Comment Re:Big Bang (Score 1) 86
Traumatic experiences in the degree of "Affleck as Daredevil" would probably be impossible to erase without causing brain damage. Worst... movie... EVAR!
Comment Benefits experts (Score 0, Flamebait) 1036
Damn lazy immigrants! Or who are we talking about?
Comment Sometimes these sites look better than the legit (Score 1) 387
Alright, I'm sold. Links please!
Comment Stephen Nigro (Score 1) 397
That last name is spectacular. I wonder if he's black.
Comment Re:Doesn't space travel need masturbation rooms? (Score 1) 123
I find it hilarious no one modded parent funny.
Submission + - Does This Headline Know You're Reading It? (hplusmagazine.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: "Not yet, but it could." German artificial intelligence researchers are combining JavaScript with eye-tracking hardware to create "text 2.0," which "infers user intentions." Unimportant words also fade out while you're skimming the text, and a bookmark automatically appears if you glance away. It can pronounce the words you're reading, and reading certain words can trigger the appearance of footnotes or even translations, biographies, definitions, and sound effects or animations, almost like the truly interactive books in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age. "With the help of an eye tracker, Text 2.0 follows your progress and presents effects just in time," the researchers explain in a video. Meanwhile, DFKI has already created a free "Processing Easy Eye Tracker plugin" (or PEEP) to manipulate windows with what they call "gaze-controlled tab expose," while there's speculation similar technology may be adopted by Apple. Apple has already purchased Tobii's eye-tracking hardware, and "Whether these are for internal research only or for a future product, Apple is characteristically not saying.
Comment Come again! (Score 1) 117
"...is there a 3-manifold not homologous to the 3-sphere in which any loop can be gradually shrunk to a single point?"
There's that whoosing sound again. I hear it once in a while.
There's that whoosing sound again. I hear it once in a while.
Submission + - Amazon 1-Click Patent Survives Almost Unscathed (patentlyo.com)
Zordak writes: Amazon's infamous "1-click" patent has been in reexamination at the USPTO for almost four years. Patently-O now reports that "the USPTO confirmed the patentability of original claims 6-10 and amended claims 1-5 and 11-26. The approved-of amendment adds the seeming trivial limitation that the one-click system operates as part of a 'shopping cart model.' Thus, to infringe the new version of the patent, an eCommerce retailer must use a shopping cart model (presumably non-1-click) alongside of the 1-click version. Because most retail eCommerce sites still use the shopping cart model, the added limitation appears to have no practical impact on the patent scope."
Submission + - Previews of Civilization V (ign.com)
c0mpliant writes: IGN and Gamespot have released a preview of the recently announced and eagerly awaited Civilization V. Apart from the obvious new hexagon shape of tiles and improved graphics, the article goes on to outline some of the major changes in the game, such as updated AI, new "flavors" to world leaders and a potentially game changing, one unit per tile system. No more will the stack of doom come to your cities doorsteps.
Some features which will not be making a returning will be religion and espionage. The removal of these two have sparked a frenzy of discussion on fan related forums.
Some features which will not be making a returning will be religion and espionage. The removal of these two have sparked a frenzy of discussion on fan related forums.
Comment Re:chill out shareholders (Score 1) 572
And after that, can we go through the definition of "sexual intercourse" please? I'm not sure how to use it in a sentence. Maybe we can start there?
Comment Superinterestingmegalomaniacs (Score 1) 356
Board: "Hey Mike, we're out of money. Take our shit and get out of Dodge!"
Mike: "But what about our employees? We owe them and shit."
Board: "Fuck'em!"
Mike: "Yeah, hell yeah, fuck all them!"
Wow, to have been a fly on the wall on that board meeting. Sociopaths are so god damn interesting people.
Comment Imaginary brown space cloud? (Score 1) 336
Submitter, I have no trouble at all visualizing what "a massive brown cloud visible from space" would look like. I'm gonna need you though to go ahead an produce me a picture of this here event of which you speak.
Comment Re:Sounds like it could be a boon (Score 1) 820
DERK A DURRRR!!!
Comment Our New and Improved Toyota Prius (Score 2, Interesting) 211
...with virtually no impact on environment!*
* except for huge fields of Toyota Gardenia (TM), and who doesn't like gardenias?
Comment Re:Flash? (Score 0, Troll) 744
So, ah, you've had flash for a couple of months now, you say. Hmm, that's cewl. I've had it for a while now, a decade I would say, but, you know, that's cool, you'll be ready for the desktop pretty soon.
