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  1. Re:Seamless Math Next? on Detecting Faked Photographs Gets Easier · · Score: 1

    Let's face it, if the math says it's an original, the human eye will be fooled

    No. These formulas doesn't, obviously, consider the contents of the images, only the distribution of pixels (or whatever) within them.

  2. Cool on Marian The Robot Librarian · · Score: 1

    It's almost just like that thing in The Confusion.

  3. Re:Make autocompletion more efficient on Incorporating Machine Learning into Firefox 2.0? · · Score: 1

    I think it already does that.

  4. Re:ideas on Incorporating Machine Learning into Firefox 2.0? · · Score: 1

    Accelerator for narrowband connections. Predict which pages the user is more likely to visit next, and start loading them as the user still reads the previous page. ...um, please don't preload anything, ever, since it's evil and wasteful.

  5. Re:Kill all the crew... on Star Trek XI: Romulan Wars? · · Score: 1

    ...or maybe they just don't make it fit, a bit like with Enterprise.

  6. This would have been good news... on THX-1138: The (Digitally Enhanced) Director's Cut · · Score: 1

    ...unless Lucas had gone insane a few years back. I'd prefer it if they just made a remaster of the origininal, and put it in a box.

  7. Re:Linux easier than Windows? Unpossible. on Linux Users Are Spoiled · · Score: 1

    ...not that this is different from any other decent Linux or BSD distribution.

  8. Icons on Firefox 0.9.1 and Thunderbird 0.7.1 Released · · Score: 1

    I hope they've changed the fact that the "small" icons in the new theme is almost as big as the big ones...

  9. BitlBee on The Latest And Greatest Console Applications? · · Score: 1

    BitlBee is the best addition in the last few years, in my opinion. It's an ICQ/MSN/Jabber etc. client, that appears as an IRC server. Thus you can talk with people who insist on using crappy proprietary IM protocols, using your old trusty text mode IRC clients. This beats any text mode ICQ client I've seen by far.

  10. Re:Ownership/License doesn't allow sale of DevSyst on Huge Console Auction Debuts · · Score: 1

    I don't think they can, unless he has actually signed those agreements himself.

    Also, those kinds of agreements tend to go a bit beyond the law in some countries.

  11. Re:Before anyone says it... on New Digital Audio Formats · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...and you need to read up on the anatomy of the ear.

  12. That's not language on Dog Trained on 200-Word Vocabulary · · Score: 2, Insightful
    What makes human languages special is the feature of recursive generation of sentences, making it possible to form a virtually infinite amount of sentences.

    It doesn't matter if an animal can learn 200 words or 10000, it's still not comparable to a human language.

  13. Re:Cyberneighborhood Not-Watch? on Webmasters Pounce On Wiki Sandboxes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Also, we really need to replace the klugy robots.txt files and robots meta-tags with headers built in to the HTTP protocol.

    Like it is, it's hell to try to get decent robotic behaviour out of anything other than HTML pages.

  14. Then lets... on Microsoft Receives Patent For Double-Click · · Score: 1

    take that as an excuse to eliminate the use of double clicks in all free software applications. Those were a crappy UI idea from the start.

  15. Dealing? on Dealing with the Unix Copy and Paste Paradigm? · · Score: 1
    The X way of cut'n'paste isn't any better or worse than the Windows way - it's just different.

    Since it's Unix, if you aren't happy with the way things work, you just fix it, like the people at gcb.

  16. Re:Samizdat? on Stallman vs Ken Brown · · Score: 1

    You know that samizdat was a part of the movement against the soviet regime, right? (Still a weird title, though, since it's a very positive term.)

  17. Re:Some facts on THX-1138 Finally Coming to DVD · · Score: 1

    THX 1138 was not only ahead of its time in sound effects, but also in the themes which it portrayes, such as the loss of individuals for the good of the group,

    PKD did it.

    the self-corruption of the human spirit,

    PKD did it.

    racism in science fiction,

    PKD did it.

    and yes, even channel-surfing

    PKD did it.

  18. Prior art on Google to be Sued Over Name? · · Score: 1
  19. That's stupid on Apple Files Patent for Translucent Windows · · Score: 1

    My house has had translucent windows since like 1981.

  20. Re:Sinking squared on Swedish Carbon-Fiber Stealth Ship Runs NT · · Score: 1

    Also, if I recall my airplane model building days, the carbon fiber will be hell to glue together after a crash.

  21. Re:Context & Japanese Social Habits on 2ch: Japanese Web Forum As Social Vent · · Score: 1

    Sure. What I don't get is why it would automatically be good that japanese people can behave like north american people.

    The japanese system of politeness is just different, not worse. You just happen to be blind the restrictions in your own culture.

  22. Re:Context & Japanese Social Habits on 2ch: Japanese Web Forum As Social Vent · · Score: 1

    Basically, this public, anonymous forum gives Japanese people the ability ( It is still a novelty to most of them, I would imagine ) to act "normal"

    You are very liberal with the use of the word "normal" here (quotes or no quotes). What's normal in your society isn't necessarily in Japan, or wherever.

  23. Re:dear me on How To Get Googled, By Hook Or By Crook · · Score: 1

    ...which would result in better search results for everyone. What's the problem?

  24. Re:What about *BSD? on New Debian Installer Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Not so strange, considering the differences in how BSD handles partitions.

  25. He wasn't first on PacManhattan Relocates Classic Game To New York Streets · · Score: 1

    I've had some good times getting drunk and playing live pong.