Comment Re:What the hell is wrong with americans? (Score 1) 709
Whoa, you take your meat so seriously that even your vegetables look like meat! Yum!
Comment Re:What is the TSA for anyway? (Score 1) 427
It seems that Romney would like to streamline the TSA. There was also a republican bill introduced last year to reduce the TSA. Not that Romney, or any politician is without faults, but making assumptions about positions leads to uneducated voting, which I think is why we're in the position we're in.
Comment Re:Good facial recognition (Score 2) 194
Rootkits will now dispense pepper from your USB port.
'Inexact' Chips Save Power By Fudging the Math 325
Barence writes "Computer scientists have unveiled a computer chip that turns traditional thinking about mathematical accuracy on its head by fudging calculations. The concept works by allowing processing components — such as hardware for adding and multiplying numbers — to make a few mistakes, which means they are not working as hard, and so use less power and get through tasks more quickly. The Rice University researchers say prototypes are 15 times more efficient and could be used in some applications without having a negative effect."
Comment Re:More Specifically Aimed at Chinese Fur Farms (Score 1) 491
I agree, though in my experience, that emotion is hate.
Submission + - What IT Should Know About Windows 8 (infoworld.com) 1
snydeq writes: "InfoWorld's Woody Leonhard takes a deeper look at Windows 8 from an IT and corporate developer perspective, and finds tough choices ahead for corporate IT. 'Instead of looking at Windows 8 as a unified operating system running on two different sets of hardware — along the lines of, say, Windows NT — IT and developers should think of Windows 8 as having three distinct flavors,' namely, Metro, Windows Desktop on Intel, and Windows Desktop on ARM, Leonhard writes. 'In spite of appearances and great presentations, writing for Metro isn't as easy as redesigning an app to use a touch interface, then having a .Net guru go at it. There are all sorts of new restrictions. Worse, Microsoft hasn't released anything resembling the .Net 4.5 Framework for ARM machines. ... That's a tough pill for IT developers to swallow. Think of it this way: If IT has to make two different versions of its Windows 8 tablet apps to run on the Desktop on Intel and ARM processors anyway, why not go with an OS that's well known — pick your poison, Android or iOS — and forget about Windows on the tablet entirely?'"
Comment Re:Scaled down photos (Score 1) 262
The same way you clean a fish: with a knife.
Comment Re:Dumbest Idea Ever (Score 1) 535
I may be incorrect, but it sounds like "them" is meant to be the games, though it's pretty ambiguous. Seems to make more sense when you read it as: "I purchased a lot of games that I really hated just to screw with those games."
Comment Re:IF this passed in the US... (Score 2) 234
yeah, we shouldn't make any stealing illegal. Learn to lock your house more if you dont want burgers.
This makes me want to leave my door unlocked, with the hope that the reverse hamburglar deposits burgers in my house.
Comment Re:#winning! (Score 1) 292
Apparently I can beat a computer, but can't beat HTML. Here's what that was supposed to look like:
Here's a way to do it. Feel free to send me a reasonable amount through paypal or USPS.
1. The first one is random, so use rock until you win it. If you lose, restart the game.
2. After the first rock, its logic kicks in, and the next 7 moves are: SSPPSRP
3. From here, it gets even easier. It gets into a loop of 6 moves: PSPSRR
Keep doing the sequence in 3, and rack up the wins. Once you do it once, then your next move is always the same as the second move from the bottom of your history. When it reaches 100, it has a glitch and rolls over to the next line. Here's a screenshot of 113 wins, to show the bug. The 3 gets bumped down to the next line: http://img217.imageshack.us/f/rpso.jpg/
Here's a way to do it. Feel free to send me a reasonable amount through paypal or USPS.
1. The first one is random, so use rock until you win it. If you lose, restart the game.
2. After the first rock, its logic kicks in, and the next 7 moves are: SSPPSRP
3. From here, it gets even easier. It gets into a loop of 6 moves: PSPSRR
Keep doing the sequence in 3, and rack up the wins. Once you do it once, then your next move is always the same as the second move from the bottom of your history. When it reaches 100, it has a glitch and rolls over to the next line. Here's a screenshot of 113 wins, to show the bug. The 3 gets bumped down to the next line: http://img217.imageshack.us/f/rpso.jpg/
Comment Re:#winning! (Score 1) 292
Here's a way to do it. Feel free to send me a reasonable amount through paypal or USPS.
1. The first one is random, so use rock until you win it. If you lose, restart the game.
2. After the first rock, its logic kicks in, and the next 7 moves are: SSPPSRP
3. From here, it gets even easier. It gets into a loop of 6 moves: PSPSRR
Keep doing the sequence in 3, and rack up the wins. Once you do it once, then your next move is always the same as the second move from the bottom of your history. When it reaches 100, it has a glitch and rolls over to the next line. Here's a screenshot of 113 wins, to show the bug. The 3 gets bumped down to the next line:
http://img217.imageshack.us/f/rpso.jpg/
Android Copy of Danish Man Unveiled 147
An anonymous reader writes "The Geminoid family, a series of ultra-realistic androids, each a copy of a real person, has a new member: Geminoid DK, a robot clone of a Danish researcher and the most realistic Geminoid yet. The robot has lifelike facial features and movements, blinking, smiling, frowning with incredible realism. The Danish researcher, Henrik Scharfe of Aalborg University, teamed up with Japanese animatronics firm Kokoro and roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro to create his robot twin, which he plans to use to study human-robot interaction and cultural differences in the perception of robots. This is the first Geminoid that is not based on a Japanese person; it's also the first bearded one."
Comment Re:2010 isn't over yet... (Score 5, Funny) 123
I'm an asymmetrically limbed hunchback with a torso tentacled person who likes to save on electricity by keeping the heat down, you insensitive clod!
FTFY
FTFY
Comment Re:Difficult question? (Score 1) 141
Potentially, a kernel developer could debug code while away from the computer. Perhaps this hypothetical kernel developer is out for a jog and would like to debug code at that time. Perhaps this developer needs to mow the lawn, or is on a long trip. It may also come in handy for someone learning how the code is structured and is in the same situation. It's a giant stretch, and certainly not the purpose of this, but could potentially serve some use.
MPAA Asks If ACTA Can Be Used To Block Wikileaks 322
An anonymous reader writes "With the entertainment industry already getting laws to block certain sites, it appears they're interested in expanding that even further. The latest is that at a meeting with ACTA negotiators in Mexico, an MPAA representative apparently asked if ACTA rules could be used to force ISPs to block 'dangerous sites' like Wikileaks. It makes you wonder why the MPAA wants to censor Wikileaks (and why it wants to use ACTA to do so). But, the guess is that if it can use Wikileaks as a proxy for including rules to block websites, how long will it be until other 'dangerous' sites, such as Torrent search engines, are included." Note: TechDirt typically has insightful commentary, but make of the original (Spanish) twiiter message what you will.
