Comment Suggestion (Score 0) 46
Slightly off-topic, but may I suggest that they install a serious fire-prevention system. If one of these robots caught fire, it could turn into an epic disaster...
Comment Re: 5, you're doing it wrong (Score 0) 341
I am actually quite lazy, but I just happen to spend a lot of time figuring out how I can make machines do my work...
Comment Re: 5, you're doing it wrong (Score 0) 341
...You can't replace those.
Not for the lack of trying. Still waiting for the BrainGate arduino shield...
Comment ....What size is the desktop you say? (Score 0) 96
Ah, that depends on the resolution....
Comment But what does it mean, really? (Score 1) 119
What is a "manual docking" anyway? Are they using paddles? Or maybe maneuvering by intertia provided by throwing wrenches around?
Comment My suggestion (Score 1) 331
Catapult. Quick as hell...
Comment duh... (Score 1) 125
[quote]It seems these results don't shed as much light as we'd hoped.[/quote]
It's not supposed to. It is dark matter
Comment Re:alamo drafthouse (Score 1) 409
buhu. We do not get beer served in our movie theaters.... :(
Norway is strange this way...
Submission + - Anti-abortion Briton pleads guilty to pregnancy services hack (computerworlduk.com)
Qedward writes: A 27-year-old man from the West Midlands pleaded guilty on March 10 in a British court to hacking the website of a reproductive health services agency, obtaining the details of people who had registered on the website.
James Jeffery, of Wednesbury, pleaded guilty to two offences of gaining unauthorised access to a computer under the Computer Misuse Act of 1990, according to a statement from the Metropolitan Police Service. A sentencing date has not been set.
The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) said that it detected 26,000 attempts on March 8 to break into its website over a six-hour period. The website was also defaced with a logo of Anonymous, the hacker collective that saw several of its alleged highly skilled members charged earlier in the week by US authorities...
James Jeffery, of Wednesbury, pleaded guilty to two offences of gaining unauthorised access to a computer under the Computer Misuse Act of 1990, according to a statement from the Metropolitan Police Service. A sentencing date has not been set.
The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) said that it detected 26,000 attempts on March 8 to break into its website over a six-hour period. The website was also defaced with a logo of Anonymous, the hacker collective that saw several of its alleged highly skilled members charged earlier in the week by US authorities...
Comment Re:A little uncomfortable (Score 1) 525
Just out of curiosity; If there are actually anyone here on slashdot that supports SOPA, PIPA or any of those, what do you think? Speak up please. This could turn out to a very interesting thread
Comment Re:battery (Score 1) 277
i know :)
Comment battery (Score 1) 277
Well, maybe the passengers should be required to remove the battery from their iphones and ipads in the future...
Submission + - text based matching software. 1
rew writes: "I run a small company. I get invoices for the stuff that I buy to run the company. These are scanned, OCRed and then need to be filed in the invoices system. This last step I've tried to automate, but it doesn't work very well. So my question is: Does anybody know any (open source) software that would help me automate this?
The biggest problem is: the OCR software sometimes gets things slightly wrong. What I have triggers on keywords. But an OCR-error in the keyword will throw things off completely. As a human I can see hundreds of other hints that for example this invoice comes from that company. I'm thinking some bayes statistics and/or neural networks should be pretty good. And my database of manually handled invoices should provide a good training set. But the bayes software that I found works for one parameter: spam/notspam. And not for things like: "amount: $123.45". Similarly I don't think that neural networks are able to output that "amount $123.45" that is needed in this application. Here the hints should be things like: "the amount will be on the line following....." and "the amount is preceded by ...."."
The biggest problem is: the OCR software sometimes gets things slightly wrong. What I have triggers on keywords. But an OCR-error in the keyword will throw things off completely. As a human I can see hundreds of other hints that for example this invoice comes from that company. I'm thinking some bayes statistics and/or neural networks should be pretty good. And my database of manually handled invoices should provide a good training set. But the bayes software that I found works for one parameter: spam/notspam. And not for things like: "amount: $123.45". Similarly I don't think that neural networks are able to output that "amount $123.45" that is needed in this application. Here the hints should be things like: "the amount will be on the line following....." and "the amount is preceded by
Comment Re:Even if SOPA dies, they'll just reintroduce it (Score 1) 177
How many times now have similar bills died, only to be reintroduced under more and more bizarrely inaccurate names? Next time I suspect they'll call it the "Stop Online Pedophiles Act" and use the argument that it can be used to combat child predators. After all, you don't want to support pedophiles *DO YOU*?
I propose a law that mandates that laws introduced in the future can only be called by their official Congressional letter-number designation. I'm calling it the "Super-Patriot I-Love-America Act."
Well, frankly i see this as a loose-loose situation. Not only will these piracy laws cause problems for the consumers, but what will this really do to the pedophile-laws. Somehow i think this might also affect the way people look at pedophiles. Worst case scenario: "- So, i hear he was convicted for pedophily? -No, he just downloaded some movies, so i guess he is an OK fellow anyway...."
Comment Re:Stop whining; Use brain! (Score 1) 177
and by the way, stop messing with our internet. It does not belong to the "content"-industry, and their ways will inevitably fail if they do not pull their head out of the ground soon. Even if they finally get their head out of the ground at some point, thing about all the strange laws and agreements they have pushed into society that will still be there, causing all kinds of weird problems later on...
