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  1. Re:AI Winter on Watson Wins Jeopardy Contest · · Score: 1

    As I said, same content... a lot better than a air-port in New Zealand...

    US (America), I'm not sure what Jepody categories are like, but they seem a bit obscure at times...

    Also there were a few world war links, but I believe 2 strong ones. That could be seen as a 1st and a 2nd strong world war link...ambiguity of second being 2 of or the second... though the first world war was called the great war, again that could have lead to greater ambiguity on world war.... given the fist wasn't called that till on or after the second, so it would also be ambiguous... making a match on world war more ambiguous that it may first appear to be.

    Really I think the possible pun type misinterpretation and the ambiguity of second show quite how cool Watson is.
    Maybe for people in the good old US of A it may have seemed like a silly mistake being close to home.

  2. Re:Unless God says so Re:Unfortunately they do on Anonymous Goes After GodHatesFags.com · · Score: 1

    would that be a potato? they look pretty similar above ground.

  3. Re:Analogy Doesn't Matter on Geohot To Turn Over Computers To Neutral Third Party · · Score: 1

    I thought he just implemented a hack someone else had already come up with..

    I just worked out how to put a different engine in my car, better not post of the internet or GM may come after me.

  4. Re:Very Nice on Geohot To Turn Over Computers To Neutral Third Party · · Score: 1

    it's more like making a screw driver to take the back off something you own, because Sony blew a fuse in your own kit and you need to change it to get it working properly again.

  5. Re:Unless God says so Re:Unfortunately they do on Anonymous Goes After GodHatesFags.com · · Score: 1

    5 minutes off of your life in hell.

    it's in the small print.

  6. Re:At LEAST it's better... on Anonymous Goes After GodHatesFags.com · · Score: 1

    In Christian Apple Jobs has you.

  7. Re:At LEAST it's better... on Anonymous Goes After GodHatesFags.com · · Score: 1

    Amazon have jobs right?

  8. Re:Unfortunately they do on Anonymous Goes After GodHatesFags.com · · Score: 2

    I thought they'd banned advertising smoking?

  9. Re:Funny... on Last.Fm Founder Criticizes Apple Over Music Subscription Fees · · Score: 1

    Yeh, so where's the money cut? Shouldn't they be bitching about record labels a bit more, or is it the heavily produces singers who already make shit loads that are complaining?

  10. Re:really intel? on Intel CEO: Nokia Should Have Gone With Android · · Score: 1

    Sony Ericssons or some of them run Symbian. The last Nokia we got was because it ran Symbian and the one before that.

    Symbian sells a lot of phones.

  11. Re:really intel? on Intel CEO: Nokia Should Have Gone With Android · · Score: 1

    Arm is a pretty open chip, maybe Intel will be going that way in the future.

  12. Re:Help me out here on Anatomy of the HBGary Hack · · Score: 1

    A plain English analogy.
    lets say you hand the bus driver some change for a ticket.
    Now most bus drivers have a policy of not turning their back on you whilst your there, as you may be able to nick their wallet from their pocket whilst their back is turned.
    One stupid company thought it was friendly and open if, after taking your money they got their drivers to glance away for a second.
    Someone noticed this, and with slight of hand nicked the bus drivers wallet.

    Except it's SQL and data not money.

  13. Re:Help me out here on Anatomy of the HBGary Hack · · Score: 1

    SQL injection = some prat didn't use a decent data abstraction layer, or there was one really fucked up stored procedure.

    unfortunately, that's about 90% of the IT people I've worked with.

  14. Re:AI Winter on Watson Wins Jeopardy Contest · · Score: 1

    I just goggled the Toronto airport names list, and then looked for war references
    I think the error in the ambiguity of second is really the Gem..

  15. Re:AI Winter on Watson Wins Jeopardy Contest · · Score: 1

    It is possible to cause a human woodcarver to make the same kind of mistakes that milling machine do. That doesn't make it intelligent.

  16. Re:AI Winter on Watson Wins Jeopardy Contest · · Score: 1

    well that just relates to thinking about things before hand, I'm not sure what you argument is?
    what do you stand under?

  17. Re:AI Winter on Watson Wins Jeopardy Contest · · Score: 1

    that's one war hero and a second war hero.

    now if there's another battle in there, that's a second battle, maybe even a second world war battle.

  18. Re:AI Winter on Watson Wins Jeopardy Contest · · Score: 1

    also lots of John Munro's in lots of wars and stuff...
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Munro

  19. Re:AI Winter on Watson Wins Jeopardy Contest · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Battle of Okinawa
    Oshawa Airport

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Bishop
    Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport

    Air Marshal William Avery "Billy" Bishop VC, CB, DSO & Bar, MC, DFC, ED (8 February 1894 – 11 September 1956) was a Canadian First World War flying ace, officially credited with 72 victories, making him the top Canadian ace, and according to some sources, the top ace of the British Empire.

  20. Re:AI Winter on Watson Wins Jeopardy Contest · · Score: 2

    I'm not hot on war heros etc... Does Toronto have airports that fit the criteria?

    an airport named after a Second World War hero and one after a Second World War battle.

    Toronto may not be in the US but it's in north America, a lot closer than Cape Town Airport. how good is your geography.

    As wrong answers go, it may not have been that bad. Hell it's only a few years old, and improves itself.

  21. Re:AI Winter on Watson Wins Jeopardy Contest · · Score: 1

    Yep, but t he parent wasn't complaining about Jepody ability but answering ability.

    Jepody is very quick fire, it may be possible to make it better with a bit more time or being able to give more than one answer and develop the answers (like a didactic argument for instance)
    Watson, the house round the corner?
    Person, no it wasn't a house,
    Watson, The bates motel?

    or Watson,
    maybe a leg, maybe missing a leg etc... then able to produce citations and sources.

  22. Re:Help me out here on Anatomy of the HBGary Hack · · Score: 1

    put simply, when I submit this post it will go into a database.

    There are characters such as ' or whatever that need to be escaped if for instance, the SQL is built up, say, by concatenating strings.

    SQL = "INSERT INTO Post_Table (text,username) '" + PostData + "', '"+ username + "'";

    In this case single quotes represent the start and end of string data in the SQL statement.

    So if I put a single quote in some data I post, and it's not escaped in the SQL statement then I can craft a post that would allow me to execute another SQL statement afterwards, say the DBMS uses ; as a statement terminator

    So say I post the data

    foobar' , 'he he a pretend username'; DROP DATABASE;

    well you get the idea.

    There's more to it and more ways than that, stored procedures etc.... but that's the general idea, that if the data being posted isn't sent to or worked on in the DMBS properly, it's possible to add your own custom SQL statements that can do pretty much anything you like to the DBMS, and even get out onto the local network and then mess around with that yada yada....

    I could for instance put
    foobar' + (SELECT blah from blip) + 'rab
    and then when my post get returned back to me it would contain whatever the select statement contained as well as the post.

  23. Re:The universe is infinite on How To Build a Telescope That Trumps Hubble · · Score: 1

    if you where travailing in a circle how long would it take you to reach the end?

    pretty much everything is 'symmetrical' in one way or another, e.g. relativity has QM, random has determinate position has direction, energy has matter space has time or energy and matter have time and space, +ve has -ve (or -1 +2/3 -1/3 and the anti-particles), gravity has dark energy, up has down etc...

  24. Re:NO CONTRACT ISSUES..... on Freedom Box Foundation Wants Plug Servers For All · · Score: 1

    I think you could also use local wifi to bridge the gap between the power network.

    It's more like a mega-local-Intranet type routing system that can also go over the larger internet that anything to do with an ISP, in-fact it's the opposite of an ISP.

    Stick a bit of smart caching of content for various sources on there, with a bit of routing and if a website get's taken of the commercial net it can run on the people net, or may have been cached there.

    Could also run free-net, radio-stations, phone systems etc... by piggybacking power lines and over wi-fi.

  25. Re:Anatomy of the Hack on Attacked By Anonymous, HBGary Pulls Out of RSA · · Score: 1

    well if their is disruption on the public right of way to the website then surly is that not seeing the content of the protest, in a similar way to physical bodies or objects. E=MC^2 after all.

    Connection failures and ping times are the digital equivalent of down with whoever, or having to go around or between protesters.

    I'd say it was a bit like chants or signs being visible from inside the place of business as the doors and windows where open etc....

    They didn't actually 'hack' the servers [where the work is done], only disrupt access to the place of work. I don't think you could say the workers where intimidated, only made to think a bit more about the work they where doing.