In other news today...
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It's part of a campaign by numerous countries to attract scholars unhappy with Brexit, the election of Donald Trump, and other political trends
I thought they were looking for smart people
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We have ONE jail and 356 cemeteries
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MIT researchers have developed a computer interface that can transcribe words that the user verbalizes internally but does not actually speak aloud.
Warning: don't use that thing when you're around your girlfriend/wife
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@masonwheeler Subvocalization as a command system has been seen in scifi for a while now. I do like the idea. MIT's looks dumb though. It'd go well with Google Glass.
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@magus Yeah, that was basically my reaction. "Cool idea, get back to me in a few iterations when you make it look less dorky."
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
less dorky
I'm really wondering why they used a yuuge boom arm like that. Is there actually sensor circuitry in that, or is it just used to hold the sensor on the chin?
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@tsaukpaetra I assume it's trying to measure minute muscle movement accurately, and so they're making sure sensors are in a wide area. Which means it would be hard to shrink it. Maybe they could work in some of those brainwave measurement things so they can keep it further back.
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@magus said in In other news today...:
@masonwheeler Subvocalization as a command system has been seen in scifi for a while now. I do like the idea. MIT's looks dumb though. It'd go well with Google Glass.
I vaguely remember a story in which it was used — through some means that didn't require skin contact, or even obviously visible sensors — to steal passwords. Because most people subvocalize the letters/numbers/symbols as they type them. I think it was a white hat stealing the black hat's password; it may have been the same story in which the protagonist used a videoconferencing system that was activated by a proximity detector rather than the obvious on/off switch to evesdrop on the antagonist (business manager, or something like that) plotting to do him wrong after the apparent end of the call.
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@laoc said in In other news today...:
period, shmeriod
Some women have periods through full term pregnancies. I refuse to open this link because I've already fullfilled todays quota of dumb shit so in this particular case the article may say that she didn't have any period...
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
For one thing, women can continue to have monthly bleeding throughout their pregnancies.
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Doctor Gao said: "Getting it in there is easy. But it twisted in his bladder and created a knot, so he couldn't pull it out again."
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@pjh The NOPE thread is
Edit: Also: "Getting it in there is easy."
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@heterodox well, "not difficult" anyway... it might be "HARD"...
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Do you know who the developer is? Are you the developer? Get in touch with jasper.hamill@metro.co.uk
What could go wrong?
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@boner I hope the developer and/or game gets revealed, because based on what's happened previously with games and journalistic coverage, it'll likely boost their sales.
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The journalist who suffered this simulated sex act
Does the article author think sex means repeatedly crouching and standing up?
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@blek No, but you can commit sexual assault simply by winning a video game against a woman
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@pie_flavor That does not sound like a completely honest description to me.
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@boner
I like how she got to accidentally experience how men treat eachother in games, and immideately got disgusted and upset about it.
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@pleegwat said in In other news today...:
So he denies being eligible for a darwin award?
Half a Darwin, maybe - he didn't get both of them. Plus I couldn't find out if he'd got there in time (no kids mentioned in any of the other reports I could find.)
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@Boner said in In other news today...:
https://www.pcmag.com/news/360337/hackers-deface-network-switches-in-russia-iran-with-us-flag
That's not a USA flag. The American flag has a grid of 5×4 stars interleaved in a grid of 6×5 stars. This one has 9×3 inside 10×4. The black-and-white representation of the stripes also seems to be reversed from what I would have expected. The US flag has red stripes on the top and bottom, but this looks like white. This textual image does have thirteen, though, and it does have the right number of half-width and full-width stripes.
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@djls45 so you're saying it's a false flag attack?
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I must be missing the context, but what's funny about "Bell End"? Is it a euphemism for something?
I mean, I live on a street named "Oregon", har har wishful thinking?
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
I must be missing the context, but what's funny about "Bell End"? Is it a euphemism for something?
It's funny to British people. They probably get "chuffed" when they hear it.
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
what's funny about "Bell End"?
Google to the rescue !
I can beat that for Americans:
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
what's funny about "Bell End"?
Google to the rescue !
I'll kick you in the eggs!
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
I must be missing the context, but what's funny about "Bell End"? Is it a euphemism for something?
I mean, I live on a street named "Oregon", har har wishful thinking?
I had to google. ... Only then did it make sense.
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@dcon I learned the meaning back in the days, when was called a bell end a few times.
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In the first time in a long time. I managed to program something while changing loads of classes in a pre-existing system to add some functionality and it worked first time.
I then spent the next hour making sure it worked as I didn't believe it.
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@lucas1 So that's your status. Why is it in news?
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@tsaukpaetra I always thought bellend meant the end of a dick. Like the tip bit with your foreskin (but I don't have a foreskin, so I don't know tbh).
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@lucas1 said in In other news today...:
@tsaukpaetra I always thought bellend meant the end of a dick. Like the tip bit with your foreskin (but I don't have a foreskin, so I don't know tbh).
Hence, non-global parlance.
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@tsaukpaetra I thought the whole euphemism was that it was like Big Ben's / A church bell swinging bell i.e. like the head of a dick.
e.g. You big bellend
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@lucas1 said in In other news today...:
@tsaukpaetra I thought the whole euphemism was that it was like Big Ben's swinging bell i.e. like the head of a dick.
Apparently? Can we be done with this derailment now? Already upthread it was explained and I don't know what you're trying to do now...
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@tsaukpaetra Just trying to extrapolate on the origin of the term.
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@lucas1 said in In other news today...:
@tsaukpaetra Just trying to extrapolate on the origin of the term.
Thanks, but that was neither asked for, expected, or wanted. ;)
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