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Humankind Makes Last Stand Against Machine
MrZeebo writes "According to this Financial Times story, Garry Kasparov has begun another match against a computer chess program on Sunday, this time playing against the Israeli-developed Deep Junior. Kasparov is the highest-rated chess player of all time, and lost to Deep Blue in 1997. According to the article, Deep Junior, despite evaluating less moves per minute than Deep Blue, is considered to be a superior chess player. The match will span 6 games, the last one being February 7th." Kasparov has won the first game.
your particular moderation of this post from a score of 2 (or rather, 1+karma bonus) to a 1 (or 0, if you will) is representative of the insipid moderation done by inept moderators.
for example, rather than promoting comments that deserve to be read, you waste your points pushing them down. in this particular instance, you moderated a previously unmoderated comment "overrated," which is ludicrous, considering that it wasn't rated to begin with!
rather than wasting your time deciding who sux0rz, why not spend your time deciding who's worth listening to? there's a reason why moderators are supposed to promote, rather than demote: the signal to noise ratio here is really, really underwhelming, and to use your points to mod trolls and nitwits down is pretty futile. better to mod UP, and crank your filter to 5.
your pal,
herrd0kt0r,
fellow moderator,
but not a dumbass.
i commend you for moderating fairly! the parent to this is indeed offtopic. bravo!
but still, rather than wasting your time deciding who sux0rz...
oh, nevermind.
hehaohahoaho!
As if potentially losing this rematch to a computer isn't bad enough, Kasparov learned today that his wife is leaving him for a vibrator.
I will do that if you can find me a com port that puts out 100V DC. Now, I've never taken apart a Cray, but I think that is unlikely.
I have done the latter with 115v AC... Three times. Stupid cheap weedwhackers. I was never actively pushed away as you describe, I only managed to force my fingers open after several seconds of trying.
We also haven't mentioned Amperage yet, or actual wattage, but as in the normal course of computer operations the DC supplies are powered off of AC imputs, the AC supply would still have significantly higher wattage backing it.
I suppose if our homicidally negligent designers gave the system a DC-based UPS *and* gave the computer regulation over the line *and* didn't include any fuses anywhere between the UPS and the motherboard and the motherboard and the com port and the com port and the pieces on the chessboard *and* made the power regulation channel extremely beefy and insulated enough to withold a few tenths of a second of a current of sufficient magnitude to be channeled to a table and to a human being and yet find insufficient release opportunities between components on the motherboard, the controller board, the port itself, the cabling, or the table it was played on *and* didn't think to tell the guy to wear gloves then yes, it is possible that a computer could really shock someone playing chess.
It is still impossible with current technology that it would "intend" to do that.
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