The coolest part of the project is a tool called Writeprint, which 'automatically extracts thousands of multilingual, structural, and semantic features to determine who is creating "anonymous" content' with an accuracy of 95%, according to the release.
A way to track down the ACs who keep posting homoerotic rants and random trolls.
The facility where I work has a secure room for doing classified government work. I assure you, no EM gets in or out of that room.
This might be a silly comment, as I am no expert, but I imagine that this solution would not work for protecting sensors against interference from phones. The phone would be in the same room as the machine, since it's sitting the patient's pocket, and even though it cannot receive anything from the base stations, it would be searching for them, blasting EM throughout the room in the process.
There's no mind reader program (yet) so sorry but you're going to have to make up your mind about how to handle it when the server version changed too.
Since the original questions said that the sync should work "invisibly to the user (except in the case of conflicts)", I'd guess they have given that some consideration. Besides, I can easily imagine a piece of software that is configurable to do any of the various options you suggested.
Find some freeware or open source one that does just what you need and isn't overly complicated
I think that was kind of the point of asking Slashdot. Do you know of any such software?
I see what you did there. Hidden out in the open like one of the three...
On a side note, I couldn't believe that the OP had to mention that you needed to have read the books to get the Scouring of the Shire refernce. I mean, this is/.! But of course someone came along and not only hadn't read the books, but then went on to argue with them... Which I guess means that this really is/.
Except that it gives you no idea what the actual problem is. 'Continue with save' has nothing to do with the reason you're being asked for permission, which is that you're about destroy all formatting. The heading is clear, but misleading. If I just read the heading I'm going to click OK, after all, I wanted to save, right?
Don't get me wrong, Stephenson is by far and away my favorite author, but his ending tend to be rather sucky. The rest of the book always makes up for this though.
I worked retail in the video games department of a major department store for pretty much the entire last generation of consoles. I would agree that all of your points are very relevant. If anyone's got mod points, bump up the above post please.
I think/. posters underestimate how important the ability to play DVDs was to many parents buying this for the kids. They either didn't have a DVD player (early in the console cycle) or they already had one, but wanted a spare for the kids' TV (later in the console cycle). The other important point was the variety of games that the PS2 had. It had AAA titles in pretty much every genre, and more importantly, at every age range. When parents came in, they wanted a console that would last, and the variety of games on offer made them feel confident that the PS2 would keep little Billy entertained for more than a couple of weeks.
I see. This is why I tend to blockquote compulsively - it avoids mixups like this one. In any case you make a fair point, once I'm aware of what you're talking about.:)
That is not true. The nunchuk's analog stick and buttons are accessible.
The OP was talking about the accelerometer in the nunchuk. This is the thing that lets it know what angle it is being held at and whether it's being shaken, etc. It's currently used in a number of games (eg. To shield slam in Zelda you push the nunchuk at the screen.) In the zapper it's useless since the nunchuk is fixed to the wiimote and so we know it's orientation already.
I would certainly agree with all of your points. They're all major issues that face the US electoral system.
As an Aussie who's recently come to the US to work, I would add one more that is seems few Americans bring up in political discussions: Optional voting. In many of the major western democracies, you MUST vote. If you don't you are fined, but more importantly it is ingrained in you as part of your civic duty to spend a few minutes on polling day numbering piece of paper.
This is extremely important since it forces politicians to address the mainstream electorate in preference to special interest groups which seem to have become adept at hijacking the democratic process in the US.
Mandatory voting combined with a preferential voting system would make the US a much better nation IMO.
Hmm what could go wrong with massive electrical generators and water.
This is the first question an engineer assigned to the project would ask. Then they would think about all the stuff you've mentioned. Then they would think about heaps of other things you haven't thought of. Then they would design things to deal with each of the issues they came up with. Then they would make the things a lot stronger they would ever need to be in theory.
That's what engineers do for a living. And quite frankly none of the those problems sound overly complex. As someone else has mentioned most of them have been solved for oil rigs for many years. The others have been solved since 1866 when the first intercontinental copper wires for telegraph transmission were laid.
I was thinking you could do something really cool by having the whole things submerge when there was a storm and hide under the level of the waves until it was calmer, but that might be a bit too sci-fi for them.
Unfortunately we would have scores of people wandering Iowa asking where they could find Mankrik's wife.
Too many generations have been raised to not ask questions. The autonomic reflex to ask questions (even about the inane) is annoying to those who think they know everything, but it's a Good Thing(tm) for our culture.
Oh for fuck's sake! You don't need to start in with the philosophical bullshit. Highbrow people like you are ruining Barrens Chat.
Now many of you may knee-jerk post how wrong it is, but consider that the buy-sell industry is out there and flourishing. There are plenty of consumers who want that action.
To see why this argument is wrong, replace the term 'buy-sell' with 'child prostitution'. Just because people do it doesn't make it morally right.
Furthermore, nobody is getting "hurt" in any traditional sense.
Depends on how you define traditional. Back when I played WoW, I couldn't afford any decent blues, let alone epics at the AH. This is because prices were inflated by a bunch of people who bought gold and used that to buy all the good items. The obvious solution would be to go and get some blues to sell at the AH. Except that when you go to somewhere with rare spawns, you'll find it camped out by a lvl 60 goldfarmer. Even in instance runs, there's the chance of nice items being ninjaed on a regular basis by goldfarmers/pricks.
So, yeah, these people can't hurt me in the traditional sense, but they can make my play experience less enjoyable.
So, I have no idea how he can sell his WoW character reliably. As an outsider, to me the WoW community looks like a den of thieves and scammers. How do other people sell their characters?
It's not that WoW is a den of scammers. The character buying and selling is where the scammers are. You're dealing with a bunch of people who want to buy a character and pretend that they did all the work for it. By definition, these people are somewhat dishonest.
I just learned of Jose Padilla earlier tonight in this very thread.
Which is kind of the problem. The US government has massively infringed on civil liberties of its own citizens. But what I really don't understand is the very common attitude that it's OK to do these things to people as long as the victims aren't US nationals. If you're really all about freedom, shouldn't those freedoms apply to everyone regardless of what color their passport is?
I used to get these kind of speeds from from iiNet. Then I switched to TPG and was getting something in the order of 17Mbit connections at about 1.5km from the exchange. I changed exchanges too, so it's hardly an objective test, but my points are a) ADSL 2+ speeds can actually be pretty good and b) iiNet are overrated.
This is a classic trick of anti-capitalist lefties (and looking at who is on their committees, there's a whole bunch of them).
Are you aware of the fact that this makes you sound like a cold war era crazy-person? I mean, if so, feel free to continue - I just thought you might want to know.
If they were the 2nd biggest coffee shop chain in the world, the scorn would not exist.
If they made decent coffee there would be a hell of a lot less scorn for them too...
Slashdot Mirror
This tech could destroy Slashdot as we know it!
Still, nice post.
I'm surprised I need to answer these questions for you. Perhaps you were never a teenager?
On a side note, I couldn't believe that the OP had to mention that you needed to have read the books to get the Scouring of the Shire refernce. I mean, this is /.! But of course someone came along and not only hadn't read the books, but then went on to argue with them... Which I guess means that this really is /.
I just got back from the theater, and I was really surprised I was the only one laughing at that one too.
Except that it gives you no idea what the actual problem is. 'Continue with save' has nothing to do with the reason you're being asked for permission, which is that you're about destroy all formatting. The heading is clear, but misleading. If I just read the heading I'm going to click OK, after all, I wanted to save, right?
Don't get me wrong, Stephenson is by far and away my favorite author, but his ending tend to be rather sucky. The rest of the book always makes up for this though.
I think /. posters underestimate how important the ability to play DVDs was to many parents buying this for the kids. They either didn't have a DVD player (early in the console cycle) or they already had one, but wanted a spare for the kids' TV (later in the console cycle). The other important point was the variety of games that the PS2 had. It had AAA titles in pretty much every genre, and more importantly, at every age range. When parents came in, they wanted a console that would last, and the variety of games on offer made them feel confident that the PS2 would keep little Billy entertained for more than a couple of weeks.
I see. This is why I tend to blockquote compulsively - it avoids mixups like this one. In any case you make a fair point, once I'm aware of what you're talking about. :)
As an Aussie who's recently come to the US to work, I would add one more that is seems few Americans bring up in political discussions: Optional voting. In many of the major western democracies, you MUST vote. If you don't you are fined, but more importantly it is ingrained in you as part of your civic duty to spend a few minutes on polling day numbering piece of paper.
This is extremely important since it forces politicians to address the mainstream electorate in preference to special interest groups which seem to have become adept at hijacking the democratic process in the US.
Mandatory voting combined with a preferential voting system would make the US a much better nation IMO.
This is the first question an engineer assigned to the project would ask. Then they would think about all the stuff you've mentioned. Then they would think about heaps of other things you haven't thought of. Then they would design things to deal with each of the issues they came up with. Then they would make the things a lot stronger they would ever need to be in theory.
That's what engineers do for a living. And quite frankly none of the those problems sound overly complex. As someone else has mentioned most of them have been solved for oil rigs for many years. The others have been solved since 1866 when the first intercontinental copper wires for telegraph transmission were laid.
I was thinking you could do something really cool by having the whole things submerge when there was a storm and hide under the level of the waves until it was calmer, but that might be a bit too sci-fi for them.
That's what she said.
Sorry. Had to be done.
She's at 49,50. Now go finish your quest.
To see why this argument is wrong, replace the term 'buy-sell' with 'child prostitution'. Just because people do it doesn't make it morally right.
Depends on how you define traditional. Back when I played WoW, I couldn't afford any decent blues, let alone epics at the AH. This is because prices were inflated by a bunch of people who bought gold and used that to buy all the good items. The obvious solution would be to go and get some blues to sell at the AH. Except that when you go to somewhere with rare spawns, you'll find it camped out by a lvl 60 goldfarmer. Even in instance runs, there's the chance of nice items being ninjaed on a regular basis by goldfarmers/pricks.
So, yeah, these people can't hurt me in the traditional sense, but they can make my play experience less enjoyable.
I used to get these kind of speeds from from iiNet. Then I switched to TPG and was getting something in the order of 17Mbit connections at about 1.5km from the exchange. I changed exchanges too, so it's hardly an objective test, but my points are a) ADSL 2+ speeds can actually be pretty good and b) iiNet are overrated.
Not that I can really talk - I bought mine from Best Buy, home of the incompetent salesperson.
I'm simply suggesting that it's not a leftist conspiracy theory, still, don't let me stop you.
I'm homeless, you insensitive clod!!