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  1. Re:Computers will get rights... on Legal Rights for Computers · · Score: 1

    They were pretty much what we would call today a terrorist organisation - having a policy of violence to achieve their aim

    Wait, how did they use violence again?

  2. Re:How about this: on Legal Rights for Computers · · Score: 1

    Um.

    "Some other advantages of the proposed criterion may be shown up by specimen questions and answers. Thus:

    Q: Please write me a sonnet on the subject of the Forth Bridge.

    A: Count me out on this one. I never could write poetry."

    - "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" (http://www.abelard.org/turpap/turpap.htm#critque_ of_the_new_problem)

  3. Re:Is it April 1st ? on Legal Rights for Computers · · Score: 1

    Maybe we're not getting the most out of them because most of them spend most of their time doing stupid, repetitive tasks that numb their minds and could be better and more efficiently performed by machines with some measure of artificial intelligence...

  4. Re:And in the rest of the world on In Japan, Old People Talk to Robots · · Score: 1

    Oh yes the answer to your question is, based on my informal survey of "In Soviet Russia" jokes here and at http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?InSovietRussia, the object can either be YOU or the subject of the sentence (if that was not "you").

    "In SR, old robots talk to YOU!"
    "In SR, robots talk to/about old people"
    "In SR, the children think of somebody"
    "In SR, the children think of YOU!"
    etc.

  5. Re:And in the rest of the world on In Japan, Old People Talk to Robots · · Score: 1

    Yes, I'm actually coding an "In Soviet Russia" bot and I've run into this question.

    Soon I will have internet access from my laptop and will be able to put in online...

  6. Re:A scary prescedent? on Cyberlibel Damages Awarded In Canada · · Score: 1

    But if I said it without malicious intent, as a joke, and if no one believed me anyway (without further evidence), so no one unsubscribed and new subscriptions did not drop as a result of the statement, it shouldn't be actionable.

  7. Re:One Word on Round-Up Ready Coca Plants · · Score: 1

    But is it real?

  8. Re:Didn't this already happen? on Internet Turns 35 Today · · Score: 2, Informative

    According to the article linked from that story, "computer scientists at UCLA linked two bulky computers using a 15-foot gray cable, testing a new way to exchange data over networks" and "Stephen Crocker and Vinton Cerf were among the graduate students who joined UCLA professor Len Kleinrock in an engineering lab on September 2, 1969, as bits of meaningless test data flowed silently between the two computers."

    The CBC article linked from the present story:
    "After the hardware was put in place, researchers at UCLA attempted on Oct. 29, 1969, to log in to a computer at the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, Calif."

    So, the first "birthday" was meaningless bits of test data between two computers in the same room, this "birthday" is the first connection (and attempt at a meaningful natural language exchange) between computers in geographically separate locations.

  9. Re:Diabetic? Get real on Tele-Immersion at UC Berkeley · · Score: 1

    Maybe no nurse wants to go. Also, if it caught on, the price of the tech would likely come down.

  10. Re:Telepresense: together, or apart? on Tele-Immersion at UC Berkeley · · Score: 1

    From a philisophical standpoint, being face-to-face is really just light, sound, and feelings being transmitted to and interpreted by your brain

    Please to include a filter on the "feelings" in the vr software, for those of us for whom the "feelings" transmission has been overwhelmingly negative in nature.

  11. Re:Further dumbing of humanity on Statistics For Data Entry: The Brave New Step · · Score: 1

    So put in a randomizer, used at random points...

  12. Re:Riiiiiiiiight on Statistics For Data Entry: The Brave New Step · · Score: 1

    It won't create brand new things, but if you train it on that text it might help you create things in the same genre...

  13. Re:I am sure they'll get some money to rebuild on Chinese Satellite Crashes Into House · · Score: 1

    IF YOU RESPECTED THE (UNSPOKEN) RULES YOU WERE FINE!

    This reminds me of the crack game in the US. If you shut up and did what you were supposed to (hustle, make moves, talk trash, pretend to be a big tough guy threatening violence all the time, ripping people off, committing crimes, pulling bait-and-switch moves, spending your earnings with the hos...), everything's cool and you get to smoke good crack. But if (like myself) you refused to play their game, you got served the bullshit cut with glue, ink, wax, rat poison, drano, whatever...

    Anyways it doesn't have to be that way. Legalize the shit, regulate it, sell it in stores like beer, and you take most of that "unwritten" shit out of it.

    The problem is, all that game with unwritten rules ends up taking up resources that might otherwise be more productively spent.

  14. Re:Who cares? on The Extinction of the Programming Species · · Score: 1

    I think we should all go on welfare or social security disability (like Rich Wallace) and work on the AI to replace everyone else's jobs too...then we'd all be in the same boat and the government would figure out that the economy is really 90% psychology and we could actually give everyone the basic resources needed for a comfortable living standard. Then people would work on what they want to work on, and they would be more productive at it, and everything would be better.

  15. Re: Uh, isn't that just cheating? on 'Tit for Tat' Defeated In Prisoner's Dilemma Challenge · · Score: 1

    So your program that figured out their recognition sequence would score, on average, higher than their programs - since your program would have no slaves, it would simply take advantage of their slaves. So you would win...

  16. Re:Bad coding habits on Java 1.5 vs C# · · Score: 1

    I've seen a class used purely to declare a bunch of constants used throughout the application...what's a better way? trying to learn here...

  17. Re:Quick summary of the comments on Java 1.5 vs C# · · Score: 1

    I haven't seen mod points since the first slashdot troll post investigation...(according to this, I've been banned from moderating for life. sucks to be me!

  18. Re:'Greatest and Luckiest of Mortals' is crap on The Greatest And The Luckiest Of Mortals · · Score: 1

    that is so cool! sex is primitive, and kind of disgusting.

  19. Re:good for open source on Groklaw Rants On Software Patents · · Score: 1

    Deano's in Seattle (21st and E. Madison) openly deals drugs inside and outside the club. The cops know about it, the neighbors know about it, everyone knows it. But they can't be shut down. People have tried to get their liquor license rescinded, but have failed every time. No one cares it seems.

    What they should do is just legalize the damn shit. Keeping it illegal just funds the damn gangs that are in control of the street distribution.

  20. Re:What Does 42 Mean for Privacy? on Tim Berners-Lee and the Semantic Web · · Score: 1

    wasn't your point that "the obscured system will be more secure"? ms word is obscured, but it's not more secure. i suppose you could argue that it's the macro language that's not secure but since that's included in the system...

  21. Re:Opposing view on Tim Berners-Lee and the Semantic Web · · Score: 1

    And fuzzy logic is a tool to specify just how much anything is of anything...

  22. Re:What Does 42 Mean for Privacy? on Tim Berners-Lee and the Semantic Web · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Didn't they come up with a few viruses for it though?

  23. Re:Nonsense! on Fabian Pascal Reacts · · Score: 1

    until we get virtual sex!

  24. Re:Your sig on Wikipedia != Authoritative? · · Score: 1

    interesting...something like philistinism but applied to religion instead of intellectual pursuits. paganism? from the definitions at dictionary.com, "not acknowledging" the gods would seem to allow for belief in them yet not worshiping them.

  25. Re:Speed of Gravitational attraction ? on Simulating the Whole Universe · · Score: 1

    ok i'm just curious: does the heisenberg uncertainty principle apply to simulations? that is, if you start off a particle in a simulator, what prevents you from being able to determine both its position and velocity, since you're not actually observing the particle itself?