Indeed. There has been a story in the news a year or two ago about the Detroit Marathon.
The marathon crosses the border in Canada, and somewhere in the pack of runners that end in a little over 3 hours (which is still a great time for serious recreational runners) the nuclear detector went off in the border tunnel, and they had to stop a whole bunch of runners and delayed them for minutes. Marathon runners usually don't wear much more then a singlet and some compression shorts, so it's not like you can hide a nuclear device in there.
Also, for marathons like the Boston and New York marathon, you have to qualify under a certain time in a previous marathon to be sure to participate (3 hrs 10 min for males in Boston, 2 hrs 50 for males in NY), qualifying time vary with age grade and sex.
so, the article says 70,000 ppl got screened due to being suspicious, of which 700 ppl had drugs or something else on them (or where criminals,...). That means, out of 100 ppl they pinpoint with their special training, only 1% really is guilty of something, meaning they harassed 99% of the rest.
I think they should compare their results with just checking 100 ppl at random. Because a 1% success rate in my opinion in pretty weak.
people don't care when they don't have to pay for it. It's the same at our company. You wouldn't believe the state some of our laptops are after just a couple of months. cracked screens, missing keyboard keys, full of spyware, coffee spilled all over it,.... I don't think ppl would treat their laptops that poorly if they had to pay for it.
I don't get it? How can you have several first posts just because it takes some time for the comments to come up?
I would say, first comment that gets in gets first id ??? I'm probably missing something here (besides karma)?
I read the full article they published, well, saw the pictures and looked at them closely.
Apparently some of these patches that were left out were filled, but part of the original picture that wasn't cut out, got over-drawn as well by the new fill-in.
example: a street with cars where they cut out almost the whole street. It is refilled with an empty street with ppl walking. When you check some of the peoples head, you can clearly see that part of their head crosses the boundaries of the "cut". Looks like a human job.
So, makes me a little sceptic, I'd like to see this algorithm at work.
excuse me, but I have seen this kind software since I was in elementary school (now 20 years ago). I've seen it on commodore 64's and Amstrads and the like (written in Basic at the time, but there are probably hundreds of freeware/open source programs that do it now). We used to test our conjugations on this type of software in French, Dutch and English. This stuff exists since computers do, so give me a break, this patent is total BS.
Hooray, you just invented meta-tags:). The problem is spam-sites and others will also tag their websites "me", "microwave" and then you'll have all the junk sites before yours, just as happens now. Besides, search-sites like google and all already use meta-tags to index websites, and spam/commercial sites already abuse that technology to lure you to their website as well.
What about the semantic web (rdf, owl)?
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Dude, if XML's power (on the syntactic level) has yet to be recognised, why is everybody busy with the semantic web, rdf and owl (on the semantic)? It's pretty clear that XML on it's own doesn't suffice to clear all interoperability issues. XML on it's own still has no meaning, that's why everybody (W3C) is busy taking it to the next level by adding semantics through rdf and owl.
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Indeed. There has been a story in the news a year or two ago about the Detroit Marathon. The marathon crosses the border in Canada, and somewhere in the pack of runners that end in a little over 3 hours (which is still a great time for serious recreational runners) the nuclear detector went off in the border tunnel, and they had to stop a whole bunch of runners and delayed them for minutes. Marathon runners usually don't wear much more then a singlet and some compression shorts, so it's not like you can hide a nuclear device in there. Also, for marathons like the Boston and New York marathon, you have to qualify under a certain time in a previous marathon to be sure to participate (3 hrs 10 min for males in Boston, 2 hrs 50 for males in NY), qualifying time vary with age grade and sex.
Could it be that they drink more because they are unsuccessfull instead of the inverse?
because the correlation just means 3 things:
1) they are unrelated
2) more drinking => bad scientist
3) bad scientist => more drinking
so, the article says 70,000 ppl got screened due to being suspicious, of which 700 ppl had drugs or something else on them (or where criminals, ...).
That means, out of 100 ppl they pinpoint with their special training, only 1% really is guilty of something, meaning they harassed 99% of the rest.
I think they should compare their results with just checking 100 ppl at random. Because a 1% success rate in my opinion in pretty weak.
people don't care when they don't have to pay for it. ....
It's the same at our company. You wouldn't believe the state some of our laptops are after just a couple of months. cracked screens, missing keyboard keys, full of spyware, coffee spilled all over it,
I don't think ppl would treat their laptops that poorly if they had to pay for it.
I don't get it? How can you have several first posts just because it takes some time for the comments to come up? I would say, first comment that gets in gets first id ??? I'm probably missing something here (besides karma)?
FUCK OFF !!! you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
The quote from Adolph Hitler, "Tell a lie often enough, loud enough, and long enough, and people will believe you."
In Sovjet Russia, scientology pays you!
I read the full article they published, well, saw the pictures and looked at them closely. Apparently some of these patches that were left out were filled, but part of the original picture that wasn't cut out, got over-drawn as well by the new fill-in. example: a street with cars where they cut out almost the whole street. It is refilled with an empty street with ppl walking. When you check some of the peoples head, you can clearly see that part of their head crosses the boundaries of the "cut". Looks like a human job. So, makes me a little sceptic, I'd like to see this algorithm at work.
excuse me, but I have seen this kind software since I was in elementary school (now 20 years ago).
I've seen it on commodore 64's and Amstrads and the like (written in Basic at the time, but there are probably hundreds of freeware/open source programs that do it now). We used to test our conjugations on this type of software in French, Dutch and English.
This stuff exists since computers do, so give me a break, this patent is total BS.
as long as you keep it inside your RFID-proof coat pocket!
I, for one, welcome our new giant lizard overlords!
Hooray, you just invented meta-tags :).
The problem is spam-sites and others will also tag their websites "me", "microwave" and then you'll have all the junk sites before yours, just as happens now.
Besides, search-sites like google and all already use meta-tags to index websites, and spam/commercial sites already abuse that technology to lure you to their website as well.
Dude, if XML's power (on the syntactic level) has yet to be recognised, why is everybody busy with the semantic web, rdf and owl (on the semantic)? It's pretty clear that XML on it's own doesn't suffice to clear all interoperability issues. XML on it's own still has no meaning, that's why everybody (W3C) is busy taking it to the next level by adding semantics through rdf and owl.
I for one welcome our new vintage computing overlords!
Am I the first one to wish them a happy birthday?
I have no hands? can I use my toe?
Sure, more like "That was a GREAT movie, I made a copy for my private collection, you can get one as well!".
define: planet
female strippers that is!
I agree with your comment, but for your tag-line, isn't it: "aide-toi, Dieu t'aidera" ?
Or using a file-sharing program is illegal since it can be used to up/download copyrighted material !!!
great, they just patented data mining.
Chill, it's for a good cause!
Yeaa, right...
I don't know, between some guy having 200 million and a big corporation having even more, I don't know who deserves that 100 million the most?
I couldn't help but notice that you guys use the red stapler icon for IT which is actually sold at: http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/61b7/