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  1. Re:Okay... on How Is Obama Doing On Open Government? · · Score: 1

    Sure he's a traitor. So what?

    Given the situation, that makes him a hero.

  2. Okay... on How Is Obama Doing On Open Government? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Then where's the openness when it comes to Bradley Manning?

  3. Have they heard about bandages? on Canadian Researchers Develop Permanent Anti-Fog Coating · · Score: 3, Interesting
  4. Maybe... it gets heavy. on Airbus Faces Charges Over 2009 Rio-Paris Crash · · Score: 1

    You have to ask though, what if AI improves the AI? Is that different than if a human does it?

    If AI programs are capable of identifying, solving, and verifying the solution to a problem, how is that different than humans doing the same thing?

    Sure, you could say "well that's still the work of humans." But isn't that just as fatalistic as saying that *human* destinies are predetermined?

  5. Re:Does it? on Airbus Faces Charges Over 2009 Rio-Paris Crash · · Score: 1

    As a resident of California, I lived through the era where the Terminator was elected governor and tried to do this.

    Eight terms later? He was mostly unsuccessful.

  6. Kosher on Google Extends SSL To Developer-Facing APIs · · Score: 1

    You shouldn't use it if you're kosher?

  7. Does it? on Airbus Faces Charges Over 2009 Rio-Paris Crash · · Score: 1

    It doesn't *have* to be humans that are doing the engineering, does it? Couldn't we, at some point in the future, have AI performing engineering?

    Granted at this stage of technological process it seems a bit far fetched, but that may not be the case in the future. If computers are driving cars and winning game shows, there could be some point where computers can not only initiate engineering tasks, but solve them and perform QA as well.

  8. What happens if they're found guilty? on Airbus Faces Charges Over 2009 Rio-Paris Crash · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Forgive me for not knowing much about French law, but what happens if a corporation is found guilty of manslaughter?

    Can specific people be held accountable, is there a fine against the company, etc?

  9. Re:Public pr0n on Google Extends SSL To Developer-Facing APIs · · Score: 3, Funny

    This tells us two things:
    1. You have SafeSearch enabled.
    2. Somewhere, there's a soccer team called the Lesbian Midgets.

  10. Re:Makes sense. on Sex Offender Claims Police Entrapped Him With Animated Emoticons · · Score: 1

    Only a pedophile would say such a thing! You're going to jail, Bob.

  11. Re:Ouch on RSA's Servers Hacked · · Score: 2

    But do Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Len Adleman have anything to do with RSA the company nowdays? I know they invented some algorithms which bare the name RSA, but that doesn't mean they have (or ever had) anything to do with the day to day operations of RSA the company.

  12. Re:Makes sense. on Sex Offender Claims Police Entrapped Him With Animated Emoticons · · Score: 1

    Yeah, why were the policemen wearing drag, anyway? That should be the real question here!

  13. Makes sense. on Sex Offender Claims Police Entrapped Him With Animated Emoticons · · Score: 2

    He was sexually attracted to the emoticons, not the girl.

  14. Re:Standards people! on Gtk 3.2 Will Let You Run Applications In a Browser · · Score: 1

    It also requires Websockets, which isn't available in IE (yet?) and is disabled by default in Opera and Firefox.

  15. Re:In other news... on Apple Moves To Stop Kids Racking Up iTunes Bills · · Score: 1

    A lot of systems have similar behavior though. Although after a parent does a sudo, I'm not sure a child would come in and sudo -r -f /

    But you never know.

  16. Re:News For Nerds on Teen Cancels Party After 200,000 RSVP On Facebook · · Score: 4, Funny

    This place has really gone the tubes.

    Has it gone a series of tubes, perhaps?

  17. Re:glass is better on Pepsi Moving To Bottles Made of Plant Material · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I guess it's still the 1950's in Mexico, since they're still washing out and reusing glass bottles.

  18. Disposal on Pepsi Moving To Bottles Made of Plant Material · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How do we dispose of them? Are they as recyclable as petroleum-based plastics?

    Also, are they biodegradable?

  19. Re:In other news... on Apple Moves To Stop Kids Racking Up iTunes Bills · · Score: 2

    "This make Cookie Monster very sad!'

  20. In other news... on Apple Moves To Stop Kids Racking Up iTunes Bills · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...parents left cookies on the table and were shocked to find that their children ate them when they weren't looking.

  21. Re:And they've tried it before on Netflix To Start Creating Original Content · · Score: 1

    Yes, and it's kind of strange that both Ars and Slashdot did not mention this. Are our memories that short?

  22. Let's Prey for 3D Realms on Trailers for Arkham City, Prey 2, Prototype 2 · · Score: 1

    So I see 3D Realms not only has nothing to do with Prey 2, but they also are no longer involved in Duke Nukem Forever or Max Payne 3.

    What exactly DO they do there at 3DR nowdays?

  23. Re:Hey, I've been there too! on Jeff & Rob Visit Lucasfilm · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's pretty gross, but if you're interested in the subject, there's a lot of reading and some great forums at acne.org.

  24. Re:Hey, I've been there too! on Jeff & Rob Visit Lucasfilm · · Score: 2

    If it's any good, it'll make it to the front page.

    Ah, so THAT'S the problem!

  25. Hey, I've been there too! on Jeff & Rob Visit Lucasfilm · · Score: 4, Informative

    See? http://www.mrericsir.com/blog/local/yoda-statue/

    Jeez, why don't my personal blog entries make the front page of Slashdot?