DeadlyMind - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Best Buy + iTunes? (Score 2) 187

by DeadlyMind on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @10:24PM (#36523140) Attached to: Best Buy Releases Their Own Music Cloud

Media Monkey is so much better. Fuck iTunes.

Comment Re:Use this thread (Score 1) 159

by DeadlyMind on Tuesday May 10, 2011 @06:27PM (#36088176) Attached to: Facebook Caught Exposing Millions of Credentials

I don't use Facebook, and anyone who does is stupid.

Comment Re:And this is actually quite innocent (Score 4, Interesting) 519

by DeadlyMind on Sunday April 03, 2011 @02:54PM (#35701266) Attached to: Pirated Android App Shames Freeloaders

90% of the cracks or keygens she downloads will also install a Trojan

I'd LOVE to see the source that supports this ridiculous claim.

Comment Re:Not a lot statistically. (Score 2) 268

by DeadlyMind on Sunday January 30, 2011 @11:43PM (#35053182) Attached to: EFF Uncovers Widespread FBI Intelligence Violations

I would expect mistakes to be made as well, but that's a bit short sighted to assume that all of these are actually mistakes, as opposed to intentional abuses of power.

Comment Re:Now to use it to win the lottery (Score 1) 220

by DeadlyMind on Thursday January 13, 2011 @03:49PM (#34866736) Attached to: <em>Jeopardy</em>-Playing Supercomputer Beats Humans

Now that Watson has mastered Jeopardy, let's just see how well it does picking winning Powerball numbers.

These aren't even close to the same thing.

Submission + - Sorting Algorithm Breaks Giga-sort Barrier (google.com) 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 29, 2010 @09:10AM

An anonymous reader writes: Researchers at the University of Virginia have recently open sourced an algorithm capable of sorting at a rate of one billion (integer) keys per second using a GPU. Although GPUs are often assumed to be poorly suited for algorithms like sorting, their results are several times faster than the best known CPU-based sorting implementations.

Submission + - Bill Gates Enrolls His Kids in Khan Academy 1

Submitted by theodp on Saturday August 28, 2010 @09:17PM

theodp writes: At some schools, a teaching load of five courses every academic year is considered excessive. But Sal Khan, as an earlier Slashdot post noted, manages to deliver his mini-lectures an average of 70,000 times a day. BusinessWeek reports that Khan Academy has a new fan in Bill Gates, who's been singing and tweeting the praises of the free-as-in-beer website. 'This guy is amazing,' Gates wrote. 'It is awesome how much he has done with very little in the way of resources.' Gates and his 11-year-old son have been soaking up videos, from algebra to biology. And at the Aspen Ideas Festival in front of 2,000 people, Gates gave Khan a shout-out, touting the 'unbelievable' Khan Academy tutorials that 'I've been using with my kids.' Gates, whose foundation spends $700MM a year on U.S. education, plans to talk to Khan soon.

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