Luuseens - Slashdot User

Comment Natural Selection (Score 0) 76

by Luuseens on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @03:27PM (#32268774) Attached to: Cheap Incubator Backpack Could Reduce Infant Deaths

This is just a musing I have had for a while. The medicine as a field has seen vast improvements over the years, the survivability of a person and average age have boomed. Is this such a good thing, really? For each of us individually, yes. Hell, if not for the incubators and similar early treatments, I would not even be here. What about the bigger picture? Are we, the humanity in general, slowly messing up our gene pool? Take away the healthcare, white and pink pills, and we are more screwed than the people some 100 years ago. Allergies, heart problems, the works. The fact that medicine helps us get to the age of reproduction is, in my humble opinion, not all that helpful in the bigger picture. Don't scald me too harshly - I admit that without advances in medicine I would not have made to my first birthday.

Comment Sorry, but.. (Score 0) 17

by Luuseens on Tuesday May 18, 2010 @01:13PM (#32254890) Attached to: Men Cross 5 Mile Wide Lake In Inflatable Castle

the princess is in another castle.

Games Fail To Portray Gender and Ethnic Diversity 590

Posted by Soulskill on Friday July 31, 2009 @10:06PM from the overrepresented-demon-alien-demographic dept.

eldavojohn writes "A new study has found that game characters tend not to reflect cultural diversity. According to the paper from researchers across four universities (PDF): 'A large-scale content analysis of characters in video games was employed to answer questions about their representations of gender, race and age in comparison to the US population. The sample included 150 games from a year across nine platforms, with the results weighted according to game sales. ... The results show a systematic over-representation of males, white and adults and a systematic under-representation of females, Hispanics, Native Americans, children and the elderly.' The researchers also note that games 'function as crucial gatekeepers for interest in science, technology, engineering and math,' and that without these groups represented properly, 'it may place underrepresented groups behind the curve.'"

Comment anybody seem to link this to.. (Score 0) 514

by Luuseens on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @05:40PM (#28775361) Attached to: Chinese Employee Loses iPhone Prototype, Kills Self

an hero?

Comment Steam? (Score 0, Redundant) 130

by Luuseens on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @04:05PM (#27763569) Attached to: Scientists Build World's Fastest Camera

Steam, you say? Here comes Valve, and a small lawsuit. There are just never enough lawsuits in this world!

Comment the oldest enemy.. (Score 1) 356

by Luuseens on Thursday April 23, 2009 @06:30AM (#27684865) Attached to: Copyright Lobby Targets "Pirate Bay For Books"

I say, we all go after the oldest enemy of the poor ol' copyright owners! *queue spooky music* The Libraries!! Someone should teach those copyright breaching, information sharing rat bastards a lesson!

Comment Re:I made it 164 hours, once... (Score 1) 605

by Luuseens on Monday March 16, 2009 @08:24PM (#27219523) Attached to: My longest stretch without sleep (catnaps count) ...

Had similar thing, actually. Hadn't slept for ~60 hours straight, plus very little sleep in the previous days. Saw a damn Mech Warrior bot coming at me. Slammed the brakes, only to be explained that that's just a pile of logs at the side of the road by a rather creeped out passenger.

Comment Re:OCR (Score 1) 197

by Luuseens on Sunday January 25, 2009 @05:16PM (#26601109) Attached to: Building a Better CAPTCHA

"__ cups in a pint?" or "A Bakers Dozen is __".

Indeed, it will be really fun to g2google before every comment just so I can find out these values. Some people are still sticking with metric system, some - with Imperial. Also, there is a limited amount of "cups in a pint" variations that can be put in a CAPTCHA system (since these have to be human generated), so it will not take too long to write an automatic solver of this problem. Therefore, while the CAPTCHAS of today are vulnerable to solutions of cheap workforce, this is actually vulnerable to automatic solving, which is way worse.

Comment Re:maybe we could use pictures instead (Score 1) 197

by Luuseens on Sunday January 25, 2009 @05:06PM (#26601019) Attached to: Building a Better CAPTCHA

cracking your CAPTCHA: have a database of pictures of famous people, and compare the given picture with the database, or have a face recognition algorithm of some sorts. computers would actually be better at solcing the CAPTCHA this than humans. Especially since there are much less pictures of famous people than permutations of how textual CAPTCHA can be generated

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