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  1. Clearly weak AI: FRDCSA? on Learn About the FRDCSA 'Weak AI' Project (Video) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Any respectable AI would suggest a better name.

  2. Can We Take Back Nano? on Nanoscale Race Car Gets 3D Printed With a Laser · · Score: 4, Informative

    It prints at micro scale. Willard Wigen is unimpressed.

  3. Re:Except that... on Putting Emails In Folders Is a Waste of Time, Says IBM Study · · Score: 1

    Plus...ummm, doesn't "search" work on folders too? Ooops!

    Not with IBM's email client Lotus Notes.

  4. Check your source on IT Night Shift Workers: Fat and Undersexed · · Score: 0

    Come on /. A Google search reveals Men's Health Network is selling Viagra and Cialis. How odd they suggest I need more sex.

  5. Objection. It's not math. on JPMorgan Rolls Out FPGA Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    They aren't doing math; they are using software. Patented, mathless software.

  6. Agreed but ... on Citi Bank Reveals Attack... One Month Late · · Score: 1

    In America? Where those same companies own the regulators? Unlikely. Token fines perhaps... someday.

  7. Re:Better than public transportation on MIT Develops Fast Charging Liquid Flow Batteries · · Score: 1

    And where will the electricity come from? Oil is energy; transportable and relatively dense, but it still accounts for more than 35% of US energy use. A "transition... to all electric" does not mean energy independence anymore than a "hydrogen economy" does.

  8. Intelligence is a waste on Better Brain Wiring Linked To Family Genes · · Score: 1

    Just be attractive, tall and/or athletic and the smart kid will do your homework for you.

    Oh, and genes control that too.

  9. Visualization? on How Do You Visualize 100 GB of Google Text Data? · · Score: 1

    Visualization = Dark Background + Light Words + Pretty Lines

    How does that give me any sort of understanding of the content?

  10. That could never happen here! on The French Government Can Now Censor the Internet · · Score: 1

    The US people would never let that happen. We prefer to give our government the power to monitor secretly, because they only watch "bad guys" not me.

  11. Do they take Pepsi Points? on British Aircraft Carrier For Sale On Auction Site · · Score: 1

    What a great compliment this would make to my last purchase.

  12. Re:Associated costs on Lawyer Is Big Winner In Webcamgate Settlement · · Score: 1

    People do have the choice to cover the risk instead of asking the lawyer to do so. They could pay some hourly rate plus costs in which case the attorney is just working for them, the same way businesses use lawyers. What's to be pissed about? People don't want to risk their own money so they choose to pay the attorney a percentage of their "winnings".

    Didn't RTFM. Don't know how the money was divided in this case.

  13. Re:Suddenly, it doesn't feel like '1984' anymore! on GoogleSharing, Now With No Trust Required · · Score: 2, Funny

    Theirs some truth in they're. There going to find you.

  14. Ill Gotten Gains on RIM Doesn't Want 200 Fart Apps · · Score: 1

    Why would RIM wants that money. It is certainly embarrassing and probably illegal to profit in that way.

    I just read on IMDB that Leonardo DiCaprio's next movie is call "Fart Apps" so you know it must be wrong.

  15. Re:Kinda Sad on Mozilla Unleashes JaegerMonkey Enabled Firefox 4 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    With few exceptions (modern Linux, early Firefox, your-favorite-here), when is FOSS not playing catchup? I'm a big believer, but it is my experience that most F/OSS projects are a response to some commercially available / big corporate solution. Often the FOSS project provides some some feature set or widget or level of access that is an improvement over the existing package, but, as a whole the F/OSS project often lags behind bad-guy-based software. And the more UI there is, the greater the disparity becomes between F/OSS and big corporate.

    Commercial software vendors would have a hard time staying in business (and plenty didn't) if they couldn't stay ahead of F/OSS.

  16. An Accomplishment? on Smallest Manned Electric Plane Flies · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought it was hard to build large, useful electric vehicles. It turns out the real innovation is in small, impractical ones. Well done fellas.

  17. Politics versus Science on White House Fingers PlayStation As Obesity Culprit · · Score: 1

    I remember reading about a study in the UK that said it wasn't what the kid did, but what the kid ate. This summer my son started playing football, improved his diet (cut out crap, limited snacks) and lost a bunch of extra weight. I cannot say one or the other did the trick, but he plays as much or more XBox 360 (resting for two or three hours of football practice five days a week) than he did before. I guess the answer is get rid of the Playstation and get an XBox.

  18. Re:Outing the update on Apple Outs Anti-Jailbreak Update · · Score: 1

    I think the issue of Jailbreaking is more about running the apps you want and configuring the phone to work the way you want. Apple and AT&T exert significant control over an OOTB iPhone. Jailbreaking it puts the control in the hands of the user (and the authors of the malicious apps they install).

  19. Re:Reprint It on What To Do About CC License Violations? · · Score: 1

    So it's OK to use his images in magazine articles, news paper stories, TV shows and Metalica album art gratis? Where's the honor in that?

  20. Conversion Please on Sony's Blue-Violet Laser the Future Blu-ray? · · Score: 1

    I get that it's bigger, but can I get that in "Libraries of Congress"?

  21. Just like Safari on HTC Android Smartphone Stores Browsing Screenshots · · Score: 4, Informative

    How is this different from what Safari does? As I recently discovered when someone gave me their old PC, clearing the cache (which the person did) does not get rid of the page images Safari creates. There were hundreds of them: news stories, many Google searches, emails being read and written, adult content. I imagine Safari creates the images for the frequently used wall it puts up when you create a new window or tab. However the images were the full page (top to bottom, not just a 4:3 thumbnail) and there were low resolution JPG's and full resolution PNG's. What Safari needs the full page, full resolution images for I can only guess. This was nine-ish months ago, so it may be different now.