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  1. Re:Ethical vs Moral on Ethical Killing Machines · · Score: 1

    I think you're confusing robots with AI. These things are most likely going to be drones controlled by a geek playing Quake IV on a correctly scaled map.

  2. Re:Should I be bothered? on PETA Using Games To Spread Its Message · · Score: 1

    I love seal flipper stew. But it's not just in the preparation of the meal it has to come from clubbed baby seals in order to dispense the appropriate amounts of endorphins throughout the meat.

  3. Re:Is this truly the end? on Final Judgment — SCO Loses, Owes $3,506,526 · · Score: 1

    Yet it clearly outlines, in a mocking fashion, the only reason he got elected. The only change he is going to bring to Washington is coming out of your pocket.

  4. Re:wht a mess our legal system is on Final Judgment — SCO Loses, Owes $3,506,526 · · Score: 1

    The only reason it took so much money is because there was an even larger amount to lose. Because you can't afford it pretty much guarantee's that you wont have to.

  5. Re:Is this truly the end? on Final Judgment — SCO Loses, Owes $3,506,526 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's like "LotR: The Return of the King". Just when you thought it was over, there's 24 more endings to get through.

  6. Re:Stating the Obvious on RICO Class Action Against RIAA In Missouri · · Score: 3, Funny

    It was designed to protect people from the Music And Film Industry of America (MAFIA).

  7. Re:Filed Under the NYT's "Fashion & Style?" on Mind Control Delusions and the Web · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    All I read was the title, is this about Obama's campaign?

  8. Re:Wrong crowd on Woman Admits Sending $400K To Nigerian Scammer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Vegas works this same way.

  9. Re:"military intelligence" oxymoron still works... on US Army To Use MMOs For Turing Tests · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually for AI it's the exact opposite. Puzzle games are extremely easy for a computer due to the speed at which it can calculate all possible outcomes. Trying to convince people to put together a raid in an MMO requires a minimal amount of social skills. If all you're doing is grinding then you haven't really played much.

  10. Re:BTM on US Army To Use MMOs For Turing Tests · · Score: 2, Funny

    The USArmy has become so good and turning humans into bots, they figured they may try turning bots into humans.

  11. Re:Living in Texas, I cannot be sure on The State of Electronic Voting In the 2008 US Elections · · Score: 1

    Nice long description of the non-problem. Whether or not it mattered in the outcome of the vote due to one side already having enough votes doesn't mean that my vote would have been counted even if I was in the first voter in the first district of the first state. It also doesn't mean that it wouldn't have been counted 5 times. It also doesn't mean the the box it was dropped into wasn't stuffed with 500k votes for another candidate.

  12. Re:I 3 false dichotomies on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    At no point did I say it means we are no longer a racist society. What I did say is that it either no longer maters, or that affirmative action is working better than ever expected. If a group of people who was once considered unable to succeed without special privileges is now able to obtain the highest position in government it can only mean one of two things. He was given the opportunity and didn't earn it, or he wasn't given the opportunity because it is no longer needed.

  13. Re:Living in Texas, I cannot be sure on The State of Electronic Voting In the 2008 US Elections · · Score: 1

    Funny, my vote was on paper and I have no idea if my vote was recorded properly or if it wasn't manipulated in some way either. I had to trust that someone droped it in the right bucket and not the trash. Then that it got counted at all. Which actually it didn't. The election was called before the results from my state were even in. Ohh well.

  14. Re:What about us lazy people? on Honda Assists With "Next Steps" For Mankind · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Obama's plan for "Universal Honda Walking Asistants" will be released soon.

  15. Re:do you have a better alternative? on Obama Launches Change.gov · · Score: 1

    Typically when you want more of something you fund it. The same goes for the poor.

  16. Re:And the reward for most useless researcher goes on How To Cut In Line and Not Get Caught · · Score: -1, Troll

    As we move more and more through Socialism and on to Communism we'll need to know everything there is to know about standing in line. As population productivity drops and supplies start to run out everyone will be standing in line in order to get what they need. People will stand in line just to find out what line they need to be standing in. Think of the DMV only on a national level. Yes, it's an Obama Nation.

  17. Re:Don't take technology for granted on How Do You Justify the Existence of IT? · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Showing that every task you perform is valuable is just making you a tool. Showing that you will provide increasing value with projects and ideas will show you as a valuable employee.

  18. Re:"Propaganda" on Obama Launches Change.gov · · Score: 1

    Screw the french, we can do better we're Americans!!! Make it a 15 hour work week and 12 weeks of vacation a year. Plus double everybody's current 40hr a week pay.

  19. Re:well said on Obama Launches Change.gov · · Score: 1

    Either you draft them now to stop them at the country's front door or the enemy will force you into service when they are at your, literal front door.

  20. Re:"Propaganda" on Obama Launches Change.gov · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Good for who? The few people that will be targeted with the service? The socialized agenda of Obama that will start indoctrinating the young into getting use to doing work that the government has told them to do?

  21. Re:I 3 false dichotomies on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    I must pick #2 then. Please let me in on your version of history.

  22. Re:saveusobama? on Supreme Court To Rule On TV Censorship · · Score: 1

    WHAT are you saying you are against Fairness!?!

  23. Re:Fuck the FCC on Supreme Court To Rule On TV Censorship · · Score: 1

    The way they get around this is they don't actually have a regulation that says you can't say this or that. They base it on complaints. Just like you may have the right to stand in your front yard and say what ever you want, but if you are yelling it at 10pm your neighbor may very will call the cops and you could get a fine.

    It's not a question of free speech, of which you have. It's a question of disturbing the peace. You have to ask for cable, satalite or the internet to come to you. Broadcast radio and TV go to everyone whether you ask for it or not.

  24. Re:I don't know why, but we're doing something rig on Linux Supports More Devices Than Any Other OS · · Score: 1

    Ohh, no. Not again. :(

  25. Re:four accidental or metabolically efficient? on Eight-Armed Animal Preceded Dinosaurs · · Score: 1

    I download music and have more than 2 limbs?? I'm confused.