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  1. Re:State of the art AI? on Meet Siri's Little Brother, Trapit · · Score: 1

    Nothing is AI, that's my point.

  2. Re:Wierd on Anonymous Hackers Take Down Child Porn Websites · · Score: 1

    Most of the graduates from Princeton that I've met are just like the cast of Jersey Shore.

  3. Re:All of your are disgusting and immoral on Anonymous Hackers Take Down Child Porn Websites · · Score: 1

    We need to control these people, but assuming their brains are physiologically capable of making that choice just makes people want to punish them pointlessly.

  4. Re:It's a trap! on Meet Siri's Little Brother, Trapit · · Score: 1

    Depressingly, that's the state of the art in AI. There's really nothing substantively better out there.

  5. Re:State of the art AI? on Meet Siri's Little Brother, Trapit · · Score: 1

    Which half did you think was untrue? Can you point to more state of the art AI (that can run on a handheld)? Or is ios just too non-mainstream?

  6. Re:Prior art in a novel on Meet Siri's Little Brother, Trapit · · Score: 1

    I'm not clear how it's in the state's interest to approve patents. They cost more to approve than they bring in in revenue.

  7. Re:A real important thing to note... on Global Warming 'Confirmed' By Independent Study · · Score: 1

    I think that most would argue that the leftists want to do this, but know that there are still too many right wing voters who will turn out to the polls if they ever legalized (they know it's a losing proposition for them, even if the majority want legalization because the majority doesn't vote).

  8. Re:Finally.. on Google+ To End Real Names Policy · · Score: 1

    Yes, and they are going to lose massive search advertising revenues to facebook if they can't put a stop to facebook's complete dominance of social networking. I thought what I meant there was pretty clear.

  9. Re:You think the housing collapse was bad on US Student Loans Exceed $1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plan
    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/goal
    And if you disagree, go yell at the AC to whom I was replying.

  10. Re:how did this make the front page? on Intel Z68 Motherboard Round-Up · · Score: 1

    That's fine with me. I wonder why we don't see dozens of these articles in that case, though.

  11. Re:Finally.. on Google+ To End Real Names Policy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Google+ could possibly guarantee they would never sell you to advertisers. They could view it as a cost-saving measure against getting killed in the search space when facebook introduces peersearch next year.

  12. Re:You think the housing collapse was bad on US Student Loans Exceed $1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    I think enough people do it to suggest that most probably could. Not that anyone who doesn't have to is going to pick that path, but I think most people are taking what they feel is the easy choice and going high debt / low hours rather than low debt / high hours.

  13. Re:You think the housing collapse was bad on US Student Loans Exceed $1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    That's interesting. I have never heard of or seen that before.

  14. Re:You think the housing collapse was bad on US Student Loans Exceed $1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    Yeah, sorry about that, I thought it was the funniest post in the thread.

  15. Re:You think the housing collapse was bad on US Student Loans Exceed $1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    No, I'm saying the solution is to work 40, school 40. Total 80 hours of effort per week. Sorry if that was unclear.

  16. Re:You think the housing collapse was bad on US Student Loans Exceed $1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    I'm curious what aspect you mean. I worked 80+ hours a week for 6 years.

  17. Re:You think the housing collapse was bad on US Student Loans Exceed $1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    I said plans and meant it. I didn't mistake that for goal.

  18. Re:heh on US Student Loans Exceed $1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    I was just reading yesterday about how the severe problems in the job market are driving illegals back over the border in massive numbers.

  19. Re:You think the housing collapse was bad on US Student Loans Exceed $1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    If he went to college and racked up that kind of debt, a significant portion was probably alcohol blowing out those kidneys, sorry.

  20. Re:You think the housing collapse was bad on US Student Loans Exceed $1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    Lucky is having opportunity present itself. Thinking that opportunity presents itself to everybody is selling all the well prepared people who never get a chance short.

  21. Re:You think the housing collapse was bad on US Student Loans Exceed $1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    I don't know why you think that. Lots of people I knew had career plans in their junior year of high school. Most of them are executing on those plans in their mid 30s now. Several changed directions in high school, but they are still on similar plans.

  22. Re:You think the housing collapse was bad on US Student Loans Exceed $1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    80 hour weeks aren't that hard at that age. Even 90 is pretty manageable for a 4 year stint when you're less than 25. I'd say it's actually much harder to get the flexible job hours you need. And of course, no college student really has to work for minimum. Most of the girls can at least do better waitressing for tips. A reasonably smart guy can more than double minimum tutoring and manage it in only 2/3rds of the hours.

  23. Re:You think the housing collapse was bad on US Student Loans Exceed $1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    True, but hardly any employers actually have the resources to verify your degree, so just claim you have it. You may miss out on one or two jobs, but that happens randomly due to poor interviewing practices anyway.

  24. Re:Bitcoin on Value of Bitcoin "Crashes" · · Score: 1

    That's a generous definition of not paying a claim. They put money into banks that otherwise could not handle withdrawal requests, satisfying those withdrawal requests. To me, that's paying claims (and the insurance industry would certainly consider it so). So much money in 2009/2010, they almost ran out (and would have had to tap the $500Billion guarantee they have from the government, and when that runs out, the real fun begins). They just barely avoided hitting zero thanks to the $700Billion bailout.

  25. Re:Bitcoin on Value of Bitcoin "Crashes" · · Score: 1

    Right, it's about as good as insurance generally is, though they are not required to hold a reserve anywhere close to what an insurance company is required to hold. So actually, significantly less good as a guaranty than an insurance policy. And insurance policies never fail to pay out in a major disaster as we all know.