You don't need Bee theory, forensics or the CSI team to figure out who is doing the killing
Yes, you do. That theory about the bubble makes a lot of sense, but when it comes down to practice and real numbers, you do need the Bee theory and the forensics and the CSI team to figure out where the next kill would be or where the killer lives. You'd probably say "around there" but that's not good enough for the police nor to the people living in that area who know there's a serial killer "around there." We need to study the details of this behavior in order to increase the precision of our predictions.
What you just said, is that you don't need school to teach you how to read because all you do is open the book and look at it.
The RIAA is the bully here. Everyone else is the rest of the classroom. Let's let the RIAA get away free with everything and punish everyone else. That makes a lot of sense.
I you you were thinking of the RIAA as the whole classroom, but look at it the way I pointed it out... How can you delimit who the bully is and who the classroom is? In this case it's pretty clear but this could cause a dangerous precedent.
Who the hell modded you funny? Sarcasm sometimes makes interesting/insightful point in a funny way, people! The P made an excellent point: if you read all the/. articles you'll find that everything that can be invented will be invented and used within the next 20 years.
This doesn't sound right to me... If everyone would do it, attacks would be like:
1)- General, the opposite forces look very strong!
- Then don't worry, we'll beat their ass!
or
2)- General, the opposite forces look very weak!
- Ok, let's get the hell out of here!
The best way would be to simply act randomly. The best way to win is to confuse your enemy so that they never know what's going on.
Saddam Hussein pretending that his WMD programs are much stronger than they are
That's a good one. *Everyone* pretended that, I doubt Bush called Saddam one evening and Saddam bragged too much about it so Bush decided to take him down.
Because that's what Average Joe wants - a quick way of accessing everything without having to remember where the commands are and colorful themes that say "good morning" in stead of "get to work."
I have to agree to Average Joe on this subject.
The only generalisation that is missing about slashdotters is the one about girlfriends.
Haha, loser, you don't have a girlfriend like all the other/.ers!
Everybody knows that all/.ers have girlfriends. I can even remember my first couple of imaginary lesbian girlfriends I made up when I first joined/.
if you're going to go to the effort of videoing a scene
"you..videoing..." isn't the only application. This could be used to enhance other videos. Let's say someone else made a great video (captured some really great scenes, focused on some details) and you want to publish it but even if they focused on cool details, they're not enough. You take a few pictures and enhance their video.
Also, this is just the start. They are currently enhancing static videos but I'm sure in the near future, if this is worked on enough, it could be used to enhance any kind of video scene. So you have something interesting happening - by some people's standards, two squirrels fighting over a nut is interesting enough - but the overall quality of your video is just awful. You won't be able to re-take the shot because the squirrels canceled their contract so you'll take some pictures, match them against the video and voila, high-quality video or a forest and two squirrels kicking each other in the nuts over a nut while filmed by a nut.
Do you by any chance remember those huge radios? I mean those REALLY huge radios weighting about 50kg? They weren't very practical and to the final consumer they were cool but they were heavy and incredibly expensive. Now I carry an MP3 player in my pocket that also has an FM radio integrated, just for the hell of it. === POOF === 20 years later === Do you by any chance remember those projects that they started, to enhance videos of static scenes using photographs? There was an article on a site named "Slashdot" which was taken down after it started WW3... I doubt that you'd remember that, but look where we are today: with a couple of high-quality pictures (100 gpixel;) you can enhance any video.
This is what this whole project is about. Studying something cool and then enhancing it until it gains practical applications. Why the hell won't/. users stop bitching about "this isn't very useful" and "i don't see the point"? It's not useful now, but it will be, otherwise nobody would invest in it and I think people who pay tons of money for this kind of research know a bit more about what research is good for than you but unfortunately they're too busy making money and changing the world to spend their time on/. The fact that you don't see it's point means only that you don't see it, it doesn't mean there is no point. In stead of saying "this isn't useful" why don't you ask "what could this be used for?" Maybe that change in some people would help us progress faster because they will question the applications of certain research which causes debates which lead the faster progress (not at the time of the debates but a couple of years later people draw conclusions and they start to get along and pretend they never asked dumb questions). It would also encourage researches by showing them that if they give you applications for their work you might embrace it. But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO you just say "i can't do anything with this" which basically insults and shuts the trap of anyone who might give you a couple of uses and it just starts a flame war which is basically a debate focused on insults and swear words in stead of what it should be - focused on pros and cons.
Great work,/.
Congrats on your new section which has been officially called "the idiots' section." You realize now that all the real idiots will stay away from it.
Nice marketing, too, by mixing up the words "nerds" and "idiots" under the same brand.
I suppose they can set up a new shipping address, order some CDs, and have them sent there. So I just turn around and call my credit card company, and they reverse all the charges.
That's with your amazon.com account. Yeah, you can reverse the CC charges in this case. Who the fuck cares about corporate secrets? Who the fuck cares that you have to turn around 3600000 degrees in total when you make hundreds of calls to your CC company to reverse those charges? Who the fuck cares that they used the information they gathered about you from amazon.com to use your identity in countless other places (websites, banks, restaurants, etc)? I'm sure you don't because you seem to lack the brains for that.
If your mother-in-law would have lost her scrabble account because someone stole it as they didn't need to know some secret answer to some stupid question, you'd be divorced by now. It's better not to know all those details and get your account locked than having someone steal it from you. As long as it's locked it's still yours, nobody else uses it to take advantage of your work and guess what?... you can probably recover it by calling customer service. It wold be about a million times easier than recovering money stolen from your bank account which may take up to 10 years, sometimes 20 years and sometimes literally an eternity.
You've clearly never had anything stolen because of lack of security. If your mother-in-law would loose her scrabble account because someone found out her security answer, I bet you'd be complaining about the lack of security even for the most basic websites bla bla bla.
You're always welcome to come here, with us, in the real world.
Your second paragraph also applies to Romania, Russia, Bulgaria and a few other countries. Took me ages to find a site that would allow me, after contacting them via email, to buy flowers on-line for a friend in the US. I currently live in Romania...
SMS costs the phone companies almost nothing (this has been previously discussed on), that's why they're not offering too many alternatives and the alternatives that exist are quite expensive to Average Joe.
There's another problem: in many areas there is no other mobile network. As a businessman, I need a working mobile 24/7. They know that and the fact that I don't have any other choice. It's called monopoly. If Microsoft somehow legally started charging you hourly for using Windows, you'd switch to Linux, right? Well YOU would but you can't imagine the costs required to do that by most people who've bought hardware specifically for Windows because they need to run Windows applications. What about companies that have thousands of computers?
(I know this MS hourly charging isn't possible, it's just an analogy to help you think and realize that to some people canceling their contract is simply not an option)
Why won't they just fire all their employees and hire the guys who worked on Wine? That would be cheaper, faster and it would provide MUCH better results. They'll probably get even more income and less spendings...
The headline and summary aren't really accurate to the linked article.
Has anyone considered the impact this sort of thing has on Slashdot's credibility?
This must be your first time on Slashdot, if you're complaining about misleading headlines.
When you listen to your MP3s you don't listen to 1s and 0s, you listen to the music. When you watch movies, you don't see it like you're watching the green Matrix screen. If you change a note in a song it doesn't make it a whole new one. If you completely change the bits in a song by converting it from MP3 to WAV you're not really doing anything...
Face it, our laws were meant for an analog world, when you use them in a digital context they just are plain stupid
The laws aren't stupid, but I'm not really sure how smart you are. The analog output is about the same and for the untrained ear there is really no difference between a 256 kbit/s MP3 and a 1,411.2 kbit/s CD. Hell, I can't find a difference between 192 kb/s mp3 and a CD.
I know this is/. and if you change a couple of bits out of a few million in a file, it's a whole new file but WAKE UP!
Copyright laws suck most of the time, both for the listeners and the singers (because we all know that the recording studios get most of the money) but your argument sucks even more.
Slashdot Mirror
You don't need Bee theory, forensics or the CSI team to figure out who is doing the killing
Yes, you do. That theory about the bubble makes a lot of sense, but when it comes down to practice and real numbers, you do need the Bee theory and the forensics and the CSI team to figure out where the next kill would be or where the killer lives. You'd probably say "around there" but that's not good enough for the police nor to the people living in that area who know there's a serial killer "around there." We need to study the details of this behavior in order to increase the precision of our predictions.
What you just said, is that you don't need school to teach you how to read because all you do is open the book and look at it.
Please mod parent down because of insulting sig.
This is a fucking advert
Do I need to remind you that you are on Slashdot?
Lemme guess... when you registered, you were asked for your email address?
There, fixed that for myself.
Well then, problem solved, /. article closed. We know where the spam has gone, everyone can stop crying for it now.
Lemme guess... when you registered, why asked for your email address?
The RIAA is the bully here. Everyone else is the rest of the classroom. Let's let the RIAA get away free with everything and punish everyone else. That makes a lot of sense.
I you you were thinking of the RIAA as the whole classroom, but look at it the way I pointed it out... How can you delimit who the bully is and who the classroom is? In this case it's pretty clear but this could cause a dangerous precedent.
Who the hell modded you funny? Sarcasm sometimes makes interesting/insightful point in a funny way, people! The P made an excellent point: if you read all the /. articles you'll find that everything that can be invented will be invented and used within the next 20 years.
pretend that you are strong where you are weak
This doesn't sound right to me ... If everyone would do it, attacks would be like:
1)- General, the opposite forces look very strong!
- Then don't worry, we'll beat their ass!
or
2)- General, the opposite forces look very weak!
- Ok, let's get the hell out of here!
The best way would be to simply act randomly. The best way to win is to confuse your enemy so that they never know what's going on.
Saddam Hussein pretending that his WMD programs are much stronger than they are
That's a good one. *Everyone* pretended that, I doubt Bush called Saddam one evening and Saddam bragged too much about it so Bush decided to take him down.
The article is nonsense, but the discussion should be good.
I agree, it should be good. Too bad it's not.
I think you need to understand I can't do shit with just the kernel.
Please mod sibling #24608447 up.
Because that's what Average Joe wants - a quick way of accessing everything without having to remember where the commands are and colorful themes that say "good morning" in stead of "get to work."
I have to agree to Average Joe on this subject.
The only generalisation that is missing about slashdotters is the one about girlfriends. /.ers! /.ers have girlfriends. I can even remember my first couple of imaginary lesbian girlfriends I made up when I first joined /.
Haha, loser, you don't have a girlfriend like all the other
Everybody knows that all
if you're going to go to the effort of videoing a scene
;) you can enhance any video. /. users stop bitching about "this isn't very useful" and "i don't see the point"? It's not useful now, but it will be, otherwise nobody would invest in it and I think people who pay tons of money for this kind of research know a bit more about what research is good for than you but unfortunately they're too busy making money and changing the world to spend their time on /. The fact that you don't see it's point means only that you don't see it, it doesn't mean there is no point. In stead of saying "this isn't useful" why don't you ask "what could this be used for?" Maybe that change in some people would help us progress faster because they will question the applications of certain research which causes debates which lead the faster progress (not at the time of the debates but a couple of years later people draw conclusions and they start to get along and pretend they never asked dumb questions). It would also encourage researches by showing them that if they give you applications for their work you might embrace it. But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO you just say "i can't do anything with this" which basically insults and shuts the trap of anyone who might give you a couple of uses and it just starts a flame war which is basically a debate focused on insults and swear words in stead of what it should be - focused on pros and cons.
"you..videoing..." isn't the only application. This could be used to enhance other videos. Let's say someone else made a great video (captured some really great scenes, focused on some details) and you want to publish it but even if they focused on cool details, they're not enough. You take a few pictures and enhance their video.
Also, this is just the start. They are currently enhancing static videos but I'm sure in the near future, if this is worked on enough, it could be used to enhance any kind of video scene. So you have something interesting happening - by some people's standards, two squirrels fighting over a nut is interesting enough - but the overall quality of your video is just awful. You won't be able to re-take the shot because the squirrels canceled their contract so you'll take some pictures, match them against the video and voila, high-quality video or a forest and two squirrels kicking each other in the nuts over a nut while filmed by a nut.
Do you by any chance remember those huge radios? I mean those REALLY huge radios weighting about 50kg? They weren't very practical and to the final consumer they were cool but they were heavy and incredibly expensive. Now I carry an MP3 player in my pocket that also has an FM radio integrated, just for the hell of it. === POOF === 20 years later === Do you by any chance remember those projects that they started, to enhance videos of static scenes using photographs? There was an article on a site named "Slashdot" which was taken down after it started WW3... I doubt that you'd remember that, but look where we are today: with a couple of high-quality pictures (100 gpixel
This is what this whole project is about. Studying something cool and then enhancing it until it gains practical applications. Why the hell won't
Great work, /.
Congrats on your new section which has been officially called "the idiots' section." You realize now that all the real idiots will stay away from it.
Nice marketing, too, by mixing up the words "nerds" and "idiots" under the same brand.
I suppose they can set up a new shipping address, order some CDs, and have them sent there. So I just turn around and call my credit card company, and they reverse all the charges.
That's with your amazon.com account. Yeah, you can reverse the CC charges in this case. Who the fuck cares about corporate secrets? Who the fuck cares that you have to turn around 3600000 degrees in total when you make hundreds of calls to your CC company to reverse those charges? Who the fuck cares that they used the information they gathered about you from amazon.com to use your identity in countless other places (websites, banks, restaurants, etc)? I'm sure you don't because you seem to lack the brains for that.
If your mother-in-law would have lost her scrabble account because someone stole it as they didn't need to know some secret answer to some stupid question, you'd be divorced by now. It's better not to know all those details and get your account locked than having someone steal it from you. As long as it's locked it's still yours, nobody else uses it to take advantage of your work and guess what?... you can probably recover it by calling customer service. It wold be about a million times easier than recovering money stolen from your bank account which may take up to 10 years, sometimes 20 years and sometimes literally an eternity.
You've clearly never had anything stolen because of lack of security. If your mother-in-law would loose her scrabble account because someone found out her security answer, I bet you'd be complaining about the lack of security even for the most basic websites bla bla bla.
You're always welcome to come here, with us, in the real world.
Wikipedia is your friend
Please! Stop saying things like that. It may be handy, but it's NOT your friend!
Punishing the killers won't stop murders. While we're at it, let's make all crime legal.
Your second paragraph also applies to Romania, Russia, Bulgaria and a few other countries. Took me ages to find a site that would allow me, after contacting them via email, to buy flowers on-line for a friend in the US. I currently live in Romania...
Probably false positive :)
Most antiviruses complain about any form of proxy software.
SMS costs the phone companies almost nothing (this has been previously discussed on), that's why they're not offering too many alternatives and the alternatives that exist are quite expensive to Average Joe.
There's another problem: in many areas there is no other mobile network. As a businessman, I need a working mobile 24/7. They know that and the fact that I don't have any other choice. It's called monopoly. If Microsoft somehow legally started charging you hourly for using Windows, you'd switch to Linux, right? Well YOU would but you can't imagine the costs required to do that by most people who've bought hardware specifically for Windows because they need to run Windows applications. What about companies that have thousands of computers?
(I know this MS hourly charging isn't possible, it's just an analogy to help you think and realize that to some people canceling their contract is simply not an option)
Why won't they just fire all their employees and hire the guys who worked on Wine? That would be cheaper, faster and it would provide MUCH better results. They'll probably get even more income and less spendings...
The headline and summary aren't really accurate to the linked article.
Has anyone considered the impact this sort of thing has on Slashdot's credibility?
This must be your first time on Slashdot, if you're complaining about misleading headlines.
When you listen to your MP3s you don't listen to 1s and 0s, you listen to the music. When you watch movies, you don't see it like you're watching the green Matrix screen. If you change a note in a song it doesn't make it a whole new one. If you completely change the bits in a song by converting it from MP3 to WAV you're not really doing anything...
/. and if you change a couple of bits out of a few million in a file, it's a whole new file but WAKE UP!
Copyright laws suck most of the time, both for the listeners and the singers (because we all know that the recording studios get most of the money) but your argument sucks even more.
Face it, our laws were meant for an analog world, when you use them in a digital context they just are plain stupid The laws aren't stupid, but I'm not really sure how smart you are. The analog output is about the same and for the untrained ear there is really no difference between a 256 kbit/s MP3 and a 1,411.2 kbit/s CD. Hell, I can't find a difference between 192 kb/s mp3 and a CD.
I know this is
Grow up.