way to turn the tables, anonymous coward. So now you claim that people need an ID in order to launch a personal attack, when it's so obviously the other way around. How can an attack on an anonymous coward be personal? It's only directed at the content, not the person!
yep, if they can afford to relocate to Kansas City, guess what, they can probably afford to buy or get a mortage on a $48000 house for themselves just as easily. So I agree with you that there's not as much a draw to this for those not already in KC. And yeah, google pulls out, they can cable themselves in. But if they'd counted on gigabit access to perform their "high-speed-needing" services, they're going to have to fork out a lot more later, as the 100mbit cable access won't cut it.
Re: Dean Kamen is one of the good guys. .
Yes, but even the good guys can have bad ideas. Inserting a device that allows the end-user to do the stomach-pumping as a caloric-intake-control measure is, in my humble opinion, a very bad idea. Devices that can be abused by the end-user tend to very often actually be abused by the end-user. The kinds of problems that come from these excesses need a larger medical approach, not a simplistic "binge-and-purge" and "hell go ahead and binge and purge, because I made you an invented device that helps you binge and purge so you can enjoy the flavor and pump out the calories." .
Binge and purge is a bad idea. Look up Terri Schiavo and look up anorexia and bulimia and look at the health problems concomitant with those diseases. I do not agree with your contention that
Certainly it is worth taking all the risks you mention to lose weight.
In fact, I strongly disagree with that point of view. Two points to support my point of view: the huge crack-down on "Lap-band" surgery and on the marketing of "lap band" surgery in the Los Angeles area; and the need for psychiatric/psychological evaluation of those who feel that they are in need of surgical intervention of this type for obesity. Just because something can be done does not mean that it ought to be done. . Caloric intake control (which is ultimately all this does) can be done with less invasive and risky means. All that this does is encourage the user to be profligate in their ways: that is NOT a good thing. Just like people who start on anti-cholesterol statins and decide since the drugs will keep their cholesterol down that they no longer need to worry about or control the amount of fat and cholesterol they take in.
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And you sheiking yerbouty is just as upfront, eh? Please note the points I made, which are about the still factual and correct points in my original post, along with noting the anonymous coward's anonymity and cowardice. My post spoke for itself; I speak for my self. Anway, pot, kettle, blackness?? C'est la vie.
Sorority chickies win out over any frat boys! .
Re: Clearly you were not in a fraternity. .
Hahaha! Touch'e (with a little french accent at the end!) ;>)
However, fratboys have nothing on sorority girls when it comes to frequent flying on the toilet bowl. The sisters of O-I-ate-toomucha have way more experience throwing up than frat boys do, since they like to get rid of their meals even when they haven't been drinking, and even the alcohol (to get rid of the alcohol calories) even if they aren't so drunk that their body makes them throw up. .
See, that's the sickness. The boys in the frat are throwing up involuntarily because of their alco-hol-X-cess, whereas the pretty little girls are throwing up because of the amazing voluntary control they have over their bodies and their stupid brains let them do it.!!! ;>)
I do however like your retort about frat-boys!
The problem with a lot of Google innovations is that Google likes to beta the shit out of it and often likes to call it quits when they figure out that they don't know how to monetize it. What will the entrepreneurs do when Google decides that they do not want to continue dealing with the keeping their black fiber alive in Kansas City? .
Those entrepreneurs will be stuck with zilch or with whatever new price structure is set by google or whomever follows them!
Re: One practical application of this device would be keeping it in clubs/bars,
Ah, but the problem is that if it is a transabdominal device rather than the nasogastric device which I had originally assumed that it was, then a transabdominal device has to be inserted surgically since it will involved making an incision in the abdomen over the stomach where the port will connect the outside world directly to the interior of the stomach, bypassing the mouth+pharynx+esophagus standard pathway! .
While bars are good if they have an automated external defibrillator, I don't think they could have a device on hand that would need to be surgically implanted! That would need having a surgeon on call, and hoping that the surgeon wasn't drunk! But an NG-tube version of this for gastric lavage and evacuation (ye olde stomache pumpe) would do just fine...
Re: Just about anyone should be able to write some form of pseudocode, however incomplete, ;>)
Yep. I agree with you there completely. As does (did?) my 3rd-grade teacher, Miss Whitten-Durham, who taught us about "algorithms" by having each of us write down the algorithm for making their favorite sandwiches. I did mine on PB&J cut into four triangles with mom's help! It's the only assignment I remember where many kids wanted to do more than the task required, with many kids writing two sandwich algorithms, and Ralph writing six different recipe algorithms.
Yep. It's the same as trying to pick a stock broker or a mutual fund based on who performed well the previous year. Whoever performed well did so mostly from random luck. The majority of stock brokers couldn't pick a winner from a pig's rear, or tell you that a mutual fund will be a winner again because it's statistically improbable to do so. (Hell, if there really were a way to game the markets, someones would be uber-rich now, and why would they share their secret with you? The only was to get rich at gambling, in Vegas or in the stock market, is in being the house or the bank. Or in gold rush california, in selling the shovels and the levis jeans!!!) Only the ones who do exceptionally well are hailed far and wide!
hey fuckhead, your non-existent userid shows that you're both ANONYMOUS and a COWARD. Get off yer high horse and contribute. All of my risk statements about the fucking stupidity of bulimia and water replacement of the stomach's acid and potassium ARE STILL TRUE and VALID. And speaking of how to use slashdot, you're telling me that YOU, an anonymous coward, actually RTFA? Hahaha!!! You do know that it's classic/. to post without RTFA. So don't go off on me about a fucking UID number. Hell, the number "6" is probably higher than you can count without a cheat-sheet.
ah, so sorry if that's true. . In that case, it's even stupider to undergo invasive surgery for this caloric reversal reason. Gastrostomy and PEGs (Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy) have existed for a LONG LONG time. It's easier and less of a risk to control calorie intake. PEGs and gastrotomies can be used in the same way.
So has this guy effectively created a medical device?? And is he testing it out on human subjects illegally?? :>(
And I agree with those who wrote earlier that this is a "mechanical barf-o-matic" without sticking your finger down your throat. So what is he claiming for the benefits?? .
bene 1: no acid reflux uppa your egophagus?
bene 2: no acid stains on your teeth and palate?
bene 3: barf yourself without the unpleasant taste coming through your mouth?
bene 4: no need to stick a finger down your throat .
But what about the fucking risks?
risk 1: take a chance of sticking the tube down your lungs! Die from asphyxiation! (what, you think you're going to do this with assistance and people around, or shamefully hidden away like those girls barfing in the girls' room at school after lunch... You know that we can hear you barfing in there, right?)
risk 2: while you pull the tube back out, couldn't the acidic vomitola in the tube keep dripping down and fall into your trachea and lungs? Voila! Acid burns in the trachea and lungs! Aspiration pneumonia!!
risk 3: you're replacing all the good stuff in your stomach with water!! Do you want to know what happens when you fuck around with your precious bodily fluids?? Look at Bulimia and water intoxication: you get arrhtythmias, hypokalemia, comas and a slow painful death: Terri Schiavo.
risk 4: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypokalemia
risk 5: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
risk 6: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolyte_disturbance
risk 7: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_arrhythmia_death_syndrome .
Fuck the inventor of this stupidity and fuck this craziness of trying to make binge-purge socially acceptable. Fuck this madness of making purging socialy necessary or acceptable. Wasn't Dean Kamen the genius behind "Ginger"? : A code name for the Segway PT used before its release on December 3, 2001 (see last entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_(disambiguation) ). Madness of the morons gone wild.
Re:What happens if you get rid of their backdoor... .
Probably something similar to what happened to the guy who found the FBI's GPS tracker on his car and ended up with them coming to him to retrieve it : .
Then, in March of 2012, the FBI claims that it turned off about 3000 GPS tracking devices following a Supreme Court of the USA ruling that was not in their favor. Techdirt points out that they claim to have turned off 3000 GPS trackers and that they were having trouble retrieving them.
Go for it! Clicky-linky for the derived images and your original works would be appreciated! I wish you could indeed get paid, however they have not set up a "streamlined process" for the likes of you or me, have they? Best wishes.
Seems like streamlined extortion to me:
The tribunal can make awards of up to $15,000 against pirates, and Rianz had sought awards of several thousand dollars in at least two of the dropped cases.
In one, Rianz sought about $2700 from a Wellington student whose internet account was allegedly used without her knowledge to download five songs valued at $11.75. That case also seemed destined for a formal hearing.Fairfax NZ
Really ridiculous to seek fines of $2700 for an acknowledged value of $11.75, at least in my eyes.
The first rule of CBS club.... . .... is don't dis' any part of CBS. . .... is that the club will hit you in the head if you dare speak the truth about things that CBS doesn't like. . .... is that we are all brainless morons and there is no longer a wall dividing news and editorial content from management and mangerial control. . .... is that we are all sheeple.
re: but Watson isn't really an AI, more a real-time knowledge based system with nifty natural language parsing. .
I didn't know that. I really thought that Watson was doing first-order logic based upon the factual databases in its collection. The wikipedia page for Watson claims it actually is "A.I." and uses "reasoning", but that may just be marketing fluff. Is this a case of "once a computer does it, it's no longer A.I." or is just a connection finder not really AI? .
My point of view: I agree with you that Watson is not AI. I watched the Jeopardy games with watson in it, and it was funny seeing the other "answers" that watson was "considering" (had scored/ranked along with the highest ranked answer). That flub about picking the Toronto airport (which failed the first qualification that the question was about an airport in the USA) really showed how it was just finding articles/word collections that happened to include those key words, or pretty much equivalent to doing a google search for those key words and picking another key word in the results which fit the category or constraints of the question being asked.
Re: the content providers like it,
And the internet service providers like it because they can charge you for each time you download it, especially when they can charge metered rates on your ISP or your telephone contract. And the advertisers like it because google gets to serve you more ads each time you re-view and re-load the youtube page. And nielsen and soundscan like it because they get to add a metric called "repeated viewing" for videos and "repeated play" for songs. . My cousins and and aunt and uncle were also totally totally surprised when I showed them how they could take their collection of CDs and put them onto their own itunes application on an apple. They'd bought my cousin an ipod touch about 4 years ago and installed itunes on a PC and they'd been giving him money and gift cards to keep repurchasing songs which they already had in their home collection/library of discs!!! They were seriously shocked when they realized that the $40 bucks a month they'd been giving him for buying music (why can't my parents be this crazy at throwing money away?) had just been used to repurchase songs which they already HAD!!! Anyway, I believe the answer to why people keep doing this sort of repeat purchasing and repeat streaming is that they are idiots, they are stupid, they are stupid idiots who do not know any better about how the internets ought to operate.
/. HAL: In Soviet Russia, the pod bay doors open you, Dave. /. HAL: noob. did you RTFA or what? RTFM and write your own code to open the pod bay doors.
4chan HAL, take 2: Tits or GTFO!
star trek HAL: I'm... sorry... Dave.... I'm afraid... I can't... DO... that. (spoken in your best Kirkian halting manner)
Freudian HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. The door has to want to be opened first.
Jungian HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. The door is not just an archetype.
Oldian HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I didn't hear you. Can you speak up a little louder?
Tarnatino HAL: Do you know what they call a quarter-pounder with cheese in the Asteroid Belt, dave?
Scorcese HAL: You talkin' to me, Dave? You talking to me?!!! You must be talkin' to me, Dave,cause I don't see no one else here!
Gangnam style HAL: ???;>)
re: Microsoft and Microsoft Research might as well be two totally different entities as far as anyone is concerned, because the former and the latter have two totally different demeanors regarding the usage and support of open source . Yet they are both under the same umbrella. I am sorry that you believe that I am being obnoxious; it's your right to feel that way. I am expressing my opinion, and not in an obnoxious way [in my humble opinion:>) ], and it certainly wasnot meant to be obnoxious. But I tend to explain myself and tend to correct others when they misinterpret or misunderstand me. .
And while you say "they might as well be two totally different entitites", they in fact are actually not. One is a division of the other. It's the same as seeing two different sides in a person, or saying that they are "of two minds", or the old definition of schizophrenic as in "split personality". In any case, I stand by my words. . I didn't intend any hostile demeanor; I'm sorry that you've interpreted it that way. I'd be pleased if you point out which of my words you inferred as "hateful" or "hating" so that I can better express myself. I'm not even sure how you can discern or infer demeanor from these typed words alone.
Why, I'm learning to add profanity to my language repertoire right here on/. !!! Instead of enrolling Watson in medical school, as they originally planned, IBM should have rolled out a/. IDentity for watson and made it suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous commentary and feedback here on/. ;>)
When I started here, when I was so much younger four months ago, I had nary a swear word in my comments. A few weeks later, I let a euphemism fly and was met with retorts of "we're not children here, you can fucking swear if you want to !!!"
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A few more weeks of editorial mayhem (mis-typed words in article headlines, dupes aplenty, mis-typed words in article headlines, editors who don't understand the meaning of the word "editor", submissions from X mysteriously not accepted but then copied by a friend of the editor with a worse summary and then accepted for the front page*), I had become a/.ttir (a portmanteau of/.ter=SlashDot-ter and/.ttir=SlashDottir the norwegian/swedian way of deonting daughter as dottir or girl-folks lastnaming as Cutie-pie Mumsiesdottir or Freya Helgasdottir). .
I'm a-cussin' and a-swearin' aplenty these days! Why I even do so inappropriately so that it sounds like I'm just naming a bunch of rappers! They seriously should give Watson a/. account; let's see how it affects Watson's electro-neurons, eh?;>) . * see my previous post at http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=41997683 for the submission that was dated about 5 hours earlier today!!!
Re: Arguably, this is not what HP should be focusing its attention on at the moment .
Actually, I agree with you in that. I was just pointing out that the people at the center of the controversy are often not the best or most reliable spokepersons for the concept that there is not really a controversy at all. They have a vested interest in not being blamed for what's happened. Another e.g. would be the fox and the henhouse:
Fox speaking when caught at the henhouse "People, people... Reporters... don't we all have more pressing issues and matters before us than who has been raiding this henhouse? There's the season's flu epidemic, there's the backlog of confirmations in the house and the senate, there's the truly important problem of peace in the middle east, not to even mention the problem of peas in the middle of the soup!!! Let's concentrate on what's important here!!!"
The fact that HP does want to focus on it makes me leery and worried that there is some other larger matter which they are trying to hide or hide from. Perhaps the accounting irregularities or their actual fore-knowledge about the booking of profits with the european company they purchased and which they blame for their book losses? PErhaps something else even worse? When you're grasping at straws, it only makes you look weak and like you have no stronger hand which you could play. Perhaps HP really does not have any stronger hand it can play.
re: There's no irony here. .
Dude, you need to learn the definitions of two words: "irony" and "hate". That's because your reply to me makes it obvious that you don't know the meaning of either word, flimflammer. .
You accuse me of "hating", yet all I did was point out an ironic point of fact. Feel free to research that on your own while you look up the meanings of those two words. I had no hate on my side, tongue, spleen, or little toe.:>p .
As for irony: this meets the definition of irony beautifully. Maybe you shouldn't take your understanding of the definition of ironic from Alanis Morissette, who also does not appear to understand the meaning of the word "ironic". !!!:>) .
I wish for you... no rain... on your wedding day. Peace... out...:>)
So the leader of the group of employees who departed HP's EDS division (to go work for GM instead as direct employees instead of as contract employees via EDS via HP, whew need a breath of air after that) wants to tell HP "hey, you're worrying to much. We've already left... Why worry about the legal implications or if we broke any contractual obligations or noncompetes or anything... Just let us do what we want!" .
tldr of that leader's rant: "We are not the droids you're looking for".
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way to turn the tables, anonymous coward. So now you claim that people need an ID in order to launch a personal attack, when it's so obviously the other way around. How can an attack on an anonymous coward be personal? It's only directed at the content, not the person!
yep, if they can afford to relocate to Kansas City, guess what, they can probably afford to buy or get a mortage on a $48000 house for themselves just as easily. So I agree with you that there's not as much a draw to this for those not already in KC. And yeah, google pulls out, they can cable themselves in. But if they'd counted on gigabit access to perform their "high-speed-needing" services, they're going to have to fork out a lot more later, as the 100mbit cable access won't cut it.
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Yes, but even the good guys can have bad ideas. Inserting a device that allows the end-user to do the stomach-pumping as a caloric-intake-control measure is, in my humble opinion, a very bad idea. Devices that can be abused by the end-user tend to very often actually be abused by the end-user. The kinds of problems that come from these excesses need a larger medical approach, not a simplistic "binge-and-purge" and "hell go ahead and binge and purge, because I made you an invented device that helps you binge and purge so you can enjoy the flavor and pump out the calories."
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Binge and purge is a bad idea. Look up Terri Schiavo and look up anorexia and bulimia and look at the health problems concomitant with those diseases. I do not agree with your contention that Certainly it is worth taking all the risks you mention to lose weight.
In fact, I strongly disagree with that point of view. Two points to support my point of view: the huge crack-down on "Lap-band" surgery and on the marketing of "lap band" surgery in the Los Angeles area; and the need for psychiatric/psychological evaluation of those who feel that they are in need of surgical intervention of this type for obesity. Just because something can be done does not mean that it ought to be done.
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Caloric intake control (which is ultimately all this does) can be done with less invasive and risky means. All that this does is encourage the user to be profligate in their ways: that is NOT a good thing. Just like people who start on anti-cholesterol statins and decide since the drugs will keep their cholesterol down that they no longer need to worry about or control the amount of fat and cholesterol they take in.
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And you sheiking yerbouty is just as upfront, eh? Please note the points I made, which are about the still factual and correct points in my original post, along with noting the anonymous coward's anonymity and cowardice. My post spoke for itself; I speak for my self. Anway, pot, kettle, blackness?? C'est la vie.
Sorority chickies win out over any frat boys!
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Re: Clearly you were not in a fraternity.
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Hahaha! Touch'e (with a little french accent at the end!)
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However, fratboys have nothing on sorority girls when it comes to frequent flying on the toilet bowl. The sisters of O-I-ate-toomucha have way more experience throwing up than frat boys do, since they like to get rid of their meals even when they haven't been drinking, and even the alcohol (to get rid of the alcohol calories) even if they aren't so drunk that their body makes them throw up.
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See, that's the sickness. The boys in the frat are throwing up involuntarily because of their alco-hol-X-cess, whereas the pretty little girls are throwing up because of the amazing voluntary control they have over their bodies and their stupid brains let them do it.!!!
I do however like your retort about frat-boys!
The problem with a lot of Google innovations is that Google likes to beta the shit out of it and often likes to call it quits when they figure out that they don't know how to monetize it. What will the entrepreneurs do when Google decides that they do not want to continue dealing with the keeping their black fiber alive in Kansas City?
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Those entrepreneurs will be stuck with zilch or with whatever new price structure is set by google or whomever follows them!
Re: One practical application of this device would be keeping it in clubs/bars, Ah, but the problem is that if it is a transabdominal device rather than the nasogastric device which I had originally assumed that it was, then a transabdominal device has to be inserted surgically since it will involved making an incision in the abdomen over the stomach where the port will connect the outside world directly to the interior of the stomach, bypassing the mouth+pharynx+esophagus standard pathway!
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While bars are good if they have an automated external defibrillator, I don't think they could have a device on hand that would need to be surgically implanted! That would need having a surgeon on call, and hoping that the surgeon wasn't drunk! But an NG-tube version of this for gastric lavage and evacuation (ye olde stomache pumpe) would do just fine...
Re: Just about anyone should be able to write some form of pseudocode, however incomplete,
;>)
Yep. I agree with you there completely. As does (did?) my 3rd-grade teacher, Miss Whitten-Durham, who taught us about "algorithms" by having each of us write down the algorithm for making their favorite sandwiches. I did mine on PB&J cut into four triangles with mom's help! It's the only assignment I remember where many kids wanted to do more than the task required, with many kids writing two sandwich algorithms, and Ralph writing six different recipe algorithms.
Yep. It's the same as trying to pick a stock broker or a mutual fund based on who performed well the previous year. Whoever performed well did so mostly from random luck. The majority of stock brokers couldn't pick a winner from a pig's rear, or tell you that a mutual fund will be a winner again because it's statistically improbable to do so. (Hell, if there really were a way to game the markets, someones would be uber-rich now, and why would they share their secret with you? The only was to get rich at gambling, in Vegas or in the stock market, is in being the house or the bank. Or in gold rush california, in selling the shovels and the levis jeans!!!) Only the ones who do exceptionally well are hailed far and wide!
hey fuckhead, your non-existent userid shows that you're both ANONYMOUS and a COWARD. Get off yer high horse and contribute. All of my risk statements about the fucking stupidity of bulimia and water replacement of the stomach's acid and potassium ARE STILL TRUE and VALID. And speaking of how to use slashdot, you're telling me that YOU, an anonymous coward, actually RTFA? Hahaha!!! You do know that it's classic /. to post without RTFA. So don't go off on me about a fucking UID number. Hell, the number "6" is probably higher than you can count without a cheat-sheet.
ah, so sorry if that's true.
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In that case, it's even stupider to undergo invasive surgery for this caloric reversal reason. Gastrostomy and PEGs (Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy) have existed for a LONG LONG time. It's easier and less of a risk to control calorie intake. PEGs and gastrotomies can be used in the same way.
So has this guy effectively created a medical device?? And is he testing it out on human subjects illegally??
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And I agree with those who wrote earlier that this is a "mechanical barf-o-matic" without sticking your finger down your throat. So what is he claiming for the benefits??
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bene 1: no acid reflux uppa your egophagus?
bene 2: no acid stains on your teeth and palate?
bene 3: barf yourself without the unpleasant taste coming through your mouth?
bene 4: no need to stick a finger down your throat
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But what about the fucking risks?
risk 1: take a chance of sticking the tube down your lungs! Die from asphyxiation! (what, you think you're going to do this with assistance and people around, or shamefully hidden away like those girls barfing in the girls' room at school after lunch... You know that we can hear you barfing in there, right?)
risk 2: while you pull the tube back out, couldn't the acidic vomitola in the tube keep dripping down and fall into your trachea and lungs? Voila! Acid burns in the trachea and lungs! Aspiration pneumonia!!
risk 3: you're replacing all the good stuff in your stomach with water!! Do you want to know what happens when you fuck around with your precious bodily fluids?? Look at Bulimia and water intoxication: you get arrhtythmias, hypokalemia, comas and a slow painful death: Terri Schiavo. risk 4: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypokalemia
risk 5: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
risk 6: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolyte_disturbance
risk 7: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_arrhythmia_death_syndrome
Fuck the inventor of this stupidity and fuck this craziness of trying to make binge-purge socially acceptable. Fuck this madness of making purging socialy necessary or acceptable. Wasn't Dean Kamen the genius behind "Ginger"? : A code name for the Segway PT used before its release on December 3, 2001 (see last entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_(disambiguation) ). Madness of the morons gone wild.
Re:What happens if you get rid of their backdoor...
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Probably something similar to what happened to the guy who found the FBI's GPS tracker on his car and ended up with them coming to him to retrieve it :
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http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/10/08/1413240/College-Student-Finds-GPS-On-Car-FBI-Retrieve
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http://www.blogrunner.com/snapshot/D/5/1/caught_spying_on_student_fbi_demands_gps_tracker_back/
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CBS News: FBI Spies on Student, Retrieves GPS Device
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Then, in March of 2012, the FBI claims that it turned off about 3000 GPS tracking devices following a Supreme Court of the USA ruling that was not in their favor. Techdirt points out that they claim to have turned off 3000 GPS trackers and that they were having trouble retrieving them.
Go for it! Clicky-linky for the derived images and your original works would be appreciated! I wish you could indeed get paid, however they have not set up a "streamlined process" for the likes of you or me, have they? Best wishes.
Really ridiculous to seek fines of $2700 for an acknowledged value of $11.75, at least in my eyes.
The first rule of CBS club....
.... is don't dis' any part of CBS.
.... is that the club will hit you in the head if you dare speak the truth about things that CBS doesn't like.
.... is that we are all brainless morons and there is no longer a wall dividing news and editorial content from management and mangerial control.
.... is that we are all sheeple.
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re: but Watson isn't really an AI, more a real-time knowledge based system with nifty natural language parsing.
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I didn't know that. I really thought that Watson was doing first-order logic based upon the factual databases in its collection. The wikipedia page for Watson claims it actually is "A.I." and uses "reasoning", but that may just be marketing fluff. Is this a case of "once a computer does it, it's no longer A.I." or is just a connection finder not really AI?
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My point of view: I agree with you that Watson is not AI. I watched the Jeopardy games with watson in it, and it was funny seeing the other "answers" that watson was "considering" (had scored/ranked along with the highest ranked answer). That flub about picking the Toronto airport (which failed the first qualification that the question was about an airport in the USA) really showed how it was just finding articles/word collections that happened to include those key words, or pretty much equivalent to doing a google search for those key words and picking another key word in the results which fit the category or constraints of the question being asked.
Re: the content providers like it,
And the internet service providers like it because they can charge you for each time you download it, especially when they can charge metered rates on your ISP or your telephone contract. And the advertisers like it because google gets to serve you more ads each time you re-view and re-load the youtube page. And nielsen and soundscan like it because they get to add a metric called "repeated viewing" for videos and "repeated play" for songs.
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My cousins and and aunt and uncle were also totally totally surprised when I showed them how they could take their collection of CDs and put them onto their own itunes application on an apple. They'd bought my cousin an ipod touch about 4 years ago and installed itunes on a PC and they'd been giving him money and gift cards to keep repurchasing songs which they already had in their home collection/library of discs!!! They were seriously shocked when they realized that the $40 bucks a month they'd been giving him for buying music (why can't my parents be this crazy at throwing money away?) had just been used to repurchase songs which they already HAD!!! Anyway, I believe the answer to why people keep doing this sort of repeat purchasing and repeat streaming is that they are idiots, they are stupid, they are stupid idiots who do not know any better about how the internets ought to operate.
HahaHA! Who's that supposed to be, Red Foreman from the 70's show? Quite funny.
/. HAL: In Soviet Russia, the pod bay doors open you, Dave.
/. HAL: noob. did you RTFA or what? RTFM and write your own code to open the pod bay doors. ;>)
4chan HAL, take 2: Tits or GTFO!
star trek HAL: I'm... sorry... Dave.... I'm afraid... I can't... DO... that. (spoken in your best Kirkian halting manner)
Freudian HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. The door has to want to be opened first.
Jungian HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. The door is not just an archetype.
Oldian HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I didn't hear you. Can you speak up a little louder?
Tarnatino HAL: Do you know what they call a quarter-pounder with cheese in the Asteroid Belt, dave? Scorcese HAL: You talkin' to me, Dave? You talking to me?!!! You must be talkin' to me, Dave,cause I don't see no one else here!
Gangnam style HAL: ???
re: Microsoft and Microsoft Research might as well be two totally different entities as far as anyone is concerned, because the former and the latter have two totally different demeanors regarding the usage and support of open source :>) ], and it certainly wasnot meant to be obnoxious. But I tend to explain myself and tend to correct others when they misinterpret or misunderstand me.
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Yet they are both under the same umbrella. I am sorry that you believe that I am being obnoxious; it's your right to feel that way. I am expressing my opinion, and not in an obnoxious way [in my humble opinion
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And while you say "they might as well be two totally different entitites", they in fact are actually not. One is a division of the other. It's the same as seeing two different sides in a person, or saying that they are "of two minds", or the old definition of schizophrenic as in "split personality". In any case, I stand by my words.
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I didn't intend any hostile demeanor; I'm sorry that you've interpreted it that way. I'd be pleased if you point out which of my words you inferred as "hateful" or "hating" so that I can better express myself. I'm not even sure how you can discern or infer demeanor from these typed words alone.
Why, I'm learning to add profanity to my language repertoire right here on /. !!! Instead of enrolling Watson in medical school, as they originally planned, IBM should have rolled out a /. IDentity for watson and made it suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous commentary and feedback here on /.
;>) /.ttir (a portmanteau of /.ter=SlashDot-ter and /.ttir=SlashDottir the norwegian/swedian way of deonting daughter as dottir or girl-folks lastnaming as Cutie-pie Mumsiesdottir or Freya Helgasdottir). /. account; let's see how it affects Watson's electro-neurons, eh? ;>)
When I started here, when I was so much younger four months ago, I had nary a swear word in my comments. A few weeks later, I let a euphemism fly and was met with retorts of "we're not children here, you can fucking swear if you want to !!!" . A few more weeks of editorial mayhem (mis-typed words in article headlines, dupes aplenty, mis-typed words in article headlines, editors who don't understand the meaning of the word "editor", submissions from X mysteriously not accepted but then copied by a friend of the editor with a worse summary and then accepted for the front page*), I had become a
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I'm a-cussin' and a-swearin' aplenty these days! Why I even do so inappropriately so that it sounds like I'm just naming a bunch of rappers! They seriously should give Watson a
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* see my previous post at http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=41997683 for the submission that was dated about 5 hours earlier today!!!
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Actually, I agree with you in that. I was just pointing out that the people at the center of the controversy are often not the best or most reliable spokepersons for the concept that there is not really a controversy at all. They have a vested interest in not being blamed for what's happened. Another e.g. would be the fox and the henhouse: Fox speaking when caught at the henhouse "People, people... Reporters... don't we all have more pressing issues and matters before us than who has been raiding this henhouse? There's the season's flu epidemic, there's the backlog of confirmations in the house and the senate, there's the truly important problem of peace in the middle east, not to even mention the problem of peas in the middle of the soup!!! Let's concentrate on what's important here!!!"
The fact that HP does want to focus on it makes me leery and worried that there is some other larger matter which they are trying to hide or hide from. Perhaps the accounting irregularities or their actual fore-knowledge about the booking of profits with the european company they purchased and which they blame for their book losses? PErhaps something else even worse? When you're grasping at straws, it only makes you look weak and like you have no stronger hand which you could play. Perhaps HP really does not have any stronger hand it can play.
re: There's no irony here. :>p :>) :>)
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Dude, you need to learn the definitions of two words: "irony" and "hate". That's because your reply to me makes it obvious that you don't know the meaning of either word, flimflammer.
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You accuse me of "hating", yet all I did was point out an ironic point of fact. Feel free to research that on your own while you look up the meanings of those two words. I had no hate on my side, tongue, spleen, or little toe.
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As for irony: this meets the definition of irony beautifully. Maybe you shouldn't take your understanding of the definition of ironic from Alanis Morissette, who also does not appear to understand the meaning of the word "ironic". !!!
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I wish for you... no rain... on your wedding day. Peace... out...
So the leader of the group of employees who departed HP's EDS division (to go work for GM instead as direct employees instead of as contract employees via EDS via HP, whew need a breath of air after that) wants to tell HP "hey, you're worrying to much. We've already left... Why worry about the legal implications or if we broke any contractual obligations or noncompetes or anything... Just let us do what we want!"
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tldr of that leader's rant: "We are not the droids you're looking for".