good luck with the insurance company.

  24. Re:DST on Canada To Stop Making Pennies · · Score: 1

    Just like we use colorful objects to teach children.

    You do know that if you can read numbers, the color can be the same, right?

  25. Re:It begins.... on Canada To Stop Making Pennies · · Score: 1

    We went off the 'Gold exchange standard' in 1972, we were already off the gold standard.

    When you see someone post 'we went of the gold standard in 1972' rant, it's a good clue that don't actual know what they are talking about. They wont understand the gilded cage(gold standard)) they won't understand how doing so means other countries can exchange currency for gold and impact the US dollar negativity, like the French did(Gold Exchange Standard).

    Gold standard would cripple us.