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Comment Re:It's not the eye color screening that bugs me (Score 1) 847

So your argument is: you have a problem with people defying "nature" to reproduce. How is that a problem? How is that wrong? Car Analogy: People shouldn't use cars because it's defying "nature" to avoid using their legs. I can't imagine what the gene pool will be like after a few generations of this. Fat people who can't walk will take over the world! Well guess what, being able to walk a long distance on 2 legs is a non-issue when you have cars. It's irrelevant. And "nature" is not your mom. Or mine.
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Computers With Opinions On Visual Aesthetics 125

photoenthusiast writes "Penn State researchers launched a new online photo-rating system, code named Acquine (Aesthetic Quality Inference Engine), for automatically determining the aesthetic value of a photo. Users can upload their own photographs for an instant Acquine rating, a score from zero to 100. The system learns to associate extracted visual characteristics with the way humans rate photos based on a lot of previously-rated photographs. It is designed for color natural photographic pictures. Technical publications reveal how Acquine works."

Comment ISPs are cable providers (Score 1) 395

[quote]But I've seen a large jump in bandwidth usage with my new Roku box for watching NetFlix on my tv. That's a lot of streaming video. Are they keeping tech like this in mind? Doubt it.[/quote] They are precisely keeping tech like this in mind. Many ISPs also provide cable service. What happens to cable if internet streaming becomes too convenient?

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