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  1. Re:Potential on MIT Offers Picture-Centric Programming To the Masses With Sikuli · · Score: 1

    Yes, but that kind of defeats the purpose of using image recognition so you don't have to care about the exact layout of your application. Inserting a new control on the page could break the test if you used tabs

  2. Re:Potential on MIT Offers Picture-Centric Programming To the Masses With Sikuli · · Score: 1

    I just tried it out for an hour or so with our web application, and it seems to be doing it's job. One thing that it didn't manage to do is click somewhere relative to the matched image. It always seems to click in the middle of the image, which is annoying when you want it to click one checkbox out of many based on it's preceding label.

    Perhaps it's possible to use some kind of nesting, so you could try to find the image of the checkbox inside a previous match that includes the label, but I didn't find out how, because the documentation is kind of sparse atm, apart from the tutorials.

    I'd say this is very interesting software, but only alpha quality at this stage. (opening and saving "projects" is quite cumbersome for instance, and I've seen several stack traces in it's debug pane)

  3. Re:idiocy? Incompetence? on Y2.01K · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's not the Excel language that breaks stuff as far as I recall, but Windows' regional settings. Set your windows regional settings to France or whatever, and it should work.

    At least, that is the case for csv files in Excel.

  4. Re:As per usual, nobody is getting it. on Mainstream Press "Cringes" At Win7 Launch Parties · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My thoughts exactly. It's the same thing as those ads with deliberatly crappy lighting, camera angles and sound.

    There really is no such thing as bad publicity.

  5. Re:WoW was ruined on Casual Games Quickly Transforming the MMO Market · · Score: 1

    The money required for subsidising the houses comes out of taxes. Paid by, among others, me. This affects me.

    The epics are not paid for by me.

  6. Re:Don't click the last link then scroll to the en on Australia's Bizarre Classification System For Internet Censorship · · Score: 1

    My bad for assuming that parental guidance implied that minors shouldn't be able to access it without parental permission. Anyway, the article is written *against* censorship, so I'd expect them to be happy for Robert Mapplethorpe instead of calling it a bizarre decision.

    I blame the summary :P

  7. Re:Don't click the last link then scroll to the en on Australia's Bizarre Classification System For Internet Censorship · · Score: 1

    Seriously, what's bizarre about rating goatse-like pictures as PG?

  8. Re:No thanks on Alan Turing Apology Campaign Grows · · Score: 1

    Or perhaps you just visit different clubs than I do. I have never heard of anyone getting so much as a frown for using the word "black" to describe someone with a dark skin color.

  9. Re:No thanks on Alan Turing Apology Campaign Grows · · Score: 1

    I suspect there's something lost in translation here, and whatever word you're using is your language's equivalent of "nigger", not "black"

  10. Re:No thanks on Alan Turing Apology Campaign Grows · · Score: 1

    alcoholism is a widely observed phenomenon, are you going to argue that's genetically advantageous too?

    You've never been to any kind of party, have you?

  11. Re:It's Already Legally Governed, Drop It on Making the Case That Virtual Property Is a Bad Idea · · Score: 1

    My take on the EULA is not so much Blizzard trying to sell your precious chat logs for profit, but for preventing some asshole from suing Blizzard for displaying his character's name on their website.

  12. Re:It's unclear why this is a bad thing on College Credits For Trolling the Web? · · Score: 1

    Science is never dogmatic

    Sounds like dogma to me, but I guess that can be attributed to you being dogmatic, instead of science.

    There's at least one true dogmatic believe in science: that the scientific method is a good method to find out how the universe works.

    I happen to agree, just like I accept the Peano axioms as a good basis for number theory, but there's no way to prove that dogma without circular reasoning.

  13. Re:Interesting Discussion on Finding New and Unintended Ways of Playing Games · · Score: 1

    I found the result was more impressive if you spread them out over a larger horizontal space. But yeah, I did the "drill to the bottom with nukes" thing too

  14. Re:DNA GATC on Sequencing a Human Genome In a Week · · Score: 1

    I would like to announce publicly that my genome is released under the GPL

    So you'll only allow you children to mate with other GPL'ed people?

  15. Re:Apple viral marketing campaign on Korean DDoS Bots To Self-Destruct · · Score: 0

    What part of what I blatently copied isn't taken literally by huge numbers of people? (ok, except the zombie part, but can you spell "hyperbole"?)

    That was what the discussion was about: people don't need to be stupid to believe outlandish claims. More accurately, a lot of people, smart and stupid, believe a lot of stuff that others find grotesqly surreal.

    Now, the condescending prick part... you certainly got me there.

  16. Re:Really that bad of a thing? on Korean DDoS Bots To Self-Destruct · · Score: 1

    Your ideas intrigue me, and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

  17. Re:Apple viral marketing campaign on Korean DDoS Bots To Self-Destruct · · Score: 5, Funny

    Over a billion people claim to believe that a 2000 year old cosmic, Jewish zombie, born of a virgin mother; will offer you eternal life if you symbolically eat his flesh, drink his blood and telepathically accept him as your master so he can remove an evil force, present on all humans because a woman who was made from the rib of a man, who was constructed of dust, was convinced by a talking snake, to eat a cursed apple, from a magical tree growing in a mystical garden a little while after the universe was created around 6000 years ago.

    You might be right.

  18. Re:Further server imbalance on Faction Changes Coming To World of Warcraft · · Score: 2, Informative

    Switching realms to an imbalanced realm is already prohibited if your faction happens to be the most numerous there. Conversely, switching to a realm where your faction is in the minority is often free. They'll probably do something similar with this.

  19. Re:i'm the submitard in question on US Open Government Initiative Enters Phase Three · · Score: 1

    Please note that on slashdot, plain old text means html with newlines replaced by <br/>, so you still need to escape your < characters with &lt;

    Yes, that is pretty stupid.

  20. Re:useful energy is not free on English Market Produces Energy With Kinetic Plates · · Score: 1

    After spending energy climbing the speedbumb, you get most of the energy back by gaining speed going down the speed bump on the other side.

    In the proposed system, you don't gain (as much) speed going down.

    Most of the enery loss because of speed bumps is because of braking and accelerating, not going up and down.

  21. Re:i'll be the first to say.. on Anonymous Newspaper Commenters Subpoenaed In Tax Case · · Score: 1

    because words on the internet have no consequence?

    Neither does an anonymous letter, or a letter filled with inert white powder, or a packet of C4 without a detonator for that matter.

  22. Re:Er, not. on Scientists Wonder What Fingerprints Are For · · Score: 1

    Quantity only works where the quality of the parenting is relatively poor

    That actually explains a lot...

  23. Re:How gimmicky is this 3D stuff? (examples) on Ridley Scott's Forever War In 3D · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's a pretty neat effect, but unless it's a disaster movie about earthquakes, I don't really see this technique as useful for films...

  24. Re:Harshness is all about color temperature on CFLs Causing Utility Woes · · Score: 1

    I think it has has to do with more energy lost in generation and transport of electricity than with natural gas, heating oil, etc.

    Not sure though.

  25. Re:Meh on Opera Launches Facial Gesture Capability · · Score: 1

    What's that now?