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  1. old blue eyes on What Font Color Is Best For Eyes? · · Score: 1

    I find having blue eyes means you can read any font.

  2. Opinion mining - (made in Italy) on Microsoft Developing News Sorting Based On Political Bias · · Score: 1

    FWIW here is a smart approach to such opinion mining http://www.crs4.it/ict/dart06/slides/attardi.pdf

  3. An answer - optical illusions on Gmail CAPTCHA Cracked · · Score: 1

    This may be an answer: Inverted Turing logic and optical illusion: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1080441&dl=GUIDE&coll=GUIDE/
    Where it says: As a failing peculiar to human, or animate, visual systems, visual illusions might be also employed to distinguish humans from robots, "computer bots", or any other artificial intelligence empowered with a visual capacity. Any such artificial entity is unlikely to suffer the same visual illusions as our own, unless, of course, it has been specifically engineered to do so. The approach here inverts, and complements, the logic of the Turing test (Turing 50) since it does not require evidence of an intelligent capacity equivalent to that of human beings, but rather evidence of a characteristic human failing - to err is human....

  4. Economist 's take:- disruptive technology on Microsoft Unveils Virtualization Strategy · · Score: 1
  5. Open standard - not Open access on Arguing For Open Electronic Health Records · · Score: 1

    Ideal situation is when the treating medic has the patient's details in hand and *can* readily read them. Put them on USB pen round the patient's neck 24/7 in a truly open format - then 90% is achieved.
    The other 10% - like external exams and reports - need the network up and running and the interoperable database world. Backup could be on any encrypted cloud disk.

    Come on guys this isn't rocket science, its human lives, "stupid".

  6. errare humanum est on Virtual Robots Fooled By Visual Illusions · · Score: 1
  7. MS Messenger Messes up defrag even after uninstall on Six Multi-Service IM Clients Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Having uninstalled Messenger I had to use the command-line utility FSUTIL USN to remove the USN journal in order to get efficient disk fragmentation back on my NTFS pre-formatted disk. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311724 - use method 2.

  8. Waffer thin on Delete Cookies, Inflate Net Traffic Estimates · · Score: 0

    I never realized that Bit Torrent involved cookies.

  9. Re:hemispherical challenge on Google to Hold Worldwide Developer Day · · Score: 1

    What I meant was it could as well be Worldwide Night.

  10. hemispherical challenge on Google to Hold Worldwide Developer Day · · Score: 1

    Worldwide Day - huh. Sounds like that might be even more hemispherically challenging that the Summer (not Winter) of Code initiative.

  11. Vernier acuity on 1080p, Human Vision, and Reality · · Score: 1

    Yet human vision is even better than reported since is able to perceive misalignment in lines and curves (e.g aliasing pattern) at sub-receptor accuracy - see Venier Acuity: e.g http://www.pc.ibm.com/ww/healthycomputing/vdt13eye e.html

  12. Mutiple base station problem on The Real Reasons Phones Are Kept Off Planes · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I thought the real reason was that the phone companies are worried what happens when too many of their base-stations get contacted simultaneously by the same cell phone/s. They probably can cope but are unable to do the real insitu testing.

  13. Charlton Heston on Should Chimps Have Human Rights? · · Score: 1

    Definitely not - Remember what they'll do in the future to us - watch CH in Planet of The Apes.

  14. Twins Discovered? on Semi-Identical Twins Discovered · · Score: 1

    Twins Discovered?

    I guess they discovered themselves first.

    Credit where credit's due.

    Twins Discovered?

    I guess they discovered themselves first.

    Credit where its due.

  15. Aardvark on 20 Must-have Firefox Extensions · · Score: 1

    Aardvark is great to prepare a page before print out Use RIght Click: Start_aardvark Highlight the area of the page you want then CNTL-I nukes the rest. http://karmatics.com/aardvark/

  16. A Multilingual approach - see also on Natural Language Processing for State Security · · Score: 1

    Semantic analysis of opinion in USENET http://www.crs4.it/ict/dart06/program.html and follow the pdf link under G.Attardi of Univ. of Pisa Italy "Extracting Dependency Relations for Opinion Mining" - treats languages other than English - avoids Chomsky

  17. Would that not be the universe itself? on Largest Object in the Universe Discovered · · Score: 1

    The largest object in the Universe: Would that not be the universe itself?

  18. 0-blomov on Want to Experience Zero G? Stay in Bed · · Score: 1

    Zero = O
    O = Oblomov
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblomov>


  19. Fantastic - I can now write in spirals on Mozilla Firefox 2 Alpha 1 Available · · Score: 1
    > Support for SVG text using svg:textPath'" This mean that we can now publish texts along arbitrary paths. Searchable spiral poetry here we come! Compose in Inkscape - render in Firefox. For example [Cut and paste]

    <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
    <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd" >
    <svg width="12cm" height="3.6cm" viewBox="0 0 1000 300" version="1.1"
    xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
    <defs>
    <path id="MyPath"
    d="M 270.18634,82.608696 C 270.37894,82.840915 269.84742,83.007795 269.71822,82.996945 C 268.86959,82.925674 268.74445,81.803663 269.00939,81.18963 C 269.65841,79.685416 271.66302,79.596056 272.90121,80.35703 C 275.16538,81.748562 275.20055,84.922795 273.75419,86.910501 C 271.47392,90.044227 266.88857,89.999872 264.03872,87.707426 C 259.93187,84.403819 260.0792,78.194605 263.36056,74.378756 C 267.81264,69.201518 275.83942,69.473029 280.71836,73.873616 C 287.05778,79.591495 286.6427,89.615704 281.00202,95.649329 C 273.90745,103.23815 261.71672,102.66154 254.44134,95.667338 C 245.5198,87.090595 246.27474,72.57296 254.72988,63.97261 C 264.88962,53.638395 281.88727,54.587527 291.8925,64.605969 C 303.71643,76.445511 302.55801,96.070078 290.87822,107.55721 C 277.26558,120.94531 254.87258,119.56319 241.82909,106.12772 C 226.80467,90.651803 228.42435,65.35361 243.70653,50.68159 C 261.13312,33.950778 289.46906,35.821338 305.83972,53.038376 C 324.34513,72.500521 322.21079,104.00295 302.97336,122.1405 C 281.39306,142.48699 246.59883,140.07638 226.62783,118.7354 C 204.37535,94.956407 207.07436,56.748181 230.59994,34.878775 C 256.65623,10.656815 298.39776,13.65604 322.22912,39.445284 C 348.48268,67.85574 345.17174,113.24725 317.04156,139.10274 C 286.20171,167.44881 237.04601,163.8149 209.10542,133.26819 C 178.60714,99.925234 182.57498,46.893408 215.61228,16.807923 C 251.53065,-15.901217 308.54841,-11.588687 340.83749,24.011808 C 375.81511,62.576566 371.14735,123.6881 332.9124,158.23845 C 291.63152,195.5412 226.32027,190.50789 189.45192,149.56848 C 149.76829,105.50292 155.1773,35.887755 198.88998,-3.3544033 C 245.80768,-45.473804 319.82929,-39.679143 361.50021,6.8744969 C 406.10945,56.71076 399.91934,135.23977 350.45812,179.39359 C 297.63787,226.54599 214.50199,219.95078 167.81191,167.51634 C 118.06379,111.64764 125.07358,23.806825 180.54589,-25.472146 C 239.52665,-77.86785 332.1691,-70.43414 384.08888,-11.860175 C 439.18337,50.295371 431.31652,147.83488 369.57801,202.44673 C 304.18576,260.29056 201.65499,251.98149 144.30046,187.01635 C 83.65735,118.32624 92.417595,10.711206 160.67067,-49.436005 C 232.71901,-112.92776 345.51023,-103.70749 408.49953,-32.105955 C 474.88871,43.360318 465.19969,161.41853 390.18987,227.29876 C 311.24668,296.63363 187.83168,286.46722 119.01221,207.99 C 46.683932,125.51155 57.336246,-3.3490338 139.33934,-75.155507 C 225.41075,-150.52443 359.80475,-139.37778 434.64551,-53.790996 C 513.1018,35.930468 501.4525,175.9448 412.22482,253.86663 C 318.7968,335.45658 173.07611,323.29637 92.026882,230.37118 C 7.2574529,133.18067 19.936719,-18.331549 116.61546,-102.55404 C 217.62384,-190.54833 375.01194,-177.34194 462.45312,-76.854164 C 553.71724,28.026952 539.97573,191.37447 435.62397,282.07934 C 326.81578,376.65785 157.42608,362.37333 63.412908,254.10313 C -34.524138,141.31402 -19.688764,-34.199876 92.55379,-131.56555 C 209.37719,-232.90491 391.09658,-217.51093 491.85857,-101.24256 C 596.64366,19.668036 580.68337,207.6735 460.3362,311.87525 C 335.28597,420.1491 140.91452,403.61489 33.22994,279.13639 C -78.575364,149.89451 -61.459685,-50.922153 67.202237,-162.1323 C 200.68734,-277.51141 408.02782,-259.80677 522.80591,-126.90977 C 641.80084,10.869728 623.49981,224.81199 486.3165,343.20009 C 344.19184,465.85253 123.57045,446.94775 1.5306108,305.42728 C -124.82072,158.90709 -105.30489,-68.470206 40.603176,-194.20319 C 191.56889,-324.29449 425.77828,-304.16035 555.24551,-153.81463 C 689.11755,1.646224

  20. See Also: Pentagon's new weapon - cyborg fly-spies on U.S. Army Robots Break Asimov's First Law · · Score: 1
    Here is another robot story from today's Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1 730876,00.html> It starts:
    The Pentagon is trying to develop "insect cyborgs" able to sniff out explosives, or "bug" conversations by lurking unseen in enemy hideouts with micro-transmitters strapped to their bodies. The cyborgs - half insect, half robot - would be created by inserting tiny devices into the bodies of flying, hopping or crawling insects while in their larva or pupa stage, so that the mechanisms become part of their bodies and ultimately allow them to be moved by remote control.
  21. Don't be TOO evil on Can We Trust Google? · · Score: 1

    proposed new mission statement: Don't be too evil - guys!

  22. 2005 Scientific Highlights on 2005 Scientific Highlights · · Score: 5, Funny

    2005 Scientific Highlights That's whole lot of highlights!

  23. Now that's what I call *dogfood* on Tim Berners-Lee Enters Blogosphere · · Score: 1

    Tim Berners-Lee now using the read/write Web: Now that's what I call *dogfood*.

  24. Inkscape's cool too + SVG on GIMP's 10th Anniversary Splash Contest · · Score: 2, Informative

    Don't forget the beauty of Inkscape - the latest version v0.42.2 made it even cooler to use to create web-savy SVG that Firefox 1.5 now renders out of the box. I love those Calligraphic pen tools!

  25. The Mind We All Share? on The Guardian On Intellectual Property · · Score: 1

    Does any one know where this phrase was coined "The Mind We All Share?" - George Dyson recent Google visitor attributes it to John Cage - but searching (Google) shows no real further evidence... Where is our world brain?