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  1. Re:Oh no, the US isn't keeping up on warfare! on Fear of Thinking War Machines May Push U.S. To Exascale · · Score: 1

    Evolution is evolution. To ascribe morality to evolution is to miss the point.

  2. It can happen here (and almost has) on Activist Admits To Bugging US Senate Minority Leader · · Score: 1

    After WWII, Americans scoffed at the notion that something like Hitler's Germany or Stalin's Soviet Union could happen here in America. Scoff no more, America. It could happen here. Morrison and millions like him are the reasons why.

  3. Caveat emptor on Physicist Proposes New Way To Think About Intelligence · · Score: 1

    Another piece of the Skynet puzzle falls into place.

  4. Apple competitive? on Samsung Researching How To Let You Control Your Phone With Your Brain · · Score: 1

    Note that Samsung is using American technology to defeat Apple in the marketplace. Apple had better be more agile and have quantum leaps in technology, because Samsung is on a shorter product cycle schedule.

  5. Complexity be gone! on IBM Models Human Blood System To Build Solar Power Prototype · · Score: 1

    Any such system had better be damn simple to operate, maintain, and service if it's to be used in remote areas.

  6. Oh, yeah? on Baseball Software Can't Score What Jean Segura Did Friday · · Score: 1

    Baseball software can't score what I did no Friday, either.

  7. Darth Mickey, may the farce be with you on Disney Announces "One Star Wars Movie Per Year" Plan · · Score: 1

    That interval should give viewers enough time to recover between films.

  8. Is there an autodidact in the house? on Perceiving Robotic Industrial Arm Inches Toward Autonomy · · Score: 1

    All it will take is for one robot, however primitive, to become capable of learning on its own. Then we humans will be toast. Complaining toast, but toast nonetheless.

  9. Homo sapiens 2.0 ? on Interviews: Ask Freeman Dyson What You Will · · Score: 1

    Assuming that, as constituted, the human mind is incapable of understand the universe in its entirety, would you support the re-engineering of the human mind, either to incorporate cognitive prostheses or to interface the mind to unbounded external artificial intelligence?

  10. You ain't seen nothing yet on Automated System Developed To Grade Student Essays · · Score: 1

    With strong AI software, people could be tested continually, in real time. When the software detects a deficit, it could supply the relevant information for memorization. Ultimately, of course, the strong AI will become our brain, at least the rational part.

  11. Mirabile Dictu! on CERN Gives Away Higgs Boson Particles To 10 Lucky Winners · · Score: 1

    Vatican particle physicists have confirmed that the Higgs boson confers mass on the Catholic Church, from 09:00 to 12:00 daily except Monday..

  12. Yet somehow I remain unstunned.

  13. What have we done? on Draft Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Update Expands Powers and Penalties · · Score: 2

    Turns out that the Internet is being used as a tool for depriving Americans of their privacy and rights.

  14. Silly D.C. on The ATF Not Concerned About 3D Printed Guns... Yet · · Score: 1

    Durable? Only needs to shoot once.

  15. EZ Innovation on Can Innovation Be Automated? · · Score: 1

    Why make such a big task out of innovation? Find a problem and solve it. Anticipate a problem and proactively solve it. It's that simple — and that difficult.

  16. Obviously untrue on You Can Navigate Between Any Two Websites In 19 Clicks Or Fewer · · Score: 1

    Try clicking your way into hidden NSA sites or their equivalents in other countries. 19 billion clicks wouldn't do it.

  17. Re:Not a problem on Does the Higgs Boson Reveal Our Universe's Doomsday? · · Score: 1

    Worry not. We soon will have Intel CAD 3D Printers that will allow us to design, create, and loose upon the world billions of new species.

  18. Resistance be not futile on Does the Higgs Boson Reveal Our Universe's Doomsday? · · Score: 1

    If the descendants of Homo sapiens don't figure out how to manipulate the HIggs field within 10 billion years, they will deserve extinction.

  19. Silly professors on California Professors Unveil Proposal To Attack Asteroids With Lasers · · Score: 1

    California Professors Unveil Proposal To Attack Asteroids With Lasers? Professors, it might be more efficacious to attack asteroids with laser beams instead.

  20. Misleading headline on What Alfred Russel Wallace Really Thought About Darwin · · Score: 2

    Your headline is "What Alfred Russel Wallace Really Thought About Darwin," but there is no mention of this information in the article. One has to read 4000 letters to find it.

  21. Siri, this is Siri on Accessorize Your Phone With Another Phone · · Score: 1

    Soon Siri will converse with Siri.

  22. Unintended consequence of one-child policy on Unemployed Chinese Graduates Say No Thanks To Factory Jobs · · Score: 1

    Remember, these are only children who are used to getting their own way. In other words, they've been spoiled. Sound familiar?

  23. From fusion to dung on Dung Beetles Navigate By the Milky Way; Pigeons Tune In To Magnetism · · Score: 1

    Events of a million years ago are guiding dung beetles. Consider: The beetles are about 20,000 light-years from the galactic center, but it took the light's energy an average of about 1,000,000 years to randomly walk out of the stars.