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Microsoft Seeks Patent for 'Search by Sketch' 0

Submitted by theodp on Sunday March 04, @07:57PM

theodp writes "So, how does one search for images that aren't tagged with keywords? Google does offer its sometimes-spotty search by image, but what if you don't have an image handy that looks like what you're searching for? Microsoft, reports GeekWire, offers a solution that's 'a little like playing Pictionary with a search engine — drawing a sketch and seeing if the algorithm can return pictures that match it.' That’s the concept behind Microsoft Research's patent-pending 'MindFinder' project, which has already been incorporated into a Windows Phone app called Sketch Match. A patent application made public Thursday notes that touch computing makes sketching easier than ever, making one wonder if we'll be 'giving Bing the finger' with Windows 8!"

Comment: Missclassified (Score 1) 219

by Goglu on Sunday November 27 2011, @05:31PM (#38184194) Attached to: The Problem With Carbon-Cutting Programs

This should have been classified under "YRO", not "Science".

Science disappeared a long time ago from Canada's tar sands industry discussions.

The Alberta and the Canadian governments try to call their approach "scientific" (a MP even used the expressions "based on facts" when talking about the conservatives' agenda - hilarious!) while forbidding scientists to present the results of their research, cutting their fundings and replacing their voices with marketing.

Comment: The IP of TCP/IP (Score 1) 109

by Goglu on Tuesday October 18 2011, @07:59PM (#37756754) Attached to: Ask Internet Visionary and Pioneer Vint Cerf

The head of UN's WIPO believes that the Internet (and obviously the stack on which it runs) should have been patented. How do you believe it would have evolved, would TCP/IP be protected by patents?

Comment: Goodbye (Score 1) 725

by Goglu on Thursday October 13 2011, @08:24AM (#37700138) Attached to: Dennis Ritchie, Creator of C Programming Language, Passed Away

Goodbye world

His contribution goes way beyond the ones of a recently celebrated "genius". I could make a list of what C gave us today, but I'd have to start it at 0.

Customer service and sales lead growing industries-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07 2011, @09:33PM

An anonymous reader writes "Customer service and sales are among the fastest growing industries this year, according to the recent statistics from CareerBuilder’s 2011 Job Forecast."
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Facebook Sued For Not Enforcing Age Restrictions 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07 2011, @09:09PM

An anonymous reader writes "A father is suing Facebook after his 12-year-old daughter posted "sexually explicit" photos on the social network. His main argument is that Facebook does not properly enforce its own policy for requiring users of the social network to be at least 13 years old, saying the site is "guilty of negligence" and creates "a risk of sexual and physical harm" to the child. Facebook meanwhile explains its stance regarding underage children signing up for the social network is having multiple systems in place, and educating its users."

Google redifining "open," playing favorites-> 0

Submitted by unassimilatible on Wednesday September 07 2011, @09:07PM

unassimilatible writes "Oracle's Java infringement case against Google has revealed some startling documents via discovery. Turns out, Android development isn't quite as "open" as Google would lead you to believe. One presentation slide read, "If we gave it away, how can we ensure we get to benefit from it?" and recommends a set of policies that include "Do not develop in the open. Instead, make source code available after innovation is complete." It also appears that Android handset partners have a lot to fear about Google giving its new Motorola business preferential treatment — since Google apparently has already been doing that."
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Google offered to codevelop Android with Sun-> 0

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angry tapir

on Wednesday September 07 2011, @07:44PM

angry tapir writes "Google hoped at one time to codevelop Android with Sun, and was prepared to offer Sun a share of its mobile service revenue in return for making Java open source, according to newly released documents in Oracle's lawsuit against Google. The documents also show that Google raced to get Android to market, because it feared Microsoft dominating the market for mobile phone software, and that Google considered selling a mobile phone service to users. The revelations come as Google and Oracle executives prepare for mediation in front of a magistrate judge, in a last-ditch attempt to settle their differences over Google's use of Java in the Android OS."
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Linux 3D games run faster on PC-BSD-> 0

Submitted by koinu on Wednesday September 07 2011, @02:12PM

koinu writes "Phoronix has published benchmarks comparing 3D games on Ubuntu Linux 11.04 and the FreeBSD Linux ABI emulation on the 8.2 release of PC-BSD, which is a desktop variant of FreeBSD. Most results show that the emulated Linux layer on FreeBSD performs better than Linux natively. It is pretty interesting, because most people would expect that an additional abstraction layer would generally slow down the execution of binaries."
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Comment: Re:What if this is just an Accounting trick? (Score 1) 176

by Goglu on Saturday August 13 2011, @12:08PM (#37079492) Attached to: Motorola To Collect Royalties For Android

"You get lots of $$££€€'s moving around but it all zero's out in the balances..."

Except that, in the meanwhile, you added thousands of dollars in litigation fees, making your lawyers richer, at the expense of shareholders or, most probably, consumers.