Comment Re:Post-Fascism (Score 1) 180
hint: not all dictators are fascists. They all pretty much suck, though.
Comment Re:ok but (Score 1) 148
serious engineers use matlab
Comment half life series and counterstrike comming to osx? (Score 1) 520
Doesn't anyone think it's strange that the article mentions that soon we'll be getting games on the mac that have been here for months?
How old is this article?
Comment Re:NO NOT MATH (Score 2, Funny) 417
mod +1: pedant
Comment Re:md5? (Score 2, Informative) 380
its just a hash; in theory you shouldn't be able to recover the original message from an md5sum, since several messages can have the same sum. There is no maximum length to what you can hash using md5.
Comment Re:Fear (Score 1) 403
That cop deserves a medal
Comment Re:You big babies. It's 5.0, not 5.5. (Score 2) 560
no, the exact formula is 2/3 log(M)-10.7. Therefore, a full step is actually 10^(3/2) (approximately 31) times stronger, not 10.
Comment Re:Penalty: Intentional Grounding. (Score 2, Interesting) 246
So what exactly killed arrested development and family guy?
Comment Re:Shaking in Ottawa (Score 1) 560
As a resident of Chile, I don't get many opportunities to practice my oneupsmanship skills either.
Comment Re:Looks like I WIN! (Score 3, Informative) 227
I believe the term you are looking for is "Bazzinga"
Comment Re:Next up (Score 1) 355
From the article linked by GP:
There's both a specific and a general moral to take away from this result. Matsumoto is not a professional fake-finger scientist; he's a mathematician. He didn't use expensive equipment or a specialized laboratory. He used $10 of ingredients you could buy, and whipped up his gummy fingers in the equivalent of a home kitchen. And he defeated eleven different commercial fingerprint readers, with both optical and capacitive sensors, and some with "live finger detection" features. (Moistening the gummy finger helps defeat sensors that measure moisture or electrical resistance; it takes some practice to get it right.) If he could do this, then any semi-professional can almost certainly do much much more.
His gelly fingers defeat several liveness detection systems, including temperature, capacitance and moisture. Next time you should RTFA before criticizing it.
Comment Re:Short version (Score 0, Redundant) 246
real men read the appropriate xkcd comic.
They also know when to stop a joke.
Comment Re:not going to work (Score 1) 288
What about songs like March of the Black Queen? I'd hardly say it's not worth listening to, but Queen considered it too difficult to perform live. There has to be at least a hundred examples of such cases. You clearly don't know much about music.
Revised Mass. Gambling Bill Won't Criminalize Online Poker 104
travdaddy writes "As reported on Slashdot only about a week ago, a passage of a gambling bill in Massachusetts would have criminalized online poker. That passage has been stricken due to the help of a grass-roots organization called the Poker Players Alliance. It 'quickly got the message to all of its Massachusetts members — around 25,000 people — and over 1,000,000 nationwide to make their voices heard; apparently lawmakers were listening since the language making online poker illegal — and online gaming in general — was taken out of the legislation.' Another Massachusetts bill may even 'take [poker] completely out of the gambling genre' and make it legislated as a game of skill."
VisLab Sponsors Milan-to-Shanghai Driverless Trek 133
incuso writes "VisLab announced the most advanced challenge so far ever organized for autonomous vehicles. Two driverless electric cars will perform a trip from Italy to China to demonstrate the feasibility of autonomous driving in real traffic conditions. Each vehicle will be equipped with five laser scanners, seven cameras, GPS, inertial measurement unit, three Linux PCs, and an x-by-wire driving system. The mission will start on July 10 in Milan, Italy, and will reach Shanghai, China, on October 10 (10/10/10) on a 13,000 km route though Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, and finally China."
