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Innocent Until Predicted Guilty 430

Posted by kdawson on Friday April 16 2010, @08:51AM
from the no-telepaths-yet dept.

theodp writes "Gizmodo has an angry piece on IBM helping Florida to predict how delinquent your child's going to be. The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice has decided to start using IBM predictive analytics software to help them determine which of the 85,000 kids who enter their system each year poses the biggest future threat. From IBM's sales pitch: 'Predictive analytics gives government organizations worldwide a highly-sophisticated and intelligent source to create safer communities by identifying, predicting, responding to and preventing criminal activities. It gives the criminal justice system the ability to draw upon the wealth of data available to detect patterns, make reliable projections and then take the appropriate action in real time to combat crime and protect citizens.'"

AllofMp3.com Sued for 1,65 Trillion Dollar

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 25 2006, @08:41AM

An anonymous reader writes "The Recording Industry Association of America, the legal arm of the United States music industry, on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York seeking more than one and a half trillion dollars in damages from AllofMP3.com."

Wesnoth 1.2 released

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 25 2006, @08:28AM

An anonymous reader writes ""More than one year has gone by since we released Wesnoth 1.0. As a Christmas present for you, and to thank you for more than 1,000,000 downloads via sourceforge.net, we now proudly present Wesnoth 1.2." http://www.wesnoth.org/start/1.2/"

Telefactoring - are Waldoes getting closer?

Submitted by ferd_farkle on Monday December 25 2006, @08:17AM

ferd_farkle writes "Science Daily has an article about engineering advances to help steady the hands of surgeons working in really cramped spaces like eyes and throats.

From the article:
"The tools include a snakelike robot that could enable surgeons, operating in the narrow throat region, to make incisions and tie sutures with greater dexterity and precision. Another robot, the steady-hand, may curb a surgeon's natural tremor and allow the doctor to inject drugs into tiny blood vessels in the eye, dissolving clots that can damage vision.""

Hoover Fusion->

by gamerfreak on Monday December 25 2006, @08:16AM

Link to Original Source

TCB Museum->

by gamerfreak on Monday December 25 2006, @08:14AM

Link to Original Source

Stay In The Light->

by gamerfreak on Monday December 25 2006, @08:06AM

Link to Original Source

Journal: [Z80] Pre-Xmas Lunch Meddlings 0

Journal by Alioth on Monday December 25 2006, @07:54AM

So before I amble up to my Dad's for Christmas, I decided to continue to try and work out why the keypad isn't working as behaved.

Once the keypad is working, well, I have then made a real computer - input (keypad) and output (LCD).

Journal: Godfather of Soul Dead at 73: James Brown 1

Journal by GMontag on Monday December 25 2006, @07:02AM

Former Richard M. Nixon supporter and well known performer, James Brown died this AM of unspecified causes.

Vista: The "Longest Suicide Note In History

Submitted by

DiamondGeezer

on Monday December 25 2006, @06:58AM

DiamondGeezer writes "The Inquirer reports on Peter Gutmann's dissection of Microsoft Vista:

"Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in order to
provide content protection for so-called "premium content", typically HD data
from Blu-Ray and HD-DVD sources. Providing this protection incurs
considerable costs in terms of system performance, system stability, technical
support overhead, and hardware and software cost. These issues affect not
only users of Vista but the entire PC industry, since the effects of the
protection measures extend to cover all hardware and software that will ever
come into contact with Vista, even if it's not used directly with Vista (for
example hardware in a Macintosh computer or on a Linux server). This document
analyses the cost involved in Vista's content protection, and the collateral
damage that this incurs throughout the computer industry"

Lesson: If you want your graphics to be of the highest quality, your digital imaging to be top notch, then don't use Vista because it will degrade them in order to protect premium content and there's nothing you can do about it (other than go to OSX or Linux).

Happy New Year"