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Comment: Re:We need a new fashion (Score 1) 258

by Japher (#38602396) Attached to: Avoiding Facial Recognition of the Future
In addition to the point made by _0xd0ad, note that camera takes a picture of everything in its field of view which may include the car in front of or behind a car running a red light, and, depending on camera placement, cars which are legally stopped at the intersection. So no matter the country where the camera is deployed, it will probably be capturing innocent vehicles along with offenders.

Comment: I have to question the methodology (Score 2) 270

by Japher (#37726758) Attached to: Correlating Psychopathy With Speech Patterns
From TFA:

>Two text analysis tools were used to examine the crime narratives of 14 psychopathic and 38 non-psychopathic homicide offenders

The abstract indicates that the study only looked at homicide offenders, and compared them only to other homicide offenders, not to any non-homicide offenders. They also only looked at a total of 52 people which doesn't seem like enough to me. There are so many factors which can change an individual's speech patters that claiming that the findings mean anything at all is irresponsible.

Take this study with a statistically significant grain of salt.

Comment: Re:Astrolabe, Inc. v. Olson et al (Score 1) 433

by Japher (#37635220) Attached to: Civil Suit Filed, Involving the Time Zone Database
I wasn't aware that place names weren't allowed to change over time. Do you still refer to Canada as The Dominion of Canada too, or do you just stick with New France to be safe? If you want to be truly pedantic, it should be pointed out that the term "America" was originally only applied to what is today South America, with North America labeled "Terra Incognita" or Unknown Lands. So what right to you have to say that YOU live in America at all? According to Vespucci, you may not.

Comment: What's the difference? (Score 1) 520

by Japher (#37521840) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: CS Grads Taking IT Jobs?
No, I'm not saying that there is no difference between CS and IT work, but I'm curious to know what the difference is as OP sees it. You ask if taking an IT job will hurt your chances of landing a CS job, but without knowing what you mean by that, it's tough to answer your question. For example, is a UNIX admin job CS or IT? DBA? C++ programming? Network Engineer? I would personally put all of those firmly in the IT category, but your opinion may be different.

Everything can be filed under "miscellaneous".

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