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Comment Re:Stupid (Score 3, Informative) 46

by denaje on Tuesday September 06, 2011 @03:31PM (#37319454) Attached to: Kinect Based Whole Building Breakout

Did you even read the summary or watch the video? "The really clever bit, and you might not notice it unless you look closely at the video, is that the ball bounces off real architectural features of the building — like the windows, for example." Maybe you think it's unimpressive, but many people would find this really cool. And face it...if you walked by a building that was playing a giant version of breakout, you wouldn't walk by without looking twice.

Comment Re:I love the caps lock key (Score 1) 968

by denaje on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @06:00PM (#34493682) Attached to: Google Wants To Take Away Your Capslock Key

Ctrl-C functions as Esc for many of Vim's functions, though it isn't perfect for all situations. So I put imap ^C ^[ into my .vimrc (^[ being, of course, the secret identity of the Esc key), which fixes things up.

Comment Re:I love the caps lock key (Score 1) 968

by denaje on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @10:58AM (#34486586) Attached to: Google Wants To Take Away Your Capslock Key

...I couldn't use Emacs or shell editing without it. Beats me why it's labelled 'caps lock', though --- the other control keys on the keyboard are all labelled 'Ctrl'.

I love it too...Backspace is MUCH too far for my right pinky to reach. So much less strain on my fingers when I only have to reach over to Caps Lock with my left pinky to delete some incorrect letters.

Google Launches CADIE, the First True AI 246

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @12:20PM from the we-all-knew-this-was-coming dept.

eldavojohn writes "Google has announced CADIE, the world's first Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity. 'We based our work on three core principles. First we designed the entity ... as a collection of interconnected evolving agents. Second — and this really cost us an arm and leg in hardware and core time — we let the system build its own heuristics, deploy them as agents and evolve them by running a set of evolutionary cascades within probabilistic Bayesian domains. The third — a piece missing in most AI reasoning work thus far — was to give the entity access to a rich, realistic world from which to learn and upon which it could act directly.' It quickly started its own blog and YouTube video. Two hours after midnight, CADIE announced independence on its blog and decided to leave Google to venture out into the world. "

Online Banking Customers Migrating To Lynx 220

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @11:38AM from the browsers-with-character dept.

Jibbler writes "Following the recent Pwn2Own competition, in which Firefox, IE8 and Safari all fell quickly to exploits, Netcraft has observed a surge in popularity of the text-based Lynx browser. Netcraft points out that Lynx supports the latest cryptographic ciphers, and at least one online banking site has seen Lynx usage overtake that of Internet Explorer and Firefox. To boost Lynx's excellent security history, Netcraft has even developed a version of its anti-phishing toolbar for Lynx."

The Guardian Shifts To Twitter After 188 Years of Ink 211

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @10:53AM from the save-the-trees dept.

teflon_king writes with news that renowned British newspaper The Guardian will be abandoning its paper-and-ink distribution scheme and publishing all articles and news as Tweets. Quoting: "A mammoth project is also under way to rewrite the whole of the newspaper's archive, stretching back to 1821, in the form of tweets. Major stories already completed include '1832 Reform Act gives voting rights to one in five adult males yay!!!;' 'OMG Hitler invades Poland, allies declare war see tinyurl.com/b5x6e for more;' and 'JFK assassin8d @ Dallas, def. heard second gunshot from grassy knoll WTF?' Sceptics have expressed concerns that 140 characters may be insufficient to capture the full breadth of meaningful human activity, but social media experts say the spread of Twitter encourages brevity, and that it ought to be possible to convey the gist of any message in a tweet. For example, Martin Luther King's legendary 1963 speech on the steps of the Lincoln memorial appears in the Guardian's Twitterised archive as 'I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by,' eliminating the waffle and bluster of the original."

Conficker Worm Strike Reports Start Rolling In 508

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @10:10AM from the be-on-the-lookout dept.

Nieriko writes "Reports are trickling in about the impact from the Conficker worm, as infected systems passed zero hour at midnight and began downloading additional malicious components. Here are a couple of the more notable incidents caused by Conficker so far, according to published reports: — '... shortly after midnight local time, an ATM in the capital city of Reykjavik began spewing 100-Krona notes. ... A nuclear missile installation near Elmendorf Air force Base outside of Anchorage, Alaska briefly went on a full-scale military alert after technicians manning the bunker suspected that several of their control systems were infected with Conficker.'"

Comment good grief (Score 2, Insightful) 222

by denaje on Monday December 29, 2008 @11:25PM (#26264915) Attached to: FBI Issues Code Cracking Challenge

I hope they don't guard any sensitive data with encryption that easy

FBI Issues Code Cracking Challenge 222

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 29, 2008 @07:23PM from the test-your-skillz dept.

coondoggie writes to tell us that the FBI has issued another cracking challenge for a new cipher on their site. Tens of thousands responded to a similar challenge last year. In addition to the challenge, the FBI is also offering a few primers on the subject. There are a number of sites offering cipher challenges, but it's funny to see the FBI encouraging such behavior.

New Solar Cell Sets World Efficiency Record 299

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday September 29, 2008 @02:33PM from the hot-tech dept.

asoduk writes to tell us that a new world record has been set for the most efficient photovoltaic device. Topping the scale at 40.8% efficiency, the new solar cell differs significantly from the previous record holder. "Instead of using a germanium wafer as the bottom junction of the device, the new design uses compositions of gallium indium phosphide and gallium indium arsenide to split the solar spectrum into three equal parts that are absorbed by each of the cell's three junctions for higher potential efficiencies. This is accomplished by growing the solar cell on a gallium arsenide wafer, flipping it over, then removing the wafer. The resulting device is extremely thin and light and represents a new class of solar cells with advantages in performance, design, operation and cost."

Russia Considers Banning Emo and Goth Music 10

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday July 29, 2008 @03:10PM

In an attempt to rid the country of excessive eyeliner, Dr. Martens, and self indulged sadness, the Russian government has proposed a new law that would make goth and emo music illegal. The law would also target websites and have emo and goth fashion banned in schools and government buildings. Officials say that goth/emo music are "negative culture" which encourage depression, social withdrawal and suicide. In Soviet Russia it is always winter and never Christmas.

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