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Comment Re:Does the law have the right direction? (Score 1) 408

Child pornography is a subset of the term obscenity (at least, if you're a healthy individual it is).

Although drawing a naked baby being raped by guys in rabbit suits might not involve any children who once or ever will exist, it's still obscene. Lots of laws exist to prevent that level of obscenity. There are lots of reasons why it's obscene. Let's not get into that debate though, there's Wikipedia if we need to look up basic definitions.

"obscenity" or any other moral measurement has nothing to do with this. its about, by omission, allowing certain individuals to grow a perverse desire for (in this case) children beyond what they can control. so trust me, when a legislation like this is proposed of curse its backed up by conservative and "moral" justifications, but it only gets approved when the other half agrees on it. and they have much more rational reasons than "morality" to do it.

Comment Re:Humans can defeat humans (Score 2, Interesting) 192

Easy - just make the CAPTCHA so you have to simultaneously type something with both hands.

I think that could actually be good idea. having not just to type but also to follow certain rules typing, like following a simple rhythm. Maybe typing something under an abstract set of rules, like "make me a triangle" answer could be any combination of keys that results in a triangle, like "sef" "gbh" "vym". Oh well, I'm sure someone thought about it already and found a flaw on it. PS: thinking possible CAPCHA schemes is a fun pass-time.

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Submission + - Ray tracing for gaming explored (pcper.com) 3

Vigile writes: "Ray tracing is still thought of as the 'holy grail' for real-time imagery but because of the intense amount of calculations required it has been plagued with long frame render times. This might soon change, at least according to an article from Daniel Pohl, a researcher at Intel. With upcoming many-core processors like Intel's Larrabee he believes that real-time ray tracing for games is much closer than originally thought thanks in large part to the efficiency it allows with spatial partitioning and reflections when compared to current rasterization techniques. Titles like Valve's Portal are analyzed to see how they could benefit from ray tracing technology and the article on PC Perspective concludes with the difficulties combing the two rendering techniques as well as a video of the technology in action."

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