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  1. Re:Sounds exaggerated on Denver Couple Unveils Homemade Service Robot · · Score: 1

    I doubt they have the computing power to do that. You can get a 3D model that way using some of the bleeding edge DSP chips and novel software but it won't give you composition. You would also need higher resolution ultrasonic sensors ones capable of sending out and receiving more complex signals. Multiple frequencies would be better either from on or multiple sensors.

  2. Re:Epic 2015. on Are Newspapers Doomed? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What you end up with in that future is a bunch porn, twiiter and trivial drool and nothing of substance.

  3. He I've had this gigabyte Re:Urgh on Abit To Close Its Doors Forever On Dec. 31, 2008 · · Score: 1

    Through three capacitor changes so far. It's a 2004 board.

  4. Re:BSOD on British Royal Navy Submarines Now Run Windows · · Score: 1

    They would not broadcast that much data at sea. There used to be ELF but it's like one character per minute. There was a recent development that would give the capability to do 9600 baud underwater. That sounds like peanuts but it is a staggering achievement with digital signal processing. I think the device was a very high end DSP, possibly Texas Instruments which got bought out by Raytheon a defense contractor.

    google underwater acoustic data

  5. Re:Acme Re:Ah sorry on Scientists Find Hole In Earth's Magnetic Field · · Score: 1

    They do trans-dimensional trans-universal trans-temporal matter replication and transportation but they still have to do the last mile by truck.

    Unions suck.

  6. Acme Re:Ah sorry guys on Scientists Find Hole In Earth's Magnetic Field · · Score: 3, Funny

    ACMEis a large mulitfaceted industrial and services company that owns both a package delivery conglomerate which includes matter replication and temporal transmission systems. Since they are a large monopoly spanning not only Earth but several thousand inhabited systems in several hundred universes they have access to a wide array of products and services and the ability to deliver them to customers who subjectively observe that delivery occurs nearly instantaneously.

    Their only failing is having some of the parts for that system made in China.

    No one has explained how Bugs Bunny could always get good product though it has been postulated he had the uncanny ability to manipulate events at a quantum level and ensure positive outcomes at the macro level.

  7. Re:Hmmm.... on Scientists Find Hole In Earth's Magnetic Field · · Score: 1

    Not enough faith blasphemer! Bow down before the even more burning earth.

  8. Re:Is Hanlon's Razor sharp enough to cut this? on Open Source Program Reveals Diebold Bug · · Score: 1

    They're printed on heat sensitive paper. So I'll leave all the drempulsocrats ballots somewhere hot but still in the sealed box. Yummy yum Chicago cooking.

    One must ask why Diebold actively fought implementing a paper trail.

     

  9. Re:Is Hanlon's Razor sharp enough to cut this? on Open Source Program Reveals Diebold Bug · · Score: 1

    The print out the user gets is X and the one the machine stores is whatever fantasy is needed along with the electronic tally.

  10. Fail on A Sixth Region In the Magnetosphere · · Score: 1

    Vanderbilt's website.

  11. Re:Is Hanlon's Razor sharp enough to cut this? on Open Source Program Reveals Diebold Bug · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's shit. I'll take the ballot I handle and allow it to be scanned. If the count is suspect then the ballots exist outside of some computer generated fantasy and real humans can count them.

  12. Re:Linksys routers? on FSF Files Suit Against Cisco For GPL Violations · · Score: 2, Informative

    It is shit. The rev 8 hardware with vxWherks crashed when I tried to configure it. Crashed when the load got too high. Crashed when I would change one minor thing. Crashed if more than two wireless connections were made.

    I took it back and got a Buffalo before that black dress wearing Texas judge made it illegal.

  13. Blasphemers! on William Gibson's AGRIPPA Recovered and Revealed · · Score: 1

    How dare you preserve something That Must Die!

  14. Brought to you by republican mitch the bitch on Indiana Bans Driver's License Smiles, For Security · · Score: 1

    http://mrmeval.is-a-geek.net/~mrmeval/images/humor/MyManBitch.jpeg

    I can paste a shit load for my comment. Lameness filter nullified

    Don't flash a toothy smile, don't wear your glasses and don't wear a hat or head scarf while you're getting your photo taken for an Indiana driver's license or identification card.

    The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles last month rolled out a new set of rules governing how people must be photographed on their driver's license photos.

    No, the rules aren't designed to make driver's license photos -- which already had a reputation for being unflattering -- even worse.

    Rather, the BMV is making the photographs uniform so their facial recognition software can be its most effective in spotting fraudulent license applications.

    A person's new photograph will be compared against old photographs on file -- more than 6 million dating back at least eight years -- to protect customers from identity fraud, said Ron Stiver, BMV commissioner.

    "We take very seriously our responsibility to help protect the personal identity of Hoosiers, and the employment of this innovative technology is yet another important step forward in doing just that," Stiver said.

    BMV Communications Director Dennis Rosebrough said if a criminal went to get a driver's license under his name, the criminal's photograph would be compared to an old photograph of Rosebrough and the BMV could be alerted the next day that the two don't match.

    Rosebrough said the new technology is just an advancement of what the BMV already was doing. BMV employees always have looked at the old photo of a person to see if it looked like the person seeking a new license.

    The facial recognition software might raise privacy issues, Rosebrough acknowledged. The BMV could give police a photo of a wanted person and that person could be arrested going through an airport where facial recognition software is used.

    But Rosebrough said the BMV has long cooperated with law enforcement to provide photos and information that leads to arrests.

    The bottom line, Rosebrough said, is that in this day of identity theft and fraud, "We believe it's our responsibility to assure all Hoosiers the credentials we issue ... are as accurate as possible." He said Indiana is one of about 20 states using the technology.

    Rosebrough said BMV customers can petition to leave on headdresses in photographs for religious reasons and can petition to have a nonphoto license or identification card. Overall, the rule changes have been implemented without a hitch.

    "We've really had minimal issues," Rosebrough said.

    "If people understand why we're doing something, our experience is the great, great majority of our customers say 'fine, we get it.' "

  15. Re:Bailout? on USPS Server Meltdown · · Score: 1

    Two weeks after a letter was delivered and I confirmed it with the person I sent it to. The post office 'tracking' site did finally admit it had been delivered. But it was pissed about having to admit it. I could tell.

    Oh:

    Go Postal does not have the same connotation as Go Federal. --mrmeval

  16. Re:I wouldn't hold my breath on Time To Discuss Drug Prohibition? · · Score: 4, Informative

    The government makes BILLIONS on the WOD, the get it from the taxpayers and they get it from confiscations. They've now taken to farming out some of their duties to private prisons and other private services. Those private companies hire the politicians as spokes mouths and PR pukes and pay them millions.

    The only loser is society as a whole as the cancer of high taxation, putative laws and centralized power take their toll.

  17. Re:Easy solution on Cell Phone SIM Cards Lead To Terrorists' Trail · · Score: 1

    I drag you with me to the crime in the trunk. You'll just 'be that crazy dirty dood that did the dirty deed' and then 'fall down and bump head'. It will be told with a straight face by UGH the Police Cretin and lapped up by the ERG the Media Cretin.

    You do realize who died recently whose husband was railroaded by the cops yes?

  18. Re:Fuck em on RIAA's Oppenheim Tries To Protect MediaSentry · · Score: 1

    You must do the pseudorandom rubber chicken dance wearing a faux spandex rubber chicken suit.

  19. Re:Easy solution on Cell Phone SIM Cards Lead To Terrorists' Trail · · Score: 1

    I club you over the head, get your biometric data, use phone. Leave you unconscious at the scene. Being the low hanging fruit you get hanged for your crimes.

  20. Re:I'm Confused Why We Don't See This En Masse on German Gov't Donates 100,000 Images To Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    We have local governments copyrighting LAWS and REGULATIONS in the US

  21. Re:Aging brain dead old Re:Benefits of Paper Check on Online Billpay Provider Loses Control of Domains · · Score: 1

    I worded that poorly. There are only a few credit card companies and they do have a monopoly. That has not changed in a long time. They can dictate terms and when they can do that I want a government sponsored or mandated payment scheme to be implemented. I alos want a lot of the legal protections removed that banks now enjoy especially with regard to how they juggle deposits and withdrawls.

  22. Re:Aging brain dead old Re:Benefits of Paper Check on Online Billpay Provider Loses Control of Domains · · Score: 1

    I'd take them to small claims court and sue them. Then they will talk to you. Negotiate a settlement no less than what the dicked you out of or let it go to court.

  23. Aging brain dead old Re:Benefits of Paper Checks on Online Billpay Provider Loses Control of Domains · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The current bill payers in America are getting old.

    The credit card companies have a stranglehold on paying by any form of credit card.

    Paypal is evil.

    There is no nationally accepted payment system where someone or both do not get gouged some fee. Checks are one of the few ways both parties can avoid some of the fees though I've heard that banks are starting to jack up the cost of processing them.

    Our banks do not cater to customers, they are hind bound and greedy. They won't do anything unless they can screw their customers or the government for money.

    When the banks finally get less incompetent they might be able to pry online payments and credit cards away from the major credit card companies. It won't happen soon because of the long term incestuous symbiotic relationship they have.

  24. Call a media spokesmouth in your home town on Recourse For Poor Customer Service? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    or pretend to be one and ask them if there is some problem shipping laptops to asscrackistan

    Contact Media Relations

    Working media members may contact Dell's Media Relations team by calling our press line at (512) 728-4100 , or by using the form below.

    The press line is staffed from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Central Time, Monday through Friday. A recording at that number provides emergency and weekend contact information.

  25. Re:Call your credit card company.... on Recourse For Poor Customer Service? · · Score: -1, Troll

    That's just spiffy since you have to HAVE a fucking laptop to get to their live chat. Or you can post your service tag, serial number and credit card number here.