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  1. The first step.... on Sign Your Name Online With A Mouse · · Score: 1

    'uses a neural network to pick out the unique features of the way that someone uses a mouse.'

    This is the first step along the way to creating the Terminator series of personal assassination cyborgs.
    The simple neural network picks out unique features of mouse movements, just like the Terminators
    pick out unique faces for termination.

  2. Corrections on Microsoft Longhorn Delayed · · Score: 4, Informative

    The parent post is hardly "Insightful".
    Windows 3.1 was released in April 1992.
    Windows for Workgroups 3.1 and 3.11 were MAJOR versions, they were released in Oct 1992 and Nov 1993, respectively. Where are the Windows NT entries? v3.51 and v4 certainly major versions (released during 1994).
    Windows 98 and 98SE can be considered MAJOR versions (maybe not under the hood, but still...).

  3. Re:If these balloons get any bigger... on Balloonists Attempt World Altitude Record · · Score: 1

    ...they'll achieve altitude records without even leaving the ground.

    Good point! are they measuring the altitude from
    the basket or the top of the balloon?

  4. Re:When I was a kid... on Segway Riders Get High on Mount Washington · · Score: 1

    I had to ride my segway to school uphill in the snow without TIRES! gosh darn young
    wippersnappers - no respect at all!


    uphill! uphill! you were lucky to have a hill.
    When I was a lad, I had to carry my segway 5 miles up a shear cliff while it hailed golf
    ball-size ice. You were lucky to have a hill!

  5. Re:Slashdotted, Text on More on the Orbital Space Plane · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "He said they are resisting unnecessary bells and whistles and not holding out for "some
    material like 'unattainium' that isn't in existence."


    Oh yes it does! It was invented by Dr. Ed Brazzelton

  6. Re:Pffft ... CD Newspaper on Sunday Newspapers, Now With CDs · · Score: 3, Funny

    Gonna be awkward trying to read the news while I'm on the throne.

    Holy shit! Prince Harry reads Slashdot.

  7. Is it just me... on Distribution of Wealth in a Robot-Driven World · · Score: 2, Funny

    By freeing up human capital from making cars and clothing and other labor intensive tasks,
    financial services, creative services, IT itself could be spawned.


    Is it just me, or does anyone else find the term "human capital" offensive?
    If you are talking about the plebs, I much prefer the term "human cattle". ;-)

  8. Re:Heh on SCO Says It Has No Plan To Sue Linux Companies · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah they don't call IBM "BIG Blue" for nothing.

  9. Good excuse... on SCO DOS Harming Innocent Bystanders · · Score: 3, Funny

    Our corporate e-mail was out for a couple of days earlier this week.
    I'm blaming SCO for it.

    "Sir, looks like a friendly fire incident"

  10. Re:ever tried to get off SPEWS? on DoS Assaults Underway Against Spam Blocklists · · Score: 1

    What's a Class A and Class C? Didn't we go to classless routing, oh, 11 years ago?

    Yes, but with the sharp rise in IT work being shuffled off to India, the terminology
    was re-established.

  11. Re:Lies, damn lies, and statistics on Videogames Attract More Women Than Boys? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Damnit! you almost fooled me, until I realised
    your nick was Fireboy1919.

  12. Re:I had no idea the Sims was so popular... on Videogames Attract More Women Than Boys? · · Score: 1

    I tried The Sims, then discovered it was more fun micro-managing my 2-year old's bathroom habits...

    Unsurprisingly, both activities will lead you to have an extremely anal retentive child.

  13. Feel free to appologise to me on Perfect Pitch for Those Without It · · Score: 1

    NO IT WASN'T!!! DIE DIE DIE!!!

    Thanks for playing... BUT YOU are WRONG!
    Read the section of this article from the "That Vocal Trick In Full". It was done with a vocoder.
    http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/feb99/articles/tra cks661.htm

    There wasn't an AUTOTUNE in sight.

    Feel free to appologise.

  14. Re:Concerts/Music on Perfect Pitch for Those Without It · · Score: 1

    I'm a little bit concerned that you're somehow implying the turd that killed Elvis had less
    musical talent than Elvis himself.


    No, rest assured, I only have respect for the turd itself.

  15. Re:It's commonly assumed that people are base-10.. on Beyond Binary Computing? · · Score: 2, Funny

    - you have four grandparents, 2^2

    Only if I dig them up.

  16. Re:You can hear it on Perfect Pitch for Those Without It · · Score: 1

    1. Think about that Cher song from a couple years ago with the "robot voice" effect (also
    used in that slow Kid Rock song).


    Shennanigans! that "Cher" effect was a VOCODER.

  17. Re:Recordings? Yes. Performances? No. on Perfect Pitch for Those Without It · · Score: 1

    "How do you do that, while dancing aroud the stage, without missing a few notes?"
    Singers have been doing it for centuries, with much greater musical sophistication than most
    popular music calls for and enough vocal power to fill huge halls without amplification, in an art
    form called "opera".


    Yes, but you are talking about talent musicians, as apposed to the current batch of talentless shite
    that the kiddies gobble up.

  18. Re:Concerts/Music on Perfect Pitch for Those Without It · · Score: 2, Funny

    When was the last time you watched a GnR video?

    1992, when the last one was released!

  19. Re:So what? on Perfect Pitch for Those Without It · · Score: 1

    As an aside, I saw Phantom of the Opera in Toronto with Paul Stanley playing the Phantom.
    The guy can't sing. But it was still fun.


    Obviously the producers of the show thought that he could, or they would have cast some
    other aging rockstar.

  20. Re:Concerts/Music on Perfect Pitch for Those Without It · · Score: 1

    Most musicians are marketed not for their true musical talent, but for their attractiveness, or
    whatever other marketable features the record companies can exploit.


    They AREN'T MUSICIANS, they are a product.
    There was more musical talent in the turd that killed Elvis Presley, than in all the current
    batch of boy and girl bands.

  21. Wait for the audible groans... on AOL Sued For Over-Zealous Blocking · · Score: 2, Funny

    Your days are numbered? ;-)

  22. Re:ati vs nvidia on ATi FireGL X1 Vs. NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000 · · Score: 1

    The article you are quoting turned 1 year old yesterday.
    You should find a more recent statement to cite.

    ATI drivers have come on in leaps and bounds in the last couple of years.

  23. Re:If done right, I think this is pretty cool on Using Spyware to Report Pirates? · · Score: 1

    ... they could just call up the owner of the infringing computer, and say, "Hey, it looks like you need a few more copies of our software!"

    GREAT!

    I just got caught pirating software by CLIPPY.

  24. Re:yep, Suse is cool. on SuSE CEO's Two-Distro World · · Score: 1, Funny

    No free softare based system can be as ugly or as abusive as Microsoft was.

    Oh yes it can!

    Just wait until I'm in charge.
    When you see the sort of stuff I'm gonna pull, it'll make Microsoft seem like a benevolent-software-monopoly-dictatorship.

  25. They're integrating the wrong features... on New Longhorn Screenshots Leaked · · Score: 1

    With all the Viruses, Worms and Adware currently attacking systems.
    Wouldn't it be a good idea to integrate some sort of security scanner into the system?

    Eventually I guess they might make you pay a subscription for virus updates. But to start
    with, it would make an excellent selling feature.

    _AND_ its not like they were REALLY punished last time they prosecuted for Anti-Trust.