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  1. Hello World Example? on IBM To Offer Watson Services In the Cloud · · Score: 2

    I've been looking, but I haven't seen specifications.

  2. Re:Watson sold as Watson on IBM To Offer Watson Services In the Cloud · · Score: 1

    Watson did pretty fair on Jeopardy, but has IBM considered the Loebner Prize? My guress is that Watson would be ALICE's bee-otch.

    IBM needs to address its, "googleyness"?

  3. Re:What? on Microsoft Releases Browser-Based IDE, Visual Studio Online · · Score: 1

    I'm kinda hoping someone takes Eclipse and makes an Online version I can run from my server at home while on my Tablet at the customer site. Some customers enjoy getting free software without paying for it.

  4. Why Limit the Software to Faces? on US Intelligence Wants To Radically Advance Facial Recognition Software · · Score: 1

    Faces? Why only Faces? It would be fantastic is software could look at an image and identify everything in it. Ignoring the Sherlock Homes navel gazing stuff; computers could be used to look at things and offer help to average person. One thing right off the bat is lost items, like misplaced keys, and dropped items like kids socks. I'm certain that there is a lot of down time that the NSA's computers are just standing idle, use the cycles to find ways to make everyday americans life easier. Nobody wants to get creeped out, but if there is a lost dog, or lost bag? And if the marathons are going to be watched, how about having the computer send a message to the runner that if that person changes some aspect of their running, they would use less energy? You know, stuff that doesn't creep people out.

    Of course there's the camera looking a someone that appears to need a bra, and that person gets a text about a sale going on at Victoria's Secret, but it's some old fat guy; now I'm creeped out.

  5. NSA Report: Reason for Lost Drone on Military Drone Lost Over Lake Ontario · · Score: 1

    Taliban Suicide Ducks, and Alcida Terrorist Geese.

    Am I the only one that feels uncomfortable about flying drone strikes into Canada?

  6. Re:Viral Batteries on Viruses Boost Performance of Lithium-Air Battery Used In Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    So when the car does produce exhust; how does the driver apply the tissue?

  7. Logistics Thought on Physicists Plan to Build a Bigger LHC · · Score: 1

    Put it on the Moon. Sounds goofy, until one realizes that is could be setup on the surface, and faster than digging a donut type tunnel. Also, the rent I hear is cheap on the Moon.

  8. Re:Where's the torrent file? on Britain's Conservatives Scrub Speeches from the Internet · · Score: 2

    I thought that America's Tea Party were over the edge, I think they've been one upped by the Torrie's. This is a time when we need WikiLeaks, could someone forward a message to Julian, to "get back to work."

    As a side note. Maybe someone at the NSA could send the data over to Snowden who could then send it over to Julian; that would be epic.

  9. Re:As a mechanical engineer... on A Makerbot In Every Classroom · · Score: 1

    Why not have a MakerBot, open sourced, also?

  10. Re:I didn't know on A Makerbot In Every Classroom · · Score: 1

    I cannot help but wonder when MakerBot can have an open source API to its product; I've little appitite for Autodesk, given today's CAM open source solutions.

  11. Re:Wind power for rescuing crippled nuclear plant. on Fukushima Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Starts Generating Power · · Score: 1

    I hope no one trips over the extension cord to shore.

  12. Today's Lesson Class "Piracy" on MPAA Backs Anti-Piracy Curriculum For Elementary School Students · · Score: 1

    Now here is what you should not do...

    LAUSD kids hacked their iPads the day they were given to them. It just doesn't get old, like this article reprint.

  13. The Mid West U.S. Should Take Note on Desert Farming Experiment Yields Good Initial Results · · Score: 1

    With their water sources drying up, where are the two largest pools of water planet earth located? Water purifiers on a grand scale, but better than dust storms I'd wager.

  14. Re:Doesn't Matter on How 3 Young Coders Built a Better Portal To HealthCare.gov · · Score: 2

    I can see 88 million jokes. And here's the kicker, if the kids put on a credit card plugin, they could move ACA product. This overhead that CGI threw in with Experian, and Medicare in shear nonsense. Go to any other Health Care business model, to verify it. Also, don't limit it to just Health Care, check Auto, and Home Insurance. First they get the minimal amount of information, then they get your money; NOW they clear up any questions. And those industries units of measure are in the Billions.

  15. Re:world ramifications... on The NSA Is Looking For a Few Good Geeks · · Score: 1

    My case in point. Public evidence shows quite the opposite. Thank you Mr.Snowden?

  16. Re:First Spoof on British Intelligence Responds To Slashdot About Man-in-Middle Attack · · Score: 1

    When it comes to Statistics, Mark Twain nailed it.

  17. Re:Frosty piss appropriate here? on Scientists Invent Urine-Powered Robots · · Score: 1

    And the name of this new business model is, "The Golden Shower Robotics Lab"

  18. Re:world ramifications... on The NSA Is Looking For a Few Good Geeks · · Score: 1

    This is not a Tort, but a Constitutional issue. We can start with "unreasonable search." Other noted 20th century powers have ignored this simple human right, and they are now only in the history books today. Another right is "freedom of the press", because of the NSA ignoring "unreasonable search" we are seeing a erosion of rights to print the truth. This is a contradiction to the chilling motto used by the CIA.

  19. Re:TFA is a Tesla PR piece on Tesla Fires and Firestorms: Let's Breathe and Review Some Car Fire Math · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ya know, I feel real bad for the folks at Tesla, I'd like to volunteer my help to them. I'm offering to test drive a fully equipped Tesla to work, every day just so that Tesla can get some hard evidence of how their cars hold up under I405 traffic conditions. I see one to two car on semi accidents a day, my commute would make an excellent test environment. I will also offer to bring a fire extinguisher just in case something unforeseen happens. I know that the Tesla folks would want to see the initial damage without other damage occurring.

  20. Re:world ramifications... on The NSA Is Looking For a Few Good Geeks · · Score: 1

    Ya, your right. I'll work on that. Because the MI6 and MI5 would have us believe, "it's for the children."

  21. Re:America on The NSA Is Looking For a Few Good Geeks · · Score: 1

    It appears that if one has completed a secondary education, then one is bypassed by the NSA?

  22. Re:world ramifications... on The NSA Is Looking For a Few Good Geeks · · Score: 0

    For those that are impacted by spying, spying is not news. For the unwashed that have discovered they, in mass, are being spied upon, are incensed. This is but one flaw of the "Proud Ignorance" approach to living. And one can only imagine the wonders yet to be discovered when humanity sheds it's Proud Ignorance.

  23. Re:Prediction: There will be heavier restrictions. on Solid Concepts Manufactures First 3D-Printed Metal Pistol · · Score: 1

    So they made a copy of an old gun? Can they make a copy of auto parts that are not manufactured any more? What kind of industry economics are there for the selling of replacement parts for old cars?

  24. Re:Awesome! on UK Town To Get Driverless 'Pods' Mixing With Pedestrians · · Score: 1

    I couldn't help but think of the "Johnny Cab."

  25. Re:Furloughed workers on "War Room" Notes Describe IT Chaos At Healthcare.gov · · Score: 1

    It's a hell of a friday. My first thought was, "how's that Out Sourcing working for you Mr. President?" There are smart asses, and grand parents running e-commerce sites more complex than the ACA. When it comes to insurance web sites, the successful business model is: 1. get some kind of name, phone, and address. 2. get credit card information, or get ready to send a bill through snail mail. 3. suggest today's special and give a list of "others." Side note here, it's always better to put something in the hands of a client than nothing. 4. remember to say, "thank you" and move on to the next client. Let customer service verify, and call back, to get data right. You already have their money, now it's time to be a hero to the client. The American people paid $88 million for what one can get done via CraigsList at about $50 an hour, and have it up and running in about 30 days. Go figure.

    Of course firing the CIO(?) or COO(?) at Medicare, and that choke point evaporated, was a telling event.