Comment Re:wtf? (Score 1) 331
Yeah, aside from all the crimes this kid committed, what were his crimes?!
Comment Re:inb4 people making jokes of this (Score 5, Insightful) 413
Or maybe people other people just don't spend a lot of time getting bent out of shape over the death of someone they didn't know and to whom they had no connection.
Personally I find it just as distasteful to make insincere public expressions of sorrow over something that actually doesn't affect you at all because "it's what you're supposed to do" or because you want to show all the other random anonymous slashdotters what a sensitive and caring person you are.
Comment Re:What's the scariest part of this? (Score 1) 799
Who was just suggesting that people be 'attacked/bombed/killed'?
Fuckwit.
Comment Re:I love the double standards (Score 1) 787
Learn what the term 'ad-hominem' means before trying to use it. You clearly have no idea.
Comment Re:Totally, irrevocably, utterly batshit insane (Score 1) 645
Maybe the relevance is that a prole in Orwell's 1984 has at least one right that people in our modern culture do not.
Comment Re:Saw it. It rocked. (Score 1) 705
Clearly you don't know much about visual effects. Integrating effects into a shaky-cam shot is far, far harder than doing it with a locked-off or smoothly moving camera.
Comment Correlation is not Causation? (Score 4, Insightful) 59
Whoever tagged this story 'correlationisnotcausation' is a fucking idiot. You're not as smart as you think you are.
Submission + - Harvard prof: computers need to "forget" m
Jessamine writes: A Harvard professor argues that too much information is being retained by computers, and the machines need to learn how to forget things as humans always have. "If whatever we do can be held against us years later, if all our impulsive comments are preserved, they can easily be combined into a composite picture of ourselves," he writes in the paper. "Afraid how our words and actions may be perceived years later and taken out of context, the lack of forgetting may prompt us to speak less freely and openly." Will such massive databases make us all act like politicians? Is data retention creating a "panopticon"? These are questions that the good doctor raises.
Submission + - Long-range eye tracking for advertisers
holy_calamity writes: A Canadian firm has launched a device that can track the gaze of multiple people from up to 10 metres away. Originally developed at Queen's University, Ontario, they hope to sell it to advertisers to allow them to monitor how many people look at their ads. Admittedly they are trying more benign stuff too like better hearing aids, but I doubt that will make up for movie posters that make a song and dance whenever you glance their way.
