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  1. Re:Neural Network for Machine Learning on Coursera on A.I. Advances Through Deep Learning · · Score: 1

    The hardware since the 295 days is around least 3 times as fast too. It seems just about every publication on neural networks has had something about GPUs in the last few years.

    http://www.neuroinformatics2011.org/abstracts/speeding-25-fold-neural-network-simulations-with-gpu-processing

    From the article : Furthermore, to increase the number of calculated time steps increases exponentially the computation time with the CPU while the computation time increases only linearly with the Graphic Processor Unit.

    Eh?

  2. Re:What's going on? on Researchers Investigating Self-Boosting Vaccines · · Score: 1

    It's the weekend, yet Australia is mentioned only three times on Slashdot.

    Au

  3. Re:You can greatly reduce on The White Noise of Smell · · Score: 1

    Unlikely. I find I can't smell in a vacuum.

    That and the smell sucks.

  4. Re:You can greatly reduce on The White Noise of Smell · · Score: 2

    the amount of "white smell" if you use Dolby Nose Reduction.

    Personally I think analog smells are way more realistic than digital.

    But you need vacuum tubes to properly reproduce it.

  5. Re:Wow, if I was on the MS Exchange Team... on Companies Getting Rid of Reply-all · · Score: 1

    I would love to hear this. A button to disable it? How draconian, what are we in the dark ages?
    In Exchange each message thread has an ID --- why not simply make a pointer to the one copy of the message - whether the user is pulling off the server or in the .pst file? Boy, I guess these guys never heard of the concept of DEduplication.

    Send your email to a central server, and send a link to the recipient. What could go wrong?

  6. Re:I went through this program!! on Cyber Corps Program Trains Spies For the Digital Age, In Oklahoma · · Score: 1

    The only jobs at NSA that require a Secret are in a kitchen. Wait... there might be some landscaping positions as well.

    Do they have an Art History battalion?

  7. Re:No surprise there on After Weeks of Trying, UK Cryptographers Fail To Crack WWII Code · · Score: 1

    Strictly speaking, Venona was the project to decrypt the intercepted messages, started once it was realized that the encryption keys were being reused.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project

  8. Re:And this is news? on 1976 Polaroids of an Apple-1 Resurface · · Score: 1

    I mean...photos of one [famous] American company's early products? What has Slashdot become? Geez! Is this still news for nerds, stuff that matters? I guess I should post photos of earlier Motorola products, then claim space on Slashdot, right?

    For the price of 1976 Polaroids you could have bought an Apple 1 back then (I suspect).

    --

    300 baud modem hacked. Top secret schematics online.

  9. Re:No surprise there on After Weeks of Trying, UK Cryptographers Fail To Crack WWII Code · · Score: 2

    I don't think you have even the remotest idea what Venona was.

    It was the code used by the atomic spies. Alexander Fomin (nee Feklisov) was the agent in charge of the ring. Klaus Prigsheim a faculty member at KU was the host when he talked in IIRC 1960. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. was his debate counterpart. Fomin sounded a lot like Bela Lugosi.

    Several point out that it is not a OneTime Pad if you reuse the pad. The pad was reused because of the workload, and the code was broken. Fomin said that Ethel Rosenberg was not involved.

  10. Re:Exit node malware coming soon on "Anonymous" File-Sharing Darknet Ruled Illegal By German Court · · Score: 4, Funny

    Someone should hack the Judge's computer and use as an exit node....

    Probably happened about two days ago.

  11. Re:No surprise there on After Weeks of Trying, UK Cryptographers Fail To Crack WWII Code · · Score: 1

    Your citation is incomplete. Key reuse is one way to weaken the encoding without forking over the key itself, though this needs multiple messages encoded with the same key.

    If you've re-used a key, you're no longer using a one time pad. (Hint: Why do you think it's called a one time pad? [emphasis mine])

    Venona was supposed to be an OTP and it was cracked by the reuse of the pad.

  12. Re:This makes perfect sense on Stratfor Hacker Could Be Sentenced to Life, Says Judge · · Score: 1

    Think about it, they NEED to keep him in jail for at least 10 years : this is the only way to be sure that his "dangerous" knowledge about the interwebs will be obsolete enough to be harmless !

    JUSTICE !

    Oh come on, it will be sooner than that

  13. Re:Simple - If you can't afford the time on Stratfor Hacker Could Be Sentenced to Life, Says Judge · · Score: 1

    Then don't do the crime.

    Baretta is that you?

  14. Re:Ughh on Fetuses Caught Yawning In 4D · · Score: 1

    How the hell is this "news for nerds"?

    Because the little thing was bored and thus well on its way to nerd status (if not already there). As for news, there was not a single new.

  15. Popcorn turkey on Ask Slashdot: Geekiest Way To Cook a Turkey? · · Score: 1

    I thought turkeys could fly..........

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf3mgmEdfwg

    Preheat oven to 350F.

    Stuff cavity with butter and popcorn.

    When bird flies out of oven, then it is done.

  16. Re:Yes, but... on Syfy Reality Show Will Feature Giant Boxing Robots · · Score: 1

    Heh. More like they'll turn it into a reality show where there's 38 minutes of annoying hosts,...

    They got the annoying host, Chris Jericho.

    He plays (played?) a whiney annoying bitch of a wrestler in the WWE universe, though he hasn't been around much lately. He of course, could be a stand up guy a very nice in RL, but I'm not holding my breath for that...

    He also is in a band that doesn't make much waves, Fozzy. They might be good, but as stated above, he plays such a whiney bitch of a wrestler, I've never bothered to listen to them.

    But none the less I will check it out. I mean, big ass robots beating each other up? Sounds fun.

    Will there be any fake robots.

  17. Re:Doesn't the Tolkien estate... on Tolkien Estate Sues Over Lord of the Rings Slot Machines · · Score: 1

    They should have lost it in 1973.

    I find your lack of faith in the Schwartz disturbing.

  18. Re:Not Exciting to the General Public on What "Earth-Shaking" Discovery Has Curiosity Made on Mars? · · Score: 1

    Maybe Curiousity found tomato sauce?

    After the war of the killer tomatoes?

  19. Re:Why Only 64-bit on New Linux Rootkit Emerges · · Score: 1

    Just curious why the root kit is only targeting 64-bit. Is it specifically targeting the intel 64bit spec that allows for privileged escalation, or something like that? Reading the article makes it sound like it's an exploit of the AMD little endian pointers which, since I don't know hardware on that level, I don't know if that means it's actually a CPU exploit or an OS exploit. And if it's a CPU exploit I don't know if it's all AMD64 based including or excluding Intel.

    Did it work on 32-bit?

  20. Re:There's a new secure OS called... on New Linux Rootkit Emerges · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's a new secure OS called Rootkit Server 12 - maybe it's time you nerds started upgrading to it!

    This is the year of the Linux rootkit.

  21. Re:They found LIFF on What "Earth-Shaking" Discovery Has Curiosity Made on Mars? · · Score: 1

    martians had forgotten a book there which is totally liff

    "Handbook for the Recently Dead"

  22. Re:I guess doctors will have to decide... on Harvard Develops Drug-Filled, Injectable Sponge That Expands Inside the Body · · Score: 1

    if the patient is "sponge-worthy"

    For taking off those rounded corners.

  23. Re:this had better not on Astronomers Get Picture of Nearby Exoplanet · · Score: 1

    Pay no attention to that brown dwarf behind the sun.

  24. Re:So now on A Better Thought-Controlled Computer Cursor · · Score: 1

    Does he have a db25 plug on his head?

    It's probably wireless and I'm also guessing the test device was probably a Blue monkey over Bluetooth.

    Good idea. It was probably the cats with wires to their heads that inspired PETA.

  25. Re:Sounds improbable on Dutch Cold Case Murder Solved After 8000 People Gave Their DNA · · Score: 1

    Well, turning yourself in is admitting guilt and is psychologically hard.

    This way, he is not directly admitting guilt (he does the same thing 90% of people in the neighborhood are doing), and there's a chance they won't get him, so it probably is much easier to (effectively) turn oneself in this this way.

    And maybe the lab will get it wrong, and mixup the samples; 100% match and 100% wrong.