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  1. Win-HAL on Israeli AI System "Hal" And The Turing Test · · Score: 1
    From the official website, A-I:

    Baby Hal, like any 18-month old, is learning the rudiments of speech. Except that Hal is running on a Windows PC.

    Lay your fears to rest, a nice blue screen of death is at most only a few minutes away! No way will Baby Hal ever stay conscious long enough to do much harm. And we can run like hell while he reboots. No PC can keep up with me!

  2. Corps Don't Help on Virus Scares and False Authority Syndrome · · Score: 1

    The Fortune 100 corporation I work for (and I'm sure others like it) don't help either. I notice frequent virus warnings on our intranet that are often completely wrong. Someone in our IT department is spreading this stuff, so everyone in the company believes it (damn MCSE's).

  3. Computers Are Better on Brain vs. Computer: Place Your Bets · · Score: 1
    Forget Deep Blue, Deep Fritz, Deep Thought, etc. I can't even beat my 500 MHz AMD K6-2 at chess!!!

    I'm sure a World Champion would have no problem, but your average guy can't do it. Computers have already beat the majority of humans at chess consistently, the only ones left standing are the world-class players.

  4. Re:Taco, Taco.... on Appeals Court Denies Microsoft Request for Rehearing · · Score: 1
    How about "Commingling of fluids" or "Commingling of DNA" or "Commingling of interfaces"???

    Those are all really horny comments, especially for the Slashdot crowd, who associate an iPAQ running Linux with sex...

  5. Slashdotted on Testdrive A Linux iPAQ · · Score: 1

    That's what you get for running your webserver on NT. That little Linux iPAQ can probably do a better job...

  6. Re:Morpheus and Kazaa on Don't Eat the Yellow Links · · Score: 1
    Everytime Morpheus would startup and I moved my cursor over the system tray icon it would have a little text box that would say "Kazaa"

    That's because Morpheus is simply Kazaa with a name change. Same exact code. Apparently someone forgot to change the mouseover attribute when they added all the Morpheus badges to the software.

  7. Nice Brakes on Pulse Jet Go-kart · · Score: 1
    I think he ought to consider spending a little more time designing real brakes and a more functional throttle before he bothers strapping more thrust onto that kart.

    If not, he might make it into the Darwin Awards.

  8. Linux on PalmOS on WinCE not Possible on PalmOS Emulation On PocketPC · · Score: 1
    Linux DA is a replacement for Palm OS, and is laoded directly into memory. The emulator can't run Linux DA because Linux DA doesn't run on Palm OS.

    Besides, as mentioned above, why not just load linux onto the iPAQ directly? It sure beats Win CE.

  9. Cooling Station?!?! on Superconducting Power Cable in Detroit · · Score: 1

    After looking at the pictures of the Refrigeration Building, I really have to wonder why they need to refrigerate anything. It looks damn cold as it is!

    As far as pipe breakage goes, I think that nitrogen is going to stay a liquid with those temperatures.

  10. What about the windows? on Scaling Walls With Suction Cups · · Score: 1

    I'd be a little concerned that a window might pop off while I'm stuck to it. Not only would you fall x number of stories, but you'd have a huge piece of glass land on you when you hit the sidewalk.

    That glass is expensive to replace!!!

  11. Re:God damn it! on Dual Athlon Motherboards Creep Closer · · Score: 1

    This board is most likely designed for rack-mounted server use, in which case the ATI video is more than sufficient. Low profile means no cards sticking up, which in turn means everything must be integrated onboard.

  12. But the exhaust.... on Zero to Rutabaga in 6 Seconds · · Score: 1

    That's got to be an awful smelling vehicle.

    I prefer my rice-burner Honda, frankly.

  13. Re:RAMBUS - no longer the memory maker on Rambus Losing In Court · · Score: 2

    It seems that Rambus is now the patent and litigation company. Do they even sell memory anymore? :)

    Rambus is an Intellectual Property (IP) company.

    They don't actually produce DRAM, they simply license their RDRAM technology to DRAM makers, and have recently started charging fees for SDRAM production as well, based on their questionable patents.