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US sets $1.4M to get metaphor-recognizing software system humming-> 1

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coondoggie writes "An innovative project, called Autonomous Dynamic Analysis of Metaphor and Analogy, or ADAMA, aims to build a software system that can automatically analyze metaphorical speech in five different languages by analyzing huge quantities of online data got off the ground this week when the U.S. Army Research Laboratory awarded a $1.4 million contract to the team conducting the research. The research is backed by the US Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), which develops high-risk, reward research projects for the government, and is intended to build a repository of speech metaphors from American/English Iranian Farsi, Mexican Spanish and Russian speakers. ADAMA could have immediate applications in forensics, intelligence analysis, business intelligence, sociological research and communication studies, researchers stated."
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Ask Slashdot : Is RS232 communication secure ? 1

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An anonymous reader writes "I want to connect 2 computers so that they can exchange data securely.

Computer A wouldn't be connected to anything except to computer B and should be safe at all cost from remote attacks.
Computer B would be connected obviously to computer A and to the internet.

The communication between A and B would consist of encrypted data sent by a custom software written by me.
A knows how to decrypt the data, but B doesn't.

If I connect A and B with a RS232 cable, can a remote attacker take control of A if he has control of B ?
I understand that if B is compromised, the attacker can monitor the communications, corrupt them etc ... but can he take control of A ?
A colleague of mine tells me it's impossible, but I'd rather be sure.

My original idea was to create a kind of telegraph to make the 2 computers communicate throught Morse code.

Thank you for your input.
Please note that English is not my mother tongue, please forgive me for any error that I might have left out."

Comment: Re:Fantasies about ideologies (Score 1) 355

by ACE209 (#39228727) Attached to: Vatican Attack Provides Insight Into Anonymous
Thanks for your detailed opinions. I want to comment a few points you made.

So does atheism. So does any ideology I can think of (oh it's just that one form of atheism, not this one, right ? Well, that's exactly how communists see it)

I just think that religions have the potential to be abused too easily.
They are not about facts but faith. I just don't like that concept.
I think there was never a war because of atheistic viewpoints. The dictatorship in the soviet union endorsed atheism - but atheism was not the root cause for it. In my opinion they tried to oppose religion because it is a powerful tool to control people. And they wanted to be in control.

So of course atheists see value in (some) wars, for example.

But again their opinion of wars is not rooted in being an atheist. It is not an organized movement that dictates what is good and what is wrong. It is just the simple idea that there are no supernatural powers needed to explain the world.
For me atheism is just the opposite of superstition. No other ideologies involved.
Every atheists has to get his opinions of what is good and what is bad from somewhere else.

Then again, I'm a bit of a contrarian. The more people scream something is true, the less I believe it. I mostly think that there's a reason so much screaming is required.

Sounds like me.

If there's any religion or ideology you're going to call less violent than Christianity, then please pick one of those.

Easy - The most peacefull religion is my own one. ;)
I call it "live" - because live and sentience are the only real wonders worth worshipping I found so far. And they can be experienced every day.
I have a bible too. Which probably won't ever get on the best seller lists since it's rather short and memorable.
It consists just of the words: "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you!".

Though I admit it might not be fair to compare that to other religions in term of violence or peace. Since I'm the only practioner I know of at the moment and I didn't have much time to set this world on fire so far.

Don't hit the keys so hard, it hurts.