Those guys must be up on their research! Check out these articles and compare to the design of the new keypad-- startling similiarities!
Lopes, B. J. (Apr 1997). An experimental design for accurate input of words and numbers. Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: the Sciences & Engineering, 57 (10-B), 6653.
Trafimow, D. (Dec 1996). Alpha-numeric input, a survey of designs. Journal of Applied Ergonomics, 26 (24), 2167-2188.
So, at least their design is open source, because anyone can read those articles and design a similar keypad, right?
The court rules on the law. It interprets the law. It doesn't change the law unless the law violates the constitution. It can clarify a law, but in this case, the court decided that DVD decrypting software was illegal. I don't think that anyone will disagree that that software is in violation of the DMCA and they have also decided that the DMCA isn't unconstitutional. If you're still angry about this decision, your next step is to contact your local senator and tell him or her your feelings on the DMCA and what you think they-- as your elected representative, should do. It is an election year afterall. Findout their stance on the issue and vote for someone who accurately represents your wishes!
Let me get your argument straight: BB guns and paintball guns, as well as toys promote violence but video games have nothing to do with violence. Even if those said video games have 'gun lookalikes' in them? What about movies. If you think that a toy gun is more likely to promote gun violence than a video game that shows realistic portrayals of people being killed? Can you show me any research to support this?!?
It's not that simple. I don't think the average person could memorize 250 faces from pictures and pick those 250 people out from the thousands of people at the airport every day with much more accuracy than 47%.
The computer is actually more accurate than the average human, if you want some statistics about human's ability to recognize faces, I suggest you check out the following literature. These are two must read articles on facial recognition.
Lopes, B. J. (Apr 1997). Facial recognition, a proposed theory. Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: the Sciences & Engineering, 57 (10-B), 6653.
Trafimow, D. (Dec 1996). Feature analysis, a proposed theory for facial recognition accuracy. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 26 (24), 2167-2188.
Here's a reply from a presidential hopeful, Lyndon Larouche. Here's what he has to say about video game violence.
Here is Mr. LaRouche's reply. Thanks, Beth Pascali Webmaster PS: I believe that the articles written by his associates that he refers to are posted on the site of the newsweekly Executive Intelligence Review, which is http://www.larouchepub.com. If you go there and search on "New Violence"
you will see a fair amount of material.
TO: Adam T. Rzepka [adam@imsa.edu]
Dear Adam:
Wow! That is a big subject-area. To develop a general overview of the subject-area in which the military use of point and shoot video games arises, you might wish to dip into Stewart Brand's "The Media Lab," published (1987) by Viking and as a Penguin book. That describes the general setting in an easy writing-style. For a more narrowly focussed follow-up on the spill-over from military applications , there are a number of reports written by my associates, on our websites. These include our coverage of Columbine, Littleton, and now Erfurt. I featured this matter in a special campaign project, on the subject of "The New Violence," I conducted in 2000. My wife, Helga just produced a policy-paper addressing some implications of Erfurt.
This is a major topic for me right now, and therefore I expect a continued outpouring of relevant materials on ths subject.
I've raised plenty of rats-- and they have never eaten each other or their children. I don't think this is really a qualification for being human or considered ethically more valuable.
adam
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Really, a 256kbps vbr mp3 is not far off from a lossless compression like SHN (shorten), check out this comparison of the audio spectrum here.
Doing this is similar to only crossing the street in a reflective jumpsuit wearing a helmet and kevlar motorcycle wear. Overkill. Not worth it. I highly doubt you have gone through every line of every open source program you run, what if there's some buffer overruns in there and your net access enabled computer gets hacked?!?!?! Obviously you have to take risks to go online.
I have to disagree with this. Every time that I have made a deal with someone on Kazaa to stay online and let them finish downloading a large file, and in return they would stay online and let me download something large, they burn me. As soon as their download is done, they disconnect leaving me with half a video or half of an album. Maybe in your ideal world, people will repay you tenfold, but in my experience it goes more like "Share, and you will be rewarded one-tenth fold".
adam
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This has been done before, and posted to slashdot before. You can do it without the glass vessel. There's an old quickies here that shows how to do it without the vessel.
Check out the MAME project (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) get the program at the official site here. And get some (illegal) roms at a rom site, like this one here.
When are we going to trust the government. The big business interests will push through more and more copyright enforcment laws and technologies that will effect everyone. Instead of fighting it outright, from the diametrically opposed viewpoint of "no copyright protection, ever!" we should take a more congenial viewpoint and encourage copyright protection while also making sure that our interests are protected. We can lobby for making sure that media marked as "public domain" can easily be copied on hardware with copy protection, and deem it illegal for a next generation audio or video device to blindly prevent copying of works, noting that there is a fair amount of free music and video out there. As well, we can cooperate with the industry and government in order to create these systems. Keep your friends close, but your enemies even closer-- befriend the music industry only for the reasons of making sure that they stay in line.
I agree with everything except the part about making money. I think some nerds need to get their glasses polarized just a few degrees less and get out into the sun, where ultra violet rays will help them absorb the vitamin D in the milk they drink in their latte's. The best part about nerds is the nerd girls, you never have to take them out, just chat online with them and when you're feeling randy go over there and fuck 'em silly. Then you can leave because they don't know how to talk in real life.
Oh, so this guy gets a +4 for suggesting a new moderation point, but I get a -1 for suggesting a seperate site for trivial linux news [eg kernel updates, xft hacks]. Is the slashdot reader population becoming populated with linux nerds, or is this just a short trend that will die out? Once I had a dream that I could go back in time, and you know what I did? First I went back in time and defeated Jessie Owens at the 1936 olympics, and then I went back to 1989 and kidnapped linus torvalds and brought him back to 2002 where windows ruled the world and nerds were still subjugated because their nerdy skills weren't useful because linux was never invented.
Ok, comeon how is this off topic. The last time I looked, there was no where to put meta-discussions [not like on www.kuro5hin.org]. Please burn my karma all up. I don't like posting fake comments with fake info and fake links to get positive karma anyways ha ha ha. You linux guys sure got it bad for self esteem!
adam
PS It would be ironic for anyone to reply to this.
Howabout we start up a linuxslash site. Seriously, I don't know what the average slashdot user is thinking, but I bet they don't really care about Linux kernel 4.2.3build21 and a hack for antialiased fonts, this belongs on some secondary site. It just isn't as newsworthy as many of the other submissions to slashdot.
adam
On a side note-- I am seriously considering dropping slashdot for good, as I have been spending alot more of my browsing time here.
Well, if you mirrored the site, the site should still get revenue from ad hits [just look at the source of this page for example, the img src is of a doubleclick server with slashdot's id in the url]. So if they did hit the page, assuming the mirror was exact, the external image link for the banner ad would be intact. However, some ad sites will check the request URI and referrer url and notice it's not coming off of their server, which could cause problems. This could be remedied, but it would take time-- and news is current. But articles like this one, which really aren't time dependant could be delayed until the site maintainer has time to arrange a mirror and still get ad revenue.
Personally, I found "current, shoddy, slow networks based around central servers" to be just the opposite. Napster and Audiogalaxy, both based around central servers were/are very well exectured and work very fast for finding music. I have had much better luck with these systems than Gnutella in it's current and past incarnations. What we really need is to get rid of the current, shoddy, slow networks based around P2P to die. Gnutella just doesn't cut it when 55 million people try to use it.
I am interested in UI design [ a little pet project of mine ] and have been gathering some links and journal references for my own edification. I thought they might be relevant to the topic, so here they are:
Paypal takes an order of two times as much percentage as any respectable merchant account. If they really want to make it work better, slashdot should find themselves somewhere else to collect money. Not to mention the insane managment of paypal, if someone was really angry they could just send a bunch of e-mails to paypal and wham, they will confiscate all of slashdot's money.
Just for your information... Windows Media Player doesn't do any "data collection tricks," the slashdot story about that was FUD. All WMP does is download cddb info for cds and DVD info from another db and keep a file on your computer with a record [ie cache] of all of the CD/DVDs you have previously inserted. While both databases use a unique identifier, it has been pointed out by me in this comment that CDDB has a privacy policy that precludes them from releasing data about your listening habits. WMP is a harmless piece of useful software, and personally, I am happy to see it on the Linux platform.
According to a friend of mine, who is currently in MP training for the Marines, the hot sauce is included, and required eating for every meal for a specific reason. Hot sauce works to keep you regular and since the MREs are notorious for arriving as bricks and leaving as bricks, to put it lightly, the Sgts require their men to eat the entire bottle of hot sauce included with every MRE.
Look at that post you modded up as "Interesting"! It isn't interesting, it is flamebait. It is most definitely a rip on fans of country music and shouldn't have recieved any positive moderation. I personally enjoy country music and must say that I have ripped and encoded many country CDs for my own personal MP3 collection. I take great offense to people who stereotype the country music listener as in imbred appalacian who is lucky enough to own a trailer and a CD player let alone a computer! Let me be the first to stand up as a proud, intellegent, and critical listener of country music.
Just think if this was a rap cd and you said "do you really think anyone who listens to rap is smart enough to encode it on their computer", people would be all over you. Let's not trivialize the criticism of country music listeners!
Why does your local supermarket have a discount card? Remember when sale items didn't require you to scan that little keychain barcode[or enter your phone number at Dominicks] before you get the discount? For some reason that I don't understand, IANAMD [I am not a marketing drone], it is good to know what people purchase. And once you scan in your card, you get your entire purchase recorded, not just the sale items you bought. Someone should check out their privacy policies!
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So, at least their design is open source, because anyone can read those articles and design a similar keypad, right?
Adam
The court rules on the law. It interprets the law. It doesn't change the law unless the law violates the constitution. It can clarify a law, but in this case, the court decided that DVD decrypting software was illegal. I don't think that anyone will disagree that that software is in violation of the DMCA and they have also decided that the DMCA isn't unconstitutional.
If you're still angry about this decision, your next step is to contact your local senator and tell him or her your feelings on the DMCA and what you think they-- as your elected representative, should do. It is an election year afterall. Findout their stance on the issue and vote for someone who accurately represents your wishes!
adam
Let me get your argument straight: BB guns and paintball guns, as well as toys promote violence but video games have nothing to do with violence. Even if those said video games have 'gun lookalikes' in them? What about movies. If you think that a toy gun is more likely to promote gun violence than a video game that shows realistic portrayals of people being killed? Can you show me any research to support this?!?
Adam
The computer is actually more accurate than the average human, if you want some statistics about human's ability to recognize faces, I suggest you check out the following literature. These are two must read articles on facial recognition.
adam
I've raised plenty of rats-- and they have never eaten each other or their children. I don't think this is really a qualification for being human or considered ethically more valuable.
adam
Really, a 256kbps vbr mp3 is not far off from a lossless compression like SHN (shorten), check out this comparison of the audio spectrum here.
adam
Doing this is similar to only crossing the street in a reflective jumpsuit wearing a helmet and kevlar motorcycle wear. Overkill. Not worth it. I highly doubt you have gone through every line of every open source program you run, what if there's some buffer overruns in there and your net access enabled computer gets hacked?!?!?! Obviously you have to take risks to go online.
adam
adam
This has been done before, and posted to slashdot before. You can do it without the glass vessel. There's an old quickies here that shows how to do it without the vessel.
Adam
Check out the MAME project (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) get the program at the official site here. And get some (illegal) roms at a rom site, like this one here.
adam
When are we going to trust the government. The big business interests will push through more and more copyright enforcment laws and technologies that will effect everyone. Instead of fighting it outright, from the diametrically opposed viewpoint of "no copyright protection, ever!" we should take a more congenial viewpoint and encourage copyright protection while also making sure that our interests are protected. We can lobby for making sure that media marked as "public domain" can easily be copied on hardware with copy protection, and deem it illegal for a next generation audio or video device to blindly prevent copying of works, noting that there is a fair amount of free music and video out there. As well, we can cooperate with the industry and government in order to create these systems. Keep your friends close, but your enemies even closer-- befriend the music industry only for the reasons of making sure that they stay in line.
Adam
I agree with everything except the part about making money. I think some nerds need to get their glasses polarized just a few degrees less and get out into the sun, where ultra violet rays will help them absorb the vitamin D in the milk they drink in their latte's. The best part about nerds is the nerd girls, you never have to take them out, just chat online with them and when you're feeling randy go over there and fuck 'em silly. Then you can leave because they don't know how to talk in real life.
adam
Oh, so this guy gets a +4 for suggesting a new moderation point, but I get a -1 for suggesting a seperate site for trivial linux news [eg kernel updates, xft hacks]. Is the slashdot reader population becoming populated with linux nerds, or is this just a short trend that will die out? Once I had a dream that I could go back in time, and you know what I did? First I went back in time and defeated Jessie Owens at the 1936 olympics, and then I went back to 1989 and kidnapped linus torvalds and brought him back to 2002 where windows ruled the world and nerds were still subjugated because their nerdy skills weren't useful because linux was never invented.
Adam
Ok, comeon how is this off topic. The last time I looked, there was no where to put meta-discussions [not like on www.kuro5hin.org]. Please burn my karma all up. I don't like posting fake comments with fake info and fake links to get positive karma anyways ha ha ha. You linux guys sure got it bad for self esteem!
adam
PS It would be ironic for anyone to reply to this.
Howabout we start up a linuxslash site. Seriously, I don't know what the average slashdot user is thinking, but I bet they don't really care about Linux kernel 4.2.3build21 and a hack for antialiased fonts, this belongs on some secondary site. It just isn't as newsworthy as many of the other submissions to slashdot.
adam
On a side note-- I am seriously considering dropping slashdot for good, as I have been spending alot more of my browsing time here.
...terrible in that nobody would let slashdot cache their sites!
adam
Well, if you mirrored the site, the site should still get revenue from ad hits [just look at the source of this page for example, the img src is of a doubleclick server with slashdot's id in the url]. So if they did hit the page, assuming the mirror was exact, the external image link for the banner ad would be intact. However, some ad sites will check the request URI and referrer url and notice it's not coming off of their server, which could cause problems. This could be remedied, but it would take time-- and news is current. But articles like this one, which really aren't time dependant could be delayed until the site maintainer has time to arrange a mirror and still get ad revenue.
Adam
Personally, I found "current, shoddy, slow networks based around central servers" to be just the opposite. Napster and Audiogalaxy, both based around central servers were/are very well exectured and work very fast for finding music. I have had much better luck with these systems than Gnutella in it's current and past incarnations. What we really need is to get rid of the current, shoddy, slow networks based around P2P to die. Gnutella just doesn't cut it when 55 million people try to use it.
Adam
Enjoy the reading and e-mail me for more references/discussion if you are interested!
adam
Paypal takes an order of two times as much percentage as any respectable merchant account. If they really want to make it work better, slashdot should find themselves somewhere else to collect money. Not to mention the insane managment of paypal, if someone was really angry they could just send a bunch of e-mails to paypal and wham, they will confiscate all of slashdot's money.
adam
Just for your information...
Windows Media Player doesn't do any "data collection tricks," the slashdot story about that was FUD. All WMP does is download cddb info for cds and DVD info from another db and keep a file on your computer with a record [ie cache] of all of the CD/DVDs you have previously inserted. While both databases use a unique identifier, it has been pointed out by me in this comment that CDDB has a privacy policy that precludes them from releasing data about your listening habits. WMP is a harmless piece of useful software, and personally, I am happy to see it on the Linux platform.
Adam
According to a friend of mine, who is currently in MP training for the Marines, the hot sauce is included, and required eating for every meal for a specific reason. Hot sauce works to keep you regular and since the MREs are notorious for arriving as bricks and leaving as bricks, to put it lightly, the Sgts require their men to eat the entire bottle of hot sauce included with every MRE.
adam
Look at that post you modded up as "Interesting"! It isn't interesting, it is flamebait. It is most definitely a rip on fans of country music and shouldn't have recieved any positive moderation. I personally enjoy country music and must say that I have ripped and encoded many country CDs for my own personal MP3 collection. I take great offense to people who stereotype the country music listener as in imbred appalacian who is lucky enough to own a trailer and a CD player let alone a computer! Let me be the first to stand up as a proud, intellegent, and critical listener of country music.
Just think if this was a rap cd and you said "do you really think anyone who listens to rap is smart enough to encode it on their computer", people would be all over you. Let's not trivialize the criticism of country music listeners!
Adam
Why does your local supermarket have a discount card? Remember when sale items didn't require you to scan that little keychain barcode[or enter your phone number at Dominicks] before you get the discount? For some reason that I don't understand, IANAMD [I am not a marketing drone], it is good to know what people purchase. And once you scan in your card, you get your entire purchase recorded, not just the sale items you bought. Someone should check out their privacy policies!
adam