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  1. Re:Wait on MySpace Lays Off 47% of Employees · · Score: 1

    Who was the .829787 of an employee?

  2. Re:Of course not! on Tunisian Gov't Spies On Facebook; Does the US? · · Score: 1

    (Bitter)
    Now we issue warrants upon Probable Correlation because Correlation is proportional to Causation.
    (/Bitter)

    (Some adjustment of the usual terms according to scientists have occurred. However, some adjustment to Amendment IV according to the Founders has also ocurred.)

  3. Re:Songs on Google Goggles Solves Sudoku · · Score: 1

    Not all songs are NP-hard. Once again, we just haven't really bothered to make killer algorithms.

    On a numerical note scale for a single octave, get the comp to play around with stuff like 666155455432432541 and pretty soon you have a song. That example was a mash of about 4 different top hit songs.

  4. Re:Frontiers on Google Goggles Solves Sudoku · · Score: 1

    I still have a pet theory that "if we really cared" we could have strong AI in about 5 years - we're just coming into the hardware specs needed.

    However, we don't care, because it's a racial fear to have machines that can out-think us in "ordinary" things.

    Same goes with the chat bot contests - if a serious team went to work, they'd build in defensive routines designed to slam the usual cheapos. "I took a plane to Hawaii but they airline didn't have any boats." "I screwed the Queen of England into a light socket." "What's bigger, a dreadnought or the economy of Zimbabwe?"

    Same with translation, comps ought to be awesome at that - just build slang lists at the phrase level into the grammar parsing. But with only teams of 3-10 guys at a time, no wonder we can't make progress. We need a team of 400 and give them 7 years to do it.

  5. Re:Doodle on Google Goggles Solves Sudoku · · Score: 1

    Whoever Adrian Monk was modeled after.

  6. Re:Sudoku on Google Goggles Solves Sudoku · · Score: 1

    The web is a wonderful place!

    Try this site for solving by named strategies.

    http://www.sudokuwiki.org/sudoku.htm

  7. Re:public relations subterfuge of popular opinion on Record Labels To Pay For Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    Where's the New York Country Lawyer when we need him most?
    Someone shine the New Your Country light!

  8. Re: a lifetime! on Record Labels To Pay For Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Let me get this straight ... on Record Labels To Pay For Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    Canada is a different country, but the labels are working on world wide copyright concepts. If they try to hide behind "country of action" type games then someone can just try hosting a server in a country with zilch for copyright law.

  10. Re:Canada on Record Labels To Pay For Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    Guessing here, but I don't think they can hold out long trying to say a song is "worth" a different amount in Canada vs. the US. I still think it counts as an informational precedent to point to for the next case that comes up in the US.

  11. Re:Let me get this straight ... on Record Labels To Pay For Copyright Infringement · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Don't we have an awesome new precedent though for the next file share case?

    Jammie's Appeal through counsel:
    "Your honor, given this new information, I ask for her damages to be reduced to $4000."

    Especially since there was no wishy-washy "making available" stuff - these were raw Sold, and not by any third party, but by the originators of the modern concept of copyright.

    Can we PLEASE close out this era of mega-suits?

  12. Re:Colonization on Mars Journal Issue Inspires Hundreds of One-Way Trip Volunteers · · Score: 1

    I agree here.

    There's a logical fallacy that I haven't pinned down. If we want "to expand" then let's just properly use the earth we have and just pocket the advantages. I think Wikileaks is showing us we're also 20 years short of the political maturity needed to pull off an expedition.

  13. Re:Duggars on Mars Journal Issue Inspires Hundreds of One-Way Trip Volunteers · · Score: 1

    Actually, a family like that can completely game-lock a small town 20 years later. Family gets to stick together and do things that for anyone else would be colluding.

  14. DRM on Book Piracy — Less DRM, More Data · · Score: 0

    (Sarcasm)

    You can never lock up content too tight.
    Let's have each letter encrypted separately.
    (/Sarcasm)

  15. Re:totally distributed on Anonymous Organizes Global Protests For WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    Could this be the first Super-Democracy?
    Each user "votes" whether to attack this, or that, or that other thing. The "decision by the group" is ... the sum of the votes.

    I think the Governments are using a subtle trick to over-weight the less popular actions to penalize the reputation of the whole.

    There was an awesome satirical video describing the leaked content and if you skipped the visual half where it showed who, the audio track went "this guy says this guy is a coward. This guy and this guy talked to this guy about this guy." That was the most powerful statement on the nebulous concept of nations I have seen.

  16. Re:Can someone explain to me... on Facebook's Revenues Leaked · · Score: 1

    Sure -

    In my thought example, if I were an aggregator, I would have sold my info on you to the pizza place so they could feed you ads on Facebook. That ad has a better than random chance of connecting with you because the aggregator matched up the distances.

    If you like, call it a double-sale.
    Aggregator-Business-Facebook Ad-You.

  17. Re:Anonymity guaranteed on Obama Eyeing Internet ID For Americans · · Score: 1

    "Or what"?

  18. Re:They're hardly controlling the flow of our info on WikiLeaks Supporters' Twitter Accounts Subpoenaed · · Score: 1

    So Far.

    +1 Witch Hunt Phenomenon.

  19. Re:Rights on WikiLeaks Supporters' Twitter Accounts Subpoenaed · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, all rights are alienable.
    Just study the meaning of "Supoena the ____ (online) accounts of Supporters."

  20. Re:Balance the Geek on When Should I Buy an Android Tablet? · · Score: 1

    +1 Funny to be sure, but there is a balance.
    I waited carefully, and then, checking the spec charts, finally ditched a WinMo6 phone for an iPhone 3GS. Then after a chunk of time passed, I took it off contract and now use it on AT&T's GoPhone prepaid plan. Skipping iPhone 4, Skipping iPhone 4.5 (There's some unmarked new stuff making the rounds again), and I'd like to skip iPhone 5 if I can hold out. iPhone 6 would then be my upgrade point.

    I only buy tech about every 2.5 Generations if I can wait it out, but at some point you have to live life. That's why there's a real situation called Good Enough going on in the tech world. XP is/was Good Enough to skip Vista, and I am trying to resist Windows 7 if I can hold out 2 more years. Right about Windows 8 with AMD's 8-core response to the successor to Intel's Sandy Bridge with it media crap , feels like the right upgrade from XP. This far out it's not at all clear there will be a Windows 9. They might be pulling crazy Azure Rent-Your-Air stunts by then.

  21. Re:means on Is Mark Zuckerberg the Next Steve Case? · · Score: 1

    Yep, 80% of "Security Questions" can be found on a Wall with more than 30 entries on it.

    All we need now is an App like that Fire-thingy that took the possible and gave it to everyone.

  22. Re:Rob on Is Mark Zuckerberg the Next Steve Case? · · Score: 2

    (Goldman)
    It's not Robbing. It's a Deferred Loan for Undefined Reverse Futures in Intangible ROI. I can sell you some Hedge Options if you like.
    (/Goldman)

  23. Re:Can someone explain to me... on Facebook's Revenues Leaked · · Score: 1

    No. You're a potential customer. If that restaurant isn't a few kilometers from your house either you've moved or I missed my guess. I took a swipe at your address using easy lookups but I didn't want to go overboard and post my actual attempted result here.

    Let's say I got it right. Your original question would be "how are you a product". I gave a typical example of the data collection and trading going on.

  24. Re:Talking on College Students Lack Scientific Literacy · · Score: 1

    (Wrestling)
      Big words there.
      I have a Teal Deer for ya!
      Can you smell ... what the Right ... is Cooking!?
    (/Wrestling)

  25. Re:Early Development on College Students Lack Scientific Literacy · · Score: 1

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