Comment Re:Why not both? (Score 1) 354
But that only works if you hold your phone in your left hand...
Makes sense...right handed folks with iPhones trying to call for help => 'death grip'
Submission + - Opera 12 out without hardware acceleration (cnet.com)
battleforevermore writes: Sad but true, The latest opera still has "Experimental hardware acceleration WebGL support" , while their focus is on speed. They are " still working on that competitors have moved forward with is hardware acceleration, which is when the browser uses the graphics processor to render animations faster and more smoothly."
Comment Re:Wow. (Score 1) 438
Simple answer: No one (probably not even you) expects them to be 100% correct*. If I am forcibly isolated and "helped" because their classifier uses 16 bit inputs from the temperature sensor and not 32, I wouldn't accept the shitty quality of life that I expect to have because my gait makes me fall more than 3 std. deviations outside the defined "average human being".
Paranoid corollary: By defining what is "not criminally psychotic", we are fundamentally influencing opportunities for reproduction. Thereby, the fitness function involved in natural evolution has an additional term introduced by those who decide what constitutes "normal". This leads to a severe risk of targeting a minority population with certain quirks as "criminally psychotic" and therefore 'cleansing' the population of this minority.
Due to the above arguments, I would say that even if you gave the "chosen ones" the best possible quality of life, this would have unforeseen effects of human evolution and I do not want to risk that. I agree that life is unfair, but being born with a propensity for crime is like having a handicap. I know this is insensitive, but having to give people in wheelchairs the same opportunities for employment possibly lowers overall productivity, but that is what I treasure in society - knowing that losing my legs tomorrow does not immediately turn my life into a total bag of shit - these rules would make my life suck a little bit lesser than it otherwise would.
* The criteria for "criminally psychotic" would be generated by psychologists (or other humans) or statistically which have the weaknesses of subjectivity and uncertainty respectively. Neither can be 100% sure of anything. Throw in the fact that we have no fucking idea whatsoever how many people with "criminal psychosis" actually commit crimes and I am really unnerved by Pre-crime detection.
Arguments based on culpability for your thoughts and human profiling are wonderfully described in almost every dystopian novel - I believe the required reading for your geek card (at least 1984 and Brave New World) ought to cover these arguments.
Cheers!
Comment Re:Yo, Jimmy, I've got an idea: (Score 1) 608
I would really hate to see Wikipedia founder for lack of a pragmatic means of maintaining its existence
Why would you see Jimmy about that? I recommend you see Similing Bob or JG Wentworth about your problems.
*rimshot*
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Comment Re:Grammar (Score 1) 53
If your going too be pedantic, better you are in right!
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/couple
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/couple
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Comment Re:vwhat better 2 year degrees + real world work o (Score 1) 354
If the same kind of people went to both, the former might be better for some jobs. On the other hand, smart and capable students typically tend to favour 4yr programs which means you are more likely to find better talent coming out of a 4yr program.
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Submission + - Autonomous Audi TT Conquers Pikes Peak (gizmag.com)
fergus07 writes: After a year long research program, this week Audi revealed that its Autonomous TTS car had completed the 12.42-mile Pike’s Peak mountain course in 27 minutes. An expert driver in the same car would take around 17 minutes — now we have a benchmark, the race is on, and it's almost inevitable that a computer will one day outdrive the best of our species, and it may be sooner than you think.
Submission + - Cornell researcher demonstrates precognition (wired.com)
vigmeister writes: "Most science papers don’t begin with a description of psi, those “anomalous processes of information or energy transfer” that have no material explanation. (Popular examples of psi include telepathy, clairvoyance and psychokinesis.) It’s even less common for a serious science paper, published in an elite journal, to show that psi is a real phenomenon. But that’s exactly what Daryl Bem of Cornell University has demonstrated in his new paper, “Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences on Cognition and Affect,” which was just published in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Bem’s experimental method was extremely straightforward. He took established psychological protocols, such as affective priming and recall facilitation, and reversed the sequence, so that the cause became the effect. For instance, he might show students a long list of words and ask them to remember as many as possible. Then, the students are told to type a selection of words which had been randomly selected from the same list. Here’s where things get really weird: the students were significantly better at recalling words that they would later type."
These results are claimed to be statistically significant in the article. The relevant paper is here . If I start saving money for a rainy day does that mean I am going to get drenched in a downpour soon?
Bem’s experimental method was extremely straightforward. He took established psychological protocols, such as affective priming and recall facilitation, and reversed the sequence, so that the cause became the effect. For instance, he might show students a long list of words and ask them to remember as many as possible. Then, the students are told to type a selection of words which had been randomly selected from the same list. Here’s where things get really weird: the students were significantly better at recalling words that they would later type."
These results are claimed to be statistically significant in the article. The relevant paper is here . If I start saving money for a rainy day does that mean I am going to get drenched in a downpour soon?
Comment Re:Now That's Bizarre (Score 1) 366
Looks like he was paying for a service. I don't see how this is any different from Homeopathy or Scientology...
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Comment Re:In my experiance... (Score 1) 182
Most computer science students don't know how to write code. So it doesn't matter at all.
I feel like your spelling of experiance is some level of brilliant meta-commentary that I'm not qualified to understand.
I agree, unequifaxally, that it is genius
Tesla Roadster Data Logging Format Reverse Engineered 141
s1axter writes with word that "the data log format for the Tesla Roadster has been reverse engineered and documented, now available in Python. (Python script linked in the post.)" From the linked blog entry: "Not only was I given a $110k car unrestricted I was requested to see what ECU information is available, collect and parse the data from it. Tesla Motors periodically collects information from their vehicles presumably to see what real-world driving the cars see. On original Roadster models there is no method to collect this information remotely thus someone must go out to the vehicle and collect it. The owner of the vehicle saw this and wanted to know what information was collected on these service calls ... Because I am a big fan of freedom to modify a program to fit ones needs, I have uploaded the ... python script to parse Tesla logs."
Comment Re:I'm not worried. (Score 1, Funny) 450
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Comment Re:Recording Indicator (Score 1) 132
As it is I put metal foil tape over them now
So no one finds out about your Tihande-1A which is capable of 2.5 petafaps?
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Comment Re:Nokia N900 (Score 2, Informative) 222
Comment Re:Their equipment, their choice. (Score 2, Insightful) 450
Not spying on your employees is a good practice. Should good management practices be mandated?
My take on it is that the law (common or otherwise) should grant employees an expectation of privacy even when they are at work. Companies that do want to monitor what is being done on their equipment during hours they are paying the employee should be allowed to do so. As long as they make sure they dispel this expectation.
