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  1. Re:Not a problem on What Should We Do About Wikipedia's Porn Problem? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Search for forefinger (obviously NSFW) and find porn.

  2. Re:Sounds like bull on How Hackers Listened Their Way Around Google's Recaptcha · · Score: 1

    You should read some of your sibling comments (hell, there was a video clearly explaining this). What GP would do is play off each other player. To be more specific, he would play black for 4 games and white for 4 (this is the usual setup for playing multiple games simultaneously, incase you did not know). He would see the move the white player makes, not respond to him. Move on to the next board, make the same move on this board. Observe the response, and remember it, so that he can play it in the previous board. Now he moves on to the next pair of players. The result would be half wins and half draws (sometimes a draw is also possible)

  3. Re:I gave up on Recaptcha and now use AreYouAHuman on How Hackers Listened Their Way Around Google's Recaptcha · · Score: 1

    Funny you should mention areyouhuman.com. It actually relies on recaptcha for accessibility. You would have vulnerable by the attack TFA talks about too.

  4. Re:Inevitable on Sergey Brin Demos Google Glasses Prototype · · Score: 1

    Even if you find this deplorable, I am not sure why you find media coverage undesirable. If more people find it deplorable (and learn about this through the media), someone could take the best parts of this idea, and remove the bad parts and come up with one you would like. Say someone could completely drop the eye projection, camera, and simply retain the earpiece and still provide excellent voice commands support for Android (I am not sure if you would like this or not, but this is something I would like). More coverage of brand new tech (and what could be a paradigm shift, and even worse, something that could be shoved down our throat in the future) is always good.

  5. Re:Rare footage of them out and about on Sergey Brin Demos Google Glasses Prototype · · Score: 2

    If it were that intrusive, I am pretty sure people would opt for an adblock.

  6. Re:I'd suggest on Windows 8: More EULA, Fewer Rights. · · Score: 1

    Hell, we should organize a "win8 returns party" at the local microsoft store. Every person in the store returning with the same reason would make some impact on the store and Microsoft.

  7. Re:Even free speech has its limit on Twitter Bomb Joke Case Rolls Back Into UK Courts · · Score: 0

    Sympathetic and apologetic are different things. It is a bit funny when people are apologetic, when they actually want to show empathy. I am just making it clear that I find it funny.

  8. Re:Even free speech has its limit on Twitter Bomb Joke Case Rolls Back Into UK Courts · · Score: 2

    People who can't make that distinction remind me a lot of those people that respond to obviously commiserative apologies with a "Why are you apologizing?"

    Do you know me? Apologies are way overused. I sometimes feel like responding with "Really?" or "No you are not!". But instead opt for a sarcastic "I knew it was you", or sometimes a boring "Why are you apologizing".

  9. Re:Even free speech has its limit on Twitter Bomb Joke Case Rolls Back Into UK Courts · · Score: 1

    LOL! I am gonna create an evil plan, that is going to severe the heads of all the heads of the states in one go. :) :).
     
    That was a joke (not a very funny one, I admit) in case, it was not clear. And that is how you joke about the POTUS.

  10. Re:New Rule: Mark your jokes. on Twitter Bomb Joke Case Rolls Back Into UK Courts · · Score: 1

    and wait until all serious comments start being tagged with the same mark. Go back to square one.

  11. Re:Job on Debate Over Evolution Will Soon Be History, Says Leakey · · Score: 1

    God doesn't cause the evil even if he allows Satan to cause the evil. See the book of Job.

    Why does he allow Satan to cause evil? Doesnt that mean he himself is causing evil, though a bit indirectly? And why did he create Satan?

  12. Re:Same AC .... just tried uploading one to YouTub on "Open Source Bach" Project Completed; Score and Recording Now Online · · Score: 1

    You can contest it too. Which means the ads displayed would pay you instead of the record companies.

  13. Re:No kidding on TomTom Flames OpenStreetMap · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually this is where osmand app (based on openstreetmap) comes in. You dont have to be connected, and is very user friendly in terms of downloading & updating maps. An android phone with Google Maps Navigation and osmand app, is way better than a TomTom.

  14. Re:Or you could just take an ordinary train on Autonomous Road Train Project Completes First Public Road Test · · Score: 1

    You are pretty much guaranteed to die, if you ever tried to cross an Expressway. So yeah, you dont have wait for train to pass, just start walking.

  15. Re:25 subs managed 132 ships sunk on Remembering America's Fresh Water Submarines · · Score: 1

    I agree. He very much earnt the Iron Cross. I just wish I could read more about him, without being subject to german propaganda.

  16. Re:25 subs managed 132 ships sunk on Remembering America's Fresh Water Submarines · · Score: 1

    Some U-boats had superb commanders with, well huge cojones:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnther_Prien

    Prien was among the top U-boot commanders, but a lot of his achievements were exaggerated as part of propaganda campaign by Joseph Goebbels. I would take any of his achievements with a grain of salt (especially ones cited in wikipedia)

  17. Re:Or you could just take an ordinary train on Autonomous Road Train Project Completes First Public Road Test · · Score: 3, Insightful

    More importantly it does not require laying new tracks (provided the network highways is already good enough), and lets me take my car along.

  18. Re:That's nothing on The Shortage of Women In IT · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the pay disparity. Women in porn, are paid an order more than men. This is gender discrimation, and the govt should mandate producers to end this disparity.

  19. Re:Don't buy a Dell on Ask Slashdot: How To Shop For a Laptop? · · Score: 1

    I have had the experience of getting burned by plenty of laptop manufactures, so I no longer consider laptops by manufactures, but by the series/model.

    And dell does have a 15" 1080p laptop. They have them in XPS 15z series.

    I agree on Alienware. They look sort of mean, apart from that, there is nothing favorable to say about them.

  20. Re:Don't buy a Dell on Ask Slashdot: How To Shop For a Laptop? · · Score: 1

    My post was, you should consider their Studio XPS series. Not that you should buy it. You can try it out at the best buy, they usually have stock, you can see the build quality, and the performance. You can read their reviews, online. And still go for alternatives.
     
    If you are actively looking for a good laptop, you should consider this. You would benefit from considering this.

  21. Re:Does not compute on Coming Your Way... Less Intrusive Facebook Data Policies? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Even though he has majority of voting rights, as part the IPO, he has agreed to uphold the "Statement of Rights and Responsibilities". If this statement specifically mentions a specific right or makes a certain promise, he cannot overrule it, despite holding majority of the rights.
     
      In this case, they have specifically mentioned that if "More than 30 per cent of all active registered users as of the date of the notice" vote in favour of something, it is binding and Zukerberg cannot overrule (he can try to work around, stall it etc, but not directly overrule it).

  22. Re:Incremental and/or parallel computing? on Google Now Searches JavaScript · · Score: 1

    Soory about the typos, I guess I need to get some sleep.

  23. Re:Incremental and/or parallel computing? on Google Now Searches JavaScript · · Score: 2

    Er, they are looking for JS that generates HTML (So this is not an assumption). The purpose of GoogleBot is to index. If they run the JS and dont even index the results, it is makes no sense.
     
    Would you mind specifically mentioning what I assumption I am making. And there is no way to Sanitize JS (JS is a turing complete language, there is no way (atleast as far as present day research) to santize it in any reasonable way)

  24. Re:Incremental and/or parallel computing? on Google Now Searches JavaScript · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Your JS would generate HTML on the client side. Just generate a link that your server can understand. Google bot, doing what it does, will try to load this URL. When it does, the server stores this result, and generates a new problem for GoogleBot to solve. This is the basis, for the article and the entire comment thread.

  25. Re:Incremental and/or parallel computing? on Google Now Searches JavaScript · · Score: 2

    I think you missed the "just for the heck of it". I understand my approach is not the practical one, and any sane person would just use their resources to do what little can be done and implement it on their own hardware. But it does it mean it cannot be done in a no loss way. Say I want to calculate the last 100 digits of Graham's number, it is can be split into multiple calculations, a sub result calculation can take less than a second (which is what I assume Google will limit the runtime to). The bandwidth requirements are less
     
    And I really dont understand why you believe this cannot be done. If your argument is this can be done is other easier way, I agree. If not, I dont really understand your argument.