Comment: Re:Stupid summary (Score 1) 284
Could you possibly be more biased.
Looking at the comments in here...I think the answer is yes.
Comment: Re:No CarrierIQ? (Score 1) 133
It's called reality TV
So, using that same reasoning, you believe it's perfectly acceptable for a landlord to install cameras and microphones in apartments, as long as their upfront about it when you sign the rental agreement? Really?
Comment: Back soon.. (Score 1) 203
Not a major point, but with distros going crazy like Ubuntu recently, I don't particularly feel like installing anything I don't know on top of that. I only have so much time. I'll come back when my OS doesn't get in my way.
Comment: 46D (Score 1) 258
With one camera you can make 2D films, with two cameras you can do 3D. With 45 cameras... You could be the next James Cameron.
Comment: Wash-rinse-repeat (Score 1) 520
This gives me and 7 billion other people a nice incentive to stay at home and make babies (which is SO much more rewarding). Who is going to provide food and basics for my 7 kids, my 49 grankids and their 343 children (while they're at home making babies)?
Comment: Re:Good (Score 2) 573
How are we going to rid the world of $RANDOMBIGGROUP? These peopel make me despair, they won't be happy until they convert or kill us all. There isn't a country in the world that hasn't suffered from this group of hate
There fixed it for ya. This script is more generic.
Comment: Re:If you hear competitiveness, reach for your gun (Score 1) 542
There are one million factors to consider when setting up a business. Somehow I don't think "What if it hurts when we leave the country?" is all that high up on the list.
If they want to leave, make it hurt badly(if not something that outright kills the company). Then make the company an example of how things can go wrong in a robbery
And then no company will want to set up shop in your country again.
Comment: Good!Now, put it at the back of my device, please. (Score 2, Interesting) 214
If someone comes up with a device that uses something like this - but with the input at the back of the device - I'm sold. Just make some dints and bumps so that my finger knows where it is.
Survey Says To UK — Repeal Laws of Thermodynamics 208
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kdawson
from the einstein-is-next-up-against-the-wall dept.
from the einstein-is-next-up-against-the-wall dept.
mostxlnt writes "As we noted, the new Tory UK government has launched a website asking its subjects which laws they'd most like repealed. There are proposals up for repeal of the Laws of Thermodynamics: Second, Third, and all (discussion thread on this one closed by a moderator). One comment on the Third [now apparently deleted] elucidated: 'Without the Third Law of Thermodynamics, it would be possible to build machines that would last forever and provide an endless source of cheap energy. thus solving both potential crises in energy supply as well as solving the greenhouse gas problem in one step... simples... eh?'"
Ranking Soccer Players By Following the Bouncing Ball 142
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timothy
from the well-it-ain't-baseball dept.
from the well-it-ain't-baseball dept.
sciencehabit excerpts from an interesting report on statistics for soccer, in the stats-obsessed world of sports: "Only a handful of soccer ranking systems exist, most of which rely on limited information: the number of goals scored in a match, the number of goals assisted, and some indices of a match's difficulty and importance. ... So researchers turned to an unlikely source: social networks. Applying the kinds of mathematical techniques used to map Facebook friends and other networks, the team created software that can trace the ball's flow from player to player. As the program follows the ball, it assigns points for precise passing and for passes that ultimately lead to a shot at the goal. Whether the shot succeeds doesn't matter. Only the ball's flow toward the goal and each player's role in getting it there factors into the program's point system, which then calculates a skill index for each team and player."
Physics Platformer Gish Goes Open Source 58
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Soulskill
from the good-stuff dept.
from the good-stuff dept.
An anonymous reader writes "After announcing plans to go open source due to the success of the Humble Indie Bundle, developer Cryptic Sea has released the source code of 2-D platformer Gish under the GPLv2. There's a mirror on github."
Flash Builder 4 — Defective By Design? 66
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timothy
from the mote-in-your-eye dept.
from the mote-in-your-eye dept.
ApolloX writes "Adobe has released its new version of the Flex Builder, now renamed Flash Builder 4. This version is radically different from previous versions of Flex, introducing the new Spark architecture and theme support. While I am pleased Adobe has finally added support for Eclipse 3.5, I am disappointed with some of the new architecture changes that make doing simple things, such as skinning a button, now quite cumbersome."
Comment: Same shit (Score 5, Insightful) 436
If 10am is the new 9am then 1am is the new midnight. Give them some time to adapt and they'll still be late for school
Comment: Slashvertising bullshit. (Score 2, Insightful) 111
Sure, they probably sold a few Kindles this Christmas. But my guess is they compare annual low with annual high here. Who the fuck buys paper books on Christmas day?!
- You're guaranteed a long wait for the item to arrive in the post due to holidays.
- You're busy with whatever family-holiday thing you do.
- It's a bit late buying that book as a gift.
- If it's for yourself, you probably bought it already.. when you bought Christmas gifts two week ago.
- You've already got lots of new stuff.
Comment: Re:Wrong solution (Score 1) 143
Rubber hosing is a potential issue, but there are 2 factors that limit the risk:
1) The written receit only needs to be kept until your entry is confirmed in the public records.
2) You are free to hand your receit over to anyone you trust and they could verify the public record for you. This could be individuals or an organisation.
If you put your receit in a box together with 1000 others immediately after you have voted you reduce the risk of having your vote exposed. You do have to trust the people/organisation looking after that box that they will fulfill your obligation to check the public records, though. But you're free to choose whom to give that receit to yourself.
1) The written receit only needs to be kept until your entry is confirmed in the public records.
2) You are free to hand your receit over to anyone you trust and they could verify the public record for you. This could be individuals or an organisation.
If you put your receit in a box together with 1000 others immediately after you have voted you reduce the risk of having your vote exposed. You do have to trust the people/organisation looking after that box that they will fulfill your obligation to check the public records, though. But you're free to choose whom to give that receit to yourself.