Comment -1 wrong. (Score 2, Insightful) 423
The mortality pattern from this swine flu is very different to that of seasonal flu. But it was nice of you to be so insensitive.
Comment Re:It's finished, dummies (Score 1) 632
You're quite right: that page was missing the Ibsen citation. It's much better now
Computer-Based System To Crack Down On Casino Card Counters 597
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Yahoo Tech outlining a system currently being researched: "Card counting is perfectly legal — all a counter does is attempt to keep track of whether the cards remaining in a deck are favorable to his winning a hand (mainly if there are lots of tens and aces remaining in the deck) — but it's deeply frowned upon by Vegas casinos. Those caught counting cards are regularly expelled from casinos on the spot and are often permanently banned from returning. But given the slim house odds on Blackjack, it's often said that a good card counter can actually tip the odds in his favor by carefully controlling the way he bets his hands. And Vegas really doesn't care for that. The anti-card-counter system uses cameras to watch players and keep track of the actual 'count' of the cards, the same way a player would. It also measures how much each player is betting on each hand, and it syncs up the two data points to look for patterns in the action. If a player is betting big when the count is indeed favorable, and keeping his chips to himself when it's not, he's fingered by the computer... and, in the real world, he'd probably receive a visit from a burly dude in a bad suit, too. The system reportedly works even if the gambler intentionally attempts to mislead it with high bets at unfavorable times." It's not developed in Vegas, though, according to the brief description (the other projects are also interesting) from the University of Dundee's release, but rather in conjunction with the Dundee Casino.
Comment Re:So now we get: (Score 1) 328
Except you wanted a subscript 2 there.
Comment Re:They Call THAT Affordable?!? (Score 1) 462
I've got a feeling that they won't be putting it on the market in the school district you grew up in, in that case.
Comment Re:VI and ESC (Score 1) 586
Maybe you should get a keyboard with a Meta key on it, then.
Comment Re:Back and forward keys next to arrow keys (Score 1) 586
Yep, on the Key Sensitivity tab of the Keyboard Customizer Utility there's the option to enable them, and also to set a delay before they do anything.
Comment Re:You have a simplistic understanding of Britain (Score 1) 1188
Fortunately, however, there was a jury of 12 people who decided by a 10:2 majority that Tony Martin was a criminal just like the teenager that he shot out of a desire for vengeance, not protection. So we have a society where criminals go punished, and where the right to protect yourself with reasonable force still exists. If there has been a case where people acting in self defence have been convicted of murder or GBH, it certainly hasn't had a high profile in the press.
Of course, Tony Martin's conviction was reduced to manslaughter on appeal by a judge (the jury had also had the option of convicting for manslaughter), on account of his paranoid personality disorder.
Comment Re:Opera (Score 1) 234
On Opera 10 preview, the moving the ball about one knows about the relative positions of the windows. Given that they're sibling windows, I don't see how it's that surprising.
Comment Re:Now the real question (Score 1) 337
I've got a feeling you're wrong there.
Comment Re:rail is cheap (Score 1) 366
Actually, the rail networks are pretty good on many counts (there are few countries quite as large *and* densely populated as the UK), but the cost of the West Coast upgrade was far from good.
Comment Re:Oh hey (Score 1) 497
Most peopple in a university who are doing graphics work aren't going to be professional graphic designers.
Comment No, your university's not a groupie, it's normal. (Score 1) 497
What I would suggest you could roll out, though, seeing as you didn't mention Adobe, are open source things for graphics and design. The Gimp, Inkscape, and Scribus all do things you can't do with MS Office, and I think are a great place to start.
Not foisting them upon graphics professionals, but having them there and available for anyone who wants them.
Comment Fascist UK? (Score 1) 386
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Comment Re:So if I change their page on Cold Dark Matter (Score 1) 385
It's as if there were thousands, well, maybe hundreds, of people subscribed to the RSS of changes.
