I hope you're not trying to suggest that as soon as you graduate from scientist-school you're automatically compelled to always work on curing cancer, 100% of your working time.
WTF ?! I understand that gov't people being bought out by big corpos and letting them do whatever they please afterwards ( do you REALLY need examples ? ) is shocking indeed, though...
Surely you can disagree with this point of view, but modding such a post as flamebait is so freakin' ridiculous...
Because the least common denominator has never been my thing. That's my whole point.
Re:The Rorschach Test is normalized...
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I've already written that trends found in inkblots already normalized would give good indications about answers to new inkblots along the same characteristics. Also, a decryption tool could easily check up the most common combinations for character input ( first-last, first-second, etc. ) without actually include them all, though it could be done as well. My point was that someone with Rorschach norms and minimal programming skills could come up with Rorschach "wordlists" pretty easily, and though it would be better protection than with a "birthday" password, the probabilities of cracking this kind of code are high enough for me to avoid this pseudo-random technique. Remembering a ( long enough ) random string is much safer than relying on processes being normalized for decades, but maybe it's asking too much effort here...
There should be more stories about silly Microsoft "features" on/., it's always a pleasure to see their puny software crash:)
The Rorschach Test is normalized...
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Since the Rorschach Test ( "what do these inkblots represent ?" ) has been used for decades, lots of norms have been collected, so there already are lists about the most popular answers. Even if these are new inkblots, the patterns found in general Rorschach norms can still apply.
Way to go Microsoft, you've made a fool out of yourself again.
...because from now on if you seem way more curious than average Joe Public, that's because you have a "disease" that needs to be "cured". Now I can understand that something like epilepsia ought to be considered as a disease, but why should intense curiosity be considered a "disease" or even a problem ? There have been trends like that in history when many "abnormal behaviours" got described as pathologies, and it didn't get pretty most of the times...
And BTW, the dopamine stuff is pretty normal when you're doing something you're used to enjoy.
Moving around with the EEG while shooting with both hands must have been great:) The expansive devices I was talking about surely were necessary to have better accuracy in research, but it's pretty cool to see that you did fine with a little bit of hacking. I've already heard of other research projects on attention using racing games to develop the attention capacities of kids too. Seems like this idea is really starting to catch on people : science, games, GUIs, etc. Now if you think about it, you can figure out easily that in a couple of years, it might be possible to wear some clothes ( hats for neurofeedback, t-shirts for biofeedback, etc. ) including remote interaction capabilities. For example, if your biofeedback t-shirt doesn't record any heartbeat, it could send a message to a phone prompting a 911 call ; if you wear a neurofeedback hat and want to change the channel on your TV, just think about it:) Maybe it's getting farfetched, but I considere this to be some kind of telekynesis...
You'd need some electrodes and a converter to plug in the device you're controlling ( such as a PC ). Since this kind of stuff is almost exclusively used in research, they are still pretty expansive.
The frequency of the brain waves depends on which brain waves you want to monitor. We were using attention-specific frequencies but people could use frequencies correlated to other brain activities, depending on what they want to do. ( I don't know which ones we specifically used, sorry. ) And it was rather inconstant indeed... I guess human brains would need an upgrade;)
Neurofeedback is coming too
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I've been working in some psychology research labs for some time now. One the professors I've worked with studies neurofeedback, i.e. monitoring the electrical activity of the brain with electrodes attached on the head. I've actually helped training a bunch of kids to move a cursor on a screen simply by getting them to be concentrated on moving it wherever it had to be at that moment. ( some info here and here.
It's not excluded at all that in the near future, we'll be able to gain control of computer interfaces with a little help from such devices.
It's my first post on/. , nice;)
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These useless bloodsuckers must be sent to /dev/null ASAP. Boycott the RIAA.
Or to Sealand.
...and if you like weird shite and getting screwed, remember to go to Rael's place : UFOLand !
;)
Remember though that Québec's government is pretty good itself in screwing people in various ways
I hope you're not trying to suggest that as soon as you graduate from scientist-school you're automatically compelled to always work on curing cancer, 100% of your working time.
Especially if you're an engineer.
Would be sweet if the nerds down there would unleash some futuristic greedy-bastard-ass-kicking robots as a preemptive strike ;)
WTF ?! I understand that gov't people being bought out by big corpos and letting them do whatever they please afterwards ( do you REALLY need examples ? ) is shocking indeed, though...
Surely you can disagree with this point of view, but modding such a post as flamebait is so freakin' ridiculous...
Just sue them ;P
That's a great idea, and it's already been out there for a while. That's Caldera's logo though isn't it ?
Because the least common denominator has never been my thing. That's my whole point.
I've already written that trends found in inkblots already normalized would give good indications about answers to new inkblots along the same characteristics. Also, a decryption tool could easily check up the most common combinations for character input ( first-last, first-second, etc. ) without actually include them all, though it could be done as well. My point was that someone with Rorschach norms and minimal programming skills could come up with Rorschach "wordlists" pretty easily, and though it would be better protection than with a "birthday" password, the probabilities of cracking this kind of code are high enough for me to avoid this pseudo-random technique. Remembering a ( long enough ) random string is much safer than relying on processes being normalized for decades, but maybe it's asking too much effort here...
Hope you have fun with your inkblots, mate.
1- Missouri
2- Christian Slater
3- Obviously Goatse, folks
4- Oak leaf
5- Trent Reznor
6- Edmonton, Canada
7- Letter label
8- Yugos
9- Ultramagnetic MC
10- Keylogs
So I guess MiCrOsOfTrEaLlYsUcKs then.
There should be more stories about silly Microsoft "features" on /., it's always a pleasure to see their puny software crash :)
Since the Rorschach Test ( "what do these inkblots represent ?" ) has been used for decades, lots of norms have been collected, so there already are lists about the most popular answers. Even if these are new inkblots, the patterns found in general Rorschach norms can still apply. Way to go Microsoft, you've made a fool out of yourself again.
if you're talking about burning stuff up, shocked and awed would have been more appropriate.
Still beta, though.
SCO pushing Linux's corporate image to new levels of respectibility
/me chokes to death
at GameSpot goes out to Banjo-Tooie , so I guess we can rule out coolness as well.
...in Soviet Russia, characters name YOU !
...the Raelians. False "cloning" claims, you know. Hope we won't hear of SCO anymore in six months as well...
...because from now on if you seem way more curious than average Joe Public, that's because you have a "disease" that needs to be "cured". Now I can understand that something like epilepsia ought to be considered as a disease, but why should intense curiosity be considered a "disease" or even a problem ? There have been trends like that in history when many "abnormal behaviours" got described as pathologies, and it didn't get pretty most of the times... And BTW, the dopamine stuff is pretty normal when you're doing something you're used to enjoy.
Maybe the New York Times reporters should get screened as well ;)
Moving around with the EEG while shooting with both hands must have been great :) The expansive devices I was talking about surely were necessary to have better accuracy in research, but it's pretty cool to see that you did fine with a little bit of hacking. I've already heard of other research projects on attention using racing games to develop the attention capacities of kids too. :)
Seems like this idea is really starting to catch on people : science, games, GUIs, etc. Now if you think about it, you can figure out easily that in a couple of years, it might be possible to wear some clothes ( hats for neurofeedback, t-shirts for biofeedback, etc. ) including remote interaction capabilities. For example, if your biofeedback t-shirt doesn't record any heartbeat, it could send a message to a phone prompting a 911 call ; if you wear a neurofeedback hat and want to change the channel on your TV, just think about it
Maybe it's getting farfetched, but I considere this to be some kind of telekynesis...
You'd need some electrodes and a converter to plug in the device you're controlling ( such as a PC ). Since this kind of stuff is almost exclusively used in research, they are still pretty expansive. The frequency of the brain waves depends on which brain waves you want to monitor. We were using attention-specific frequencies but people could use frequencies correlated to other brain activities, depending on what they want to do. ( I don't know which ones we specifically used, sorry. ) And it was rather inconstant indeed... I guess human brains would need an upgrade ;)
I've been working in some psychology research labs for some time now. One the professors I've worked with studies neurofeedback, i.e. monitoring the electrical activity of the brain with electrodes attached on the head. I've actually helped training a bunch of kids to move a cursor on a screen simply by getting them to be concentrated on moving it wherever it had to be at that moment. ( some info here and here. It's not excluded at all that in the near future, we'll be able to gain control of computer interfaces with a little help from such devices. It's my first post on /. , nice ;)