How do they categorise what is collected in their database as child porn? I have yet to see an automated system that can look at a photo and describe what it is (although several have been promoted over the years) I imagine that the decision as to what category the pics falls under must be made by a human. So my question is whose standard do they apply for the process?
I can see that this process could be very arbitrary. So while I am not advocating child porn, I can also see that the data collection process could get very messy and have lots of false positives and negatives. and like the TSAs no fly list, could be very hard to get off it once you are on.
Oh shit.. I knew I should have read TFA.. they are advocating an automated process that is trained to recognise signatures of pics that are deemed to be bad. If they can do that for $1,000,000 I will be really surprised, as I don;t think it has ever been sucessfully done before for any type of image. I wonder who sold them this snake oil (again)
Hate to tell you.. but its really easy.. You just set Quick edit and quick insert. Highlight with left mouse click and drag.. copy highlighted text with right mouse click.. past copied text with another right mouse click.
I'm sorry.. I'm a little confused about your last post.
Are you saying:
1) That you are speaking some poorly spelt dialect of 133t speak? 1) You have small dick syndrome and are compensating by drawing a big one for yourself? 2) You want to have anal sex with me? 3) You want to partake in watersports with me? 4) You want to partake in bukake with me? 5) One or more of the above?
No no no.. its not the "same old crap", its "*new* *improved* *crapperiffic* articles"
Remember a few months when Mr Taco promised us weekly fireside chats? (You know, the ones we haven't seen in a while). Well he promised us that things would be different from now on.. and they are.. like OMG ponies...
So what is the difference between seeing a bunch of OSS programmers at a normal beach versus a nude beach? A square foot or two of material? I can assure you that I have seen bodies of all shapes and sizes on both normal and nude beaches and that being "covered up" doesn't hide you from the way people are.
It would appear that you are in denial of the fact that people other than hollywood stereotypes actually go to the beach.. *any* beach. I would suggest that perhaps you get out of your (stereotypical) basement and see what the world is really like.
Of course I can throw in the US centric sterotypical comments about this country being obsessed with not being seen naked, yet while all the time having a media that exploits a nude fantasy.
I was watching a police videos show the other day and they had a segment on a copuple of teens who were drving around some town at night with paint ball guns and doing "drive bys" on unsuspecting pedestrians. And to top it all off they were video taping the whole thing and had lots of colourful narrative to go with the action.
This all came to an end with their last victim who they "shot" in full view of a police cruiser (which you actually see on the tape)
Man my jaw dropped. I was astounded at their level of stupidity.
Mind you the Dumb and Dumber bank robbers in Denver made me laugh my ass off as well. Although not in this article, I do remember that they were caught with pictures of themselves in "gansta" poses hlding their "loot"
I never thought that you could make so much $$ off advertising....
You know that the whole TV and Radio industry is almost soley based around advertising $$$.
What TV delivers is not programs with adverts every so often. It deivers adverts that have programs between them.
The programs are meant to keep the viewers attention while they are subjected to multiple adverts that ask the viewers to hand over money that (after profits) is used to fund the programs themselves. I know that this is a can be seen as a cynical view, but it is how the finances of TV work - the revenue is not generated by the programs themselves, it is generated by selling adv space during those programs.
The June edition contains an interesting article on RFID and its security with respect to consumers. It is a good introductory article that covers all of the main security issues. It also talks about how various people who have been influential in teh government are now working for RFID companies (one being Tom Ridge former Secretary of Homeland Security)
What was interesting to me in the same articla is a reference to IBM having a 2001 patent application for tracking individual persons using the RFID constellation they create when carrying around a significant number of RFID tags. You nominate your target and profile what RFIDs they have, and then just look for that specific profile as it floats from detector to detector. This is scary stuff.
On a slightly related note, I remember seeing a comment somewhere about how teenage boys could profile the RFID constellation of hot looking women walking down the street and correlate this with the Victorias Secret catalogue in order to pick who was wearing the hot lingerie. This is a weird but possible new behaviour that RFIDs is opening.
Of more importance, I saw recently a reference to an RFID tag that could be embedded in currency notes as an anti counterfitting measure. Imagine how the muggers would jump on board this if it comes true.
You may think of an optical fibre as just the glass or plastic part that carries the light, but any cable that is going to be used in a real world situation will also have cladding etc.
I just found this brochure that shows all the layers on a cable (its a PDF)
From the TFA these glasses are being touted as a portable multimedia experience. With the (lack of) details on the websites it appears that wearing then will significantly fill out the users field of vision (which you would hope for in order to get the best viewing). So we have:
1) Expensie tech (As in a couple of hundred) 2) Not physically large 3) Highly visible to everyone else that you are using it 4) Blocks out significant part of your own visual field (and also audio) 5) Designed to be used outside of your own home (as otherwise why use it)
In a private situation (or on a plane) these glasses would be OK, but wear them on the subway, or sit in the park and you might as well put up a banner that says "Mug me!!"
But a solution would be to put a web cam on top of the glasses, and feed it back into the system as a "picture in picture" so you can keep track of the outside world while you gasp at the unblelievable plot quality of m:i:III:D
Yes.. its a joke.. its meant to be funny (well at least to the majority of the world (6 billion or so minus 300 million). Besides, I'm living here now, so I am poking fun against myself - nyah nyah nyah. Thats sad really.. can I go home now??
Forget the stupid programming stuff. Who was the dumbshit project manager that signed off on the backup generator being located *outside* of the safe command compound?? The whole project design was an engineering nightmare that should have been squashed from the start!
Hollywood has always played around with "stereotypes" that are totally wrong in real life. For example:
o All the fire sprinklers going off in a building when only one has been activated. o Car tires that "squeal" on dirt roads. o Cowboys shooting indians with pistols, from horseback at a gallop (with 100% accuracy) o (Not 100% sure of this one) The placement of periscopes in the main control rooms of submarines
The list goes on and on. After all it *is* Hollywood.
Its the system overall. Too many stupid laws, too many wars on this or that. Why don't people think more.. about the children that is. We need to think about the children more. To make the world a special place for them. If only we could do that. I realise that this is hard to do, but what are the consequences otherwise?
Slashdot Mirror
Petaphiles of disk space.
*rim short*
Thank-you, thank-you, I'll be here all week
No a troll but a serious question.
.. I knew I should have read TFA .. they are advocating an automated process that is trained to recognise signatures of pics that are deemed to be bad. If they can do that for $1,000,000 I will be really surprised, as I don;t think it has ever been sucessfully done before for any type of image. I wonder who sold them this snake oil (again)
How do they categorise what is collected in their database as child porn? I have yet to see an automated system that can look at a photo and describe what it is (although several have been promoted over the years) I imagine that the decision as to what category the pics falls under must be made by a human. So my question is whose standard do they apply for the process?
I can see that this process could be very arbitrary. So while I am not advocating child porn, I can also see that the data collection process could get very messy and have lots of false positives and negatives. and like the TSAs no fly list, could be very hard to get off it once you are on.
Oh shit
Hate to tell you .. but its really easy .. You just set Quick edit and quick insert. Highlight with left mouse click and drag .. copy highlighted text with right mouse click .. past copied text with another right mouse click.
Because I am out to prove how studly I am .. that and too much time on my hands today .. lol
Yep .. sure is great,
plus it's better than having a head up there
I'm sorry .. I'm a little confused about your last post.
Are you saying:
1) That you are speaking some poorly spelt dialect of 133t speak?
1) You have small dick syndrome and are compensating by drawing a big one for yourself?
2) You want to have anal sex with me?
3) You want to partake in watersports with me?
4) You want to partake in bukake with me?
5) One or more of the above?
No ...
Me Trolling
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You o->--
No no no .. its not the "same old crap", its "*new* *improved* *crapperiffic* articles"
.. and they are .. like OMG ponies ...
Remember a few months when Mr Taco promised us weekly fireside chats? (You know, the ones we haven't seen in a while). Well he promised us that things would be different from now on
So what is the difference between seeing a bunch of OSS programmers at a normal beach versus a nude beach? A square foot or two of material? I can assure you that I have seen bodies of all shapes and sizes on both normal and nude beaches and that being "covered up" doesn't hide you from the way people are.
.. *any* beach. I would suggest that perhaps you get out of your (stereotypical) basement and see what the world is really like.
It would appear that you are in denial of the fact that people other than hollywood stereotypes actually go to the beach
Of course I can throw in the US centric sterotypical comments about this country being obsessed with not being seen naked, yet while all the time having a media that exploits a nude fantasy.
Lets see,
Ways to beat the system
1/ Don't turn the phone on (sorry Mum, the battery went flat)
2/ Leave the phone at a safe location while you go elsewhere (sorry Mum, I had the ringer turned off soo I wouldn't annoy people near me)
Can anyone think of anymore ways?
I was watching a police videos show the other day and they had a segment on a copuple of teens who were drving around some town at night with paint ball guns and doing "drive bys" on unsuspecting pedestrians. And to top it all off they were video taping the whole thing and had lots of colourful narrative to go with the action.
This all came to an end with their last victim who they "shot" in full view of a police cruiser (which you actually see on the tape)
Man my jaw dropped. I was astounded at their level of stupidity.
Mind you the Dumb and Dumber bank robbers in Denver made me laugh my ass off as well. Although not in this article, I do remember that they were caught with pictures of themselves in "gansta" poses hlding their "loot"
I never thought that you could make so much $$ off advertising....
You know that the whole TV and Radio industry is almost soley based around advertising $$$.
What TV delivers is not programs with adverts every so often.
It deivers adverts that have programs between them.
The programs are meant to keep the viewers attention while they are subjected to multiple adverts that ask the viewers to hand over money that (after profits) is used to fund the programs themselves. I know that this is a can be seen as a cynical view, but it is how the finances of TV work - the revenue is not generated by the programs themselves, it is generated by selling adv space during those programs.
The June edition contains an interesting article on RFID and its security with respect to consumers. It is a good introductory article that covers all of the main security issues. It also talks about how various people who have been influential in teh government are now working for RFID companies (one being Tom Ridge former Secretary of Homeland Security)
What was interesting to me in the same articla is a reference to IBM having a 2001 patent application for tracking individual persons using the RFID constellation they create when carrying around a significant number of RFID tags. You nominate your target and profile what RFIDs they have, and then just look for that specific profile as it floats from detector to detector. This is scary stuff.
On a slightly related note, I remember seeing a comment somewhere about how teenage boys could profile the RFID constellation of hot looking women walking down the street and correlate this with the Victorias Secret catalogue in order to pick who was wearing the hot lingerie. This is a weird but possible new behaviour that RFIDs is opening.
Of more importance, I saw recently a reference to an RFID tag that could be embedded in currency notes as an anti counterfitting measure. Imagine how the muggers would jump on board this if it comes true.
Thats what MicroKernals are all about - modularisation!!!! So they must be better!!!
(Puts on asbestos suit and ducks for cover)
You may think of an optical fibre as just the glass or plastic part that carries the light, but any cable that is going to be used in a real world situation will also have cladding etc.
I just found this brochure that shows all the layers on a cable (its a PDF)
Aerospace grade optical fibre
And that gives a weight of 4.5 kg/km (which is much lower than I expected). Now all I need is the number of km's or cable per typical aircraft!
After the show finished .. she changed her first name to Janet .. and now she works for Microsft
From the TFA these glasses are being touted as a portable multimedia experience. With the (lack of) details on the websites it appears that wearing then will significantly fill out the users field of vision (which you would hope for in order to get the best viewing). So we have:
:D
1) Expensie tech (As in a couple of hundred)
2) Not physically large
3) Highly visible to everyone else that you are using it
4) Blocks out significant part of your own visual field (and also audio)
5) Designed to be used outside of your own home (as otherwise why use it)
In a private situation (or on a plane) these glasses would be OK, but wear them on the subway, or sit in the park and you might as well put up a banner that says "Mug me!!"
But a solution would be to put a web cam on top of the glasses, and feed it back into the system as a "picture in picture" so you can keep track of the outside world while you gasp at the unblelievable plot quality of m:i:III
Murdoch *was* Australian. Well maybe dual citizenship .. he is a naturalised US citizen.
He jumped ship in orer to get around US media ownership laws
Its where you keep Americans! .. Ba-da-boom
.. its a joke .. its meant to be funny (well at least to the majority of the world (6 billion or so minus 300 million). Besides, I'm living here now, so I am poking fun against myself - nyah nyah nyah. Thats sad really .. can I go home now??
Yes
In small subs yes, but I thought that in WWII era subs they were actually in the conning tower. I know I read about this somewhere.
I pissed myself laughing when I saw the floating outline on the water in one of the Naked Gun movies
Robocop is a DOS based machine
In Robocop 2, the bad guy made into a robot was a Mac based machine.
Forget the stupid programming stuff. Who was the dumbshit project manager that signed off on the backup generator being located *outside* of the safe command compound?? The whole project design was an engineering nightmare that should have been squashed from the start!
Hollywood has always played around with "stereotypes" that are totally wrong in real life. For example:
o All the fire sprinklers going off in a building when only one has been activated.
o Car tires that "squeal" on dirt roads.
o Cowboys shooting indians with pistols, from horseback at a gallop (with 100% accuracy)
o (Not 100% sure of this one) The placement of periscopes in the main control rooms of submarines
The list goes on and on. After all it *is* Hollywood.
Its the system overall. Too many stupid laws, too many wars on this or that. Why don't people think more .. about the children that is. We need to think about the children more. To make the world a special place for them. If only we could do that. I realise that this is hard to do, but what are the consequences otherwise?