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  1. Eliza on Just Months After Jeopardy!, Watson Wows Doctors · · Score: 1

    Great, now Obamacare will be like playing Eliza

    i have a terrible headache.

    WHY DO YOU FEEL THAT YOU HAVE A TERRIBLE HEADACHE?

    because my head hurts

    WHY DOES YOUR HEAD HURT?

    i don't know. maybe it was the three bottles of vodka i drank last night

    TELL ME ABOUT YOUR MOTHER.

    she was out of town last night

    WHY WAS SHE OUT OF TOWN LAST NIGHT?

    she had a date with someone she met on the internet

    OH, SO THAT WAS YOUR MOTHER. THAT EXPLAINS A LOT.

  2. Source of planets on Massive Explosion On the Sun · · Score: 1

    Could events like this be where the matter came from for building the planets?

  3. Re:Why would I what a reprogrammable flashlight? on Man Creates Open Source Flashlight · · Score: 1

    Flashing lights used to be done with a short bit of bi-metal. Now it requires the computing capabilities of a laptop. Ain't progress fun?

  4. Re:Is the risk really that big? on Checkpoint of the Future Coming Soon To Airports · · Score: 1

    This is all about protecting us from the last attack. We havent had any trains being flown into buildings yet, so they don't consider it a problem, yet. The politions in charge believe that a terrorist can only do one thing, and since that involves airplanes, that is where they concentrate 100% of their effort. If another successful aircraft attacck happens, it would be a political disaster for their careers. Any other type of attack, and they can say "we never expected that", which isn't an instant career ending event.

  5. Re:Stupid, Stupid, Stupid on Checkpoint of the Future Coming Soon To Airports · · Score: 2

    They do this because the TSA is so good at capturing terrorists with their fancy equipment. Just last week, keeping the average caught per week, they successfully captured 0 more terrorists! With specs like that, how can you possibly think of reducing their effectiveness by decreasing their technological advantages. Remember how proudly they displayed the Rifle they confiscated from the GI Joe doll! Three whole inches of plastic mayhem! This new technology might DOUBLE their effectiveness!

  6. Re:Link to Wikipedia on Palin Fans Deface Paul Revere Wikipedia Page · · Score: 2

    There's nothing wrong with hating people who try to falsify history, nothing good can come of it.

    Like that fake story about this dude who rode aroung and warned people "the British are coming"? Sorry, but Paul was nabbed before he could make much of the ride, and his horse was taken from him, so it never really happened. Some other dude did the deed. But the poet didn't like the sound of "The Midnight Ride of Samuel Prescott.

  7. Re:If there was enough interest.. on Why There's No Nobel Prize In Computing · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I doubt that they would. Right now they are trying to figure out what the government plans on doing to them, with their "I hate companies" policies. Obama is constantly talking about his plans to devistate corporations, who are just evil money stealing basterds, and his talks of greatly increasing government regulations on all businesses. They're busy trying to deal whith the crap he's throwing on their plate, and expecting to be screwed over big time. Don't expect them to create an annual award when they are wondering if the government is going to do a takeover on them. The government would see an award of $1,000,000 as enough money to create or save six $20,000 jobs for one year.

  8. Re:here's how it would go down on Why There's No Nobel Prize In Computing · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, it would go to someone like Al Gore or Obama. That would make as much sense as the awards they've already given them. Maybe they will give it to an actual programmer, if they can prove that they really hate America.

  9. Re:Slashdot could do better! on English Teenager Invents a Better Doorbell · · Score: 1

    You know what might be better though? If you gave every doorbell a number, and then you could just enter the number of the person you wanted to talk to.

    What would be awesome is if you could give doorbells to your house to all your friends, then you'd know who was ringing your door before you answered it. And if one of them was pranking you by ringing your door without even coming to your house, you'd be able to tell who the little weasel was. And no ringing the doorbell then being fashionably late.

  10. Backlight on Solar Powered Laptops · · Score: 2

    Considering how well most laptops work in the sunlight, does this mean that you can either power it or see what's on the screen?

  11. Re:Where's the link to the original recipe? on MI6 Swaps Bomb Making Info With Cupcake Recipe On al-Qaeda Website · · Score: 1

    Well, I tried to make a batch of cupcakes from the Ellen Degeneres site, and my stove exploded. Maybe you should start looking there.

  12. Re:Wrong approach on MI6 Swaps Bomb Making Info With Cupcake Recipe On al-Qaeda Website · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile, an attempted suicide bomber failed to detonate in front of the American Embassy in Egypt today. His cream filled cupcakes failed to explode.

  13. Re:Do not use mySQL on Ask Slashdot: Verifying Security of a Hosted Site? · · Score: 1

    Do NOT have 'sony.com' as part of your sites name.

  14. Documentary on 'Worms From Hell' Unearth Possibilities For Extraterrestrial Life · · Score: 1

    Does this mean that Tremors was a documentory?

  15. Re:is it just me? on 'Worms From Hell' Unearth Possibilities For Extraterrestrial Life · · Score: 1

    Well, tried it with a mouse, then a trackball, then a touchscreen. Nada.

  16. Re:Taxation on California Assembly Approves Internet Tax · · Score: 1

    What's interesting is the tax rate that caused the revolution. And today we are being charged a lot more than that rate.

  17. Re:Choices are good, but... on Oracle To Give OpenOffice.org To Apache Incubator · · Score: 0

    Another way to look at it, we now have TWO competing products, where we used to have just the one, that handle MS Word documents better than MSs version does.

  18. Easily broken on Modeling Security Software To Mimic Ant Behavior · · Score: 1

    All it takes is a 10 year old with a magnifying glass to wipe out your entire security system.

  19. Re:Calm Down, It's Only Group 2B on World Health Organization Says Mobile Phones May Cause Cancer · · Score: 1

    What kind of salt? Sea salt grains are larger than table salt grains, so they'll kill you faster on a per grain basis. And if you run it through a salt grinder, you can get some really small grains.

    Unless you are measuring it using the same measurement as gunpowder, then you need to know if it'a a grain, a troy grain, a pearl grain, or a metric grain.

    You should instead use a standard scientific unit, such as a Golf Ball, a Volkswagen, or a Library of Congress.

  20. Re:Nuclear Power - Unnecessary Risk on Carbon Emissions Reached Record High In 2010 · · Score: 1

    Glorious People's Communist Nuclear Power Plant at Chernobly killed large numbers and spread radiation across Europe, and that means that capitalist reactors are bad?

    Can you imagine a gas-fired power plant build with similiar safety systems as Chernobyl? The gas would be stored in swimming pools, next to the employees' smoking shack. They'd have turned off the sprinkler system to see what would happen if they cranked the generators up to maximum speed while removing all the lubrication in the bearings. Building the gas-engine out of wood.

    It was designed and run in the stupidest possible ways, and it's surprising that it wasn't worse than it was. Using combustible carbon blocks, then be surprised when they caught fire after turning off safety systems and running in an unsafe manner. It's like the gas-station attendant who was surprised when the storage tank exploded when he dropped a lit match into it to see how full it was.

  21. Re:good news everybody! on Carbon Emissions Reached Record High In 2010 · · Score: 1

    we're coming out of the great recession!

    Now, all we need to worry about is the rising unemployment, increasing taxes, lower incomes, increased home foreclosures, reduced home purchases, reduced property values, rapidly increasing national debt, ... Good thing the recession is over.

  22. Re:3 degree change on Carbon Emissions Reached Record High In 2010 · · Score: 1

    but you wish to read fatalities as a one issue story, rather than understand the number of factors in play, and i'm the one shoveling a load of ignorant bullshit?

    There's probably just more trailer houses than before.

    FYI: old "joke". If there were no trailer houses, would there be tornadoes?

  23. Re:3 degree change on Carbon Emissions Reached Record High In 2010 · · Score: 1

    You might as well give up. The Algorites will simple change which data is selected, like "this is the most tornadoes seen in a 13 second period during a month ending in R during an election year with a French Pope". By doing this sort of "selection", you can easily prove Global Warming exists and is caused by man. Especially if you economically hit those who don't agree with your position, like only funding those science programs that agree with your position, and defunding any school who dare host a research program that goes against your personal views. This gives you a group of pre-selected scientists that will always vote for your position, just to keep the money coming in.

  24. Re:Freight trains on Carbon Emissions Reached Record High In 2010 · · Score: 1

    I believe that outside of commuter types of trains, the US mostly uses Diesel-electric locomotives. You have to generate the electric power somewhere, and this type of train just generates it locally using a diesel engine to operate a generator, instead of storing it in batteries or using some type of electric transmission.

  25. Re:Technology will solve these problems. on Carbon Emissions Reached Record High In 2010 · · Score: 1

    Every person on the planet would have to plant tons of trees every year to keep the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere constant..

    How many trees are there in a ton?

    Is it OK if I burn them immediately after planting them to make room for the next batch of trees, since the planting seems to be the only important part here?