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It will all be part of Total Information Awareness, which isn't gone since Congress defunded it, it only went back underground.

It looks like the X-43 program is going somewhat well in spite of the failure on the first fligh, but I wonder how the X-4000 program is going. NASA doesn't say on their website.

This is not the only robot making music. Several years ago, a post in a chat room said, "In the future, popular music will be made by robots, and the kids won't be able to tell the difference." You may be surprised to learn that this has already happened. Read more.

The pictures are not a bear or a guy in a suit.

Letters? A bunny? Those are nothing. The most amazing find was an Arizona Cardinals ballcap. Maybe it's a hoax, or maybe the Martians are cards fans.

I'm 90% sure it's a deliberate humor site;

The Uncoveror is a journal of political satire, news parody, and sometimes outrageous farce.

Uh, moderators, consider the source, OK? Said site also claims to have photographic proof of a Cardinals baseball cap in NASA Mars pictures, a story about how perfume are secret biological and chemical weapons tests, and a story about the power outage covering a Martian invasion.

I'm 90% sure it's a deliberate humor site; I'd be more certain if they didn't seem to pull so many of their stories straight out of the paranoid schizophrenic playbook.

There is a lawsuit against attorney Kevin O'Leary, an heir of Mrs. O'Leary over that fire. Maybe he should bring the comet theory to the court's attention. He certainly doesn't want to be held responsible for the actions of a cow long before he was born, especially if the cow is innocent.

Return missions? They aren't really there now. It's a hoax. Read all about it.

You haven't seen anything yet! They found an Arizona Cardinals ball cap. Read more.

Here's the story behind it.

Those pushy people who pounce on you in the mall parking lot are the terrorists, but they don't even know it.Read more.

As Dr. Marcus Von Vickersburg from The International Institute for Photographic Analysis stated, "digital photographs cannot be faked"
;)

Looks a lot like William Smythe and his pet roomba, Scruffy. Read More.

You may indeed. Check it out!

Microsquash should take their lawsuits against Pella and Andersen to Belium, Luxembourg, and The Netherlands. They might win there. Just what have the judges in those countries been smoking anyway? Crack?

That's a cover-up. It was really a Martian invasion. Mars was at its closest point to Earth at the time. Read more!

I wonder if they will abandon their lawsuits against Andersen and Pella now? Read more.

So, does this X-prize have anything to do with the X-4000 Launch Aparatus? Maybe it was designed by some kind of contest winner.

Instead of Belgium, they have built The Beast in Salt Lake City.

I think this site is his day job.

"Maybe Disney will make a cartoon about a happy little vegetable. He will be called Buddy the Carrot. He'll lose his mother to the farmer when he picks her, and eats her. That could do to vegetables what Bambi did to meat! Carrots may in fact be more intelligent than deer. Who knows for sure?"
Read more.

By Disney, do you actually mean Michael Eisner?

Going back to the moon certainly won't help all portions of the economy. Think of that all that green cheese Bush wants to bring ack will do to Wisconsin!

I don't know what Bush hopes to find on Mars, but he wants to go back to the moon for the green cheese.

Maybe that Wallace and Gromit cartoon is what inspired Dubya. He wants to go to the moon for the cheese, too.

Martians Shot Down NASA Probe.
Mars Polar Lander Lost: See, The Uncoveror Told You So!
Why Mars Will Never Be Colonized

I hope that clears things up.

Martians Shot Down NASA Probe.
Mars Polar Lander Lost: See, The Uncoveror Told You So!
Why Mars Will Never Be Colonized

I hope that clears things up.

Martians Shot Down NASA Probe.
Mars Polar Lander Lost: See, The Uncoveror Told You So!
Why Mars Will Never Be Colonized

I hope that clears things up.

I think the coolest robots are the ones making popular music, especially since the kids can't tell the difference.

Dude! You forgot to link to news stories that prove it. Don't just make claims, back them up, or people won't be convinced. Here are some informative articles.
MARS POLAR LANDER LOST: SEE, THE UNCOVEROR TOLD YOU SO!
MARTIANS SHOT DOWN NASA PROBE
POWER OUTAGE HID MARTIAN INVASION

Dude! You forgot to link to news stories that prove it. Don't just make claims, back them up, or people won't be convinced. Here are some informative articles.
MARS POLAR LANDER LOST: SEE, THE UNCOVEROR TOLD YOU SO!
MARTIANS SHOT DOWN NASA PROBE
POWER OUTAGE HID MARTIAN INVASION

Dude! You forgot to link to news stories that prove it. Don't just make claims, back them up, or people won't be convinced. Here are some informative articles.
MARS POLAR LANDER LOST: SEE, THE UNCOVEROR TOLD YOU SO!
MARTIANS SHOT DOWN NASA PROBE
POWER OUTAGE HID MARTIAN INVASION

Not only that, but Andersen and Pella will have to stop doing business in Sweden and Finland.

Yes, sci-fi geeks are already demanding human rights for robots. I wonder if the RIAA will respect their rights once they are making all popular music?

Yes, sci-fi geeks are already demanding human rights for robots. I wonder if the RIAA will respect their rights once they are making all popular music?

...when chess playing computers are a hoax.

That is exactly it! It does not matter if the probe is from the US, Japan, Russia, the EU, or China. The Zhti Ti Kofft have had enough of Earth's snooping.

BSD isn't dead. The next Windows will be based on it. Read more.

When humans play they rely primarily on pattern matching rather than searching a tree (unless they suck). Computers tend to be very poor at pattern matching, and humans tend to be extremely good-that's why a small child can look at photographs and categorize them instantly, but the most advanced computers have great difficulty with that kind of task.

Most skilled human chess players apply pattern matching by looking at the board and identifying interesting things. They start with nothing and add new options to the list until they feel they have a sufficiently comprehensive understanding of the situation.

Search tree pruning, by contrast, starts by including the entire space of potential moves and identifying courses of action that can be eliminated. Alpha-beta pruning is a particularly poor example here since it has the useful property that all a-b pruned subtrees are guaranteed not to be optimal. However, humans often ignore superior courses of action and choose suboptimal ones that "feel right" or match prior experience.

There have been various experiments on the limits of raw pattern matching ability with chess pieces. An interesting one involved asking participants to memorize an arrangement of pieces and reconstruct it a minute after the arrangement is removed. Participants included people with little or no chess experience and masters.

Those without experience memorized it as raw data, and did as well as they would have if asked to memorize random numbers instead of chess arrangements. The masters were more interesting. They did about the same as the beginners on random arrangements that could never actually happen in a game, but they were infinitely better at reconstructing realistic arrangements that often show up in games. The experiments proved that masters can recognize groups of pieces and evaluate them collectively.

In a game situation this means the master looks at the board, and certain parts of it just stand out. The master will pay no attention to areas that don't grab his attention, and doesn't need to evaluate whether any of those individual pieces are worth moving. Interestingly, this means that playing with nonstandard rules (such as changing piece movements) will likely devastate a master's ability while only slightly reducing an amateur's skill level and leaving the computer's ability unchanged.

Even though I think the parent is a troll, here's an academic article detailing some other experiments on the topic.

Is Kasparov really playing against the computer this time? The last few times were hoaxes. Read more.

DRM is just the latest in a long line of things. They still won't tell you what the V-chip is really for, but this article will!

Does this mean the X-4000 Launch Aparatus will be scrapped too?

They even found Yellow Cake from Niger!

That did happen to a guy who used bottled pheromones. Don't laugh. It could happen!

The "Wow" signal was actually harmful interference caused by the Zhti Ti Kofft test-firing their death ray.

They should have gone after the Air Force first. They secretly admit UFOs are real, and have pictures.

"Robots are being bought and sold like inanimate objects. That sounds like slavery! It's high time we extend human rights to robots. After all, robots are people, too." - William Smythe

Data, even more so than R2-D2 or C3PO is why Sci-Fi fanboys want human rights for robots.

Anyone stupid enough to buy Sunncomm stock probably is beyond help, but just in case they do want investment advice, Here is some.