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  1. This is just as Marx predicted on DOJ Gives Oracle Approval To Buy Sun · · Score: -1

    Periodic capitalist crises allow the largest corporations and banks to swallow up all their rivals and become more monopolistic... which only exacerbates the overproduction of capital leading to the next crisis. The only way out is world war or world revolution! Workers, you have nothing to lose but your chains!

  2. Slow city! on Google Brings SVG Support To IE · · Score: -1

    The on-demand rasterization of the SVG document tree elements is done using eigenvector calculations on semi-markov matrices. Since javascript is a loosely typed language, this brings in huge amounts of processor overhead on every pixel. This is a no-go for netbooks or lower-powered desktop machines. An interesting proof-of-concept hack, but not practical -- typical Google behavior.

  3. The dangers of artificial intelligent languages on Clojure and Heroku Predict Flight Delays · · Score: -1, Troll

    Clojure is a dialect of LISP. LISP was designed at MIT for the U.S. military to create an intelligent computer. Do we really want computers controlling our air traffic system? I think there needs to be a place for old-fashioned human decision making. Should anyone be able to program their airplanes with the latest "app" or Rails? This is going in a dangerous, unexplored direction and I think Congress should look into it first.

  4. How do your games Help America? on Ask Blizzard About Starcraft2, Diablo III, WoW, or Battle.net · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dear Bilzzard, how do your computer games help America's children prepare to help acquire the skills needed to fight the war against terrorism and for freedom? Do any of your games have educational content? What about a game that encourages learning terrorist languages like Arabic or Mandarin Chinese? Everyone in America needs to do their part, are you doing yours?

  5. Our troops deserve the best on Marine Corps Wants a Throwable Robot · · Score: -1, Troll

    Our valiant men, women and children in uniform deserve the very best. Wherever they are defending freedom, they need to be protected with the most advanced technology. In recent years, terrorists such as Arabs and black people in New Orleans have been developing ever more sophisticated and nefarious schools, clinics and air raid shelters. Will our brave fighting heroes be up to the task in engaging and destroying these threats to our freedom if they can't see inside these terrorist hiding places remotely through their military ipods? God bless America and thank GOD for Barack Obama who has the courage and resolve to take the necessary measures to rearm our nation against the ever present threats to our freedom!

  6. Re:It's come a long way on English Wikipedia Reaches 3 Million Articles · · Score: -1, Insightful

    If you were a serious researcher, you would not take Wiki, Inc.'s PR "history" as good coin. Learn to research independent sources before you jump to conclusions based on a cursory Google search! Jeez, kids these days... have they ever been in a library?

  7. It's come a long way on English Wikipedia Reaches 3 Million Articles · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Wow. Maybe I'm getting old, but I remember when "Wikipedia" was James Wales's Geocities page where he exhaustively listed his favorite episodes of The Simpsons. Then he wanted his friends to be able to contribute their knowledge, but Geocities did not allow CGI scripts. So with a generous grant from the National Endowment for Democracy and the Carnegie institute for International Peace, he started "Wikki-Web," a fan-site for FOX network cartoons. The scope later broadened to topics as diverse as astrophysics and science dogs, and the name changed to "WIKIPEDIA." The rest, as they say, was history...

  8. I am concerned by this application on TomTom Releases iPhone Navigation App · · Score: 1, Funny

    In todays world we need to be vigilantly aware of the geopolitical implications of our computing. Wide-spread access to G.P.S. positioning system datas could allow terrorists or Italians to locate large crowds of innocent Americans or our Heroic Men Women and Children in Uniform more quickly, nefariously, and devastatingly. Why is no one talking about this? Everything has changed in the post-9/11 world!

  9. Hip Hip Hooray for the CIA on US Tests System To Evade Foreign Web Censorship · · Score: 0
  10. Re:Spot the reference? I can play that game. on AMD's Phenom II 965, 3.4GHz, 140 Watts, $245 · · Score: 0

    Close. I am his evil twin who writes Harlequin romance novels. You win one (1) rusty door hinge.

  11. The era of the silicon chip is gone. on AMD's Phenom II 965, 3.4GHz, 140 Watts, $245 · · Score: 3, Funny

    AMD and Intel are just running on its fumes. Silicon (Si) is inherently limited by its inorganic composition which means it produces lots of heat especially when it is on the Web. All the smart engineers at the secret R&D labs are working on organic computing: solving the paradox of user interface versus wattage by harnessing the power of bacteria to create a new paradigm of information that is multi-dimensional. Instead of "processes" and "treads" and "HTML" we will have gases and sugars dancing to the rhythm of our wildest imaginations. And one more thing... you will not need your eyes any more since the two-dimensional "screen" and "paper" metaphor will be replaced by a revolutionary direct access to pure consciousness. Buy my book.

  12. The most interesting segment is at the end on Charlie Stross, Paul Krugman Discuss the Future · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Krugman theorizes that the Third World could develop by providing long term stabilized individual and group labor contracts to multinational corporations. This has the chance to restore profitability and competitiveness while incentivizing labor through different reward systems, like food and shelter, since the money supply is so irrationally tightened in the wake of the AIG mess.

  13. The problem of inductive bias in knowledge trees on DARPA Builds Smarter Version of Microsoft's Clippy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have read the paper and am not sure if the researchers have solved the problem of inductive bias, which is the bane of "artificial intelligent" learning on this scale. Basically, suppose you teach monkeys Shakespeare using a tree system of rewards versus noxious odors. This is analogous to the binary decision map tree that the computer system uses. A human might adapt to Milton, or even Cervantes, but a "intelligent" monkey will just start screeching and throwing feces, i.e. Clippy's inane "advice."

    But of course any monkey would be better than Donald Rumsfeld. So I guess we're safe.

  14. Filtered and Pure on Australian Net Filter Gets One Step Closer · · Score: 0, Insightful

    All right thinking Australian citizens cheered and congratulated their government for purifying and liberating the Internet from malicious foreign badware and badwords. The future is bright and pure for Australia's youth, who will be the first to experience the liberated internet. "Three cheers, nay, four cheers, for our wise and benevolent rulers!" said a man on the street of Canberra.

  15. What I don't get on Researcher Discovers ATM Hack, Gets Silenced · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is why everyone cares so much about Money. It's just pieces of paper and little bits of metal. What really matters is Love! If people stopped worrying about money then maybe there wouldn't be so much poverty and swine flues. Also, I read that Linuxes are free, so, again, we don't need money anymore, since our computers are free! Look at the big picture, people.

  16. Seek Help on Vint Cerf Imagines the Net's Future At NASA · · Score: 1

    Friend, do you remember when new ideas and new paradimes enthralled and excited you? But now, the cognitive straightjacket of your two-dimensional GOOGle-approved "web browsing" has transformed this natural human inquisitiveness into a cynicism bred by a pathalogically limited "worldview."

    Your scoffing dismissal of my comments only lends credence to the urgent need to reanimate the internet by empowering multi-dimensional perspectives in its software applications.

  17. Dimensional analysis = innovation on Vint Cerf Imagines the Net's Future At NASA · · Score: 1

    GOOGle's strangle-lock on our Internet has irrationally limited the perspective of the Web to a two-dimensional aspect. Why limit ourselves to two dimensions, when scientists have long proven that human consciousness has at least four dimensions?

    HOWEVER, I don't know if another government panel like NASA is the answer to this. What's needed is some forward thinking innovation to evolutionarily expand the organic dimensions of web "pages" into multi-dimensional info-spheres.

    With everyone focused on the "cloud" it seems we all forgot about the fiundamentally networked nature of the internet. Vin't Cerf's article is unfortunately no exception.

  18. Re:Down with G$$GLE on Google Reveals Chrome Hardware Partners · · Score: 1

    That's what THEY want you to think!