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  1. Re:Simple clues that betray AI status on New Contestants On the Turing Test · · Score: 1
    Note that KW is professor Kevin Warwick. You are saying that he got dumbfounded by a simple typo. However I think that professor KW thought it was a typo made on purpose by the computer and attempted to catch it.

    Subject (aka Ultra Hal): Think deeply about mysterious dubjects.
    KW: What's a dubject?

  2. Re:Dubject on New Contestants On the Turing Test · · Score: 1

    The typo probably was introduced purposely to make professor KW believe he's really talking to a human.

  3. Re:Did the editor read the last paragraph? on City Sues To Prevent Linking To Its Website · · Score: 1
  4. Re:What a grate idea on Academic Says We Should Give Up on Correct Spelling · · Score: 1

    This is not an ideografic langwij after all.

    I thought it was. The strokes are called "letters". How else can you explain colonel or blood?

  5. I live in the Southern Hemisphere... on Slashdot Announces Idle Section · · Score: 0, Troll
    ... you, insensitive clod!

    Now go about your day -- it's mid August, so I'm sure everything you do is urgent, exciting, and oh-so-interesting.

  6. Re:Even worse... on Password Resets Worse Than Reusing Old password · · Score: 1
    One time passwords can be set this way:
    __A__B__C_
    1 84 53 28
    2 76 23 09
    3 21 78 02
    Password 1: A2 B1 C3 = 76 53 02
    Password 2: A1 A2 B1 = 84 76 21
    Password 3: B2 B3 C2 = 23 78 09

    If you have 10 letters and 5 numbers you'll never run out of passwords during your life.

  7. Re:Are there any good solutions? on Password Resets Worse Than Reusing Old password · · Score: 1

    It's very obvious. The elementary school is that of your wife. Your mother's maiden name it's actually your mother-in-law's maiden name. Should you ever forget what your wife's firt pet was, a simple call will solve the problem (if she's not within voice reach). And she would never tell that answer to a stranger.

  8. Re:Extraversion where? on Inferring Personality From Email Addresses · · Score: 1
    Dr. Mitja Back is a man.

    http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~diffdiag/img/back_g.JPG

    From the article

    Corresponding author.
    E-mail addresses: honey.bunny77 AT hotmail.de, mback AT uni-leipzig.de (M.D. Back).

  9. Re:Or Creativity!! on Inferring Personality From Email Addresses · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think she is 31 years old.

  10. Re:Great, but it is not... on Chinese Restaurant Suffers Large Translation Error · · Score: 1

    The "v" in the middle of a sentence is softer and at the beginning it's like "b". However both in "Nova" and in "no va" the v is in the middle of the sentence. The difference in stress is very noticeable, though: nóva and nová.

  11. Re:Great, but it is not... on Chinese Restaurant Suffers Large Translation Error · · Score: 1

    I've lived almost all my life in South America, and you just don't confuse nóva and nová.

  12. Re:Great, but it is not... on Chinese Restaurant Suffers Large Translation Error · · Score: 1

    MR2 = emmerdé.

  13. Re:Some of those examples on Best and Worst Coding Standards? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, reading in columns is easier than in long lines. Most papers use several columns and many blogs use an artificially narrow column.

  14. Re:Suggestions... on Learn a Foreign Language As an Engineer? · · Score: 1

    In fact, the Spanish language audience is so large that some producers will dub it in both Iberian Spanish and American Spanish

    Some? This is an understatement. Spoken Iberian Spanish is not acceptable as a translation in Latin America and spoken American Spanish is not acceptable as a translation in Spain. Therefore, if a movie has a dubbed version at least it has a subtitled version for the other audience. Only movies with a very small audience, such as some documentaries, are excepted from this rule.

    On the other hand, original accents are accepted (such as Argentinian musicians Les Luthiers in Spain or Spanish singer from La Oreja de Van Gogh in Latin America).

  15. Re:An example on Best DNS Naming Scheme For Small/Medium Businesses? · · Score: 1

    Your particular example "sfc" = San Francisco is wrong. San Francisco's airport code is SFO. However there are probably lots of airport codes which differ in only one letter.

  16. Re:Not surprised on Surprisingly Few People Collect On GTA Hot Coffee · · Score: 1

    The original writing by Magritte was "Ceci n'est pas une /pip/". The one in the picture is "Ceci n'est pa une /paip/".

  17. Re:Shameless karma whore on Trees' Leaves Grow At a Cool 70° All Over the World · · Score: 1

    The mistake wasn't using Fahrenheit, after all Slashdot is an American site. The mistake was not telling wich unit was being used.

  18. Re:Show some taste on Computer Art For a CS Dept Office? · · Score: 1

    He's not talking about M. C. Escher drawings but about hanging M. C. Escher drawings in a CS department wall.

  19. A space may be very meaningful on Six Degrees of Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    First I read "MySQL is very rusty".

  20. Re:Metric System on Burying a Mainframe In Style · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's funny the way you win your bet.

    From Alexa
    Slashdot.org users come from these countries:
    United States 49.9%
    Canada 7.2%
    United Kingdom 6.7%
    Australia 3.4%
    Germany 3.2%
    India 2.0%
    Spain 1.9%
    Netherlands 1.5%
    France 1.4%
    Italy 1.1%
    New Zealand 1.0%
    Romania 0.9%
    Argentina 0.8%
    South Africa 0.7%
    China 0.7%
    Greece 0.7%
    Switzerland 0.6%
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    Philippines 0.6%
    Israel 0.6%
    Belgium 0.6%
    Singapore 0.6%
    Brazil 0.6%
    Malaysia 0.5%
    Other countries 11.7%

  21. Re:Yahoo! Answers vs Wikipedia on Yahoo! Answers, A Librarian's Worst Nightmare · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Admins to blame? on Call For Halt To Wikipedia Webcomic Deletions · · Score: 1
  23. Re:To prevent this in future... on Spanish TV Channels Vandalize Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    In Spain people are forbidden two have more than two first names. Unless they are grandchildren of the king.

  24. Re:Ignorance on Word 2007 Flaws Are Features, Not Bugs · · Score: 1

    Say that to George Orwell, who invented the sentence.

  25. Re:Make 'em all speak english on ICANN Under Pressure Over Non-Latin Characters · · Score: 1
    Italy: All letters covered (as far as I can tell)

    There are accented versions of e and o.

    There's also "à" TuttoCittà, "ì" Così fan tutte and "ù" PiùChePuoi.