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Comment Re:I'm prepared (Score 1) 363

Apparently the original news report was incorrect. The said player actually posted a video clarifying she is alive and healthy. See https://tinyurl.com/svuhskk Quoting New York Times today -- "Elham Sheikhi, 23, a prominent athlete from Isfahan and member of the woman’s national team in futsal, a form of soccer, said Friday in a video release that contrary to earlier announcements of her death from the coronavirus — including a condolence message from a sports federation — she was alive and healthy. Ms. Sheikhi attributed the mistake to an erroneous assumption, based on the death of a Qom woman with the same age and name."

Comment Capital in the 21st Century.. (Score 2) 261

by propus (#57314900) Attached to: Slashdot Asks: What Book(s) Are You Reading This Month?
By Thomas Piketty..I came across this book from a review in NYTimes..Here's a quote from The Times that intrigued me to pick up this book.. "Mr. Piketty argues that the decades after World War II, when the divisions between the classes narrowed and opportunities to move up the economic ladder expanded — that is, when the middle class as we knew it was formed — may actually have been an aberration. Society, Mr. Piketty wrote, risks a return to the historical norm of a yawning gap between rich and poor."

Comment Re:CRC (Score 1) 440

by propus (#41205955) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Do I De-Dupe a System With 4.2 Million Files?
The special cases that you describe (similar files with slight variations) are much difficult to handle programmatically. If you expect the number of such files to be small, then I would just handle them manually after the rest of the dedupe process is done. However, if you think there would be numerous such files and would require a non-trivial amount of time to classify, then I would consider automating the step using a service such as Mechanical Turk from Amazon. With MTurk some real person is involved in the classification loop (I don't recall what they charge, but it's pennies for each classification request).
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IT Worker's Revenge Lands Her In Jail 347

Posted by samzenpus from the bad-idea dept.
aesoteric writes "A 30-year-old IT worker at a Florida-based health centre was this week sentenced to 19 months in a US federal prison for hacking, and then locking, her former employer's IT systems. Four days after being fired from the Suncoast Community Health Centers' for insubordination, Patricia Marie Fowler exacter her revenge by hacking the centre's systems, deleting files, changing passwords, removing access to infrastructure systems, and tampering with pay and accrued leave rates of staff."
Education

200 Students Admit Cheating After Professor's Online Rant 693

Posted by samzenpus from the people-get-what-they-deserve dept.
Over 200 University of Central Florida students admitted to cheating on a midterm exam after their professor figured out at least a third of his class had cheated. In a lecture posted on YouTube, Professor Richard Quinn told the students that he had done a statistical analysis of the grades and was using other methods to identify the cheats, but instead of turning the list over to the university authorities he offered the following deal: "I don't want to have to explain to your parents why you didn't graduate, so I went to the Dean and I made a deal. The deal is you can either wait it out and hope that we don't identify you, or you can identify yourself to your lab instructor and you can complete the rest of the course and the grade you get in the course is the grade you earned in the course."
Canada

Feeling Upset? Look At Some Meat 155

Posted by samzenpus from the the-calming-power-of-beef dept.
Meshach writes "A study out of Canada claims that seeing meat actually calms a person down. From the article: 'Contrary to expectations, a McGill University researcher has discovered that seeing meat makes people significantly less aggressive. Frank Kachanoff, who studies evolution at the university’s department of psychology, had initially thought the presence of meat would provoke bloodlust, believing the response would have helped our primate ancestors hunt. But in fact, his research showed the reverse is true.'" I can see all the "Make Steak, Not War!" protest signs already.

Comment Re:heh (Score 1) 6

by Jimmy_Slimmy (#30686836) Attached to: Nonsense: Electric flour sifter jokes

I even heard that sifting flour is an anachronism from a distant time when flour clumped. And now we have electric sifters. Progress!

And yes, I have sifted flour with no lumps, in my days of always blindly following orders. Never caught a bug in a sifter though- not to say I have not thrown out buggy flour!

Comment Re:The diodes can stay, but the processor's gotta (Score 1) 232

by Gizzmonic (#30686832) Attached to: Blu-ray Capacity Increase Via Firmware

Funny, I thought it was the opposite--a way to provide surround over optical without buying a new receiver, since optical doesn't have the bandwidth for surround PCM.

You're entirely correct with regards to optical, but I was talking about audio sent via HDMI. It doesn't need to be bitstreamed, there is plenty of bandwidth to send the full PCM soundtrack.

Comment Re:I don't get it.... (Score 1) 422

by Blakey Rat (#30686784) Attached to: Windows 7 Has Lots of "God Modes"

If all of the features are in the Control Panel, why do the developers need shortcuts?

In other words, what's wrong with the Control Panel interface that hinders developers to the point where they have to hack in these types of kludges?

Are you implying that an interface that's good for developers is by definition also good for average users?

Or, as another poster in an above thread pointed out, do you really want your great aunt to have one-click access to the "Format Harddrives" control panel applet?

Comment Re:Can someone explain this to me? (Score 1) 192

by xaustinx (#30686692) Attached to: Factorization of a 768-Bit RSA Modulus
"unless something dramatic changes in factoring" Something like using ATI and NVIDIA GPU's to accelerate factoring? something dramatic like that? http://eecm.cr.yp.to/pc109-20090901.pdf If you take the latest in CPU/Multi GPU configurations; and build around the idea of operating them for this purpose, i think RSA-1024 could be cracked in a similar amount of time. Far less than 10 or 5 years. Their paper doesn't make any references at all to GPU accelerated factoring, it's not even on their radar. http://fastra2.ua.ac.be/

Comment Re:Untested software (Score 1) 233

by DamonHD (#30686656) Attached to: 2010 Bug Plagues Germany

I was the CTO of a credit-card company. His tale is entirely plausible to me. Indeed I'm not very enthusiastic about the on-line and off-line 'new' security measures to put it mildly and essentially won't now do any (retail) transaction myself that requires them since I believe them to *reduce* security for various reasons. (I've gone back to posting cheques or phoning through 'customer not present' orders for example, and using more cash in person.)

Rgds

Damon

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