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  1. Re:this might be a dumb question but... on Deformable Liquid Mirrors For Adaptive Optics · · Score: 1

    Well, shit! Looks like you figured it out. Good job!

  2. If they really want to be popular on Chatroulette Working On Genital Recognition Algorithm · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They should make an algorithm that filters IN tits.

  3. stereoscopic on Lenovo Trying Face Recognition For Logins On New Laptops · · Score: 1

    Make it stereoscopic and the security becomes non-trivial.

  4. Re:Maths don't matter to reality! on Foxconn May Close Factories In China · · Score: 1

    Jumping is a very common way to die considering cutting wrists and pills means you need privacy for a long time. So yeah, I don't find it significant they chose the same way.

  5. Maths don't matter to reality! on Foxconn May Close Factories In China · · Score: 5, Insightful

    These suicides are well within the statistical expectations for a worker population that large. But People don't care about facts, just emotions.

  6. Re:Should be on Google Releases Wi-Fi Sniffing Audit · · Score: 1

    I fail to even see the "mistake" part of this. In my view nothing wrong was done and their even flinching to this is a sign of their ignorance or malice.

  7. Should be on Google Releases Wi-Fi Sniffing Audit · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Falsely accusing or indicating someone has committed a criminal act should be grounds for libel or slander.

  8. Re:Accidentally or Tactically Aquired data on Congressman Steps Up Pressure On Google, Facebook · · Score: 3, Informative

    The cameras are hooked up to a computer. The computer has wifi. The cars have GPS. All of the logs for each of these are synchronized since they are all on the same computer. So if your wifi logging happens to be detailed enough you could definitely "accidentally" collect that data just by having the wifi on with a default of connecting to any open network.

    Does anyone know what these computers in the Street View cars were running OS wise? Hardware wise?

  9. Read all about it! Read all about it! on Symantec Finds Server Containing 44 Million Stolen Gaming Credentials · · Score: 1

    Botnet does things botnets do! Data stolen, data processing distributed, Mayor surprised and outraged! Read all about it, only a nickle!

  10. Re:Or could it be on Study Shows Standing Up To Bullies Is Good For You · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Guts: you got them or you don't. It can never be shown you don't have them, but only you can prove you do.

  11. Deep down on Metrics Mania and the Countless Counting Problem · · Score: 1

    We're all just afraid of uncertainty. It is the shadow from which anything potentially could arise. Our brains are just hardwired to be much more fearful than hopeful (for obvious evolutionary reasons).

  12. Re:These guys never go down... on The Pirate Bay Sinks And Swims · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was going to mod this interesting, but I decided you should just come down to my office, Andrew.

  13. Tweet from the developer on Software Recognizes Sarcastic Tweets · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Yeah, we totally developed a program to detect sarcastic tweets... #fuckinggenius"

  14. Re:Three words on HTML Web App Development Still Has a Ways To Go · · Score: 1

    I know it really just boils down to "knowing what you're doing" in the design phase, which really seems to underscore this entire article, but RoR seems to make structure of async and comet design much more readable and modular than any other paradigm. But when you're talking about the structure and behavior INSIDE those modules you're back at square 0. It just boils down again to "knowing what you're doing" and doing it smart. So yeah, my statement was pretty trite in retrospect.

  15. Three words on HTML Web App Development Still Has a Ways To Go · · Score: 0

    Ruby on Rails

  16. Re:Watch the other hand... on The Telcos' Secret Anti-Net Neutrality Strategy · · Score: 1

    The only role the government should have in regards to net neutrality is enforcement power over ISPs which treat any content travelling through their network specially. Simple law, simple way to detect when it occurs, simple enforcement via fines. We have a god given right to freedom, and our government should be a facilitator of that. Considering we dumped billions of dollars into the telcos to build they lines on which they operate I would say by proxy we do indeed have a god given right to the internet, granted payment must be provided to maintain the service of course. Don't trust the government, or anyone, I know. But the legislation to declare net neutrality does not seem in any way to require being complicated to the point of hiding ulterior motives.

  17. I'm quite sure on iPad UK Pricing Confirmed; Apple UK Tax Applied · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Apple is glad to see such free advertising! This is consumerism crap, not slashdot-worthy "stuff that matters" content...

  18. Re:not so easy to defeat... on RFID Checks Student Attendance in Arizona · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You get your degree for passing, not attendance. Their passing of students is not contingent on their attendance necessarily.

  19. Re:Solution on Apple Blocks Cartoonist From App Store · · Score: 1

    I feel like there is a difference in your understandings of the semantics behind the word "censorship". Like technically you're correct that it is censorship in that THEY are preventing broadcasting of a message. But it is only in their privately owned network you're prevented from distributing it.

  20. Re:Solution on Apple Blocks Cartoonist From App Store · · Score: 1

    I agree this isn't censorship, however I CAN see hypothetical situations not too far from our own reality that should be considered.

    If the iPhone was so ubiquitous that there simply wasn't competition, that smartphones were necessary for success and they started pushing out old media, then I think it is fair to argue that it may be censorship. We all know the general consumer is too brain dead to really care about censorship and wouldn't demand a change loudly enough that it would change Apple's behavior. So yeah, I think its good to be on guard to prevent such scenarios, so don't get too angry at the people who shout "censorship!" at every possible instance. Their sensors are just calibrated too sensitively.

  21. Solution on Apple Blocks Cartoonist From App Store · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Make an android app instead.

  22. Re:What now? on Net Neutrality Suffers Major Setback · · Score: 1

    gj on your thorough analysis. Very productive. I'm proud to be in your presence.

  23. Re:What now? on Net Neutrality Suffers Major Setback · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, sorry I double tapped the 'e'. I have a sensitive keyboard. I'll go back to feeling inferior to you now, if that is acceptable.

  24. Re:What now? on Net Neutrality Suffers Major Setback · · Score: 1

    Pirate party has seats in Parliament in both EU and Sweeden. I already have job offers in Sweeden. I think I'm going to do a lot better there than here.

  25. Re:What now? on Net Neutrality Suffers Major Setback · · Score: 1

    Scandinavia. I'd recommend modding parent down, but I'm just some reactionary, apparently.