Comment Re:27 Translations, You Say? (Score 1, Troll) 326
here ya go: http://www.biblegateway.com/
no registration necessary!
do they email a barf bag?
Comment Re:If the specs weren't kind of ass (Score 1) 326
Nothing would happen, unlike your tablet that erases itself when you turn it upside down.
Please don't mistake me for Mitt Romney.
Comment Re:If the specs weren't kind of ass (Score 2) 326
What would happen if you held it upside down? A Satan pad?
Comment Re:Not an iPad Slayer (Score 1) 326
Lions and Christians don't mix. (but it would be entertaining)
Comment Only 10 command lines (Score 1) 326
Worst tablet evar
Comment A plot by EOM? (Score 1) 813
the fanatical organization, Equilibrium of Mankind. Originally Amarrian in origin, EoM can be found in most corners of Empire space, attempting to accomplish their devious plan of annihilating the human race.
Comment Re:Well...not so much (Score 0) 2416
Do you think part of this may be that the French and Swiss are on average much healthier than the typical U.S. citizen? Since our average population is so incredibly unhealthy the overall risk to insurance companies is much higher, causing costs to rise for all involved.
I'm not stating this as a fact, but asking the question.
Patently idiotic assumption. By your supposition the French and Swiss are overall living a more healthy lifestyle there for they would have better outcomes. Slashdot is supposed to be for smart people who let you in? Universal healthcare assume that since it's not prohibitively expensive to see a physician the likelihood of catching a serous health issue early is greatly increased. If you catch cancer in the first stages you have a 1000 times more likelihood that you can cure it then if the person wanders into the E.R. in the terminal stage.
Comment Re:First dissent (Score 1) 2416
Stop whining loser. your neo-nazi lost this round and your are all pissy and moany about it. Go back to whine on foxnoise and stop bothering us.
Comment Re:Howdy doodly doo! (Score 1) 242
My Friends Corporations (and Robots) are people too.
Comment Re:whats that code for free HBO?? (Score 5, Funny) 76
A, B, A, B, right, left, right, left, down, down, up, up
Duh
Comment Hunting down Rachel from Card Member Services. (Score 1) 162
Bin Laden is pushing up Daisies ^h^h^h lillypads. now we need people to create the tech to find the other bad people in the world. Rachel from Card Member Services is just such a scumbag.
Comment Love them Jackboots. (Score 1) 55
you know, the uniform, the lowslung stun ray holster, the mindless tedium
Comment Douglas Adams Edition Pulsar (Score 4, Informative) 466
The original Pulsar digital watch was marketed through upmarket jeweller, Tiffany and Co. A solid gold version sold for $2,000 and a stainless steel model for $275.
Digital watches initially caught on only in the US and very few were exported. There was a strong market for them in 1973 and prices dropped quickly. Other firms entered the market, including Bowmar, which also pioneered the early pocket calculators in the US.
These are only sold at the gift shop in the Restaurant at the end of the Universe and at the Big Bang Burger Bar.
Submission + - Microsoft Kinect ads will watch you while you watch them (networkworld.com)
colinneagle writes: Do you watch commercials or do use that timeslot to run to the restroom or to the kitchen? Do you fast-forward to skip as many commercials as possible when watching TV via a DVR or On Demand? Microsoft hopes to change all that by offering Kinect-powered interactive commercials called NUads (Natural User Interface Advertisements).
According to CNET's Declan McCullagh, Microsoft manager Lyn Watts stated that advertisers can "go after the holy grail — the living room" with Kinect Nuads. Whether you like the idea of TV ads watching while you watch the advertisement or not, Microsoft's Kinect interactive NUads will "begin rolling out in late spring."
The Kinect privacy policy states, "Kinect can record speech data, photos and videos" and "collects and uses body recognition data." But Microsoft told CNET, "With respect to privacy, Xbox 360 and Xbox Live do not use any information captured by Kinect for advertising targeting purposes and NUads is no exception." Eurogamer pointed out Watt's statements about "how NUads may tailor advertising using data gathered by Kinect" contradict Microsoft's statement about privacy.
"With a NUads-based commercial, TV advertisers will be able to listen in on a TV audience at home via a microphone, or perhaps view the home audience via facial recognition or video," reported Neowin. "Of course, all of this conjurers up a 'Big Brother' future where we would be spied on while watching TV commercials." Indeed much like the Samsung smart TVs that watch you, the Kinect NUads bring to mind the spying TV sets that George Orwell foresaw, televisions that watched viewers on behalf of Big Brother.
Immediately after announcing Nuads last year, Microsoft's Mark Kroese wrote,"In this case of NUads and Kinect, I'm here to say that it will change television as we know it-forever." At that time Seattle Pi skeptically asked, "Would you actually interact with ads?" Whether Kinect-enabled advertising will prove "irresistibly interactive" or yawnsville to viewers remains to be seen, but Gizmodo called the NUads "awful" and that when it comes to interacting and sharing TV ads, "literally no one has ever wanted to do that."
NUads will incorporate voice commands as Kroese had suggested. Xbox Tweet and Xbox Share are about social media interaction. Xbox More will "request additional information and/or a discount coupon to be sent directly to your email inbox." Xbox Schedule will send calendar reminders. Xbox Near Me finds a local retailer and sends you "a text message with the location."
According to CNET's Declan McCullagh, Microsoft manager Lyn Watts stated that advertisers can "go after the holy grail — the living room" with Kinect Nuads. Whether you like the idea of TV ads watching while you watch the advertisement or not, Microsoft's Kinect interactive NUads will "begin rolling out in late spring."
The Kinect privacy policy states, "Kinect can record speech data, photos and videos" and "collects and uses body recognition data." But Microsoft told CNET, "With respect to privacy, Xbox 360 and Xbox Live do not use any information captured by Kinect for advertising targeting purposes and NUads is no exception." Eurogamer pointed out Watt's statements about "how NUads may tailor advertising using data gathered by Kinect" contradict Microsoft's statement about privacy.
"With a NUads-based commercial, TV advertisers will be able to listen in on a TV audience at home via a microphone, or perhaps view the home audience via facial recognition or video," reported Neowin. "Of course, all of this conjurers up a 'Big Brother' future where we would be spied on while watching TV commercials." Indeed much like the Samsung smart TVs that watch you, the Kinect NUads bring to mind the spying TV sets that George Orwell foresaw, televisions that watched viewers on behalf of Big Brother.
Immediately after announcing Nuads last year, Microsoft's Mark Kroese wrote,"In this case of NUads and Kinect, I'm here to say that it will change television as we know it-forever." At that time Seattle Pi skeptically asked, "Would you actually interact with ads?" Whether Kinect-enabled advertising will prove "irresistibly interactive" or yawnsville to viewers remains to be seen, but Gizmodo called the NUads "awful" and that when it comes to interacting and sharing TV ads, "literally no one has ever wanted to do that."
NUads will incorporate voice commands as Kroese had suggested. Xbox Tweet and Xbox Share are about social media interaction. Xbox More will "request additional information and/or a discount coupon to be sent directly to your email inbox." Xbox Schedule will send calendar reminders. Xbox Near Me finds a local retailer and sends you "a text message with the location."
Comment slashdot should charge for the chatbot testing. (Score 3, Funny) 68
This is funny since Slashdot has been the main testing ground for chatbots. We have all had to read posts from them here, do you really think all Anonymous trolls are really people? BTW. most of my enemies list are chatbots Real people would not be nearly as stupid as these clowns.
