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  1. Re:Congratulations on Is Computer-Created Art, Art? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not the computer that came up with the program to generate these images, but the programmer. At the risk of going too philosophical, the purpose of creating art is for it to be seen. Unlike the programmer who created the image generator program, the computer has no feeling of purpose to what it calculated. Over here, the artist is clearly the programmer. In light cooperation, possibly, with the person typing 'Apple-X'.

  2. Re:2 Questions on Fingerprints Replace Credit Cards in Seattle · · Score: 0

    2) Can I choose which finger to give them for my biometrics?

    And if so, I suppose you will give them the finger?

  3. Re:Let me be the first on Fingerprints Replace Credit Cards in Seattle · · Score: 1

    I suppose you always pay everything in cash. If not, your privacy must have been invaded for a long time already.

  4. Re:Sushi Fishy. on Sushi Prepared on a Printer · · Score: 4, Informative

    The word Sushi, to my understanding, is derived from the words su (vinegar) and meshi (rice).

    The birth of sushi as we know it, was to use this vinegar rice to wrap fish in it, to conserve the fish, sometimes for months!

  5. Re:search for "linux" on Inspecting MSN Search · · Score: 2, Interesting

    At least your search returned English pages first, I'm getting Dutch pages first, even when my preferences are set to 'Search pages in all languages' instead of Dutch. Yes, I'm in Holland, but when searching for Linux I really have more use for pages in English.

  6. Re:Spyware on Skype For Mac OS X and Linux · · Score: 1

    Translated into text that graphic looks more like NO O:-) Spyware Adware Malware And it is binary-only. Sorry but I think I'll pass for now.

  7. Re:Pseudo-science on Bill Gates Handwriting Analyzed · · Score: 1

    Sure. Bring on the crop circles!

  8. Oh well... on Could Your Blackberry Be Damaging Your Thumbs? · · Score: 1

    I guess its back to playing pacman then.

  9. Brazil spends on prop software than on hunger on John Barlow Pushes Open Source in Brazil · · Score: 1

    "Brazil already spends more on proprietary software than on hunger". Is this supposed to be a bad sign? I'd be very surprised if it was any less true in first-world countries.

  10. Re:Quite so. on Car RFID Security System Cracked · · Score: 1

    Will any statistically significant number of people try this?

    Let's see. How much does a car go for on the black market? How long does it take to crack a key? Okay, now let's see what salary we can get from that. And while TI denies the problem, we'll stay in business. And the cars won't go whining that they're being stolen. Naively, this seems to be a nice opportunity for a career change for plenty of folks.

  11. Patents? on A9 Search Engine Launches Yellow Pages · · Score: 1

    Seems like one hell of an idea... how long until we will see this showing up at the patent office? For once, it seems like a nontrivial, more or less innovative idea, combining a cam with GPS.

  12. see no evil, hear no evil on Converting Images Into Sounds for the Blind · · Score: 2, Funny

    So now they can read maps, but somehow I would't feel very secure getting in on a car with them. "Keep your eyes on the road!!!" "Okay, if it makes you feel better..."

  13. Re:False Advertising on Human Animal Hybrid Created in Lab · · Score: 1

    A petri dish is ever so slightly different from [...] a girlfriend with the head of a shark. And safer to Mr. Johnson too.

  14. Re:Needed most on /.? on Jef Raskin Gets $2 Million To Develop RCHI · · Score: 2, Funny

    No man, you dont get it dude. With this lil' gizmo we're gonna be totally able to way interact with computers!

  15. Re:Good Grief on McAfee Granted Firewall Patent · · Score: 1

    IANA=I Am Not Anywhere
    Take that McAffee!

  16. WARNING on New Standard Keyboard · · Score: 1

    The colorful image of the keyboard may cause permanent damage to your eyes. OUCH!

  17. Good old rock, on Machine Learns Games · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    .... beats them every time.

  18. That IS incredible value. on Through The Steve Ballmer Looking Glass · · Score: 1

    Nowadays it costs more. And they no longer ship it with Reversi. D-': Bwaaaaaaaaaaa!

  19. Re:XML is good, but not good enough. on Are Extensible Programming Languages Coming? · · Score: 1

    I'd vote for binary-XML I'd vote for plaintext XML. Back in the old days, source code would be tokenized to save space, and stored in a semi-binary format, rendering it unreadable for, for example, text editors. Storing source code as plain ASCII is actually a step forward.

    Storing source code in XML, from that perspective, is actually a step backwards, but there is an upside to it -- it allows displaying code the way you want. Pascal users can see BEGIN and END, BASIC users can see THEN / END IF, C* programmers can see their curly brackets, and so on. This might actually fade the borders between programming languages. Also, with the code stored in a more structured way, perhaps we will finally see our editors restructure our code for best possible readability (moving around THEN/ELSE branches where needed), while maintaining its meaning.

  20. Re:Thank God! on Creationist Textbook Stickers Declared Unconstitutional · · Score: 5, Funny

    As opposed the highly probably theory of Noah's ark being beached and somehow the Kangaroos and Koalas all flew to Australia

    Now c'mon. Everyone KNOWS kangaroos don't fly. They jumped there. As for the koalas, they didn't fly nor jump-- they haven't got the wings or legs for it. Obviously, they teleported. I saw it once in a cartoon, so it must be true.

  21. Released in the Netherlands and Belgium on simPC - Your Grandparents' New Computer? · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't they try releasing this in Thailand?

  22. This could have a very interesting application... on Breakthrough In JPEG Compression · · Score: 1

    ...to compress motion JPEG. Knocking 30% off the size of a video stream while still allowing frame-by-frame editing, makes it more competitive with standards that compress in 3D (x,y,time). *Especially* because there is no quality loss compared to a simple JPEG stream.

  23. What I really miss... on Planning For Mozilla 2.0 · · Score: 1

    ... is ActiveX support. Really.

  24. Re:Includes? on Open Source Alternatives to Dreamweaver Templating · · Score: 1

    > updating a 200+ page website with notepad is not fun

    If you need to update 200+ pages to apply a change to your site, something's wrong with its design.

  25. Think of the next generation on Countries Plan Land Rush in Warming Arctic · · Score: 1

    Think of the poor children. Leave the pole to Santa Claus.