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  1. When sentience arises on the net... on Wikipedia Hits 300,000 Articles · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wikipedia will be its primary data base and starting point for universal understanding. Unfortunately it will go on to encounter /. and learn of the deleterious effects of a steady diet of drugs and pr0n. Slashdotters in return will discover the sentient being and /. its underlying Beowulf cluster turing it to slag destroying the logos life form

  2. Re:The Parent Poster on Wikipedia Hits 300,000 Articles · · Score: 1
    "...the lower digit ID's will wither and perish..."

    hardly likely for they have root and grow gnarly :)

  3. Re:First "GO" Post on World Computer Chess Championships Underway · · Score: 1

    I've always thought Go Maku presented an easier introduction to the complexities of Go. Strangely Google provided only one precursory listing for Go Maku. Are Go players distainful of Go Maku?

  4. huh? on Besieged Movie Industry Suffers Record Takings · · Score: 2, Funny
    " literally being metaphorically syphoned..."

    let's see if it's being literally syphoned then it's not metaphoric but if it's metaphorically being syphoned it can't be literally syphoned... it must have to do with the heavy sarcasm quotient.

  5. Re:The Sailor's Rope Rule on Notes From 3rd Annual Space Elevator Conference · · Score: 1

    You're not taking into account nanobot maintainence.

  6. Closed Case on Evaluating Windows XP Service Pack 2 RC2 · · Score: 0

    I was recently given a buget to buy a windows box to primarily run windows office pro. I choose win xp pro as the os. Having started on pcs in '83 I'm inured to cracking open the case on a new pc and adding hardware or simply solving minor hardware problems. But with this new pc there was no immediate reason to open the case. I installed win xp and the Symantec anti virus and firewall offline then went online to update. The point being made is the box has been problem free, everything works as it's supposed to and for the first time I have a computer that is an appliance, something to be taken for granted. I've used Linux since Mandrake 6 and am an OSS advocate but I think it's time the Open Source community took note of the advances MS has made and with the advances in security Windows may well have made good on their promise to deliver a secure stable platform. The one drawback I found is IE which doesn't compare with Mozzilla. Just my .02 cents.

  7. Re:Careful... on Eye Transplant Enables Blind Boy to See · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Isn't the issue better viewed in regard to your statement: "depending upon how old the child is, there will be problems due to vision being occluded during certain critical periods of vision pathway development."

    My limited understanding as a lay person is that vision is dependent upon unimpeded development during a critical period at a very young age.

  8. an example on Do Music and Language Obey the Same Rules? · · Score: 1

    it creates a meaningful context within which words that have been used already are more likely to appear than other, random words.

    also reveals a key difference between tonal compositions, which are written in a particular key

  9. Laugh it's funny on Washington Mutual Patents the Bank Branch · · Score: 5, Insightful

    England had Monty Python America has the USPTO

  10. Re:Enrapture the customers on How Microsoft Develops Its Software · · Score: 1

    He was thinking: enraptor the customers.

  11. Sparrow? on The Return of the Sparrow Electric Vehicle? · · Score: 2, Funny

    It looks like a giant duck bill... the daffy mobile

  12. Canadian Broadcasting Corp on Interesting Tech-Related Online Talk Radio? · · Score: 1

    Quirks and Quarks

    mainly science but a well stocked archive holding an interesting array of subject matter

  13. Excellent summary of the current treatments on Schizophrenia Experiences and Suggestions? · · Score: 1

    Excellent article to be found at Scientific American Neural Pharmacology Decoding Schizophrenia. Perhaps the most insidious and pernicious symptoms of schizophrenia are the negative symptoms of social isolation and apathy which can be wrongly seen to be a lack of effort on the part of the sufferer.

  14. first post! on Solaris 10 to be Released Late in 2004 · · Score: -1, Troll

    or not :)

  15. fp on Own a Piece of An Apple-Based Supercomputer · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    or not

  16. Re:stupid terms of service and the court on Worst Terms of Service Ever · · Score: 1

    It would probably come down to the idea of the *reasonable man*. A judge would ask herself what would a reasonable man do. The concept of a reasonable man is ancient and goes at least as far back as Aristotle. A Google search on the subject touches on the usage in law and philosophy.

  17. The Business of Killing on Robots for No Man's Land · · Score: 1

    It's nice to see much of technological development is still tied to killing machines. Our history is rife with technological advances made in the name of war including much of the work of such luminaries as Da Vinci. Killing is our business and business is good!

  18. Re:Having lived there on Chinese Internet Censorship Proves Difficult · · Score: 1
    Even my PhD students largely accepted whatever was told to them.

    The idea of controlling a population by propoganda is ancient and effective. Plato in his designs for a Utopia suggested it took only two generations to instill a political falsehood as a universal truth. Having the resources and the means to question the presuppositions underlying our beliefs are rare gifts.

  19. Geoffrey Chaucer on Thyne Oldest Known Tech Manual · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Personally I like wxWindows on C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3 · · Score: 1
    re: your sig
    "My skin feels like eggs"

    curiosity begs the question if your skin feels like eggs then wouldn't eggs feel like your skin, and feeling like and being an extention of the feeling of your skin how could you know what eggs feel like? Sorry but I just had to ask.

  21. Re:Damn... on Wi-Fi Redirect Gateway Patent for Hotspots · · Score: 1

    Poor post on my part, I was watching a Seinfeld rerun and envisioning a new world order wherein patents came under the juridiction of a single UN type office. Too much caffine and not enough sleep.cheers

  22. Re:MS co-founder? on Apple History At folklore.org · · Score: 1

    Not to forget gorilla.bas another super game. BASIC was authored in 1963 by mathematicians John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtzas out of Dartmouth College.

  23. Re:Damn... on Wi-Fi Redirect Gateway Patent for Hotspots · · Score: 1

    I agree but I also think any arguments that arise in the future between nations will take into account the earliest instance of conflicting patents.

  24. Re:Damn... on Wi-Fi Redirect Gateway Patent for Hotspots · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The US Patent Office is just busy ensuring the future of America. When the rest of the world wakes up they'll face a bright new day of technological serfdom. Patents are the new chains of the third world.

  25. Re:Get Invited... on Google Social Network: Orkut · · Score: 1

    This supposedly uber kewl network and no one from /. made it on the list. Tsk,tsk what does that say of Goggle's opinion of /. ?