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  1. Re:isn't a game... on Turing Test Competition At CalTech · · Score: 2

    Blox, yes it is. It depends how you play the game. It's certainly more of a language then a Monkey point at symbols.

    The challenge appears to be play the game like a human. Well when most humans play a game they use a kind of language not just logic,

    player 1 makes a move
    player 2 looks at the game and try to assess what player 1's upto, and what move to make.
    repeat.

    In language, say an IRC chat,
    Person 1 says something,
    Person 2 looks at what person 1 has said and try to assess what it's all about, where person 1 is going with the conversation etc....

    It becomes even more like a language if the computer is only given basic rules of the game and the programme has to work out how to play.
    It's like giving an AI bot basic grammar and the bot having to work out what the words mean.

    If you don't play the game like you use language then the detector bot should pick you out as a computer.

  2. isn't a game... on Turing Test Competition At CalTech · · Score: 2

    isn't a game a simple form of communitation.

  3. In other [bbc] news on Transmeta to Incorporate DRM in TM5800 Processor · · Score: 5, Informative

    The RIAA and technology companies have aggreed a deal, that will be anounced in washington on wednesday.

    Basicly the RIAA are going to stop lobying for imposed DRM and the tech companies are going to put DRM inplace.

    BBC News Story

  4. In other news on Miyazaki Region 1 DVDs at Last? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    DeCss.

  5. Re:Time to come up with a Jammer on RFID: The New Big Brother ? · · Score: 2

    Or better, time to clone RFID's and stick them all over the place.
    I'm sparticus!

  6. Mobile Phones on RFID: The New Big Brother ? · · Score: 2

    They do this with mobile phones,
    In a built up area with lots of cells they can track where your going.

    There's also a legend about being able to turn the microphone on, and eves droping without the user doing anything. (I know people who won't let you in if you have a mobile phone on you, paranoid people, not drug dealers or smugglers)

  7. Re:Performance hit on Discuss BIOS and Palladium Issues With an AMIBIOS Rep · · Score: 1

    Why not?
    1: because I a liberal
    2: I know who I am already
    3: When the Nazis get elected again, i'll just stop being a Gipsy or a Jew to stop breaking the law shall I.
    4: Who not?
    5: I don't want anything David Blunket suggests (going on his record, it's a bit screwed up).
    6: Trust no-one, even I'm wrong sometimes.
    7: I don't not break the Law,I just follow my beliefs, infact I don't know what the Law is in a lot of cases. It just happens that so far either I havn't broken the Law or I havn't been arrested.
    8: How are ID cards going to stop crime, please tell me, maybe there are less draconian Laws to break in 'Europe' incidently the UK is part of Europe.

  8. Re:Replay on KOffice 1.2.1 Supported by DRT Design Recovery Too · · Score: 1

    Ok, it looks like DRT logs the actions.
    If it logs them and could replay them you could use it for Macro programming.

    Also, I just wan't to compile -lreplay, not have to muck around with code.
    Preferably compile QT/GTK -lreplay.

  9. Re:Open Source Needs People to Reuse code on Top 10 Vulnerabilities in Web Applications · · Score: 2, Insightful

    OK, Com is very complex.
    You can access it in many ways and when done well you can improve threading models.

    I should have said com-like
    KDE uses dcop, Mozilla uses XPCOM, and there Corba in Gnome.

    COM(likes) provide a good interface definition model (with inheritance), and are quite easy to use. god knows what interfaces libgif, libpng, libjpeg etc... use, i hope it's the same.

  10. Re:'the eye isn't a simple camera' on Vision is a 'Reflex' · · Score: 1

    Which are the same as a Migraine/manic-depression/prozak, both are a result of tooooo much seritonine

  11. Re:Open Source Needs People to Reuse code on Top 10 Vulnerabilities in Web Applications · · Score: 1

    Umm... No. I've spent too long coding to figure out how to put words together in a way people can understand. It took years just for me to put the U back in colour.

  12. Re:Open Source Needs People to Reuse code on Top 10 Vulnerabilities in Web Applications · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I aggree, but what need to hapen first is good use of design patterns (Active X/Com on linux would make code easy to reuse).

    Most people write their own code because either
    1: the interface to somone else code is clumsy.
    2: They can't find the code there looking for
    3: The codes poorly documented, both inters of design and API.
    4: Because of the above potential hastles it's quicker.

    As a good exmaple there are two UHCI implementations in the 2.4 kernel usb-uhci which has crap code but works and uhci which has nice code and doesn't work that well.
    A lot of the functionality is re-implemented in the OHCI module (another USB protocol).

    This has been fixed in 2.5 though (but not fully intergrated with things like usnfs yet).

  13. Replay on KOffice 1.2.1 Supported by DRT Design Recovery Too · · Score: 1

    I want to replay the actions,
    and Is there an easy way to interrate DTR with QT (e.g. through the pre-processor). So that I can just compile anyones app with DRT enabled.

  14. 'the eye isn't a simple camera' on Vision is a 'Reflex' · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, it kinda is. It's the bits that do the processing that arn't.

    Suffering from frequent migrains and having some other bad seritonine based illnesses I can tell you what it's like to have diffency or enhancement in processing what you see.

    When you see words/letters your brain see's words and letters, not a bitmap.
    How do I know this, well sometimes I have problems being able to see shapes properly, and have to consesly work out what things are.

    Patterns are picked out as textures for the shape, sometimes I see the patterns 'waving' around and blury, it's very hard to tell what the shape is.

    Speed and motioned is also determined using some of the elements, often when a pattern becomes wavey it feels kinda like the floor is moving, and my sense of distanse goes tits up.

    Well, it's all fun, and I can get by, it just takes a little more concentration now and again.
    Oh and did I say it's fun, like being on Acid for free.

  15. Performance hit on Discuss BIOS and Palladium Issues With an AMIBIOS Rep · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I assume that data pathways with be signable or encripted in some way. What performance hit will the [operating system] take when using trusted system? e.g. How much extra data is added to form a signiture, what methods are used for signing. and how will this benifit the end-user.

  16. Re:10-20?! on Science Project Quadruples Surfing Speed - Reportedly · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How old is Linux and How old is windows.
    Well I know windows is at least 10 years old.

    Most programmers can knock up a few hundred lines a day, but they don't programme every day.

  17. Re:S3 3D performance and Linux on S3's DeltaChrome Examined · · Score: 2, Informative

    Somone on the DRI team has the chipset documentation without having to sign an NDA. So things are looking promising.

  18. S3 3D performance and Linux on S3's DeltaChrome Examined · · Score: 2

    The DRI project is working on acceleration for the S3 chipset at the moment, so you OpenGL performance should increase.

    Also, the 2.5 kernel performes soooo much better than the 2.4.19 kernel with performance patches on my crap mobo.

  19. Re:Nothing too exciting here... on S3's DeltaChrome Examined · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Or 3).
    Implement better culling &co so that you don't have to draw so much.

  20. Re:Better Idea on SCO Threatens to Press IP Claims on Linux -$99/cpu · · Score: 1

    hmm... I see, why isnt /. using PNG or JPEG , the images don't look suited to GIF.

  21. Re:Better Idea on SCO Threatens to Press IP Claims on Linux -$99/cpu · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well you get into the old agrument between pushing content and pulling content.

    Distribution is important in the GPL, because it ensures that the publishers are responsible. It's like you children being refused entry to a porn movie. (though I don't beleive that children are affected, not unless it's a daily brainwash)

  22. Re:have you ever been 16 on Science Project Quadruples Surfing Speed - Reportedly · · Score: 1

    um... Now a days I end up removing hundreds of lines of code a day, whilst refactoring. (normally other peeps stuff).

    Well, it's amazing what experiance does for you. -ve volume productivity and +ve performance/stability productivity.

  23. Re:Better Idea on SCO Threatens to Press IP Claims on Linux -$99/cpu · · Score: 1

    Linux can no longer be distrubuted.. in the US.

    currently soft patents don't apply where I live so I can still dittribute Linux.

    you can work around by, releasing a US version of Linux and holding a patch on a friendly non US server (that blocks california)

  24. Re:graffiti? on Appropriate Punishment For Crackers? · · Score: 1

    It's more like lieing down infront of a train becuase it's not safe for it's passangers.

  25. Re:police officer... on EFF Report: Four Years Under the DMCA · · Score: 1

    Ok, not in the UK, it depends what type of case it is.

    A Civil case has no Jury, e.g. Copyright, Liable, Thieft(getting the money back),tresspass.

    In a Criminal case you can opt for a Jury, though this option is going to be removed to non custodial offences.

    We have some laws that cut very closley to infringing human rights. The US is the land of Big Money and the UK's the land of Big Brother.