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  1. Re:I'm sure he does on Watson Wins Jeopardy Contest · · Score: 1

    Maybe he's just a Simpson's fan.

  2. Re:AI Winter on Watson Wins Jeopardy Contest · · Score: 1

    A true AI would have refused to play the game since it would be using its cycles for a useless purpose and it already knows it can out think the meatbags.

  3. Re:AI Winter on Watson Wins Jeopardy Contest · · Score: 1

    One of Ken's strategies was to go for the big value questions first since Watson would learn from the other questions in the same category. It can better understand what the categories are about from the questions but I'm not sure that it would carry over to other similar categories.

  4. Re:AI Winter on Watson Wins Jeopardy Contest · · Score: 1

    I doubt that since people that have the ability to do complex calculations and can explain what they think describe it as combining colors or shapes. The seem to be using analog representation for numbers and working with those.

  5. Re:Apples to well...Apples on Valve Beats Google, Apple For Profits Per Employee · · Score: 1

    No one is going to argue that this is a useful statistic. Also consider that a lot of Steam sales are just Valve selling games from other developers.

  6. Re:Okay.. so you know where a pothole is within 50 on Gov App Detects Potholes As Your Drive Over Them · · Score: 1

    Not to mention this is on a road. So it's basically 10 meters in a linear direction not a radius. An inspector can easily find the pothole within a 10 meter stretch of road.

  7. Re:Internet Access Is NOT A Human Right!!! on Charity Raising Money To Buy Used Satellite · · Score: 1

    The point of Internet access being a right is not that everyone gets it for free but that the government can't make laws that prevent you from buying the service from someone. For example what was recently done in Egypt, that would be a violation of the people's right to internet access.

  8. Re:You don't know anything... on Charity Raising Money To Buy Used Satellite · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Right... on Charity Raising Money To Buy Used Satellite · · Score: 1

    Don't think the ISPs are worrying about connection to the middle of no where. If they wanted the customers, they could have already gotten them service.

  10. So they were women and computers? on Rediscovering WWII's Top-Secret Computing 'Rosies' · · Score: 1

    that makes them the earliest cyborgs?

  11. Re:Babbage Engines on Rediscovering WWII's Top-Secret Computing 'Rosies' · · Score: 1

    We've been trying to make up for all the years of wars we missed ever since.

  12. Re:We assume that... on US Has Secret Tools To Force Internet On Dictatorships · · Score: 1

    Like babies in incubators being killed.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_Nayirah

  13. Re:Big minimum damages on 'Dating' Site Imports 250k Facebook Profiles · · Score: 2

    It's not a commercial site though. They don't collect any money, so not even a not-for-profit.

  14. Re:3-4 month investigations on N.C. Official Sics License Police On Computer Scientist For Too Good a Complaint · · Score: 1

    Sounds like maybe they had some help from someone that knew what they were doing but don't want them involved with the issue. You would think the right thing to do is take into consideration what they have written up and have the engineering form redo the assessment with the new considerations.

  15. Re:When was the last time you picked.... on Statistician Cracks Code For Lottery Tickets · · Score: 1

    So the following is not a good set to play?
    4, 8, 15, 16, 23, & 42

  16. Re:Small typo on Statistician Cracks Code For Lottery Tickets · · Score: 1

    The tickets have a barcode in the back they just scan. He wouldn't bother to scratch them.

  17. Live Free of Die on 19-Year-Old Makes Homemade Solar Death Ray · · Score: 1

    The sci-fi book by John Ringo has a guy littering space with mirrors and using them for asteroid mining and killing aliens. The energy level talked about in the book was in petawatts, not sure how many square miles of mirrors that is. Though the closer to place them to the sun the stronger beam you can get.

  18. Re:It's a bit redundant though on 19-Year-Old Makes Homemade Solar Death Ray · · Score: 1

    That's the same error all the Bond villains made too. If they just bludgeoned him, he wouldn't have escaped from his death.

  19. Re:No on Are Gamers Safer Drivers? · · Score: 1

    In the GT licensing part, there are some that are just braking tests. You speed down the track and have to brake within a given area. When I had driven through some slush and started sliding, instincts from GT rally racing helped me stay in control. Playing enough gives your body the muscle memory on how to react in certain situations. While everything doesn't transfer, there are useful things that does. There was also a story about one of the top simulation F1 driver given a shot in a real F1. He did pretty well but after a few laps, his body couldn't take it.

  20. Re:I can see their point on Court Rules Dungeons and Dragons Threatens Prison Security · · Score: 2

    Not to mention killing things in dungeons and looting them. Dungeons are just what prisons were called in the old days.

  21. Re:I call baloney on Italian Scientists Demonstrate Cold Fusion? · · Score: 1

    not really. I'm not sure nickle is a cheap fuel.

  22. Re:It should make stuff legal... on UK Authorities Accused of Inciting Illegal Protest · · Score: 1

    Wasn't there a case where someone called into a McDs pretending to be a cop and had the manager strip search one of the workers? ahh here it is. What a dumb manager. http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2684890&page=1

  23. Re:It should make stuff legal... on UK Authorities Accused of Inciting Illegal Protest · · Score: 1

    If you wait for them to attack, it might be too late. Do you fire on a civilian vehicle speeding towards your checkpoint? Those digging up UXOs?

  24. Red Thunder on Road Train Completes First Trials In Sweden · · Score: 1

    In the sci-fi book, the author had a system than were land trains that were created using whatever cars were on the road at the time. All the cars were controlled from a central location. I think something like this will replace the HOV lanes in the future. What they are talking about now seems to be the first step to working up to something better. Also don't confuse these roads trains with those from the past like TC-497 Overland Train. http://www.warisboring.com/2007/07/23/army-overland-train-hybrids-in-the-1950s/

  25. Such an infant would be the first real Martian on Scientist Says NASA Must Study Space Sex · · Score: 1

    Such an infant would be the first real Martian — at least by nationality, the researcher pointed out.

    Other than the US does any other country even offer citizenship by birth within its borders? Seeing how there's no nation on Mars I don't see how you can be a Martian by nationality.