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Comment Re:Alternatively (Score 1) 300

All I can think while scrolling through this trainwreck is, "oh. this thread again."

Come on, Slashdot, let's hear ALL OVER AGAIN about how a particular demographic has myriad unfair advantages over others, and yet mysteriously, has not managed to leverage those advantages into a superior social or economic position. Do your worst.

Comment Re:How do we stop them? (Score 4, Interesting) 210

Or, if the ASIO really needs the resources it says it needs, let them go to the Australian people with their hat in their hands and ask for volunteers to run an Aussie-Government 'network agent' on their Internet-connected PCs to help them catch child molesters and plane-bombers for the good of the homeland, and if appeals to patriotism don't do the trick, let them offer money, and we'll find out how much a person's Internet privacy sells for on the open market.

Comment Re:*barfs* (Score 2) 136

You mean, the summary? Agreed.

adeelarshad82 meant to write "designed specifically for high-end gaming", not "exclusively", given that it wasn't designed to actually exclude non-gaming functions. I can barely even parse "With the help of crowdsourcing endeavor of tapping into Razer's fanbase", which seems to express the same concept twice redundantly without a preposition, and God only knows where the hyphen in "0.8-inches thick" came from or what it was meant to express. Absent these other issues, it would perhaps be forgivable that he saw fit to specify "Windows 8 with Intel architecture" even though he's already told us what CPU options we have (which are both Intel architecture) but it's a mediocre conclusion to that trainwreck of a summary.

2/10, would not read again.

Comment Re:Not as clever as it sounds (Score 1) 268

If you know what the stack frame of the software you're targeting looks like, you don't even have to try every n-bit string in the whole memory dump, you can just go straight to whatever memory offset the key's always stored at. It's not like TrueCrypt just puts the key at a random spot in the middle of some other program's RAM page.

Comment Re:Awesome post (Score 4, Informative) 117

Many of the "language processing" problems the OP describes are actually "cognition" problems. If Google is serious about algorithmically translating from "academic jargon to local slang", then they're looking at writing an AI which can in some sense understand what is being said.

I guess it's a good thing Kurzweil's on board.

Comment Re:Godwining it here (Score 1) 231

If pardons were issued for the Holocaust, it would not be issued on behalf of any individual German nor of the "current generation of Germans", it would be issued on behalf of the German government or the state itself, which is an institution that outlives individual people. Why should any individual German imagine that *Germany* apologizing incriminates them?

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