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  1. Insomnian NOT know to kill humans? on The Dangers of Being Really, Really Tired · · Score: 1

    What about Sporadic Fatal Insomnia and Fatal Familial Insomnia.

  2. No physical motion? on Honda Develops Brain Interface For Robot Control · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Isn't blood flow physical motion?

  3. Re:OMG!!! PONEIS!!! on How Do I Make My Netbook More Manly? · · Score: 1

    How do they avoid the Public indecency charges?

  4. Story is a Dup? on IBM Develops Technology To Talk To Web · · Score: 1

    VoiceXML is old news.

    http://slashdot.org/articles/01/03/14/1622217.shtml

    HTTP works great with them so why do we need a new protocal anyways?

  5. The MORAL thing to do. on Morality of Throttling a Local ISP? · · Score: 1

    Remember the Story of Mel?
    http://catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html

    Screw of the people that have other options(Web surfers and other light users) and give the bandwith to the people that need it P2P and heavy downloaders. The other can go to Dail-Up. the Hearvy downloaders have to move to some other town.

  6. Sisn't this START in 1993. on Wolfram Promises Computing That Answers Questions · · Score: 1

    START, the world's first Web-based question answering system, has been on-line and continuously operating since December, 1993. It has been developed by Boris Katz and his associates of the InfoLab Group at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Unlike information retrieval systems (e.g., search engines), START aims to supply users with "just the right information," instead of merely providing a list of hits. Currently, the system can answer millions of English questions about places (e.g., cities, countries, lakes, coordinates, weather, maps, demographics, political and economic systems), movies (e.g., titles, actors, directors), people (e.g., birth dates, biographies), dictionary definitions, and much, much more. Below is a list of some of the things START knows about, with example questions. You can type your question above or select from the following examples.

    START's reply
    ===> how many bones are in the human body?

    I don't know how many bones there are in the human body.

    START's reply
    ===> Who is Stephen Wolfram?

    Stephen Wolfram

    Stephen Wolfram (born August 29, 1959 in London) is a physicist known for his work in theoretical particle physics, cellular automata, complexity theory, and computer algebra, and is the creator of the computer program Mathematica.

    Source: Wikipedia

  7. Business isn't a Duel it's aTruel competition. on Is Open Source Software a Race To Zero? · · Score: 1

    Stop blaiming Open Source.
    It is not the 'Open Source' of your 'open source business' that is a race to zero it is the 'business' part that is.

    Truels, or Survival of the Weakest
    P Amengual, R Toral
    http://ifisc.uib-csic.es/publications/publication-detail.php?indice=1786

  8. Re:Yeah, for time wasting on Web Singletons? · · Score: 1

    For wasting time I beat my /.

    soI have to dissagree with you.

  9. PSP,DS, WII? on Ask Blizzard Employees About Things That Matter · · Score: 1

    Is it true you are going aiming for a release on Handhelds?

    Why are you supporting sub 640x480 resolution screens.

    You can still se everything at QVGA.

    It you aren't removing all fine sturcture to look like at cartoon why are they doing it?

  10. RTFA "...designed for the audio enthusiast." on Denon's $499 Ethernet Cable · · Score: 1

    Thease marketed as that same people who buy $7,250 Pear Anjou speaker cables

  11. AlphaSmart's Dana (wireless) on Inside the TRS-80 Model 100 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The Dana and Dana wireless uses 3 AA batteries.

    160x560 graphical screen runs PalmOS v4.1

    Appently still avalible for $350.

    To bad Access doesn't suport v4.1 anymore so you can't get the SDK anymore.

  12. not the kids never leaving you have to worry about on AI Researchers Say 'Rascals' Might Pass Turing Test · · Score: 1

    Didn't you read Ray Bradbury's The Veldt

  13. Google Beta on Vaporware - the Tech That Never Was · · Score: 1

    I thought 'Google Beta' was there official of the company.

    Remember that Google logo page that showed all the diffrant versons of their logo?

  14. crack open a cold, refreshing brew? on Open Source Robot for Household Tasks · · Score: 5, Funny

    Article: "and most importantly of all, using a bottle opener to crack open a cold, refreshing brew."

    Human: "I didn't know robots neede to drink"

    Robot: "I don't need to drink. I can quit anytime I want to."

  15. The Golden Rule: Thou shall not get caught on Hans Reiser and the "Geek Defense" Strategy · · Score: 1

    Come on it was in a Disny movie

    But people don't get that not doing the crime in the first place is a terrible way not to get got.

  16. Re:What's sad... on Jack Thompson Served With Order to Show Cause · · Score: 1

    No What's said is that they are still not going to disbar him.

    "...submitted to this Court by you unless signed by a member of The Florida Bar other than yourself."

    a member of The Florida Bar other than Jack Thompson.

    Remember when Last time He faced Disbarment in?
    Thompson faced disbarment over allegations that he lied while making accusations against prominent Dade County lawyer Stuart Z Grossman. Thompson ultimately admitted violating bar rules of professional conduct, including charges that he contacted people represented by an attorney without first contacting their attorneys, and agreed to pay $3,000 in fines and receive a public reprimand.

  17. The real reason 18 in the age of consent on Child-Suitable Alternatives To Passwords? · · Score: 1

    "...consider it an adequate defense if the villain should plead that "she did not offer violent physical resistance"?"

    The 'Age of Consent Campaign' is just a way out lawing sex outside of marrage.

    "Our laws are shamelessly unequal when they make the punishment for stealing away a woman's honor no greater than for the purloining of her wardrobe, or when they give the man who robs her of her character a lighter sentence than he who steals her purse would incur;.... And if it was his own daughter whose purity had been sullied by some wretch who had taken advantage of her ..."

    and adolescents make just as good decisions as Adults. Or should I say Adults make just as bad decisions as Adolescents. Adults are just way better at rationalizing thier decisions.

    An Empirical Examination of Sexual Relations Between Adolescents and Adults

    They Differ from Those Between Children and Adults and Should Be Treated Separately

    Adolescent Development: Junk Science Run Wild

    and I know TFA was about a 7 year old but her parents have no business on her computer anyway, if they want to monitor her net access don't but her comp in the network or have is logged/filtered on a comp she doesn't have access to.

    Once it's on her computer it's to late anyways.

    Saying children(and I mean actual children e.g. >10) shouldn't start trying to ACT responsible(not actually being responsible) is like saying "We should do away with Graduated Driver licensing. once they are 18 and pass the tests they should be given a full license. and no driving privileges before that. If they are not Responsible enough to drive full time without a supervisor they have no business driving at all."

    Maybe she shouldn't have root. but she should deffinatly have her own acount on her own computer. and all accounts should have a password, and you shoulden't give out your password to other people. argo she should have a account with a password and not tell it to anyone.

  18. Re:The bully's fear on University Bows to RIAAs Demands for Student Names · · Score: 1

    Thomas Jefferson

    Ya, it was a write-in.

  19. It's Dark Energy(sic) on Yet Another Perpetual Motion Device · · Score: 1

    Ok This is a lot cooler looking example, but it is old news Dr Stefan Marinov allready showed us a Dark energy harvistor It's called Ball-Bearing motor.

    This thing and the BBM don't violate entropy law.

    The second, or entropy law, places a restriction on the kinds of energy transformation that can take place. It states that there is a quality of energy that places a limit on the transformation of that energy into useful work.

    The resoan these work is that the spining isn't useful work. It's cool looking work but the 2ed law doesn't say anything about cool look it says useful.

    But what about conservation of energy?

    The apprant conflict with the conservation of energy is is that you only mesured the useful energy you at the start and mesured the useful plus the non-useful enery at the end.

  20. Re:Mu on Is Linus Torvalds Speaking for Linux Anymore? · · Score: 1

    Sure but is it Justified and Ancient?

  21. Mu on Is Linus Torvalds Speaking for Linux Anymore? · · Score: 1

    Q: Is linus Torvalds speaking for Linux anymore? A: Mu.

  22. WWLWD? on Open Source Code In a Closed Source Company · · Score: 0

    just ask yourself What Would Larry Wall do?

    "...you had to believe in it enough to take some risks.

    I knew that I didn't dare ask the company lawyers for permission, because they'd have thought about it for something like six months, and then told me "no." This is despite the fact that they wouldn't be interested in peddling it themselves." -- Uncultured Perl By Larry Wall

  23. FOX 11 Investigates: 'Anonymous' on Internet Group Declares War on Scientology · · Score: 0, Redundant

    IS case you want to know more about this group here is a report FOX did.
    http://www.myfoxla.com/myfox/pages/ContentDetail?contentId=3894628

  24. Re:Don't tell the religious on Dinosaurs Grew Fast and Bred Young · · Score: 1

    Did I say anything about the Bible?
    I just said "The Religious"
    You know what the Talmud says about Pedophilia?

  25. Don't tell the religious on Dinosaurs Grew Fast and Bred Young · · Score: -1, Troll

    Of they will start saying it wasn't a big rock from space of bugs but gods punishment for pedophilia that wiped out the dinos and there for god must exist.