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  1. What did the blue background f say to the red background f? F you.

  2. gluino ? on Scientists To Hunt For Supersymmetric Particle In LHC · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, but all *uino are reserved for embedded controller related product names.

  3. Re:Really? on WhatsApp vs. WhatsApp Plus Fight Gets Ugly For Users · · Score: 1

    In the case of Lindows, Microsoft sued, lost in court and in the end settled by buying the name Lindows for $20M. Doesn't sound like a bad deal for the other company.

  4. Re:I could be wrong... on New Object Recognition Algorithm Learns On the Fly · · Score: 1

    The features part is really the tricky part. You could supply a set of pictures of aircraft and the algorithm would need to determine what is common to all those examples.
    With regards to training, It is possible to perform this learning task without direct supervised (tagged data) training.
    Imagine the following:
    Take a trillions of images from the web, and use unsupervised, clustering methods to group images into groups of equivalence, given that you have great features that allow you to do that.
    Then, given a cluster of millions of examples, take the surrounding text around the images source and try to find common denominators in the text. It's not far fetched to think that similar objects in the images will have similar words in the text.

    Such "Big Data" research is now being done in various research facilities around the world.

  5. The Food Industry on Molecule In Corked Wine Plugs Up Your Nose · · Score: 1

    The last paragraph gave me the following thought.
    Given how much the food industry is "concerned" with providing us with the best quality,
    is it potentially possible that they can use this molecule to block our ability to sense some bad stuff that is in their products?

  6. What happens if folded when a person is inside on Korean 'Armadillo' Electric Car Folds Up, Parks, Controlled By Your Smartphone · · Score: 1

    From the video, I guess that no harm would come to them other than the fact that if the unfolding breaks, they may not be able to get out.

  7. Sun has PMS on NASA Data Suggests Solar Magnetic Field About To Flip · · Score: 3, Funny

    And as usual, innocent men have to suffer.

  8. Re:No worries on PCWorld Magazine Is No More · · Score: 1

    I was thinking more like TabletWorld, if you follow the analysts of the PC market.

  9. Some low cost kits on Ask Slashdot: How To Begin Simple Robotics As a Hobby? · · Score: 1

    You can find starter kits at http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__702__689__Robotics_DIY-Robotics_Kits.html
    If you want to go for the soccer project, perhaps the biped kit would do.

  10. Re:I know we like to sleep late on GitHub Back Online After Service Outage · · Score: 1

    It's always morning somewhere

  11. I know we like to sleep late on GitHub Back Online After Service Outage · · Score: 5, Funny

    But describing 14:00 as morning is a bit too much.

  12. Math and CS on Ask Slashdot: How Important Is Advanced Math In a CS Degree? · · Score: 1

    For the past 20 years, I have been doing a wide variety of projects, and though some of the university math has been very useful (e.g. Linear algebra), I can honestly say I have never needed to use any of the differential equations techniques in the form taught in school.
    At best, I had to use a system that can be described by a differential equation, but in discrete form and with simple functions that numerically solve the problem.

  13. Re:Microsoft has a majority market share on Ubuntu Closes Longstanding Bug #1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not in my house it doesn't. 1 Win 7 laptop 1 MacBook Pro 1 Chrome Book 3 Raspberry PIs running Raspbian 1 Android tablet 1 Android phone 1 blackberry playbook 1 Apple TV Looks like Linux wins, with Android a close second. The best part is that this is all for one person living alone. :)

    Perhaps I'm reading this wrong, but it seems that they're saying that in 2004, MS had a majority, but this is now changing and thus the bug can be closed. With your enumeration you simply give anecdotal evidence to this.

  14. Reminds me of an old joke on Bloomberg To HS Grads: Be a Plumber · · Score: 5, Funny

    A plumber goes to a doctor's house to fix a leak.
    He works for 15 minutes and then asks the doctor for $200
    The doctor says "I don't even make close to that!!"
    The plumber replies: "When I was a doctor, I didn't either"

  15. Sponsored by the MPAA / RIAA on Happy Culture Freedom Day! · · Score: 1

    In an attempt to make free content more prevalent.

  16. Re:The real question is on Paul Otellini: Intel Lost the iPhone Battle, But It Could Win the Mobile War · · Score: 1

    Ok, then my new real question is Did Intel refuse because they didn't think the iPhone would be good business for them,
    or because they insisted on making it an x86, due to IP pride and such,
    which conflicted with Apple's vision.

  17. The real question is on Paul Otellini: Intel Lost the iPhone Battle, But It Could Win the Mobile War · · Score: 2

    Would the iPhone still be a success with an Intel processor, given the power consumption of their chips at the time.

  18. As an inventor of many patents on (Highly Divided) Federal Circuit Opinion Finds Many Software Patents Ineligible · · Score: 2

    Most of which are forced by my employer as means to "protect our IP"
    I agree that a lot of patents filed and issued I would not consider a legitimate invention.

  19. It's all about the money on Why Your New Car's Technology Is Four Years Old · · Score: 1

    The manufacturers have a higher margin from replacement parts than from the car itself. If they make standardized interchangeable components, then after market competition would slash those margins.
    They simply like things the way they are now.

  20. Anecdotal Data on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Company's Marketing-to-Engineering Ratio? · · Score: 1

    I don't know about company (large) numbers, but in a recent project that involves a few engineers, when the company was going to publish a press release, the team size on the email chain has quadrupled overnight.

  21. Hard core Bitcoin adopters on Canada Revenue Agency To Tax BitCoin Transactions · · Score: 1

    Can they pay the tax with Bitcoin?

  22. Not only for games on Omnidirectional Treadmill: The Ultimate FPS Input Device? · · Score: 1

    Games may be the first application that comes to mind.
    But, combine this with a virtual presence robot, and companies will be able to save millions on travel to conferences and meetings.
    There's a huge market for this, if you can get the user experience right.

  23. Privacy on The Eternal Mainframe · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's the usual argument. If you have something to hide, you're probably a bad person.
    That "may" be true if the authorities are not abusing their power, or trying to gain more power than the people want them to have.
    As soon as you have even a potentially oppressive regime, privacy becomes essential.

  24. Please don't cancel the show on Higgs Data Could Spell Trouble For Leading Big Bang Theory · · Score: 1, Funny

    Please. Pretty Please...

  25. Interesting cycle on NSA Data Center Brings Concerns Over Security and Privacy and Jobs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The government is borrowing money from China to pay for jobs of people who spy on China.
    I wonder what would happen when this flow of cash stops.