Comment battery (Score 1) 277
Well, maybe the passengers should be required to remove the battery from their iphones and ipads in the future...
Submission + - text based matching software. 1
rew writes: "I run a small company. I get invoices for the stuff that I buy to run the company. These are scanned, OCRed and then need to be filed in the invoices system. This last step I've tried to automate, but it doesn't work very well. So my question is: Does anybody know any (open source) software that would help me automate this?
The biggest problem is: the OCR software sometimes gets things slightly wrong. What I have triggers on keywords. But an OCR-error in the keyword will throw things off completely. As a human I can see hundreds of other hints that for example this invoice comes from that company. I'm thinking some bayes statistics and/or neural networks should be pretty good. And my database of manually handled invoices should provide a good training set. But the bayes software that I found works for one parameter: spam/notspam. And not for things like: "amount: $123.45". Similarly I don't think that neural networks are able to output that "amount $123.45" that is needed in this application. Here the hints should be things like: "the amount will be on the line following....." and "the amount is preceded by ...."."
The biggest problem is: the OCR software sometimes gets things slightly wrong. What I have triggers on keywords. But an OCR-error in the keyword will throw things off completely. As a human I can see hundreds of other hints that for example this invoice comes from that company. I'm thinking some bayes statistics and/or neural networks should be pretty good. And my database of manually handled invoices should provide a good training set. But the bayes software that I found works for one parameter: spam/notspam. And not for things like: "amount: $123.45". Similarly I don't think that neural networks are able to output that "amount $123.45" that is needed in this application. Here the hints should be things like: "the amount will be on the line following....." and "the amount is preceded by
Comment Re:Even if SOPA dies, they'll just reintroduce it (Score 1) 177
How many times now have similar bills died, only to be reintroduced under more and more bizarrely inaccurate names? Next time I suspect they'll call it the "Stop Online Pedophiles Act" and use the argument that it can be used to combat child predators. After all, you don't want to support pedophiles *DO YOU*?
I propose a law that mandates that laws introduced in the future can only be called by their official Congressional letter-number designation. I'm calling it the "Super-Patriot I-Love-America Act."
Well, frankly i see this as a loose-loose situation. Not only will these piracy laws cause problems for the consumers, but what will this really do to the pedophile-laws. Somehow i think this might also affect the way people look at pedophiles. Worst case scenario: "- So, i hear he was convicted for pedophily? -No, he just downloaded some movies, so i guess he is an OK fellow anyway...."
Comment Re:Stop whining; Use brain! (Score 1) 177
and by the way, stop messing with our internet. It does not belong to the "content"-industry, and their ways will inevitably fail if they do not pull their head out of the ground soon. Even if they finally get their head out of the ground at some point, thing about all the strange laws and agreements they have pushed into society that will still be there, causing all kinds of weird problems later on...
Comment Stop whining; Use brain! (Score 1) 177
If the "content"-industry would finally give us what we want, i would gladly pay for it, but instead its bogged down with DRM, and locked to a single player or something else silly. Final product gives no advantage, but rather the opposite. I want to be able to play the content I have paid for on linux, on my mobile phone, on my tv, or wherever I can access it easiest when I want it. Right now, only piracy seems to give me that ability. I have stopped buying DVDs and music all together. That only takes up space. Spotify seems like it was on the right track, but lately it seems to have gone more in the wrong direction again. Stop whining; Use brain!
Comment Anal probe (Score 1) 249
Some kind of vibrating anal probe, activated via bluetooth from your phone might work... Probably available on the internet somewhere
Submission + - Will you join the Earth in a song? (wired.com)
ric3rcar writes: Using an app for android and (soon to be on) iphone a sinphony will play on thousands of smartphones at the same time on 11/11/11
Submission + - Wikileaks stops publishing classified files (bbc.co.uk)
lee1 writes: "Wikileaks has had to cease publishing classified files due to what the
organization calls a "blockade by US-based finance companies" that, according
to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has "destroyed 95% of our revenue." Assange
also opined that "A handful of US finance companies cannot be allowed to decide
how the whole world votes with its pocket." According to Assange the group was
taking "pre-litigation action" against the financial blockade in Iceland,
Denmark, the UK, Brussels, the United States and Australia. They have also
filed an anti-trust complaint with the European Commission."
organization calls a "blockade by US-based finance companies" that, according
to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has "destroyed 95% of our revenue." Assange
also opined that "A handful of US finance companies cannot be allowed to decide
how the whole world votes with its pocket." According to Assange the group was
taking "pre-litigation action" against the financial blockade in Iceland,
Denmark, the UK, Brussels, the United States and Australia. They have also
filed an anti-trust complaint with the European Commission."
Comment URL (Score 1) 149
Whats the url? Sounds delicious!
Comment Re: Steve Ballmer's Head On the Block? (Score 2) 410
Its a bit harsh to kill him, isn't it?
Comment Dear PJ. (Score 1) 265
I just want to say thanks for all your good work! Live long and prosper, as they say :)
Comment Whatever... (Score 1) 309
I have simply stopped considering buying games from the worst DRM'ers. EA is out. I was very curious about a few of their games, but due to their DRM i have simply settled with not playing their games.
Comment movie and music industry (Score 1) 207
so this is not something done by MPAA or RIAA to prevent people from accessing thepiratebay? :P
Comment Scummvm (Score 1) 460
I suggests scummvm (http://scummvm.org) Its an engine used in some old games, but some nice folks recreated and made it so it runs on modern computers and phones and whatever. Great to see some of these old games again :) Great fun :)
Comment Re:Not Windows' fault (Score 1) 438
> It's TradElect vs MarketPrizm, which happen to run on Windows vs Linux respectively.
TradeNeglect?
