Become a fan of Slashdot on Facebook

 


Forgot your password?
Close
typodupeerror
The Internet

Submission + - China pledges to step up Internet administration (idg.com.au)

Submitted by
angry tapir
angry tapir writes: "China says it will step up administration of the Internet this year while continuing to build out the country's fiber-optic backbone and expand broadband access for consumers. Internet administration was mentioned in a keynote report on the work of the government to China's parliamentary session. It underlined the importance of culture and noted the need the "strengthen the development of civic morality" and "speed up the establishment of moral and behavioral norms that carry forward traditional Chinese virtues." The pledge comes amid revelations that DDoS attacks against WordPress last week allegedly originated from China."
AI

Submission + - Can You Beat A Computer At Rock Paper Scissors? (tekgoblin.com) 1

Submitted by
tekgoblin
tekgoblin writes: " It looks like the New York Times has created a game that uses artificial intelligence to outsmart you. It uses a simple game called Rock, Paper, Scissors which is pretty much known by everyone on the planet by now. The computer tries to mimic human reasoning by building on simple rules and statistical averages. So based on the rules of the game and your previous moves, the computer tries to make predictions on your next move. The game has 2 modes, the first being Novice where the computer learns the game from scratch, and veteran where the computer has experience of over 200,000 rounds of previous experience."
Technology

Submission + - Study Shows Technology Prevent us from Good Sleep (ispyce.com)

Submitted by
Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "Nearly two-thirds of Americans say they're not getting enough sleep and late-night computer use, texting and video games are a significant part of the problem, according to a national survey released today. Virtually all of Americans surveyed in the Sleep in America poll reported "very active" use of technology at least a few nights a week within an hour of bed. It is clear that we have a lot more to learn about the appropriate use and design of this technology to complement good sleep habits," said David Cloud, CEO of the National Sleep Foundation, which conducted the survey."
Open Source

Submission + - Gameduino: "Ridiculously Awesome" (createdigitalmotion.com) 1

Submitted by
beckman101
beckman101 writes: "Gameduino is a DIY game platform built on a shield for the Arduino. It'(TM)s open source hardware (BSD and, for the code, GPL). Okay, that’s fairly cool. But what makes this project special is that this inexpensive board has hardware that'(TM)s capable enough to be interesting. The result is a lo-fi game console built on an FPGA that gives you retro graphics without being, you know, too retro. Games actually look good."

Comment Just change the name so it doesn't violate the IP (Score 3, Insightful) 265

by elblanco (#31313966) Attached to: 8-Year Fan-Made Game Project Shut Down By Activision

Would that really be that much work? Call it's "Royal Adventure" or some such....change the character names, and be done with it. There's nothing that prevents them from making a Sierra "like" adventure game. I've always been mystified when some fan group works for years to build a game and gives up over a C&D because they are obviously violating the IP of the holder. Don't drop the project! Just change the particulars!

Comment Re:Starlight! (Score 1) 187

by elblanco (#29317379) Attached to: How a Team of Geeks Cracked the Spy Trade

This sounds similar to Starlight, which the NSA uses for all kinds of "connect the dots" type intelligence activities.

In my experience Palantir has a lot to offer. But Starlight is definitely the more powerful tool. I've even seen cases where Starlight handled all of the data processing and analysis work before it was fed into Palantir since it's capabilities where so much better.

Comment General Purpose InfoViz Tool (Score 1) 180

by elblanco (#26524885) Attached to: Visualizing Complex Data Sets?

I've had really good success using an information visualization tool called Starlight on a number of projects like this. Everything from process modeling to military intelligence. It's a commercial spin-out from the DOE PNL lab information visualization research in Washington State.

http://www.futurepointsystems.com/

Slashdot Top Deals

The goal of science is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature is to build better mice.

Close