centauratlas - Slashdot User

Comment Useful to whom? The racists who care about skin? (Score 5, Insightful) 902

by centauratlas on Thursday March 25, 2010 @11:32AM (#31611400) Attached to: Will Your Answers To the Census Stay Private?

Useful to whom? The racists who care about skin color in Washington?

Skin color is about as much use as eye color or hair color, except to racists.

So much for Martin Luther King's wanting to be judged on the content of the character instead of the color of your skin.

Comment Re:Hurr. (Score 1) 629

by centauratlas on Thursday February 25, 2010 @08:04AM (#31270650) Attached to: Beliefs Conform To Cultural Identities

Wear?

Comment Re:The beginning of HTTPS for everything by defaul (Score 2, Interesting) 275

by centauratlas on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @08:27PM (#30758940) Attached to: Gmail Moves To HTTPS By Default

How big an effort is that to do in, say, WebKit? Firefox? Why isn't anyone working on it? Or are people? What are the benefits?

Forgive my ignorance, I truly didn't know. Is it something that a few thousand dollars of programming time would buy?

Comment "guessin' south-west US, perhaps Florida" (Score 1) 138

by centauratlas on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @07:30AM (#30224616) Attached to: Shedding Your Identity In the Digital Age

If YOU are the one looking for him, he is surely safe, oh geography master. ;-)

Comment Re:Great (Score 1) 139

by centauratlas on Monday October 12, 2009 @06:54AM (#29717009) Attached to: LG Presents Solar Powered E-Book

Now all I need is a portable sun to read in my mom's basement.

Fixed that for you.

Comment Why TRANSCRIPTION is Critical to Google (Score 5, Interesting) 304

by centauratlas on Friday August 21, 2009 @08:11PM (#29152331) Attached to: Why AT&T Killed iPhone Google Voice

I haven't seen it discussed, but transcription is one of the most important features to Google and it is a large reason why they are willing to offer Google Voice for free. Why you ask? Training. Google voice's free transcription is a huge voice to text training database.

I have been using it since before it was Google Voice (e.g. grandcentral) and this was an important reason for Google to acquire it.

Google gets a LOT of value from every voice mail that comes in, is transcribed, and then is rated by users as to how useful it is.

Yes, it is good already, but not nearly perfect and they are working on it for one reason - voice search. And voice search is an up-coming Google killer-app that Bing/MSFT and Yahoo have no answer to.

(Neither does Apple, yet.)

Submission + - Dangerous Global Cooling is Concern 1

Submitted by chfriley on Friday June 22, 2007 @07:20AM

chfriley writes: A current article on Canada.com states that "the mud at the bottom of B.C. fjords reveals that solar output drives climate change — and that we should prepare now for dangerous global cooling." It continues: "Politicians and environmentalists these days convey the impression that climate-change research is an exceptionally dull field with little left to discover. We are assured by everyone from David Suzuki to Al Gore to Prime Minister Stephen Harper that 'the science is settled.' At the recent G8 summit, German Chancellor Angela Merkel even attempted to convince world leaders to play God by restricting carbon-dioxide emissions to a level that would magically limit the rise in world temperatures to 2C. The fact that science is many years away from properly understanding global climate doesn't seem to bother our leaders at all." Apparently, the research isn't as settled a some would like to believe given that these scientists believe we are in for global cooling, and that is the main danger we should fear. To read the full article about Global Cooling, follow this link.

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