kellererik - Slashdot User

Comment Toothing anyone? (Score 1) 270

by kellererik on Thursday March 25, 2010 @01:43PM (#31614016) Attached to: Facebook Leads To Increase In STDs in Britain

Children, try to remember that history repeats itself here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toothing

This hoax worked because the people wanted to believe. So here we go again. The usual "The Internet is evil"-fodder for the water cooler on friday, a.k.a. nothing new here, moving on.

Submission + - Does This Headline Know You're Reading It? (hplusmagazine.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 23, 2010 @01:27PM

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 And the test-case could be... (Score 3, Insightful) 173

by kellererik on Thursday June 26, 2008 @02:10AM (#23945665) Attached to: AI Could Power Next-gen CCTV Cameras

if(hot_chick()) {
zoom_follow();
}

Submission + - PCWorld refuse hardware repair due to Linux. 10

Submitted by

Tikka

on Tuesday September 11, 2007 @11:43AM

Tikka writes: "Today I visit PC World (London, UK) because my 5 months old laptop has developed a manufacturing fault, the hinge to the display has started to crack the plastic casing.
Anyone in the know, will know that this is due to the joint inside and this means that ultimately the screen will separate from the keyboard in time.

Repair was refused, because I have Gentoo Linux on my laptop — Replacing the Windows Vista that was pre-installed.

PC World have said that this has void my warranty and there is nothing they will do for me, I spoke to a manager who said that he has been told to refuse any repairs if the operating system has been changed.

I feel this has really gone against my statutory rights and will do everything I can to fight it, I will review comments for your advice."

Microsoft's Consent-or-Die Patent 179

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday September 11, 2007 @09:43AM from the i'm-more-of-a-cake-or-death-man-myself dept.

theodp writes "Maybe you shouldn't get too attached to those new Windows Live services. On Tuesday, the USPTO granted Microsoft a patent for privacy policy change notification, which describes how to threaten users with the loss of their accounts and access to web sites and services should they refuse to consent to changes in a privacy policy. This includes the case where a user might object to allowing personal information, collected earlier with a promise of confidentiality, to be shared in the future with third parties. Also described is a 'Never Notify Me' option so you won't have to 'worry' over privacy policy changes."

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