I'm not here to argue which picture is prettier but I know for sure that you can't make conclusions about her personality just by the way she looks. That's sexism, plain and simple.
While I agree that making guesses at someone's interests based on a headshot is superficial, we disagree on the definition of sexism. The poster was comparing two women, and not contemplating offering a job to either one (as far as I can tell).
Either that, or we disagree on the definition of women.
From the forum sticky listed in one of the articles:
The fraudulent activity was enabled by unauthorized software code that allowed the perpetrators to obtain hole card information during live play. [...] Our investigation has confirmed that the code was part of a legacy auditing system that was manipulated by the perpetrators."
It looks like the cheaters had a separate connection to the auditing app that showed them hole cards. I don't think the stock client app had access to extra hole card information.
"About 34 percent of Internet usage in China takes place in Internet cafes, which are more popular in rural areas, where they account for about 48 percent of Internet usage, according to the study, which also notes that Internet access both at home and at work is growing rapidly in China."
Whatever way you slice it, that's still fewer computers.
It's never been, for me, about who you own or don't own
And here I thought owning was at the very core of the Halo experience.
You've obviously never had your self-worth destroyed by some screaming 8-year-old "ChuckNorris1999" on Xbox Live.
You know that quote about how real beauty is on the inside? Phil Spencer just coined the FPS equivalent. And it's still something only ugly people say.
It's not supposed to win. It is to Mythbusters what Wikileaks is to W'pedia. Less useful and interesting most of the time, but occasionally striking, and often the only place to get it.
Maybe I should switch to marketing-speak. Long tail.
What we need is a podcast/youtube version of the show with all the cheap myths that are too boring/nerdy/short/offensive to corporations to make it on cable. Like this myth.
I'm going to try to extract your point from this collection of fantasy.
The person my have a conviction that prevents them from carrying out the mission, for instance, a child on the battle field my prevent them from firing a weapon, even though the result of not firing means that thousands of people die elsewhere.
So to continue the dramatic hyperbole: what you're saying here is you prefer machine logic deciding to blow up toddlers. Got it.
If you turn all wars into battles between machines, its simple a contest of production and resources in which case its likely you can just decide the outcome in advance and save the resources.
Yet here, there are no poor children, it's just a cool mech battle. Hmm. Yeah, I can see all the countries of the world getting together....
Meeting of the Nations:
UN: "Look, what if we just give everyone super killer robots and they launch them at each other? That's a solution, right?"
Everybody: "Yay! We'll play war all the time!
Months later...
CurrentAxisOfEvil: "Hey, UN, we used up all our SKR's, can we have some more?"
UN: "Not until your next turn."
CurrentAxisOfEvil: "Dang, what else do we have that can carry bombs?"
And we're back to children in warzones.
So let me get this pinned down. Your argument in favor of the deployment of military robots is to remove conscience from war. You want to protect our poor military from having to make the difficult decision of whether or not to kill someone?
Please, go back to playing Starcraft and leave the real world to the adults.
The article made no mention of visual sensors. If they used vision in this project you would have heard about it. The "watching" is watching the inertial readings in relation to the controller positioning. That is, the computer looks at the position, velocity, and acceleration of the helicopter vs. the expert input, and determines what the expert was trying to achieve.
It isn't just replaying the user inputs, but it is just replaying a filtered version of the "moves" as determined by the inertial sensors.
despite all the propaganda, I really don't see the Iranians ever developing a nuclear weapons programs as it will ultimately work against them. They will never be able to match their arsenal to that of US or UK or France or Russia or Israel.
You miss the point of having a nuclear arsenal. Any country that is developing a nuclear payload deliverable by missile is no longer trying to compete in a real war.
Loosely, you can think of Iran like Lorena Bobbit. Yeah, most of us could take her in a street fight. She's not very big or strong. But when she's got a knife in one hand and your dick in the other, all of a sudden it matters a whole lot less.
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The real world doesn't exist in Alaska. If what you've seen over the last several months hasn't convinced you, wait and see.
I can totally see what you mean from that 100x68 pixel image.
They could be twins!
Or maybe that's Frank Sinatra instead!
That is a fact. I know a guy who has now (as of August) shot himself in the foot three times.
Bingo. I'd never given money to a cause within America before. I donate more to support specific endangered species than any form of human.
When EFF announced this, they gained a member (and I gained a sweet t-shirt). Thank god someone is not taking this lying down.
Now when in the hell would I ever use th-
Oh. Nice.
That's a lot of image series. You do realize it is available in video form, too?
Yeah wow lol.
Read a book. People use different words and spellings in different areas of the world.
Was "windscreen" equally funny to you?
Like so many boiling frogs.
While we're pony-wishing, I want to be able to choose which companies are charged how much to send me a text message.
Google-411: $0.00
Verizon: $1.50
There you are!
Hey guys, he does exist! You betcha!
My favorite line:
"A few inches maybe"?! How big are these faces? Jesus Christ, a few inches and I'd be able to sniff my eyelids.
While I agree that making guesses at someone's interests based on a headshot is superficial, we disagree on the definition of sexism. The poster was comparing two women, and not contemplating offering a job to either one (as far as I can tell).
Either that, or we disagree on the definition of women.
Personally I think their major problem is they didn't nail the eyes. The new eyes in every example look porcine.
It works for the developer's picture, but not for women whose eyes are already beautiful. Hmm, I wonder whose image he based his algorithm tweaks on?
There was a story that showed up around the time idle started: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/2246235&from=rss
He set his password to "Lloyds is pants." It's a British thing.
Some whiner suggested to use it as a tag for all idle stories.
I dunno, Galactic Whore has a nice ring to it.
The fraudulent activity was enabled by unauthorized software code that allowed the perpetrators to obtain hole card information during live play. [...] Our investigation has confirmed that the code was part of a legacy auditing system that was manipulated by the perpetrators."
It looks like the cheaters had a separate connection to the auditing app that showed them hole cards. I don't think the stock client app had access to extra hole card information.
From another article:
Whatever way you slice it, that's still fewer computers.
It's never been, for me, about who you own or don't own
And here I thought owning was at the very core of the Halo experience.
You've obviously never had your self-worth destroyed by some screaming 8-year-old "ChuckNorris1999" on Xbox Live.
You know that quote about how real beauty is on the inside? Phil Spencer just coined the FPS equivalent. And it's still something only ugly people say.
It's not supposed to win. It is to Mythbusters what Wikileaks is to W'pedia. Less useful and interesting most of the time, but occasionally striking, and often the only place to get it.
Maybe I should switch to marketing-speak. Long tail.
Maybe the Eepybird guys? That was an awful lot of money for Mentos and Coke. I need RFID-busting set to music.
I won't miss you.
What we need is a podcast/youtube version of the show with all the cheap myths that are too boring/nerdy/short/offensive to corporations to make it on cable. Like this myth.
I'd watch it.
Ah, yep, I see it now. I stopped reading and got lured in by the straw man. My bad.
I'm going to try to extract your point from this collection of fantasy.
So to continue the dramatic hyperbole: what you're saying here is you prefer machine logic deciding to blow up toddlers. Got it.
Yet here, there are no poor children, it's just a cool mech battle. Hmm. Yeah, I can see all the countries of the world getting together....
Meeting of the Nations:
UN: "Look, what if we just give everyone super killer robots and they launch them at each other? That's a solution, right?"
Everybody: "Yay! We'll play war all the time!
Months later...
CurrentAxisOfEvil: "Hey, UN, we used up all our SKR's, can we have some more?"
UN: "Not until your next turn."
CurrentAxisOfEvil: "Dang, what else do we have that can carry bombs?"
And we're back to children in warzones.
So let me get this pinned down. Your argument in favor of the deployment of military robots is to remove conscience from war. You want to protect our poor military from having to make the difficult decision of whether or not to kill someone?
Please, go back to playing Starcraft and leave the real world to the adults.
The article made no mention of visual sensors. If they used vision in this project you would have heard about it. The "watching" is watching the inertial readings in relation to the controller positioning. That is, the computer looks at the position, velocity, and acceleration of the helicopter vs. the expert input, and determines what the expert was trying to achieve.
It isn't just replaying the user inputs, but it is just replaying a filtered version of the "moves" as determined by the inertial sensors.
despite all the propaganda, I really don't see the Iranians ever developing a nuclear weapons programs as it will ultimately work against them. They will never be able to match their arsenal to that of US or UK or France or Russia or Israel.
You miss the point of having a nuclear arsenal. Any country that is developing a nuclear payload deliverable by missile is no longer trying to compete in a real war.
Loosely, you can think of Iran like Lorena Bobbit. Yeah, most of us could take her in a street fight. She's not very big or strong. But when she's got a knife in one hand and your dick in the other, all of a sudden it matters a whole lot less.