Even a single person looks different on different days. e.g. you may be more tired and haggard looking on some days.
Actually (though I don't work for NSA), I'd guess that what they're using is a system which looks at the IR signature of faces. I've seen a fair amount of research done with this.
Basically, the IR signature of a person's face is derived from the underlying bone structure, which isn't something that's likely to change often. (unless one has a penchant for visiting bars frequented by Hell's Angels!) These signatures are supposedly as unique as fingerprints.
Kinda cool. A little scary, though, as they could (heh. probably are) use this to ID people from a distance, regardless of conventional disguises. I wonder if there's counter-tech for disguising one's facial IR characteristics?
The real question is, was there a crime committed?
It does look that way. If you'd read the article at all (or perhaps a little more closely), you'd have seen that he's been charged with crossing state lines with intent to have sex with a "minor."
The question isn't whether or not he's been charged with breaking a law, but whether or not the law should have been there for him to be charged with breaking.
(Yes. We shouldn't have to wait until someone actually molests a child before we get them out of society.)
In re-reading the article, I see that the announcement is of a theory describing the mechanism which creates the patterns in the ice, not that Europa might have a liquid ocean, as the title of the slashdot post implied.
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It helps to be root for these commands, particularly the second, as the kernel paging subsystem will better transmogrify the 64-bit yoyodynes if one is logged in as root.
Lord Kano?s Law-In every group of women there is at least one slut.In every group of men there is at least one moron. If you can?t identify them, it's you.
Florida is a nice place, but it gets hit every freaking year by hurricanes. If you can't afford to have all of your shit destroyed every year, DON'T FREAKING LIVE THERE!
You do have a choice. It may not be a palatable choice, especially considering how nice Florida is most of the time, but no one is forcing you to live there.
You're like the people who build their houses on a floodplain and then complain every spring when their houses are full of water. Duh...
Anyhow... The point of this posting wasn't to belittle the poor schmucks who are going to get pounded by Floyd; it was to give the rest of us a chance to watch a big hurricane from the safety of our computer chairs, without having to watch Bob the weatherman being blown around while babbling inanities about how strong the storm is.
Usually ads are not there unless there is a good service or product cause they would not be able to pay for the ad space.
Uhm.
Click on the monkey and win!?? I went out and got Internet Junkbuster after seeing YAABA (yet another annoying animated banner ad) last week. It's been browsing bliss for me and my roommates since then. I HATED that freaking stupid monkey...
Leave the advertising to those who don't know any better. There are now and will be for a good while many of those people, and when the banner ad scheme finally does implode, I'm sure there'll be something to replace it. Hopefully there will be something to counteract it, as well.
My friend was high off his ass causing him to pull out in front a car going 60 and died.
I don't mean to sound insensitive... I feel for you, as losing a friend is a horrible experience. However, your friend made a couple of bad decisions. Obviously, pulling out in front of another car at the wrong time was one of them.
The worst decision, however, was getting into a car while under the influence of a mind-altering drug. One could just as easily blame alcohol, or LSD, or Robitussin.
Hence the students who _are_ in school because of a genuine interest in the field get bored with their classes.
Whoo! Ya hit it right on the head. That drove me nuts. Of course, I went to a state school. I hope that real schools aren't in quite as bad shape.
My favorite classes were the ones where the prof would basically just barrel headlong through the course, not stopping for the lamers who hadn't learnt what they were supposed to in prereqs. They were almost universally unpopular, because most of the people in my school's CS program didn't like to work. Hell, most of them didn't have their own computers. *sigh*
So this is the group of professionals that make linux a great OS.
Um, no. This is Slashdot. There are some slashdot readers who are also in the linux community. A lot of these slashdot posters aren't even professionals, however.
There is also the poll which has 36% of/. readers using Linux versus 30% Win* for their primary OS... But I seem to recall reading something a while ago on/. wherein a majority of the browser agent strings in the logs were from win32 variants. I couldn't find the item or the exact numbers, unfortunately.
I think that you missed the previous poster's point.
Programmers who like playing the sort of games that they're coding make better games. If the programmers really like FPS games, then the FPS game that they're working on will probably be better than if they all liked strategy games (all things being equal).
I think that it would be pretty hard (and wrong) to categorize all programmers as liking a certain type of game.
Suspension of disbelief is a lot simpler when the whole premise isn't that it's "real". If the BWP hadn't been promoted as a true story, it would be easier to take it in and not analyze the parts that seem ridiculous and far from reality.
But it *wasn't* real! It was a film! Argh. I saw the film before I'd heard much of the hype surrounding it. I still knew that it wasn't real. I recognized it as a scary campfire story repackaged as a 'documentary.'
Speaking of documentaries and reality... Do you really believe that most of the supposedly true documentaries actually reflect reality? How about those newscasts you see in the evenings? Just because it looks and is presented as real don't mean that it is... (not going off on a paranoidal conspiracy tangent, just pointing out that a lot of what is presented as reality by the media should be subject to some critical thought)
Yes, the Blair Witch Project was presented as a documentary. No, there were no obvious cues that it was a made-up story, other than the glaringly obvious fact that it was playing in movie theaters across the country.
I dunno. I guess some people just like things to be spelled out for them. I don't mean that derisively. I just can't grok that worldview, just as those types can't grok mine.
Oh, and it seems to me, that "film students making a documentary" would: a) Know how to use a camera. b) Attempt to present things in the clearest way they could
Again... It's part of the story. They were never made out to be world-class filmmakers. They were were a group of scared, hungry, and nic-fitting college kids. They also didn't get along very well with each other. Hard to do quality work in that environment.
I know that's what the audience is SUPPOSED to believe, but you have to be really dumb with an overactive imagination to actually have such a silly interpretation.
*sigh* I don't get it...
Why did you watch the film, then? Why do you watch any film? If reality is what you want, with maybe some action or gore, why not just go sit on a street corner downtown some Friday night? Barring that, I guess you could watch COPS from the comfort of your couch.
Do I really believe in haunted woods? No. Do I believe in demented psychopaths who screw with campers and amateur filmmakers in various ways, including chopping up their friends and leaving body parts as presents? It's possible.
The wonderful thing about storytelling, though, is that it doesn't have to reflect reality 100 percent. In this particular story, they tried twice to get out of the woods by seemingly foolproof methods. They walked due south all day, and wound up in the same place. They followed a creek all day, and wound up in the same place. Could they have messed up because they were inexperienced? Of course. In the world that the storyteller has created, though, it could also be that the Blair Witch was messing with them via supernatural forces.
But I guess that some people can't deal with the idea that the world OF THE STORY doesn't necessarily coincide with their own version of reality. To each their own.
If you can't figure out to follow a river downstream when you're lost in the woods, you [sic] diserve to die.
Uh... Bueller? You missed one of the major premises of the film... The woods were HAUNTED! I see this point brought up over and over. "What a bunch of morons, to get lost in the MD woods." Well, the whole story was about the investigation of this thing called the Blair Witch, which, ya know, supposedly haunted the woods and stuff?
You ever hear of a crazy concept called suspension of disbelief? Yeah, yeah... You, like, watch (or listen to, or READ (remember that?)) a story, and go along with the storyteller's version of reality.
Sheesh. You people amuse me... What boring, black-and-white, cut-and-dried lives you must all live, if you can't step out of your normal frames of reference every once in a while.
I loved trying to get hexen and doom to work on them
Heh. I tried that once, deathmatching with my 386/25 against my then-roomate with his fancy P5/90. Laff. Considering that I was playing with a postage-stamp-sized view, it's not surprising that he kicked my sprites all over the maps.
Then I got the 486/133, and life changed in that dorm room...
... you're leaking packets out into the world and the world's leaking packets into your network.
Prolly not as much a problem with xDSL, but if you've got a cable modem this is a no-no. It's not good security, and it will prolly annoy the cable modem provider if they monitor their network at all.
the wierd thing is that all the irish (read:from Ireland) people here in boston that i know drink bud.
Hrm... I haven't observed that. Of course, I don't tend to hang out in places where Bud is the preferred beer. I think the Druid out in Cambridge is my favorite place so far, but I've only been up here for a few months.
I haven't been to Ireland yet, but when I was in Scotland last summer it was odd to see all the Bud adverts during World Cup. Most of the pubs I went into had Bud in bottles, but nothing on draft. The people I saw drinking it were usually women and only the occasional guy. I have to admit that I wasn't paying much attention to the guys in pubs, though. heh.
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It seems to me... that those who didn't like The Blair Witch Project are saying more about themselves than they're saying about the movie.
I'll agree with that assertion. I liked the film, but I can see how someone who doesn't like to or can't empathize with the characters wouldn't like it. With no empathy, there's no interest in the characters, and there's not much left after that.
I'll bet the people who didn't like this film didn't much like scary campfire stories, either. I try not to look down on them too much, though.:)
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Actually (though I don't work for NSA), I'd guess that what they're using is a system which looks at the IR signature of faces. I've seen a fair amount of research done with this.
Basically, the IR signature of a person's face is derived from the underlying bone structure, which isn't something that's likely to change often. (unless one has a penchant for visiting bars frequented by Hell's Angels!) These signatures are supposedly as unique as fingerprints.
Kinda cool. A little scary, though, as they could (heh. probably are) use this to ID people from a distance, regardless of conventional disguises. I wonder if there's counter-tech for disguising one's facial IR characteristics?
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You were trying to get first post. First posters are dumbasses. Therefore, you were trying to be a dumbass.
Nyah!
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It does look that way. If you'd read the article at all (or perhaps a little more closely), you'd have seen that he's been charged with crossing state lines with intent to have sex with a "minor."
The question isn't whether or not he's been charged with breaking a law, but whether or not the law should have been there for him to be charged with breaking.
(Yes. We shouldn't have to wait until someone actually molests a child before we get them out of society.)
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I can't cite anything off of the top of my head, but has anyone else read Clarke's 2069? The Europan ocean features prominently in that story.
Ok, I did a quick search on altavista. Here's what I came up with. I'm sure that you can find more if you're curious.
- Building a Probe for Europa
- Space Probe Finds Evidence of Ocean
- Pictures support theory of water on Europa
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It helps to be root for these commands, particularly the second, as the kernel paging subsystem will better transmogrify the 64-bit yoyodynes if one is logged in as root.
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The smartquotes are part of the joke, I trust?
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The mental imagery conjured up by that... laff. "Your ID, please, sir." "'Scuse me while I whip this out..." *zzzip* *beep*
(with apologies to Mel Brooks)
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Hrm. *checks sympathy guage* Nope, nothing registering. *taps guage* Nope, still nothing.
Florida is a nice place, but it gets hit every freaking year by hurricanes. If you can't afford to have all of your shit destroyed every year, DON'T FREAKING LIVE THERE!
You do have a choice. It may not be a palatable choice, especially considering how nice Florida is most of the time, but no one is forcing you to live there.
You're like the people who build their houses on a floodplain and then complain every spring when their houses are full of water. Duh...
Anyhow... The point of this posting wasn't to belittle the poor schmucks who are going to get pounded by Floyd; it was to give the rest of us a chance to watch a big hurricane from the safety of our computer chairs, without having to watch Bob the weatherman being blown around while babbling inanities about how strong the storm is.
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Uhm.
Click on the monkey and win!?? I went out and got Internet Junkbuster after seeing YAABA (yet another annoying animated banner ad) last week. It's been browsing bliss for me and my roommates since then. I HATED that freaking stupid monkey...
Leave the advertising to those who don't know any better. There are now and will be for a good while many of those people, and when the banner ad scheme finally does implode, I'm sure there'll be something to replace it. Hopefully there will be something to counteract it, as well.
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Oops... sorry georgeha.
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You big goober! You missed the joke completely. Gonwyn deliberately misused 'Linux' in place of 'Linus.'
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Nope. Ben was a rat. Algernon was a mouse.
From the IMDB movie database... Really bad horror flick.
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I don't mean to sound insensitive... I feel for you, as losing a friend is a horrible experience. However, your friend made a couple of bad decisions. Obviously, pulling out in front of another car at the wrong time was one of them.
The worst decision, however, was getting into a car while under the influence of a mind-altering drug. One could just as easily blame alcohol, or LSD, or Robitussin.
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Whoo! Ya hit it right on the head. That drove me nuts. Of course, I went to a state school. I hope that real schools aren't in quite as bad shape.
My favorite classes were the ones where the prof would basically just barrel headlong through the course, not stopping for the lamers who hadn't learnt what they were supposed to in prereqs. They were almost universally unpopular, because most of the people in my school's CS program didn't like to work. Hell, most of them didn't have their own computers. *sigh*
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Dunno where the rest of it went; it showed up fine when I previewed.
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Um, no. This is Slashdot. There are some slashdot readers who are also in the linux community. A lot of these slashdot posters aren't even professionals, however.
Some poll data, FWIW:
- 94% Male
- 37% aged 18-23; 31% aged 24-30
- Wrote
- Have read
/. for 3 months - 29% are students
There is also the poll which has 36% ofThis is NOT the Linux community, by far. Ever read the kernel mailing lists? Heh.
(For those curious individuals: I use a Dell Precision 410 with RH 6.0 for my desktop, every day.)
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Programmers who like playing the sort of games that they're coding make better games. If the programmers really like FPS games, then the FPS game that they're working on will probably be better than if they all liked strategy games (all things being equal).
I think that it would be pretty hard (and wrong) to categorize all programmers as liking a certain type of game.
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But it *wasn't* real! It was a film! Argh. I saw the film before I'd heard much of the hype surrounding it. I still knew that it wasn't real. I recognized it as a scary campfire story repackaged as a 'documentary.'
Speaking of documentaries and reality... Do you really believe that most of the supposedly true documentaries actually reflect reality? How about those newscasts you see in the evenings? Just because it looks and is presented as real don't mean that it is... (not going off on a paranoidal conspiracy tangent, just pointing out that a lot of what is presented as reality by the media should be subject to some critical thought)
Yes, the Blair Witch Project was presented as a documentary. No, there were no obvious cues that it was a made-up story, other than the glaringly obvious fact that it was playing in movie theaters across the country.
I dunno. I guess some people just like things to be spelled out for them. I don't mean that derisively. I just can't grok that worldview, just as those types can't grok mine.
Oh, and it seems to me, that "film students making a documentary" would:
a) Know how to use a camera.
b) Attempt to present things in the clearest way they could
Again... It's part of the story. They were never made out to be world-class filmmakers. They were were a group of scared, hungry, and nic-fitting college kids. They also didn't get along very well with each other. Hard to do quality work in that environment.
Eh. Why am I bothering?
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*sigh* I don't get it...
Why did you watch the film, then? Why do you watch any film? If reality is what you want, with maybe some action or gore, why not just go sit on a street corner downtown some Friday night? Barring that, I guess you could watch COPS from the comfort of your couch.
Do I really believe in haunted woods? No. Do I believe in demented psychopaths who screw with campers and amateur filmmakers in various ways, including chopping up their friends and leaving body parts as presents? It's possible.
The wonderful thing about storytelling, though, is that it doesn't have to reflect reality 100 percent. In this particular story, they tried twice to get out of the woods by seemingly foolproof methods. They walked due south all day, and wound up in the same place. They followed a creek all day, and wound up in the same place. Could they have messed up because they were inexperienced? Of course. In the world that the storyteller has created, though, it could also be that the Blair Witch was messing with them via supernatural forces.
But I guess that some people can't deal with the idea that the world OF THE STORY doesn't necessarily coincide with their own version of reality. To each their own.
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Uh... Bueller? You missed one of the major premises of the film... The woods were HAUNTED! I see this point brought up over and over. "What a bunch of morons, to get lost in the MD woods." Well, the whole story was about the investigation of this thing called the Blair Witch, which, ya know, supposedly haunted the woods and stuff?
You ever hear of a crazy concept called suspension of disbelief? Yeah, yeah... You, like, watch (or listen to, or READ (remember that?)) a story, and go along with the storyteller's version of reality.
Sheesh. You people amuse me... What boring, black-and-white, cut-and-dried lives you must all live, if you can't step out of your normal frames of reference every once in a while.
Bah.
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Heh. I tried that once, deathmatching with my 386/25 against my then-roomate with his fancy P5/90. Laff. Considering that I was playing with a postage-stamp-sized view, it's not surprising that he kicked my sprites all over the maps.
Then I got the 486/133, and life changed in that dorm room...
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Prolly not as much a problem with xDSL, but if you've got a cable modem this is a no-no. It's not good security, and it will prolly annoy the cable modem provider if they monitor their network at all.
Just something to think about.
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Hrm... I haven't observed that. Of course, I don't tend to hang out in places where Bud is the preferred beer. I think the Druid out in Cambridge is my favorite place so far, but I've only been up here for a few months.
I haven't been to Ireland yet, but when I was in Scotland last summer it was odd to see all the Bud adverts during World Cup. Most of the pubs I went into had Bud in bottles, but nothing on draft. The people I saw drinking it were usually women and only the occasional guy. I have to admit that I wasn't paying much attention to the guys in pubs, though. heh.
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I'll agree with that assertion. I liked the film, but I can see how someone who doesn't like to or can't empathize with the characters wouldn't like it. With no empathy, there's no interest in the characters, and there's not much left after that.
I'll bet the people who didn't like this film didn't much like scary campfire stories, either. I try not to look down on them too much, though. :)
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This begs the question as to what kind of beer Linux users prefer.
1. Guinness
2. Harpoon IPA (for the northeastern US contingent)
3. Murphy's
4. Pretty much any ol' IPA
5. Pretty much any ol' ale (except wheat ales... blech!)
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