One/two dollar(s) per month to have a Facebook NOT sell my personal information. That would be much more than what Facebook is making per user at the moment (3.7B$ in revenue with ~800 million users in 2011). However, this feature would implicitly acknowledge to the public that they are selling your information. This is something that everybody sort of knows, but perhaps they don't want to make it clear.
Yep. The math checks out, I am a RIAA mathematician.
Something like that already exists (check the GunStock Shooter). If you use it in a war zone though there might be collateral damage.
It was probably immersed into a Somebody Else's Problem (SEP) field.
Slashdot should have a script that finds relevant XKCD comics for every story. About 23% of all the posts link to XKCD anyhow.
Ha! Echelon! Didn't you get the memo? The project was renamed about 8 years ago, now it's called Facebook.
A Slashdot-like service should be integrated in the patent review system. It appears to me that, every time there is a new software patent that makes it on Slashdot, in a matter of minutes somebody will find some relevant and non-trivial prior art. Just like the parent poster and others around did. I think that a patent should be pre-issued and be in an informal "challenge" phase. In this phase, the patent could be set up on a moderated website like Slashdot where people can point out the relevant prior art. If the patent remains unchallenged it can be granted, otherwise the patent office can take a couple more days to analyse the top "challengers".
I know that, theoretically, a system like this is already in place, since after the patent is granted it can be challenged in a court of law. However, this system is prone to abuse and too expensive.
I herd you like Sql, so we injected Sql in your Sql so you can have Sql while you code MySql
to ask people now and see what they think the Internet is.
That's exactly right!
Please read these two blog posts about the consequences of P=NP from an expert in the field:
http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/why-believe-that-pnp-is-impossible/
http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/insider-baseball-and-pnp/
Thank you Slashdot for finally giving me the needed push to stop visiting here. When tripe like this is "reported" here as news I know I'm wasting my time. And there seems to be more and more of this.
Instead of complaining, take a second to read a wealth of comments that are extremely critic regarding the methodology and conclusions of this study.
I don't see Slashdot as a source of truth, I just regard it as a forum whose participants always come up with useful insights, even on the dumbest of the stories.
Cats are the only animal besides humans that can be born deaf.
found this in two seconds
Scientists will study your brain to learn more about your distant cousin, Man.
