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  1. Re:AI -- FAR more hype than substance on Stephen Hawking: AI Will Be Either the Best or the Worst Thing To Humanity (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    > The entire concept of being "reminded" of something is pretty foreign to how binary computers compute... They either have or don't have information. They don't struggle to remember and occasionally recall things, and/or realize they used to know them when reminded.

    How about a database with a link to an image file that has been moved to "tape backup"? If you have the md5 of the image you know that you have seen it, you just cant access it at this time. The way best way to describe how a rcnn deals with images is: "this looks familiar, i'm 73.2398798% confident that I have seen this image before and it was a dog..." ;-)

    Here is a way to simulate a computer forgetting information when it comes to images: start with an photo on day one and on subsequent days start shrinking the image. By the time you get to a 150px thumbnail most of the information is gone, you will not be able to tell anything about the details of the photo BUT you will know that this photo was beautiful landscape or whatever.

  2. Re:Can the AI act like a BMW driver? on BMW Showcases Self-Driving Concept Car · · Score: 1

    I'n not a BMW owner but I would rather take that AI than one based on a Prius owners driving pattern ;-)

    Funny thing is, in my area, the local population consists mostly of BMW and Prius owners...a deadly combination if you ask me...

  3. Re:I don't know on BMW Showcases Self-Driving Concept Car · · Score: 1

    You are spot on. Here are my two cents:

    1. Most driving decisions require context and I would venture that it's not possible to acquire context within a second or two for a driver that was in distraction mode
    2. I think that the current AI generation is already better then most drivers on US roads.
    3. From a human driver's pespective, I would like to see an identifier on a vehicle if it's in autonomous mode

  4. Re:No. on Is Agile Development a Failing Concept? · · Score: 2

    I started coining the term "Chunked Waterfall". Take all the inefficencies of waterfall, split it into chunks and add more inefficiencies due to management ;-)

    Whenever somebody tells me they are doing agile I ask them how their chunked waterfall methodology will help them once they realize that 50% of their assumptions on a project are wrong and the market has changed while they were busy with scum meetings.? Denial is usually the response....

  5. Jellyfish overflow on New Threat To Seaside Nuclear Plants, Datacenters: Jellyfish · · Score: 1

    The new way breach a datacenter.....

  6. Re:Hmm on NSA Firing 90% of Its Sysadmins · · Score: 3, Funny

    We will outsource it to China or India. They have full access to the systems anyhow, they might as well keep the systems running ;-)

  7. Re:More info on Training Materials for NSA Spying Tool "XKeyScore" Revealed · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't know if I was the only one that picked it up, but the slides are for a version of software that was in use in 2008. Considering everything else, the capabilities now are more likely to be much more advanced.

  8. Re:Accura/Honda Door-lock Exploit on Hackers Reveal Nasty New Car Attacks · · Score: 1

    I don't know how it is now, but back in the early nineties a friend of mine worked in the German fire department and they had toolkits to unlock and start virtually every make and model of car (regardless if it had a factory alarm or not). From MB S-class to regular VW's nothing was 'safe'. Obviously it was a government only toolkit but if they had it then then it's a good bet that they have updated versions now that can do much more.

  9. The darkest place is under the lamp on Use Tor, Get Targeted By the NSA · · Score: 2

    It's always true. Just send your communications directly to NSA and a bunch of other people (from a SPAM list) and ask to have it forwarded to the final recipient. It's unlikely that it will get flagged as a potential threat....

  10. Re:The guy is a hero on Snowden's Big Truth: We Are All Less Free · · Score: 1

    > This is a high-school dropout who gave up a $200k yr. job, an acrobat girlfriend and was living in Hawaii

    Yup, something stinks here. And why is he in China? I would think this would be the last place to try to hide...

    May bets are on one of the following:

    1. He had an affair with an attractive Chinese woman that turned out to be a spy
    2. He had an affair with an attractive Chinese man that turned out to be a spy
    3. Mental illness

  11. Re:Let me be the first to say... on Hospital Resorts To Cameras To Ensure Employees Wash Hands · · Score: 1

    I think I can beat that. I work in a medium-sized software house (which means we employ people with at least some level of higher education) and not only people don't wash their hands, but the other day some asshole pissed on the floor in the middle of the bathroom....

    I just can't figure out why. One theory is that the bathroom was recently remodeled and this was some sort of a QA procedure.....

  12. Re:Oh, good on EU To Ban Neonicotinoid Insecticides · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A friend of mine has 20 bee hives on his property (Norther Europe). He has been doing this for over 20 years as a hobby and was also affected by various colony disorders from parasites to full on collapses. A few years back, he made an experiment and did not remove honey from the hives (it was a last resort). Surprisingly some of the colonies fully recovered. Anyhow, 20 hives is a very tiny data sample, but it does make you wonder...

  13. Re:What's new? on Top Coders Tell Agents, "Show Me the Money!" · · Score: 1

    What part of the country? $1-$2 is really low....Can you tell me who you use?

  14. Re:Open source Presto? on Opera Confirms It Will Follow Google and Ditch WebKit For Blink · · Score: 2

    A few years ago, I was in the market for a simple html rendering engine for an embedded project. There were only a couple of options: webkit, presto and one more engine that I dont remember the name of. The licensing fees that opera wanted were astronomical and only the likes on Nintendo could afford it. Needless to say, I used webkit even though Presto was more desirable.

    Anyhow, they should have open-sourced a few years back and snatched up a large portion of embedded market (which is actually quite big if you think about it)

  15. Re:Good luck with that on United States Begins Flying Stealth Bombers Over South Korea · · Score: 1

    8-10% is overly optimistic. Back in the 90's I wrote a business system for an intermodal shipping company and pretty much knew their system in and out. Most of the time these companies barely know whats being shipped....especially if the cargo went through multiple third parties. I have seen many manifests declared based on illegible bill of laidings that some trucker just dropped of. Nobody looks at the cargo if the weight and size matches.

    I highly doubt many things changed since then...

  16. Re:Derp on US Attorney General Defends Handling of Aaron Swartz Case · · Score: 1

    One could argue that being oppressed and knowing it, is better than being too stupid to know that you are being oppressed. At least in the former case, you can still yell out loud: You can take my life but you will never take my freedom ;-)

  17. Re:"centuries"? on Minority Report's Legacy of Terrible Interfaces · · Score: 1

    You forgot the most important one: weapons

  18. Saw something similar on Through The Wormhole on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Feel About Recording Your Entire Life? · · Score: 2

    A while back I saw an episode of Through The Wormhole that showcased just that. A professor and couple of students were recording snapshots of their lives for the last 3 years. Snapshots, because that's how our memory works and a picture is all we need to remember things and of course you would run into storage issues with 24/7 video recording...

  19. Re:Confusing press release without context on Nikon Buckles To Microsoft, Will Pay "Android Tax" For Smart Cameras · · Score: 1

    And this explains why majority of new phones don't have sdcards and only support MTP for file transfers to a PC.

  20. Re:Ouya was more relevant, before. on OUYA Android Game Console Available In June · · Score: 2

    I was just looking for hardware to replace my original xbox and run xbmc on it. OUYA seems better than anything that's available on Amazon or Newegg. The best thing that I found was the "official" hardware for xbmc (XIOS DS), but at $120 it more expensive and doesn't have a game controller.

    For me the primary use will be xbmc, everything else is just a bonus....

    If they come through and make this thing open to 3rd party development, this thing is going to be a big hit and will be around for quite a while....like my original xbox....

  21. Re:Before the libertarians start preaching... on Online Narcotics Store 'Silk Road' Is Showing Cracks · · Score: 1

    You forgot one thing: the doctor gets a cut from the pharm company for sales...I mean prescriptions.....

  22. Re:moving forward I see on Anti-GMO Activist Recants · · Score: 2

    Or is getting into "consulting" in the near future....

    Btw, the problem with GMO is not the gene modifications but rather what they allow us do afterwards. Roundup Ready == Nuke it from orbit. I don't want my corn tortillas in Roundup flavor...

  23. Re:it tells you one thing, at least on Adam Lanza Destroyed His Computer Before Rampage · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Friends of mine were in the exact same boat. It's a situation without a solution. If the patient is force medicated, they are unable to function in day to day lives. If they get of the meds, it's just a matter of weeks until they land in trouble. The worst thing is, even here in California, there is virtually no State sponsored support for mentally ill people. Ultimately the solution was to send their son to Europe to spend the rest of his life in a live-in/half-way house mental clinic. It's not cheap, but it's a fraction of the cost of what it was here in the states (for a private institution) and based on his facebook updates, he lives a almost normal life.

  24. Re:what about pesticides, herbicides... on California Wants Genetically Modified Foods To Be Labelled · · Score: 1

    Umm, isn't RoundUp ready corn resistant to Roundup and as such the farmer can spray this crap as much as he wants without killing the crop?

  25. Re:How is it different on Apple Rips Off Rejected App, Says Wireless Sync Developer · · Score: 1

    just add 'yet' to the end of your sentence.