Comment: Re:Darknets (Score 1) 310
Unfortunately it's not a hoax. It is confirmed on the SOCA web site.
Comment: Re:Dates (Score 1) 464
Movies are popular attractions for dates*. You can take a date to a bad movie, and won't necessarily reflect poorly upon you. But if you take a date to a bad movie because happened to be cheaper than a putative good movie, you're just not getting laid
You're assuming that the price of the date is fixed
Facebook Blamed For A Third Of Divorces
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An anonymous reader writes "Facebook is increasingly being blamed as a reason for, or as evidence when, filing for divorce. In 2011, 33 percent of behavior petitions contained the name of the social network; this is a whopping increase from 2009, when only 20 percent mentioned Facebook."
How do you conduct an on-going Google search?
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ZipK writes "If you want to compile a list of resources, say car shows that disallow billet, you'd Google "no billet car show." But if the results are too long to read in one sitting, or you want to check each week for new shows, how do you bookmark your place in a Google search so you can pick up where you left off? How do you mark or filter out the results you've already considered, so that each renewal of your search provides new material?"
Comment: Future-proof (Score 1) 123
An interesting aspect of this concept is that it is fairly future-proof. Without changing the API, the company can change seamlessly the internal processes:
First getting humans to do tasks that are difficult for computers (like audio transcripts).
As computers improve in capability the humans can check the transcripts performed by computers, and use the feedback to improve further the capability of the computers.
And finally let the computers do the task without supervision and/or sell the software that has been developed to do it.
First getting humans to do tasks that are difficult for computers (like audio transcripts).
As computers improve in capability the humans can check the transcripts performed by computers, and use the feedback to improve further the capability of the computers.
And finally let the computers do the task without supervision and/or sell the software that has been developed to do it.
Comment: He got duped - Only 500m high by 1 mile long (Score 1) 336
...according to the Google Maps measuring tool.
Or in real measurements, 500m high by 1.7km long.
Or in real measurements, 500m high by 1.7km long.
Comment: Re:Jobs killer (Score 1) 316
Obligatory reading: Manna - an online short story by Marshall Brain that looks at these scenarios.
Comment: Use in combination with CamScanner (Score 1) 99
You can get better results by using CamScanner to capture the image, then upload the JPG to Google Docs. I found that uploading the JPG works better than uploading the PDF.
Comment: Re:complete with tracking and statistics (Score 1) 244
So what's Google got against Whales in Australia then?
Comment: Internet filter proposed for all... (Score 0, Offtopic) 185
...Australians