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  1. Re:Why aren't we cool on ARCADE: Blinkenlights with Tetris · · Score: 1

    mit did do it a while back

  2. tracks on Algebra As A Gateway Subject · · Score: 1

    that's why I'm glad to have never gone to a private school. by chance, the public school i went to is one of the best but even if it were not, i would still not go to a private school.

    public schools actually let the student choose their classes and can provide a much better experience with a wider class selection.

    it all depends upon the student

  3. My favorite quote on Algebra As A Gateway Subject · · Score: 1

    Lynette Shields, who teaches math at Washington Irving Middle School in Fairfax County, said there are more students with problems in eighth-grade algebra because an effort to get more children into the course has lowered the standard for admission.

    So in other words, some people just plain suck at math.

  4. not only that... on NYC Law Aims To Ban Cell Phones In Theatres · · Score: 0

    but the use of cell phones in subway trains might increase the odds of cancer among users if the small amount of radiation released from each phone bounces off of the trail walls (which they are looking into)

  5. Re:wrong on Microsoft Invests in the University of Waterloo · · Score: 1

    well, everyday you hear of microsoft donating money, a ton of harvard cs students are ms interns and microsoft just donated a state of the art building

  6. the obvious solution... on Mutant Gene Responsible for Speech? · · Score: 1

    don't send anyone into space

  7. Re:Isn't that evolution? on Mutant Gene Responsible for Speech? · · Score: 1

    yeah, but it is interesting to know when it developed

  8. Re:Vote: what will be the last NS version number? on No Pop-up Blocking in Netscape 7.0 · · Score: 1

    Netscape POS (Please use Our Software)

  9. Re:This is such a non-problem. Just edit prefs.js on No Pop-up Blocking in Netscape 7.0 · · Score: 1

    Fight the Man!

    me?

  10. if you find that interesting.. on Microsoft Invests in the University of Waterloo · · Score: 1
  11. Re:As a certain shit band would say: So Fucking Wh on Microsoft Invests in the University of Waterloo · · Score: 1

    mod parent up!

  12. Re:Academic Integrity on Microsoft Invests in the University of Waterloo · · Score: 1

    geez...take it easy on him; (IMO) all he was saying was that he hoped waterloo didnt use it's reputation; if it did, it would be harder to get employed

  13. wrong on Microsoft Invests in the University of Waterloo · · Score: 1

    the University of Washington, probably has the tightest relationship with Microsoft than any other school

    nope; harvard

  14. similar project at umich on Rat Mind Control · · Score: 1

    there was a group at u. michigan that did the exact same thing with a cockroach a while ago. iirc, they found that it worked well at first but the signals became ineffective after a while.

    then again they didnt have much time to test it; it didnt live long

  15. it's obvious on Two Steps Forward for Linux Multimedia · · Score: 1

    i cant belive they had the audacity to release it!

  16. Re:Whatever you do.... on Artificial Inteligence Common Sense Database · · Score: 1

    actually, i was thinking of giving it control of my shell....

    dave:~$ show me the pr0no stash, cyg
    I don't think i can do that, dave [drool]

  17. Re:This isnt an AI. on Artificial Inteligence Common Sense Database · · Score: 1

    i disagree; the system can become true ai in the near future.

    every ai sysem is going to have a way of inputting basic facts. in the case of this ai system, it just happens that the basis of the system's knowledge was manually put in. learning through experience is not the only way to create an ai system; it just happens to be the method of gathering intelligence used by humans.

    the next step, and IMO, the most important one (and the one that will make the system posess true ai) is to add more input methods so that the system can gather information from things such as what it sees and reads, and it could gather the answers to any possible contradiction from other sources


    while i am not so experienced in the ways of the ai programmer, i think that the system has much more potential than the posts i have read imply

  18. Re:Legal Items only? on Subversive Gifts for New College Students? · · Score: 1

    sorry...i should have said i only meant with palm keyboards

    i have tried just about all the palm keyboards out there, but i have yet to try one pocketpc keyboard

  19. Re:if and only if... on George Lucas May Be Completely Evil · · Score: 1

    come on! can you stand about ten seconds of new footage? it's not like they are showing a picture of the goatse.cx guy

  20. Re:Legal Items only? on Subversive Gifts for New College Students? · · Score: 1

    Not really; you cant type as fast as you want to most of the time

  21. Re:You CAN buy it today on Eminem #2 on Gracenote... Before Release · · Score: 1

    They had to knock the release date up by two weeks after the cd was pirated three weeks before the planned release date.

  22. Re:Tabbed browsing? on A First Look at Netscape 7 · · Score: 3, Funny

    there never was a Mozilla 0.5 release Let me get this straight....so i didnt have hot sex with natalie portman right after installing mozilla .5? I was drunk?

  23. Of course on Passwords May Be Weakest Link · · Score: 1

    of course we all know this! it was posted on slashdot before! duh!

  24. Re:DoS: Everyone sign up for a dozen hotmail accou on Microsoft Opts-In Hotmail Users · · Score: 1

    and then microsoft can boast more passport members, you idiot