Comment You will tremble in its WRATH! (Score 1) 380
I for one welcome my new arsenic replaced phosphorus DNA’d bacteria overlord and hope for a long and prosperous reign!
All hail the new arsenic replaced phosphorus DNA’d bacteria!!
Submission + - Pattern Recognition with Huge Neural Nets on GPUs (idsia.ch)
cobraducer writes: In the not too distant future, will billions of cell phones be able to recognize handwriting? Significant progress in self-learning handwriting recognition software was made at the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA in the team of Jürgen Schmidhuber. For isolated digits they trained deep neural nets on GPUs normally used for video games, accelerating learning by a factor of 50, breaking the world record in a famous benchmark — see recent paper in Neural Computation 22(12): 3207-3220. For the even harder problem of connected handwriting they use "Long Short-Term Memory" recurrent neural networks (feedback connections make such networks general computers). This method won several handwriting competitions at the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition. Now Schmidhuber asks: Do the new state-of-the-art results herald a rennaissance of neural networks?
Submission + - AT&T goes after copper wire thieves (networkworld.com)
coondoggie writes: Copper thieves targeting Atlanta are now being targeted themselves by AT&T which is now offering $3,000 for information leading to their arrest. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that in one recent three day stretch, nearly 7,000 customers and two schools lost land line phone service. The FBI has said in the past that the rising theft of the metal is threatening the critical infrastructure by targeting electrical substations, cellular towers, telephone land lines, railroads, water wells, construction sites, and vacant homes for lucrative profits.
Submission + - China's supercomputers developing stealth (computerworld.com)
dcblogs writes: China is using its increasing supercomputing capability, which includes a new flying saucer shaped computing facility, for research on stealth technology, according to a slide from the Chinese Academy of Sciences Supercomputing Center presented at an exascale conference in October. The slide illustrates how supercomputers can be used to calculate the radar cross-section of an aircraft or a ship. This can help designers choose shapes for an aircraft or ship that will have the smallest possible radar cross-section, according to a Rand Corp. analyst. China is expected to have stealth aircraft sometime in the 2017 to 2019 timeframe.
Comment What is next? (Score 1) 890
What ever happened to illegal search and seizure?!?! How are these even remotely legal? Seems like we are one step away from Big Brother listening in on our phone and Internet conversations. Oh wait....
Comment Where/How do I send the restraining order? (Score 0, Redundant) 29
Oh Idle, You just won't go away, and you are so easy to click thinking your are something that matters....
Comment Should of been built like the Terminator (Score 1) 157
Pretty awesome but would of been more ground breaking if the modeled it after the T-800 or T-101 or whatever. The whole time I was watching it I was wondering what would happen if someone just came up and pushed it really hard. Wonder if it would be able to compensate?
Comment Re:There is an "All in one Device" (Score 1) 266
It's a HTPC. So you have to have a a computer to run the Server on. Then it operates in a hub and spoke configuration to feed content to other PCs or Extenders on the network. The server can also be used to broadcast video to your TV too. To get Netflix, Hulu, Amazon VOD, CBS, PBS, and other online content you have to use PlayOn and a free plug-in. But it works well and actually integrates into you recorded TV shows with the plugin.
Comment There is an "All in one Device" (Score 1) 266
It's called SageTV. Runs on Linux, Windows, MacOS. It will play pratically any format you throw at it and keep chugging. Need to expand to another room well just buy an extender and run it wired or wireless. It is infinitively expandable with plugins and has a strong community of developers and hobbyist to help you along the way. Not to mention the form factor of it's extenders are to work and not be seen.
Comment Not safe for work? (Score 1) 323
Maybe the lawyer and the judge were worried the sites were not safe for work. I know I sure am with names like TheDirty.com and TheDirt.com
Comment Oh... (Score 1) 341
Man I am glad I was sitting down when I read this! Sheesh...
Comment Same thing happens when I go to resturaunts. (Score 2, Insightful) 267
You know I have the same thing when I go to a restaurant. The picture of the burger looks oh so good but when I get it, it's just a smushed crap sandwich in a wrapper.
Comment This seems more like an awareness campaign (Score 1) 163
Most of the other post talk about how this is not a big deal and in the grand scheme of things it’s not but what he is doing is showing the world how venerable your information is on the web and FB. There are tons of people that really just don’t understand what it means when you post things like your address, email address, phone number, and full name for the world to see. Take this mix it with your likes and updates of your daily activities and you have a damn good profile for someone to steal your identity.
Think about it, there are family tree applications on FB which is a gate way to getting someone’s mother’s maiden name. While I think him posting all this information on the web is callous he certainly is taking steps to show the world exactly how venerable you are when you openly participate in sites like this.
Comment Re:Am not. (Score 1) 88
Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays? Hmmmmm?!?!
Comment Re:50 exactly (Score 1) 382
Depends if you think your 50 is high or low...
