I think the implication is that they can recognize each other by the howl.
I think that's your (and the headline writer's) inference - I don't think it's being implied by anyone.
Think of it like getting 50 people to stand on a hill and shout "Get off my hill!" A computer could probably be programmed to tell those about, too, but it wouldn't make them names.
First of all, strange wording - I'd have gone with "Wolves Use Unique Howls As Names."
More importantly, no-one - except for a commenter on one of the articles - is suggesting that wolves use these as names. You could get 50 people to stand on a hill and shout "I love monkeys!" and still get a computer to tell them apart, but that wouldn't be a name.
Even more bizarre is the headline on the linked article:
Wolves howl like humans, new voice recognition study shows
Don't tell me what to do. You're worse than Hitler!
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Linking one of the many uses of "GUADEC" to guadec.org wouldn't have been a bad start, instead of to a blog which also doesn't tell you what GUADEC is.
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Okay, shoot me down in flames - apparently if you don't understand everything in a Slashdot summary some people think you shouldn't be allowed on the internet - but what the hell is a GUADEC*? Wouldn't it be a good idea for a news site that presumably wants to attract and keep as many visitors as possible to at least give a brief definition of the terms used in a headline? You can easily do it subtly enough - you don't even have to spell it out, just give enough context - that those in the know won't notice, and those not in the know will come away better informed, instead of having to open up another tab just to find out whether or not they're interested in the content.
Yes, haha, lgmtfy etc. But you know what, I actually do expect to be spoon-fed my news. That's precisely why I watch TV or read newspapers instead of wandering the streets hoping to catch drama unfolding first-hand.
*of course I've already looked it up.
Everybody was expecting to see each other in Brno
Okay, now I know you're making shit up!
(specifying the country of a not-very-famous city wouldn't hurt, either)
image->backup->check image and backup->discard->sign in triplicate->sent in->send back->query->lose->find->subject to public inquiry->lose again->bury in soft peat for three months and recycle as firelighters
And why not use the pattern-lock feature instead? Much more natural than typing in a PIN, and still very secure.
Don't forget to wipe your finger grease off the screen every time. In my case it's only enabled because Android insisted on it when I added a VPN, and the marks come in handy if I go out in sunlight without remembering to turn up the brightness.
six wannabe blockbusters have cratered at the North American box office: 'R.I.P.D.,' 'After Earth,' 'White House Down,' 'Pacific Rim,' and 'The Lone Ranger.'
Let's try that again:
six wannabe blockbusters have cratered at the North American box office:
1. 'R.I.P.D.' 2. 'After Earth' 3. 'White House Down' 4. 'Pacific Rim' 5. 'The Lone Ranger.'
^ I can't find anything that states clearly that, under the ISPs' preferred plan, if a (first time or existing) consumer does nothing, filtering will be enabled.
If that's true, what's all this fuss about? I can't find anything that states clearly that, if a (first time or existing) consumer does nothing, filtering will be enabled.
Negotiations have led to an agreement to implement “active choice +”, a software restriction on violent and sexually graphic content that gives parents the option to filter it out. Yet the Government has asked the four leading firms to state they are in fact introducing a stricter system, “default-on”.
The ISPs want to label it some active choice plus garbage, but that's what it is.
No, they want to call it active choice because you will have to take an active choice to enable the filtering (i.e., it would be off by default):
the prime minister would like to be able to refer to your solutions are "default-on" as people will have to make a choice not to have the filters (by unticking the box)
In other words, what they're saying without actually saying it, is telling the ISPs to default the filters to on, which is not what the ISPs want to do.
I wasn't aware you were looking over my shoulder while I did the install and played a DVD. But clearly you know better. You didn't happen to notice where I put my keys, did you?
Remy typically runs for several hours and produces a congestion-control algorithm that can be implanted into the sender of a TCP implementation, and then run in real-time. Right now, we do not need to modify the TCP receiver.
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Number of legs?
No, number of feet, of course.
I think the implication is that they can recognize each other by the howl.
I think that's your (and the headline writer's) inference - I don't think it's being implied by anyone.
Think of it like getting 50 people to stand on a hill and shout "Get off my hill!" A computer could probably be programmed to tell those about, too, but it wouldn't make them names.
Unique Howls Are What Wolves Use As Names
First of all, strange wording - I'd have gone with "Wolves Use Unique Howls As Names."
More importantly, no-one - except for a commenter on one of the articles - is suggesting that wolves use these as names. You could get 50 people to stand on a hill and shout "I love monkeys!" and still get a computer to tell them apart, but that wouldn't be a name.
Even more bizarre is the headline on the linked article:
Wolves howl like humans, new voice recognition study shows
Er, what? No they don't. They howl like wolves.
The scientists developed sound analysis code
Might want to fix that link.
Some one Godwin this THREAD NOW.
Don't tell me what to do. You're worse than Hitler!
Linking one of the many uses of "GUADEC" to guadec.org wouldn't have been a bad start, instead of to a blog which also doesn't tell you what GUADEC is.
Okay, shoot me down in flames - apparently if you don't understand everything in a Slashdot summary some people think you shouldn't be allowed on the internet - but what the hell is a GUADEC*? Wouldn't it be a good idea for a news site that presumably wants to attract and keep as many visitors as possible to at least give a brief definition of the terms used in a headline? You can easily do it subtly enough - you don't even have to spell it out, just give enough context - that those in the know won't notice, and those not in the know will come away better informed, instead of having to open up another tab just to find out whether or not they're interested in the content.
Yes, haha, lgmtfy etc. But you know what, I actually do expect to be spoon-fed my news. That's precisely why I watch TV or read newspapers instead of wandering the streets hoping to catch drama unfolding first-hand.
*of course I've already looked it up.
Everybody was expecting to see each other in Brno
Okay, now I know you're making shit up!
(specifying the country of a not-very-famous city wouldn't hurt, either)
only one thing tastes salty - salt.
There's more than one salt. NaCl just tastes the saltiest.
image->backup->check image and backup->discard->sign in triplicate->sent in->send back->query->lose->find->subject to public inquiry->lose again->bury in soft peat for three months and recycle as firelighters
Does This Headline Conform to Betteridge's Law Of Headlines?
There's 389112 possible combinations.
Of what?
And why not use the pattern-lock feature instead? Much more natural than typing in a PIN, and still very secure.
Don't forget to wipe your finger grease off the screen every time. In my case it's only enabled because Android insisted on it when I added a VPN, and the marks come in handy if I go out in sunlight without remembering to turn up the brightness.
wasteful and unnecessary.
That's people for ya.
six wannabe blockbusters have cratered at the North American box office: 'R.I.P.D.,' 'After Earth,' 'White House Down,' 'Pacific Rim,' and 'The Lone Ranger.'
Let's try that again:
six wannabe blockbusters have cratered at the North American box office:
1. 'R.I.P.D.'
2. 'After Earth'
3. 'White House Down'
4. 'Pacific Rim'
5. 'The Lone Ranger.'
Sorry, how many?
six
*sigh* Now the editors can't even do counting.
What Wi-Fi Would Look Like If We Could See It, Only... Not
Are you sure it wasn't The Twilight Zone? Based, as an AC says, on Theodore Sturgeon's Yesterday Was Monday.
^ I can't find anything that states clearly that, under the ISPs' preferred plan, if a (first time or existing) consumer does nothing, filtering will be enabled.
Negotiations have led to an agreement to implement “active choice +”, a software restriction on violent and sexually graphic content that gives parents the option to filter it out. Yet the Government has asked the four leading firms to state they are in fact introducing a stricter system, “default-on”.
The ISPs want to label it some active choice plus garbage, but that's what it is.
No, they want to call it active choice because you will have to take an active choice to enable the filtering (i.e., it would be off by default):
the prime minister would like to be able to refer to your solutions are "default-on" as people will have to make a choice not to have the filters (by unticking the box)
In other words, what they're saying without actually saying it, is telling the ISPs to default the filters to on, which is not what the ISPs want to do.
Hah!
I wasn't aware you were looking over my shoulder while I did the install and played a DVD. But clearly you know better. You didn't happen to notice where I put my keys, did you?
It's Windows, and it has no other software for decrypting DVDs installed.
VLC plays encrypted DVDs without me having to install any other software.
turin was convicted of commiting an act of gross indecency in a public place
Wrong, the last part anyway.
which runs on both endpoints of the connection
Remy typically runs for several hours and produces a congestion-control algorithm that can be implanted into the sender of a TCP implementation, and then run in real-time. Right now, we do not need to modify the TCP receiver.
Why does the funnel clamped to the stand move just at the moment of the breakage? I call shenanigans!