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  1. Re:Human brains solve NP-Hard problems on Classic Nintendo Games Are NP-Hard · · Score: 2

    This suggests to me that reformulating problems of interest into a form that the brain can process (e.g., video games)

    That's what "gamification" is. Not a new idea. It even has its own Wikipedia page.

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

  2. Re:Latency on Ask Slashdot: What Is an Acceptable Broadband Latency? · · Score: 1

    When gaming, playing from Europe on US server I usually get 150ms, 30-50 ms on European servers about 700 km from me.

  3. Re:Great, what we really needed on The Vortex Gun Coming Soon To a Protest Near You · · Score: 1

    "The Israeli military used a suppressed .22 LR rifle in the 1990s for riot control and to "eliminate disturbing dogs prior to operations", though it is now used less often as it has been shown to be more lethal than previously suspected."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.22#Usage

    It's just a matter of perspective.

  4. Re:DC++ has SSL encryption now on Anonymous, Decentralized and Uncensored File-Sharing Is Booming · · Score: 1

    uTorrent has SSL too.

  5. Re:How about no textbook at all? on Math Textbooks a Textbook Example of Bad Textbooks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I agree that it's best to teach the children first how to multiplication table came to be, however memorising it still has a very real value, otherwise you'll multiply so slow that it'll unfeasible while shopping.

  6. Re:Why the anxiety? on Ask Slashdot: Life After Firefox 3.6.x? · · Score: 1

    Because he likes his refresh button.

  7. Re:Do we need another one? on Now in English: VALO-CD Open Source Software Collection · · Score: 3, Informative

    These aren't Linux distros. They're collections of Windows versions of opensource applications.

  8. Re:Great uptime! on Microsoft's Azure Cloud Suffers Major Downtime · · Score: 1

    It's more than four nines, it must be really good!

  9. Re:Should have been triple-blind... on Those Sleeping Pills May Be Killing You · · Score: 1

    What you're thinking is making the hypothesis first and then doing the experiment. (Otherwise you may fall into the sin of overfitting your data.)

  10. Re:Manned but optionally bomber, instead: B-797? on US Military Working On 'Optionally-Manned' Bomber · · Score: 1

    Just imagine, all passangers could bring their own bomb! No need for TSA anymore.

  11. Re:A government that seems to understand the Inter on Pakistan Looking For Homegrown URL Blocking System · · Score: 1

    Hungary started to borrow from Western countries at that time to get some high tech stuff. (E.g. modernizing the Metallurgical plant in my hometown with Japanese industrial computers.)

  12. Re:A government that seems to understand the Inter on Pakistan Looking For Homegrown URL Blocking System · · Score: 1

    I agree, but only because I'm not that familiar with the history of the USSR as of my own country.

  13. Re:A government that seems to understand the Inter on Pakistan Looking For Homegrown URL Blocking System · · Score: 1

    " As reported, they did lots of spying and snitching in East Germany, but not in USSR "

    I personally know people who told me that they had to write such reports. Most of these records were destroyed in 1989. The remaining parts got accesibble only in recent years, so you can look up what was written about you.

    Even famous rock musicians had to write these reports (like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyula_Vikid%C3%A1l )

  14. Re:A government that seems to understand the Inter on Pakistan Looking For Homegrown URL Blocking System · · Score: 1

    I'm living in a post-communist country and have met a few half-Russian guys and they all have this rose colored view of communism.

    The whole idea of communism was a half-baked mess, make-it-up-as-we-go. People with actual education were dismissed, sent to the Gulag, sometimes executed (someone wanted their flat e.g.), or just given unskilled work. The new intellectual elite was deliberately raised from the worker class, people with intellectual parents were banned from the field of humanities. People beggining from midmanagement level were expected to write regular reports to the national security. It was a paradise for snitches. And the party was keen to jail/execute its own people when they steered too far from the groupthink or even if they were just simply in the way of someone more powerful.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Rajk#Trial
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81rp%C3%A1d_Szakasits
    http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1lffy_Gy%C3%B6rgy (sorry no English source)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_K%C3%A9thly
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imre_Nagy

    The soft dictatorship of the late 70ies and 80ies was a result of financial difficulties. That was when the people in power realized that the system cannot be sustained indefinitely and there's a need for smooth transition to capitalism.

  15. Re:A government that seems to understand the Inter on Pakistan Looking For Homegrown URL Blocking System · · Score: 1

    "If the capitalism is so cool then please explain the Ludlow Massacre, the Kent State shootings, Vietnam war, and even OWS if you want. "

    You're dodging the question, I never put America on a piedestal. It's just strawmen.

  16. Re:A government that seems to understand the Inter on Pakistan Looking For Homegrown URL Blocking System · · Score: 1

    If the USSR was that cool than please explain 1956 or the Prague Spring.

  17. Re:Wow! That's some neat Progress! on Is It Time For NoSQL 2.0? · · Score: 1

    Last time I checked Postgres had cluster support. I don't know what you mean by lax schema, or whether I really want it.

  18. Re:"does some spying and reporting on you" on Ask Slashdot: Copy Protection Advice For ~$10k Software? · · Score: 1

    Or you can charge everyone the maximum that they're willing to pay.

  19. Re:The problem with universal languages on Oracle's Java Claims Now Down To $230 Million · · Score: 1

    The litigation isn't about the language as you can't patent a language. It's about the VM patents, namely just-in-time compilation, and mixing compiled and interpreted code.

  20. E3 on Google Chrome: the New Web Platform? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Embrace, extend, extinguish. Or is there any other way this can be interpreted?

  21. Re:Frak! on Study Says Fracking is Safe In Theory But Often Not In Practice · · Score: 1

    It's simply the the "ceteris paribus" principle. So the burden of proof that a libertarian legal system would be less corrupt lies on the libertarians.

  22. Re:Nokia on Ask Slashdot: Tech Manufacturers With Better Labor Practices? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Can confirm that. A Nokia factory closed this month in Hungary. They're moving it to Asia too.

  23. Re:Doesn't matter on In Hot Water: The Effects of Even Modern Nuke Plants On Water · · Score: 1

    Build the majority of Nuke plants in cold areas near population centers

    Yeah, you really want to build nuclear plants near population centers ...

  24. Re:Is the desktop still gonna suck? on Linux Of the Future May Be About Which Environment, Not Which Distribution · · Score: 1

    No, it's more like this.

    Reversi == beans

  25. Re:Is the desktop still gonna suck? on Linux Of the Future May Be About Which Environment, Not Which Distribution · · Score: 5, Informative

    Relevant video: link