saiful76 - Slashdot User

Comment Better replacement already available (Score 4, Insightful) 118

by saiful76 on Saturday October 08, 2016 @03:16AM (#53036477) Attached to: Microsoft Is Redesigning the Paint App For Windows 10

There's already a better replacement available: Paint.NET http://www.getpaint.net/ This tool is almost equivalent of what Notepad++ can do compared to Windows Notepad.

Submission + - Indian Govt. bans bulk SMS, investigating social media (ndtv.com)

Submitted by

saiful76

on Friday August 17, 2012 @02:56PM

saiful76 writes: "Following mass exodus of people belonging to north-east states India from southern states of India, specially Bangalore, allegedly due to the threatening messages, the government has asked relevant agencies to scan all social media platforms to check for inflammatory and offensive content, following which, the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DIT) has issued an advisory to all intermediaries in terms of provisions of IT Act and Rules to take action for disabling all such content on priority. Cellphone operators have been told to block all bulk SMS-es and videos — so nobody can send a message to more than five people at a time."

Submission + - Nearly half of American adults are smartphone owners (pewinternet.org)

Submitted by saiful76 on Sunday March 04, 2012 @01:24PM

saiful76 writes: Nearly half (46%) of American adults are smartphone owners as of February 2012, an increase of 11 percentage points over the 35% of Americans who owned a smartphone last May. Two in five adults (41%) own a cell phone that is not a smartphone, meaning that smartphone owners are now more prevalent within the overall population than owners of more basic mobile phones.

Submission + - Ralph McQuarrie dies at 82 (digitalspy.com) 1

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puddingebola

on Sunday March 04, 2012 @09:25AM

puddingebola writes: "From the Article on Digital Spy:

"Stars Wars artist Ralph McQuarrie has died aged 82, it has been announced.

The conceptual designer created the look of characters such as Darth Vader, Chewbacca and R2-D2, and helped design sets and scenes for George Lucas.""

Submission + - Did the Titanic Sink Due to an Optical Illusion?

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Hugh Pickens writes

on Sunday March 04, 2012 @04:52AM

Hugh Pickens writes writes: "According to new research by British historian Tim Maltin, records by several ships in the area where the Titanic sank show atmospheric conditions were ripe for super refraction, a bending of light that caused a false horizon that concealed the iceberg that sank the Titanic in a mirage layer preventing the Titanic’s lookouts from seeing the iceberg in time to avoid collision. According to the new theory, Titanic was sailing from Gulf Stream waters into the frigid Labrador Current, where the air column was cooling from the bottom up, creating a thermal inversion with layers of cold air below layers of warmer air creating a superior mirage. The theory also explains why the freighter Californian was unable to identify the Titanic on the moonless night because even though the Titanic sailed into the Californian’s view, it appeared too small to be the great ocean liner. The abnormally stratified air may also have disrupted signals sent by the Titanic by Morse Lamp to the California to no avail. This is not the first time atmospheric conditions have been postulated as a factor in the disaster that took 1,517 lives. An investigation in 1992 by the British government's Marine Accident Investigation Branch also suggested that super refraction may have played a role in the disaster (PDF See page 13), but that possibility went unexplored until Maltin mined weather records, survivors’ testimony and long-forgotten ships’ logs."

Comment Does it scale? (Score 1) 164

by saiful76 on Thursday February 23, 2012 @03:22AM (#39134145) Attached to: Is It Time For NoSQL 2.0?

http://www.mongodb-is-web-scale.com/

Comment Re:Homeopathic Medicine (Score 1) 430

by saiful76 on Friday December 24, 2010 @02:49AM (#34658174) Attached to: Placebos Work -- Even Without Deception

Homeopathy is a common whipping idea in slashdot mainly because with the current methods scientists are yet to find any trace of claimed compounds in homeopathic medicines. It is easily forgotten that science is always evolving. There are so many ideas (e.g. smallest particle on earth) which has gone through so many revisions over the years and will continue to do so.

Comment Is it really a plagiarism tool? (Score 1) 111

by saiful76 on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @01:53PM (#34040068) Attached to: Software Finds Plagiarism In Research

The article points to this link for the search engine. I did a search with a small paragraph copied from a paper and found too many results with different scores (it doesn't explain what these scores mean). It didn't tell anything decisively if the text is copied from any source, which is expected from a plagiarism tool.

Secondly, the About page doesn't talk plagiarism at all. What it says is: "eTBLAST is a unique search engine for searching biomedical literature. Our service is very different from PubMed. While PubMed searches for "keywords", our search engine lets you input an entire paragraph and returns MEDLINE abstracts that are similar to it. This is something like PubMed's "Related Articles" feature, only better because it runs on your unique set of interests."

However, I must say that the results did give lot of interesting related papers in the same subject which is not easy to find with keyword search. To me, it looks more like a search engine where you can search using a paragraph instead of keywords, which is quite impressive in itself. The site also offers few nifty features such as "Find an Expert" and "Find a Journal" which should be useful for research professionals. I also found the citations page to be quite informative. Since this service is free with API's available, it can be a great source for creating mashups.

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