What If You Had An Online Bulls**t Detector As A Browser Plugin?
from the might-be-useful dept
There's a ton of crap online. You can't trust anything you read at all... yet plenty of people still fall for the most ridiculous things they read. Apparently, the Japanese government has had enough. The Raw Feed points out that the government is funding a project to build an online lie-detector that will surf along beside you and alert you when whatever you're reading trips their "this is full of crap" meter. Of course, there are plenty of questions about how this actually works (or, more accurately, whether it actually works). Chances are that it won't work, and the software itself will be full of crap -- but that doesn't mean it wouldn't be nice to have a computer pre-analyze some of the crap you're probably reading.
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MY Parents NEED one of these, hurry up!
I need then to have this!
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Government...
Oh look a blog about democracy *CRAP*
This guy is selling 3,000 pounds of rice for 2 only dollars? *OK*
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You're an idiot. Go read about japan and then comment.
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Do a google search for 'China human rights' - if you get no replies, you're likely in China - and they have that search blocked...
Enough said, I'd think... lol
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sons of nippon
They are still sneaky lying back-stabbing and can only be trusted when we have our foot on their throat.
Too damned bad we stopped at nagasaki. I know of the bataan death march and the rape of naking. who can trust these sons of nippon?
but our young say that was a long time ago.. if you don't remember your history lessons you're doomed to repeat them.
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This forum is for those who can either make meaningful contributions or funny (sometimes) comments... not hateful and racist remarks. Loser. Die alone... soon...
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Also, biggest concern is "who will guard the guards", if a government starts calling the great depression as bullshit... or more important historical facts as bullshit... *THINKING*
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I guess we should skin all Germans as well? Afterall, they shot and baked (lets not forget gassed) their POWs.
Hell with it, let's just off everyone except you. Would that make you happy?
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Mr. Potatoes
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WTF!?!?!?!
Not really, but was fun to type.
I can't imagine a software based (or hardware for that matter) device capable of detecting bullshit online or off. Look how long the lie detector has been around and it is still not 80% accurate. How in the hell are they going to write a program (small enough to run in or along side a browser) to detect BS? I think it's an admirable idea doomed to fail with current technology. I call bullshit on it!
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I would report it to McAffee.
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Prediction Time
I'm laying odds that not too long from now, a US company will try this, make it actually work... then get sued by another company who "had the idea before" and claims to have actually patented it.
This story just couldn't end without a patent suit getting started.
OH... And I know that responding to Potato Fucker over there just eggs him on, but oh well. As someone said earlier... Die. Soon. Please.
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Also, if I'm a company, what do I have to do to make sure my content doesn't get flagged as BS? Hypothetically, the way I deliver my content may trip the BS alarm.
It will be interesting to see how they categorize, content into "crap" and "non-crap" and what ends up in the corresponding bins.
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Off the Wall...
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Already Available
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Anyone heard of Bullfighter?
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That'd be l337
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overloaded
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First post!
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Chill Everyone...
Look there are people like Charlie Potatoes in the world. Perhaps he is as old as he says and that he really did experience WWII. Fact is that he harbors animosity due to witnessing a major war. He clearly never got over his animosity.
I'm sure there are plenty of you, who call him a bigot, who would do the exact same thing if you've been there and experienced it. I'm not defending him but I understand generational, sociological perspectives.
Old people carry old ideas with them to the grave. That's just the way it is. For most of them it consumed 1/3 of their lives on Earth. Some died, some went crazy, a few live to tell their story. Others take the time and effort to keep flaming their beliefs, if for no other reason than to give purpose to their anguish.
I know of this old German guy who did my friends roof. He must have been 100 yrs old while doing the roof! Anyway, he still believed that Hitler was the greatest leader of all time! When you talk to him he reminisces with a sense of pride and nostalgia. It's weird, almost like he has no idea the war is over or that the world views Nazi Germany as evil. He acts as though it were a dear, lost friend.
Clearly, hate towards certain peoples is generational. Problems occur when people start to train the youth in this hate. It would be best to just ignore all haters so that the youth don't get tarnished with ideas of difference.
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Mine works : ) lol
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Smirk
im properly chastised. let's all be nice. maybe walk around naked and smoke flowers? then there would be no more wars.
let's forgive and forget. we let the jews attack and kill our sailors in their private little ocean when we tried to listen to their radio signals. whoa..wait..im doing it again.
ok..then how about this..all i really want is for the lying sacks of shit to stop murdering whales. let them kill koreans and eat them. kill two birds with one stone. ohhh i said kill....i hope i didn't offend anyone. smirk.
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I got your B.S. detector right here.
public double getBsLevelAsPercentage (String url)
{
....if (url.indexOf(".gov") != 0)
........return 1.00;
....else if (url.indexOf("slashdot.org") != 0)
........return 0.80;
....else if (url.indexOf("icann.org") != 0)
........return 0.50;
....else if (url.indexOf("myspace.com") != 0)
........return 2.50; // a mathematical paradox
....else
........return 0.00;
}
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lol
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Eggs on
you can download bullfighter here.
What would be better than a BS detector would be a way to automatically reject off topic posts from obvious trolls. Maybe the comment section would actually have some intelligent discourse instead of these tired flame wars.
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No good
Look at the Spam issues - every year Spam is on the rise even though most everyone hates the stuff.
If we can't keep BS out of our inbox we sure as heck can't keep it off a browser.
Just my 2 cents.
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filtering & scoring web pages
its possible, but the local database to drive it could get somewhat large and its probably not going to be fast.
doable, but the people who would want and install it are frankly probably not the people who need it.
as for anything being 'government' backed, well that probably means it won't work, nothing more just it won't work.
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