cybermats - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Fooled? (Score 1) 257

by cybermats on Sunday October 24, 2010 @04:06PM (#34006004) Attached to: Chatbot Suzette Wins 20th Annual Loebner Prize, Fools One Judge

That's actually a good point. What was the pretext for the conversions? Was it to respond to all the judge's questions properly, or to do some small talk? If it's just small talk, I think I would give up on the "#" thing quite quickly as well.

Submission + - Tynt Insight is watching you cut and paste (mattbusse.com) 1

Submitted by jerryasher on Thursday January 14, 2010 @02:19AM

jerryasher writes: In recent weeks I've noticed that when I copy and paste text from Wired and other websites, the pasted text has had the url of the original website appended to it. Cool, and utterly annoying, and how do I make that stop? Tynt Insight is a piece of Javascript that sends what you copy to Tynt's webservers and adds the backlinks. Tynt calls that a service for the site owner, many people call that a privacy invasion..

Worse, there are some reports that it sends not just what you copy, but everything you select..

And Tynt provides no opt outs. Not cookie based, not IP based, but stop it you creeps angry phone call based.

It ain't a pure useful service, and it ain't a pure privacy invasion. But I sure wish they'd go away and have had the decency to never start up in the first place. I block it on Firefox with Ghostery.

Submission + - Does your PC really need a SysRq button anymore? (pcauthority.com.au) 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 14, 2010 @01:35AM

An anonymous reader writes: Ever wondered what the SysRq key on your keyboard does? Lenovo has decided it's so rarely used that it has started removing the key from some new Thinkpad Edge laptops. We already know that Lenovo are something of the fastidious scientists when it comes to keyboard design. Last time they fiddled with the age-old key layout, it was after painstaking research to count exactly how many times users press the Delete and Escape keys. Now it seems another relic of computer keyboards is starting to disappear.

The Best Gaming Laptop Money Can Buy 161

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