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  1. Re:New blacktop for the road to hell on Giving the Blind Better Web Access · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What if you did it with OCR on images pulled from the GPU? Then you can literally read everything, from the text that shows up in the HTML between tags, to text in images, to text in flash. Heck, it would read street signs in people's pics on Flickr. And no one would have to make anything on their webpages special for blind people.

  2. Re:Beware? on Iris Scanning Set To Secure City In Mexico · · Score: 1

    A little Etching Cream would render these useless fairly easily. And I would imagine the repair to be rather expensive.

  3. Re:First Union? on Unions Urging Actors Not To Work On Hobbit Movie · · Score: 1

    I object to unions because I had to miss two weeks of class (a friend of mine blames that single strike for him not getting into the college of his choice, although plenty of other folk had no troubles) in high school because the teacher's union was striking. Why? Some school on the other side of the state wanted to fire some senile old lady who could hardly form a complete sentence. I have little trouble imagining similar nonsense happening across the board.

    Maybe my anecdotal evidence is atypical. Maybe American union laws are not ideally formulated. But that's my 2 cents.

  4. Re:Wow! Amplitude Modulation! on Digital Radio Mondiale, a Better Standard Than US-Adopted IBOC? · · Score: 1

    I dunno, seems like they're talking about making it, like, not worthless.

  5. Re:All well and good, until... on CD Sales Continue To Plummet, Vinyl Records Soar · · Score: 1
  6. Re:I bet "The Industry" loves it.... on CD Sales Continue To Plummet, Vinyl Records Soar · · Score: 4, Informative

    I get 15 results...

  7. Re:So they can just keep stolen property then? on UK Man Prevented From Finding Chipped Pet Under Data Protection Act · · Score: 1

    The free advisor at his local citizens advice bureau should be able to tell him this.

    I feel this still falls under: How on earth would a regular person have any idea how to do all that crap?

    Look, if you never go to court, you have no idea how that stuff works. It's totally unfair that law abiding citizens should be at a disadvantage when it comes to the legal system.

  8. Re:So they can just keep stolen property then? on UK Man Prevented From Finding Chipped Pet Under Data Protection Act · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How on earth would a regular person have any idea how to do all that crap? He shouldn't need to hire a lawyer to tell him how to get his stolen dog back.

  9. Re:That is the modus operandi on Intel Threatens DMCA Using HDCP Crack · · Score: 2, Funny

    I keep trying to XOR my post with a random 1 bit cipher, but half the time it just doesn't seem to do anything!

  10. Re:It's all about entropy on Distinguishing Encrypted Data From Random Data? · · Score: 2, Funny

    From now on, whenever I go on a flight I'm bringing several DVDs of random data.

  11. Re:Sweet. Maybe we can get PS2 emulation next... on Emulation Arrives On the PS3 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't know what all this Ceche crap is, but my full size PS3 can't even read a PS2 disc, which is a load of crap.

    If I'd known that before I bought it, I wouldn't have shelled out $300. PS3's are getting to be more and more of a rip off as time goes on. It's ridiculous and indefensible.

  12. Accordians:hunting::the french:war on Facing Oblivion, Island Nation Makes Big Sacrifice · · Score: 0, Troll

    How does this protect their children and grandchildren?

  13. Re:challenge on HDCP Master Key Is Legitimate; Blu-ray Is Cracked · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bonus points for using an Arduino, ya?

  14. Re:Aptitude on Why Are Terrorists Often Engineers? · · Score: 1

    So it's the fault of the western world that their village is so backward they can't produce their own medical supplies?

  15. Re:Pffft... on Why Are Terrorists Often Engineers? · · Score: 1

    That's dirty...

  16. Re:pfffft on Super Principia Mathematica · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are you kidding? Super Principia Octave has all the important functionality and none of the ridiculous cost!

  17. Re:Silly and presumptuous name... on Super Principia Mathematica · · Score: 1

    Ya, for being so smart you wouldn't expect him to have the worst website ever either.

  18. Re:A Spark Gap on Preventing Networked Gizmo Use During Exams? · · Score: 1

    The obvious solution is random AC sparks between the floor and ceiling.

  19. Re:Plato said the SAME THING about books on How Good Software Makes Us Stupid · · Score: 1

    Well, Socrates was the one who said that this literacy thing is was overrated. Plato should've listened to his teacher.

  20. Re:efficiently... on £32k a Day For Birmingham Council Website · · Score: 1

    That must be why, historically speaking, the Jewish people have always been so popular...

  21. Re:not a real tractor beam on Researchers Create Real Tractor Beams · · Score: 1

    That or you live in NYC.

  22. Re:Distractions distractions on Assange Asks For New Lawyer, Denies Blaming CIA · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In the 1920s, we created a serious and well designed strategy to invade Canada as part of an assault on Great Britain. It seems pretty wild that we'd do that, but it's important to be prepared. It increases our level of understanding of other nations, and allows people pursuing studies at the Naval War College a means of flexing strategic muscles without killing people en masse.

    I can say with absolute certainty that today we have very similar strategies for every country on the planet. Very few have probably made it nearly as far as War Plan Red, but that's one of my favorite examples, and it's fairly well known.

    Planning to attack one of our closest allies might seem dishonest to people outside of the military sector, but not planning to is simply irresponsible. Don't expect any of that to pan out, though. Especially if the Marines are talking about it. I remember hearing serious talk about an atmosphere skimming system to deploy Marines from space anywhere on Earth within 30 minutes. Where's that?

  23. Re:A proposition on They Finally Found Out We Like Our Computers · · Score: 2, Funny

    I dunno, I already lie to my wife all the time and it doesn't seem to help.

  24. Re:Easy on The New Difficulties In Making a 3D Game · · Score: 1

    Stereoscope is 3D as much as Wolfenstein and Doom had 3D level design. We should just call it 2 1/2 D.

  25. Re:Easy on The New Difficulties In Making a 3D Game · · Score: 3, Funny

    There's an old joke. An engineer and a mathematician go to a lecture on quantum physics. After, the engineer turns to the mathematician and says:

    "That stuff is so crazy! I just have such a hard time visualizing 11 dimensional space!"

    The mathematician shrugs and says to him:

    "Oh, it's not so hard. Just imagine n-dimensional space and set n equal to 11."

    I figure that's how these computer programmer folks do it.