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  1. Re: Thanks Obama on India, China, and Japan Are All Planning Moon Missions (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe India crashed an orbiter onto moon; a far cry from "landing"

  2. Re: Why the Moon and Mars? on India, China, and Japan Are All Planning Moon Missions (upi.com) · · Score: 0

    Only when people believe the sky is falling, u can exploit them. Plz dont let out the secrets in a public forum. If you don't enjoy dominating others, plenty of us still do. Keep them scared of the gloom n doom.

  3. Re: How's that Perl 6 going? on New Video Peeks 'Inside the Head' of Perl Creator Larry Wall (infoq.com) · · Score: 0

    It's what you don't say that matters. Larry never talks about python. Wonder why..

  4. Re:future of work on Ray Kurzweil Explains Why Technology Won't Eliminate Human Jobs (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    For new jobs, why not give them each a handful of beach sand and ask them to count. Use 4 different people to verify and arrive at a mean and pay salary based on the accuracy. I guess this job is more meaningful than flying to the star in the next galaxy.

  5. Re:Better jobs and more spare time on Ray Kurzweil Explains Why Technology Won't Eliminate Human Jobs (fortune.com) · · Score: 0

    More ppl can turn inwards; realize u don't need a job to "feel worthy" and don't need to fit in too.

  6. Re:it cannot logically work. sorry. on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Sloot Compression? (youtube.com) · · Score: 1

    yeah.. it's like you have a million samples/points on the line y=x. That is you have to store (x1,y1), (x2, y2) .. a million pairs.. how much memory it takes? a naive approach is about 4MB (say 4 bytes per point). Of course you can just transfer (x_min and x_max) n just create the sample set (spacing them randomly/evenly within x_min, x_max). How much space? 4 bytes plus one say 8 byte equation-identifier. So totally 12 bytes. not 4 MB.
    The point is you are finding a deeper level abstraction.. ie going to the algorithm that generated the data and creating the data gain. Not just compressing the data.

  7. Re:It's not a thing on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Sloot Compression? (youtube.com) · · Score: 1

    You can compress a 10 hour video in youtube to say 12 bytes ..by giving the youtube-video-id.

  8. Re:Original maybe, ingenious really? on CIA Malware Can Switch Clean Files With Malware When You Download Them Via SMB (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I like a file-system (or even the disk-driver) which will provide a modified source file (like a .c file) only to the compiler but not to other applications [like editors, version controlled system etc]. This way you can create an executable which has your exploit/backdoor but a human scanning the source-code can't see it. eg say you insert a special login/password to the login.c file which allows you a back-door. [it's similar to the legend that original C compiler writer had infact put in such a backdoor] [ps got posted as ac]

  9. Re: No such ransom was or will ever be paid on Movie Piracy Blackmail Plot Fails In India, Six Arrested (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    In any advanced society, the cops work for the rich. What's surprising here? bahubali2 grossed 1k crores INR.. sure the cops saw the "rewards" they will get. Their service is not there if you don't have a bank-balance. Isn't it true in all places?

  10. Re:Realistic examples missing on Ask Slashdot: Do You Like Functional Programming? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    A seed planted yields fruit after a few months/years; it needs to be watered and cared for until it grows to that big tree. There are certain things in existence that can't be shown; you have to do it to see it happen to you. If someone hesitates to walk the path because of a lack of proof likely will miss a lot. As Morpheus says, there is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path. It's a about taking a leap of faith; not based on logic.

  11. Makes you think of data design more on Ask Slashdot: Do You Like Functional Programming? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 2

    In my experience FP style (in python), makes me spend lot more time in the design phase. The emphasis is on data/data-structure more than the code/algorithm/operations [the spotlight of imperative languages]. You start thinking more about how your data gets transformed from input to output. I felt this way of separating data representation from the code/operation lead to more robust code; also much faster implementation phase. FP surely changes the way you think at a higher plane of the problem at hand.

  12. Re:Why do they not match ads to intended audience? on Still More Advertisers Pull Google Ads Over YouTube Hate Videos (morningstar.com) · · Score: 1

    Likely the algorithms are already doing this. Just that you don't want to know the Truth that someone liking your product also likes that hateful thing. So you (as advertiser/big-corp) want to disassociate yourself from that hateful stuff -- it's just hypocrisy.

  13. Re:What is the Purpose of Prison? on Indiana's Inmates Could Soon Have Access To Tablets (abc57.com) · · Score: 1

    isn't it because it's a nice way to milk the system? someone somewhere is siphoning off the tax-dollars? ftm (follow the money) should lead to the private fat cats.

  14. It's a kind of censoring on Netflix Uses AI in Its New Codec To Compress Video Scene By Scene (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Take a scene of a pretty mother breast feeding. What a male considers as interesting blocks/parts of the image is totally different from that of a female. The AI may choose to drop details from one block than another based on its training set (or based on what it thinks the viewer cares). Essentially now the viewer is served only stuff that the server thinks what may be liked. That is it's producer doing the choosing; rather than the consumer. Not sure if it's a good thing or bad..but at times we want to see the original -- not the altered/watered-down version.

  15. More than my personal choice, I would say 'never sign'. That's it. If you can manage living that way, you can be in peace. If you really really need to sign ensure you are not entering into a trap. Since man descended from the trees, one man will exploit another; the smarter one doing it on the dumber one. You can't blame the world or call someone lied. Either you improve your intelligence else become a slave to someone who chose to become so (intelligent)

  16. So being dumb to sign at the dotted line is somehow world's fault?

  17. Re:Times have changed on Garmin Engineer Shot And Killed By Man Yelling 'Get Out Of My Country!' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    and your guns are useless against a modern military. .

    Likely so; I alluded assassination; not going after a military. The point is one single member of a society is capable to make a difference if 99% others were bought by the power [deny them the right saying "mentally ill" etc.. I bet in north-korea if you are against the king, you will be labelled "mentally ill"]

  18. Re:I think the difference is on Garmin Engineer Shot And Killed By Man Yelling 'Get Out Of My Country!' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    your odds of surviving a knife attack are orders of magnitude better than surviving a shooting.

    Isn't that the very reason why the constitution provides gun to an ordinary person? A person in power (say state's head) will always fear that he can get killed if he is too unfair. Basically it's (right to gun) a way to ensure a runaway democracy ruled by a few very powerful doesn't happen.

  19. Re:Something is missing on How UPS Trucks Saved Millions of Dollars By Eliminating Left Turns (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's correlation and not causation. But you can argue that it's a kind of causation because if you haven't chosen the newer process you may not have gotten other side benefits [the better routing algorithm]. Usually when you move to a new (better) process you gonna get unforeseen side-effects (both beneficial and new-cost). Here one side effect is using over-all better routing algorithm; surely there will be some detrimental effects (say uneven wear n tear to the vehicle because doing only left turns leading to costly repairs) which are not spoken about. So it's all about how you present the case..what you wanna highlight so the listener buys into your view.

  20. Re:The Is No One Purpose for Sleep on The Purpose of Sleep? To Forget, Scientists Say (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    What all share is the rotating earth with (nearly) half day and half night. And most of these species will respond to light (ie have some form of eyes/visual processing). It may be interesting to study creatures/life deep under ocean (non dependent on sun/light/day/night) whether they too have any form of "sleep". The point is your light stimulus changes regularly every 12 hours - it only makes sense to optimize your internal processing based on this cycle. And all life is doing that.

  21. Re:The question isn't, "why do we sleep?" on The Purpose of Sleep? To Forget, Scientists Say (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's consciousness that is we; not the other way around.

  22. Amount of darkness; not sleep on The Purpose of Sleep? To Forget, Scientists Say (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    What I found with my experimentation is I feel fresh based on how many hours I had visual stimuli off; it doesn't matter if I sleep or lying staring the darkness. I can even afford some audio input/output (listen to songs or even sing/talk along - yeah may sound like a mad man). The crucial piece is my visual cortex in brain is kinda put in a lower power mode. Then even if i really sleep only a few hours say 3 or 4, I still feel fresh. The contrary is true as well. If I am busy in computer or phone and sleep late, my body demands those many hours of eyes shut -- in fact it is taking more because during the day time the diffused sunlight is making the brain ask for more rest time. So the fix I found is try to catch hold of as many dark hours (like between 1 am to 6 am) as possible [early to bed, early to rise]. Of course the early man/before light invention people used to do this normally. Basically it's how much darkness u get that matters - not sleep.

  23. When input is voice; we assume it's a human generated voice. A specific human's sound generating apparatus (vocal chord etc) have a specific signature (common parlance call it accent); If the software can capture this and send it along, you can reasonably construct back in the text-to-speech part something resembling/unique to the original voice. And this info is independent of the size of the sample - whether he/she talks 10 words or a thousand, the accent part info stays the same.

  24. Re:Dear Matthew on Facing Layoff, An IT Employee Makes A Bold Counteroffer (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Ok you like moral; some like immoral.. why you think you must win?

  25. Re:When you have everything... on Store Adds Donald Trump's Picture To $150,000 Gold-Encased iPhones (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    grammar is for others :p