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  1. it supposedly involves "quantum dots" on Breakthrough Efficient, Paintable Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I'm sure inexpensive mass production of this stuff is right around the corner.

  2. iMac on The Ultimate MacDate · · Score: 1

    If you're interested in a cheaper Mac, not necessarily a laptop, have a look at the iMac. G5 processor, just like the PowerMac, starting at around $1200. The correct term I believe is "badass".

  3. Re:Spiderman and the Apprentice? on Spiderman 2 Trailer · · Score: 1

    you're so full of shit. she's a great actress. have you seen eternal sunshine?

  4. Re:Abandon complex structures? Never! on The Hundred-Year Language · · Score: 1

    The lists he's talking about are (I'm guessing) actually S-expressions, which can express anything XML can.

  5. Re:Protectionism on U.S. Jobs Jumping Ship · · Score: 1

    You can't outsource core decision-making.

  6. Re:Spamassassin and ENDING spam.... on Plan for Spam, Version 2 · · Score: 1

    I stand corrected.

    So SA will be using Bayes on a list of scores from various heuristics, with one of the heuristics a Bayesian word filter applied to the body text? I wonder if this will end up being more effective than just using a Bayesian word filter on the entire email (headers+body).

  7. Re:Spamassassin and ENDING spam.... on Plan for Spam, Version 2 · · Score: 1

    Just in case anyone thought "oh, SA includes Bayesian filtering now" - yes and no. Its usage of Bayes may end up being more effective than Graham's, or (more likely, I think) less effective, but it's not equivalent. SA is using Bayes on a set of scores from different heuristics. Graham is talking about using Bayes on a lower level - on text tokens from the message.

  8. Re:Current Nintendo research in this area on Games Controlled By An Exercise Bike · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah. Looks like he's been around for a while, too.

  9. "drops" monday? on Covalent's Version of Apache 2.0 To Drop Monday · · Score: 1

    dude, it's not an album. stop pretending you're not a geek.

  10. the web vs. the net on Shirky On P2P · · Score: 1

    You know, five years ago "the Web" meant HTML documents moderated or mediated by HTTP. "The Web" now means the publicly accessible Internet, so I think we're not only going to keep the word "Web services," I think inasmuch as it becomes popular, it's going to change the meaning of the word "Web" away from narrower protocol-driven definition and toward the larger public Internet definition.

    You know, there's a perfectly good word for "the publicly accessible Internet": the Net. The Web is a bunch of html pages hyperlinked together. The Net is that plus everything else. It's nice to be able to express oneself with precision, and if "the Web" becomes a blanket phrase for the entire net, we'll lose a little.

  11. Re:Jef Raskin on Amelio, Raskin, Gassée On What Apple Means · · Score: 1
    Techies generally aren't gasbags. If he's been involved in the nuts and bolts for 20 years, then it's safe to assume he has a clue (and if he won't talk about it, it's safe to assume he has some funding).

    This is the same brilliant logic Umberto Eco parodied in 'Foucault's Pendulum'. "He must know the secret. And if he doesn't reveal the secret, that means he's really deep into it."

  12. Re:Leonardo on Linus Responds To Mundie · · Score: 1

    Does Corbis own the rights to all reproductions of the art, or only the specific reproductions they have? If I take a picture of [artwork Corbis has], can I post it/sell it/put it in a book, or do I have to pay them?

  13. MOD THIS UP on Patents: Two For The Road (To Hell) · · Score: 1

    please

  14. Re:Gravity simulation algorithms on 500 Billion Very Specialized FLOPs · · Score: 1

    I see you've mastered the First Law of Technical Papers: if you're writing about something fairly math-heavy, your equations sure as hell better make pretty pictures.

  15. Re:This is ridiculous on Napster Bans Metallica Fans · · Score: 1
    Of course I'm serious. If you don't think that's true, how can you in good conscience support them? Or are you one of those people who thinks pirating is your god given right?

    He didn't say anything about supporting them.

  16. Re:DOS attack against Freenet cannot work that way on FreeNet's Ian Clarke Answers Privacy Questions · · Score: 1

    You can dump crap data onto freenet all you want, but the data will never propigate itself as long as noone is requesting it.
    If you're trying to DOS by adding random data, why not flood the system with requests for that data? Distributed, of course, so it gets copied to a bunch of different nodes. Freenet doesn't seem to be any more vulnerable than the web, but that's not saying much at this point.

  17. Re:UUGGGHH!! Java on Cross-Platform Development Tools? · · Score: 1
    Requiring people to have java on their machines is an uncessary burden. Before they can even install your software, they have to go out and find yet another piece of software. Or you have to bundle it with your program, which increases your distribution costs and makes you dependent on a third party product that you can't exercise much control over.

    Hmm...sounds like something I've heard of before...oh yeah: MFC. You're right, no one should need anything more then good ol' ANSI C and the Windows API.
    Heh.

  18. Re:But where's the Fahrvergn�gen in that!? on German Robot Klaus Passes Driving Test · · Score: 1

    I like driving. I take long car trips just for the sheer pleasure of it. If this freedom is taken away from me I will be very very unhappy.

  19. One problem on IBM Runs 41,000 Copies of Linux on Mainframe · · Score: 1

    Can you say "single point of failure"? Good! I knew you could!

  20. Re:Subterranian Martian Water Channels on Galileo And Cassini Team Up · · Score: 2
    Yes, it's very cool. How'd you like to go spelunking through those...? God knows what you'd find.....

    Rocks?

  21. Re:Why the Dune movie failed on First Pix From New Dune Miniseries · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Hell, I liked (parts of) the movie. The Harkonnens should be just that decadent and twisted.

  22. Re:A company trying to keep its property on Genome Project Squabbling · · Score: 1

    Ok. But if the HGP is going to make the same information (obtained separately) freely available, what's Celera's value add?

  23. OT: US release date? on Importing PSX2 Illegal? · · Score: 1

    Anybody have any idea? I think it hasn't been officially announced yet, but is there a consensus on when it's likely to be?

  24. Re:Visit the /. Hall Of Fame! on Slashdot's 10,000th Story · · Score: 1

    The interesting part is that out of 2017 comments, no comment got moderated to higher than 3.

  25. Re:controlling thoughts on Brainball! · · Score: 1

    ka-CHING.
    Much harder than generating lots of useless mental activity.