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Comment Re: A perfect application for AI (Score 1) 42

by flambard on Friday June 30, 2023 @04:56PM (#63647180) Attached to: Why the Internet's Going Wild For a 'Fish Doorbell'

He can see the same camera feed the rest of the public can. He just doesn't have the time to do so 24/7. with enough people watching he gets an alert when there are enough fish. AI could probably be used, but that would kill the fun of watching for fish who would like to pass the sluice/lock

Comment Re:What if it were Microsoft code (Score 1) 191

by flambard on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @05:17PM (#47658239) Attached to: Larry Rosen: A Case Study In Understanding (and Enforcing) the GPL

This keeps cropping up. GPL isnt free as in free beer. It has a cost. You can use the fruit of someone's labour in return for yours. Labour can and is very frequently expressed in monetarian value (read wages), so damages can be asked and given for breaking copyright. Think about a writer writing a piece but never getting any money for it. Then someone else takes his essay/book/whatever and uses it in his own work and makes big bucks from it. You bet the court is going to award damages!

Home-Built Turing Machine 123

Posted by Soulskill on Friday March 26, 2010 @01:31PM from the i'll-order-a-dozen dept.

stronghawk writes "The creator of the Nickel-O-Matic is back at it and has now built a Turing Machine from a Parallax Propeller chip-based controller, motors, a dry-erase marker and a non-infinite supply of shiny 35mm leader film. From his FAQ: 'While thinking about Turing machines I found that no one had ever actually built one, at least not one that looked like Turing's original concept (if someone does know of one, please let me know). There have been a few other physical Turing machines like the Logo of Doom, but none were immediately recognizable as Turing machines. As I am always looking for a new challenge, I set out to build what you see here.'"

Super-Earths Discovered Orbiting Nearby, Sun-Like Star 242

Posted by Soulskill on Monday December 14, 2009 @05:52PM from the i-for-one dept.

likuidkewl writes "Two super-earths, 5 and 7.5 times the size of our home, were found to be orbiting 61 Virginis a mere 28 light years away. 'These detections indicate that low-mass planets are quite common around nearby stars. The discovery of potentially habitable nearby worlds may be just a few years away,' said Steven Vogt, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UCSC. Among hundreds of our nearest stellar neighbors, 61 Vir stands out as being the most nearly similar to the Sun in terms of age, mass, and other essential properties."

The Bus Stop of No Return 3

Posted by samzenpus on Friday December 12, 2008 @02:14PM from the long-wait dept.

He's been sitting there for 20 years and he'll be sitting there in another 20.

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