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UAV equipped with Kinect(boingboing.net)
3 points by etherael 16y ago|0 comments
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by etherael 16y ago
They pretty much do, it's just that women aren't the only target demographic that you can do this with. Think comic book movies, etc. They're all aiming at a very specific subset of the population and tailoring films to that group. http://
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by etherael 16y ago
really? http://www.neosprockets.com/index.php/2010/01/chick-flick-ge...
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by etherael 16y ago
Except in this particular instance, and in many other instances, it's not just pure patent trolls doing the abuse. Microsoft (and many of the other players in this war) does actually have a profitable software development portion of the com
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by etherael 16y ago
As someone who has tried mercurial and are now firmly in the git supporters camp, can you relate how git is superior to mercurial? I've used git for a long time now and I really like it, but it's very hard for most developers to wrap their
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by etherael 16y ago
Does there exist some organisation which acts as an umbrella treaty against patent abuse. For example a centralised pool of patents held by all member companies in the organisation is used as a deterrent against patent abuse, in the event t
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by etherael 16y ago
Instead you'll choose the other guy who will.. Oh wait.
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by etherael 16y ago
I use soundmanager2 for a large project I'm currently working on, although it has it's... foibles, it does not actually require flash in most instances as of latest release, it can also use HTML5 audio where available. And the size of the
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by etherael 16y ago
I think it's called fan service, though at this point it's almost indistinguishable from picking on the retarded kid.
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by etherael 16y ago
Clarification, not bungling the actual scans, but bungling tests of the scanners, and by bungling tests of the scanners; not testing incorrectly, but omitting a single critical step. Standard procedure is to take ten consecutive measures
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by etherael 16y ago
That's a good one actually, wrapped in another layer it works perfectly. As there are code smells, so there are propaganda smells, but not everyone has a nose for either of them.
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by etherael 16y ago
Damn straight, all intolerant people should be taken out and shot.
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by etherael 16y ago
Slightly off topic but not really question; Is there a defined term for the observation of continuous streams of information tailored to fit a particular popular ideology thus contributing to increased skepticism of said information?
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by etherael 16y ago
I left school in year nine (Australia) for two reasons Primary) I never learned a single thing in school that I had not already learned from self study. I am a hardcore autodidact so I don't take this alone as evidence that school is just n
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by etherael 16y ago
You can however use http live streaming with AES tokens to get the same kind of result with html5 (audio and video). It just remains to be seen if that is acceptable to nflix and the content providers they're beholden to.
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by etherael 16y ago
http://bjsw.oxfordjournals.org/content/33/4/481.full.pdf This study is mindbogglingly dodgy, if you actually take it seriously I understand your hysteria, but a few thoughts; 1) Basic sanity check, you seriously buy that approximately one
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by etherael 16y ago
I didn't actually check the comments but yeah, they're quite interesting too, the part that I found fascinating was the description of the hybrid breeding process and the results with regards to the Moulard adopting the optimal qualities fi
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The Physiology of Foie: Why Foie Gras is Not Unethical(seriouseats.com)
16 points by etherael 16y ago|2 comments
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by etherael 16y ago
Would you happen to know a list of places where it's practical to rent out semi permanent harbour space, either just in the EU or (preferably) all around the world? I imagine in your planning of your current situation it's possible you comp
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by etherael 16y ago
Citation?
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by etherael 16y ago
WRT the degree to which this is 'normal procedure' for swedish criminal investigations; http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1979095
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by etherael 16y ago
As a post hoc, don't feel too bad about it, it looks like this was not taken as a serious responsibility by state department staff, for example they list an antivenom manufacturer in Australia amongst the CI/KR list, yet this manufacturer h
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by etherael 16y ago
Deep Breath <warandpeace> This doesn't really wash. It's not inconsistent to believe that the entire episode as it stands is a good example of a less bad system than if all this information was kept forever under wraps. Let's exam
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by etherael 16y ago
Extrapolating from the newly available Groups to contact for comment section on the wikileaks site. It looks like you can get in contact privately with someone who can get in contact with wikileaks reps via e-mail here; Leonard Weinglass we
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by etherael 16y ago
Which part about the enemy in question makes them not serious?
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by etherael 16y ago
Religious fundamentalists with paramilitary inclinations, I may not be a fan of the US, but I am even less a fan of this bloc.
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by etherael 16y ago
Ok so let me see if I follow your line of reasoning here. A) War is bad. B) The war in Iraq is particularly bad C) So let's provide intel to the enemy in order to make the war even worse for the US, potentially killing many innocent foreign
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by etherael 16y ago
It's a list of the three highest priority industrial facilities in the country directly across the gulf from one of your primary warzones, it also gives the name of the controlling company, and the name of the bureaucrat directly in charge
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by etherael 16y ago
I saw this this morning and it seemed like the first example of something that should severely not be leaked. I wanted to contact them privately and directly and bring their attention to it but there turns out being no discernable channel t
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by etherael 16y ago
Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos by Seth Lloyd. It made me think about reality in a very novel way, and the nature of what a tautology really is, and it was extremely readable considering how cerebr

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