Comment Taking no chances (Score 0) 48
Rebooking my flight for the 5th.
Comment More than ever... (Score 1) 969
We should put more money into renewable sources of energy and building efficient electric cars! Do we really want another Iraq? i.e. the US govt flies planes into its own buildings to have an excuse to figth 'terror' in the middle-eastern (oil rich) countries.
Comment Maybe one day... (Score 1) 151
We'll see a Gogzilla? lol i know but surely i can be allowed one stinker joke for xmas.
Submission + - Facebook Timeline leaks your baby pictures!
An anonymous reader writes: As you all know Timeline will become the norm by the end of the year. However the new feature already has one major bug. If you posted your baby picture in the "Born" section, then this picture will be by default marked "public" and there is no way of changing that, short of deleting the pciture. I guess it's another lawsuit in the making. Leaking baby picture, that's a big ouch!
Comment Re:Facebook is evil and parasitic (Score 1) 138
I agree with @dkleinsc, 300 or 5000 friends what is this b.s? You can have 5-7 real friends. The others are imaginary. It's a bit "complex." :)
Comment Re:Facebook is evil and parasitic (Score 1) 138
When they get a goal in life or make enough money that friends and social b.s. network becomes an unimportant part of their life...
Comment Re:100,000? (Score 1) 161
Here's is what I vaguely remember about auto-play. It still counts views but it is not as straightforward as a human user hitting the play button (this WILL increment the view count). If a video is on auto-play, then the "flash player" will count the view if there are user interactions (such as pausing) or if the video is watched in full. More weird is when the view count can be counted as a fraction and the count will be updated at a later date (24-48h). I know all this sound fuzzy but I found it fun that so little is known about Youtube's view counting techniques. They obviously don't want click-bots (from East Asia mostly) rigging the trending/featured/recommendation algorithms or creating a market for "Pay X and get 10K views."
Comment Re:100,000? (Score 3, Interesting) 161
It's just like posting a Youtube video in Facebook or embedding it in a blog. Those views get counted too. Also the more ambiguous the video, the higher is its view count!
Comment 100,000? (Score 2) 161
I submitted some of the homeworks close to the deadline hour and even then the Youtube videos registered at most 3000 views and am guessing the average is 2000 views.
Comment Most importantly... (Score 1) 216
how do i remove that spyware?
Comment The archive file is really small... (Score 1) 125
I did that on an account which spans May 2009 to Nov 2011 and it only weighed 319KB. It's all HTML based. No JPG.
Ok, now on to permanently deleting my account...
Comment Re:Well now (Score 1) 386
Ok so first thing tomorrow morning am opening a share-dealing account and putting a big buy order on B&N! :)
Comment Re:"creative coding" (Score 1) 516
This is really cool. Thanks for posting that, I might have a stab at it after that AI midterm exam...
Submission + - 3D Printed bones cut cost of surgery operations (bbc.co.uk)
Tasha26 writes: A trainee surgeon, Mark Frame, has figured out how to save UK's NHS thousands of pounds by taking advantage of 3D-printer technology. Success in orthopaedic operations relies on surgeons having an accurate 3D model of the area where the operation will take place. Such models take time to produce and cost upto £1200 ($1915). Mark, a self-confessed "technology geek," used open source OsiriX software to convert CT scans into files which are readable by the 3D printers at Shapeways, a company in the Netherlands. Within a week they produced & delivered the first plastic 3D model of a child's forearm at a cost of £77 ($123). Mark has written a free guide so that other surgeons can make their own bones which is being considered for publication by the World Journal of Science and Technology. He's also contactable via twitter: @3Dbones
Comment Re:I see no problem in what Universal doing! (Score 1) 298
Still looking for execuses I see. I'm not gonna check up on this but FAIR USE should not allow you to use the entire length of the original clip. And you must be really stupid if you think that "adding subtitles & re-encoding" means he made those frames. The source is still copyrighted and he had no permission to use it!
