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Comment · 13 years ago
Look at the white block on the far right side about one-third of the way down.

edit: And the white block on the top, far right a little in. <3

And just right of the left hand side black border, about halfway down.

And the white block to the left of the F on the bottom right serial.

And the white block in the top of his hair.

Comment · 13 years ago
Here's the project description, I think it's probably safe.

"Ten Thousand Cents is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using custom drawing tool, thousands individuals working in isolation from one another painted tiny part the bill without knowledge overall task. Workers were paid cent each via amazon's mechanical turk distributed labor tool. Total cost of the bill, creation, and reproductions available for purchase are all $100. The work is presented as video piece with 10,000 parts drawn simultaneously. The project explores the circumstances we live in, new uncharted combination markets, crowdsourcing, virtual economies, and reproduction."

Comment · 13 years ago
wnight never said that Andrew was white hat, just that not all the blame should be placed on him.
Comment · 14 years ago
The test was run twice and the AI was released both times but the logs of the conversations weren't made public. Also all of the extra protocols weren't in place for either test meaning he could have bought the AI's release.

It's an interesting thought experiment but it's a bit ridiculous that the "tests" are mentioned on the page when they don't have any relevance to the rest of the idea.

Comment · 14 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago
I've only ever heard it sarcastically here in Australia.
Comment · 14 years ago
To be fair this site has been around for years. Since 2006 according to whois.
Comment · 14 years ago
I almost never shut it down. Probably only once a month.

Waking from sleep is faster and I don't have to re-open my applications and documents. Shutting it down would save a small amount of power but that's rarely an issue (I'd shut it down if I was flying somewhere).

Are there some benefits to shutting it down I'm overlooking?

Comment · 14 years ago
AFAIK a 0-day exploit is an exploit that was found in the wild. No one previously knew about it and there's a scramble to fix it.

In a week this exploit will be an "old 0-day exploit" because the "0-day" bit describes developer preparedness at discovery, not how long the exploit has been known.

Comment · 14 years ago
By 2050 the set of all verbs will be pared down to just "hacking" and "trolling".
Comment · 14 years ago
The content posted on that Facebook page plays into the public stereotype of "programmer". Why would they think any of that would appeal to actual programmers? They must know some, someone had to make their site. It's embarrassing really (lol this shoe has a keyboard on its sole. It must be for programmers!!!11!!one!).
Comment · 14 years ago
Keeping these things clean would be very hard. Perhaps a better target market than single-night-guests is medium-term-guests.

I could see myself renting one of these things for a month in a city I visit on holiday.

Comment · 14 years ago
I need glasses but rarely wear them. I'm happy watching 480p most of the time.
Comment · 14 years ago
>But, no one has ever put on weight on a calorie deficit. NEVER.

I want to be a pedant and correct that to "body fat" instead of "weight". A change in diet can stress the body into retaining extra water weight, causing a temporary increase in weight.

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