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  1. Re:You know you should go to bed, when... on Stuck Knob Causes Serious Window Damage To Atlantis · · Score: 1

    And I just NOW realized, that it is KNOB, and NOW, that both became KNOW.

    Grammar Nazis, where are you, when I actually need you?

  2. Re:they were able to get the extra 0.5% over the t on Netflix Prize May Have Been Achieved · · Score: 1

    You can generalize that to any movie with an action hero, and a baby. Any movie with a pseudo-star (Hilton, Spears, Madonna, etc.). And any movie with Uwe Boll or similar people.

    On a more serious note: I think the best way to improve recommendations, is to first relate the IMDB rating to the IQ of the rater. I found that more intelligent people do not like movies with a simple plot, because it bores them, and less intelligent people do not like movies with a complex, subtle plot, because they don't get it. You can further separate this into the EQ and the IQ, which will considerably improve the experience for emotional people (like most women).
    I found that the best way to quickly and realistically do that, is to check the length of the sentences and the percentage of the questions in the comments of that user.

    This will give you a 3D space with a rating, a EQ and a IQ axis.
    Now apply the values of the user that wants to get recommendations as coordinates, and order by the distance from that point.
    Then apply the traditional recommendation system with a blending factor.

    I bet I could code that in less than an hour in Haskell.

    P.S.: If you want to patent this, mind you that I will seriously kick your ass for doing so. I do not know any laws when it comes to giving credit. You can probably sue me afterwards, but it won't fix what I did to you. ^^ (Be fair to me, and I will be the nicest man you ever met.)

  3. Re:TV is dead, long live TV on The Simpsons Worth More Per Viewer On Hulu Than On Fox · · Score: 1

    The change is far bigger that you think. It's a shift from passivity, to an active citizenship. People don't just get controlled that easily anymore. Now for the first time in history, we have a powerful weapon against those who control us. One that is nearly indestructible, and that is intuitive to us.
    It teaches us, that we are in control of our live.

    We just yet have to accustom to it, and find out what we actually want, and forgot in all that long time.

    Where else can you just walk away from someone, and tell him that he is the biggest asshole, even when it's the biggest bully and criminal organization on the planet? In the real world that would get you killed. And can could not just walk away from the things you use, when they are: A newspaper, a shopping mall, and a large bully talking to you.

  4. Re:TV is dead, long live TV on The Simpsons Worth More Per Viewer On Hulu Than On Fox · · Score: 1

    I don't get it. What part of "adult content" exactly does "harm" kids, and how?

    And how is this not just a giant "monkey see, monkey do" contest without any thought involved?

    Don't think they can't see this stuff, if they *want*. They point is that they don't. It's their Goatse. You like to know what it is, but you don't want to see it.

    I think this fear of nudity that comes with it, has hurted children more that it protected them.

    After all, this whole concept stems from the religious badmouthing of sex, to make everyone a sinner, so that everyone has to beg for their commands (to "clean" themselves), which makes everyone a slave.
    So we teach our kids to be slaves, with this behavior.

  5. A guaranteed audience? on The Simpsons Worth More Per Viewer On Hulu Than On Fox · · Score: 1

    Have they never heard of AdBlock plus, and his fiends?

    Yes, they filter TV stream too! (His friends are better at this than he is though. ;)

  6. Re:Free and "Fun" Experiment on New Lithium-Air Battery Delivers 10 Times the Energy Density · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wait, I'll just go get my metal compressor and my neutron cannon out of the basement, and call the lithium hydride delivery service. Hmm, should I also order a pizza and a blow-job?

  7. Re:Explosions on New Lithium-Air Battery Delivers 10 Times the Energy Density · · Score: 0

    Yeah right. It's pretty much a given, that an the first week, someone will drop his coffee on it. And what about the air itself. There is humidity in it, you know. ^^

  8. Re:Good ideas. on Buzz Aldrin's Radical Plan For NASA · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think we will get off this rock. But not in the form that you might think of.

    We will send out robots. With our brains uploaded into them. And robots with a high intelligence.
    We will also create wetware robots. We will move from planet to planet via data transmission. From robot body to robot body... to wetware body.
    In a way, we could call this the "energy lifeform" that you see in so many sci-fi movies.

    So, in some time in the future, "humans" will be a term, associated to the "program" (or whatever it will be), and not to the body itself. That will just be another tool.

    I wonder, what porn we will be watching. ^^

  9. Re:Irony? on Lightning Strikes Amazon's Cloud (Really) · · Score: 1

    Well, get a bigger laptop then! Or just move your user profile.

  10. Re:Irony? on Lightning Strikes Amazon's Cloud (Really) · · Score: 1

    There's a "in soviet amazon" joke in there somewhere. I know it!

  11. Re:Data center "porn"? on Data Center Overload · · Score: 1

    The cloud represented the internet

    [citation needed]. This usage is completely new to me, despite being in the iIternet, since it was reachable from Germany, and being on BBSes, long before that.

  12. Re:I disagree that Open Source is like Science on What Open Source Shares With Science · · Score: 1

    He didn't men TV-"science" like Mythbusters. Besides: Laws are just paper. Without anyone to actually notice it, *and* complain about it, they are irrelevant. You can have as much explosives as you want, as long as nobody you don't trust and who isn't OK with it, sees them.

  13. Re:Something about his arguement doesn't work on Facebook VP Slams Intel's, AMD's Chip Performance Claims · · Score: 1

    Both. Stupid people oversimplify. In this case, he did not mean cheap. He meant... damn, there is no English word for "preiswert". Essentially it is, when you get a good value for your money.
    He meant that you should buy much (don't be cheap) with little money (the servers have to be cheap).

    Of course, with that level of differentiation of thoughts, it's no wonder that he got problems. ^^

  14. Re:New Definition of Human Rights on Pirate Bay Retrial Denied, Judge Declared Unbiased · · Score: 1

    Well, a "right"... What is a right? You only have that "right", because people that were stronger than your enemies decided that it would be that way. In reality, there still are no rights, and everything is based on the rule of force / law of the jungle.
    It's just, that the psychological warfare (eg. making them believe they are weaker, and you are the boss) got way more powerful nowadays.

  15. Re:New Definition of Human Rights on Pirate Bay Retrial Denied, Judge Declared Unbiased · · Score: 1

    Are you saying that
    a) they are no humans
    b) they have no rights
    or
    c) you are just a dick? ^^

  16. Re:Unbiased? on Pirate Bay Retrial Denied, Judge Declared Unbiased · · Score: 1

    I think we can assume that nobody moves his ass until he has to anyway.

    So there will be a law, stating that if someone asks for a retrial, it will be redone. And if not, nothing happens.
    But I bet nobody knows this, and people do not care to check, so they just complain, as usual.
    Then someone comes up with an "efficiency plan", and creates a new rule, where retrials can be denied for no reason, making it illegal, but who cares.

    AAh, bureaucracy. Where would we be, without you....

  17. Re:clarification on Pirate Bay Retrial Denied, Judge Declared Unbiased · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A tip on using space characters on computers: If you separate words by a slash, that may be ok. But if you separate terms by it, it only makes sense, if you put spaces around the slashes.

    In your comment, this results in interpreting it to be those four sentences:

    Any guesses how long it will take before the appeal starts are made?
    Any guesses how long it will take before the appeal starts are etc?
    Any guesses how long it will take before the appeal decisions are made?
    Any guesses how long it will take before the appeal decisions are etc?

    You're welcome.

  18. This just means, on Pirate Bay Retrial Denied, Judge Declared Unbiased · · Score: 5, Interesting

    that that court is biased too.

    So someone needs to investigate on them.
    Until you reach the very top of the shitpile.
    Which most likely is sitting invisibly above the government. (I mean lobby groups.)

    I say: Vote for the Pirate Party!

  19. Re:hehe, overzealous much? on Tennesee Man Charged In "Virtual Pornography" Case · · Score: 1

    Happened to me with Matrix. :'-(

    But in fact, it is not because you get older. That is an oversimplification.
    It's because you are more used to what you see every day. There is no new stuff to remember.

    If you want to prolong your life, the best thing you can do, is to make it more intense and more new. And suddenly, a day will feel like a week. It's in on same level of great feelings, as sex and flying, to notice how your life actually feels like it just got way longer and better.

  20. Why not... on Tennesee Man Charged In "Virtual Pornography" Case · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... if they also punish him virtually only, and without using any actual virtual punishment device.

    Everytime I wondered how retarded they are, I know know that they can't be *that* retarded. So it must be something else. Guess what...

  21. You know you should go to bed, when... on Stuck Knob Causes Serious Window Damage To Atlantis · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...you read that as "Stuck Know Causes Serious Windows Damage To Atlantis", and think "How the hell do they know what OS they were using on that sunken island?"

    I just know realized, that even my question does not make any sense...

  22. Re:This is America on Middle-School Strip Search Ruled Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    You mean they SAY they were looking for drugs... Because it was the best excuse they could come up with, with the stuff they found *before they came up with the excuse*.
    Also I think that they did not think they would get trough with it that far.

  23. Re:This is America on Middle-School Strip Search Ruled Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    I wonder who of those nine did vote for a strip search of a girl to be ok? I guess someone had to be the pedo...

    Also, seven are no open pedos. They don't like anyone to know that they think it is ok.

    That's how I see it. ;)

  24. Re:hunter2 on Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords · · Score: 1

    The problem is, that you password is too short!

  25. Re:Making my point with humor on Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords · · Score: 1

    Well, if you ever used a UNIX login, you will notice that you can remember what you typed wrongly, even without seeing anything. And in case you are not sure, just delete all characters and type the whole password again. Usually you are well trained in inputting that specific sequence, so it is done very fast.

    I can literally log in, run a script, call shutdown, and logout, on a remote computer, with closed eyes. And it's not even any hard.^^