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  1. Yeah, sure. on Chatbot Suzette Wins 20th Annual Loebner Prize, Fools One Judge · · Score: 1

    Here's how goddamned smart the bot is.

    "What is an insect?"
    You need an exterminator.

    "Name four insects."
    You need a repairman.

    How many wings does a butterfly have?
    {no response}

  2. Re:Wikipedia is not like that on Can Wikipedia Teach Us All How To Just Get Along? · · Score: 1

    Nice example you pulled up. She was initially sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, not for the murder of her husband. Stoning...adultery. Maybe that has something to do with the Western world, errr, countries where the legal system isn't based on some interpretation of Sharia, finding things in Iran to be more than a bit unsavory. We all know about America's historic blunders and wrongs in Iran. but that hardly makes medieval treatment of women acceptable, nor does it mean that w We have no right to criticize their hardline judiciary.

    Nice example you pulled up. We all know about America's historic blunders and wrongs in Iran. We have no right to criticize their judiciary.

    Removed bolded text - Admin.

  3. Re:Wow, the Slashdot piracy party is at it again on Comic Sales Soar After Artist Engages 4chan Pirates · · Score: 1

    Shhhhh. Logic.

  4. Re:Something I find interesting on Gene Simmons Threatens Anonymous Again and Gets DDoS'd · · Score: 1

    "Creating abundant goods puts one in a different kind of market than creating scarce goods."

    Why, because you want it free?

  5. Re:Quality control on The Ease of Publishing an Ebook · · Score: 1

    It's trivial in OpenOffice Writer.

  6. Re:Next step? on Word Processors — One Writer's Further Retreat · · Score: 1

    How strange. I never realized there was a correct way to write a novel other than to wind up with a good story.

  7. Re:Not a direct provocation, but... on Audio Analysis Brings New Revelations From Kent State Shooting · · Score: 1

    Then you, like some people here, take it for granted wrong by a huge percentage.

  8. Re:How is this like vaccinations? on Microsoft Eyes PC Isolation Ward To Thwart Botnets · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I only showed my daughter's vaccination in grade school. She and I both went through middle, high and college without having to show. I have never in my life shown vaccination proof for a job. Other than grade school, you're blowing it out your ass.

  9. Re:You're kidding, right? on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    Pets cost more than $75 a year. The guy gambled and lost.

  10. Re:Talent needs tools on Creative Commons Video Challenges Hollywood's Best · · Score: 1

    "Artists shouldn't have to sell their souls to buy their supplies."

    Interesting assertion, but why - and what exactly does it mean to 'sell their souls'? I draw, paint, sculpt, write and so forth and I purchase all my supplies.

  11. Re:That is fucking awesome! on Creative Commons Video Challenges Hollywood's Best · · Score: 1

    I don't for one moment believe that you've suddenly realized you're no longer in the body of a ten year old.

  12. Re:Only if you speak US English on OpenOffice.org Declares Independence From Oracle, Becomes LibreOffice · · Score: 1

    Now I know all you folks are the right kind of people.

  13. Re:Luckily for you on Selling Incandescent Light Bulbs As Heating Devices · · Score: 1

    Rather than tap our own reserves.

  14. Re:Because I've always wanted a reason to say this on Selling Incandescent Light Bulbs As Heating Devices · · Score: 1

    I don't find them tasty, but then, I also don't eat mud pies like children do. When my daughter was young enough to eat mud pies and offered me one, I'd simply say I was full. Try that.

  15. Re:There is a link however... on You Are Not Mark Zuckerberg, So Stay In School · · Score: 2, Funny

    "I am a far better person for my university education."

    Except of course, for the English courses.

  16. Re:College investment on You Are Not Mark Zuckerberg, So Stay In School · · Score: 1

    Having to pay interest on it the rest of your life kind of reduces that 'better'.

  17. Re:It's made of magic on Terry Pratchett's Self-Made Meteorite Sword · · Score: 1

    Read my previous post. The vast bulk of steel swords balance close to the quillons. That's the entire point of the pommel.

    "They didn't were armor and in a lot of ways it was more about form and style than it was about killing efficiency."

    After the word armor, that sentence is quite uninformed.

  18. Re:It's made of magic on Terry Pratchett's Self-Made Meteorite Sword · · Score: 3, Informative

    You do not know what you're talking about. A good sword balances an inch or so forward of the quillons. What you're referring to were early swords, based on the designs of Bronze Age swords, which had thickened blades to sustain damage, not for hacking needs. Furthermore, the favored tactic of Romans was to block upwards with the shield and jab into the enemies unprotected midsection. Even before Rome fell, those designs had disappeared.

  19. Re:I turned Instant off almost immediately on Did Google Go Instant Just To Show More Ads? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word.

    Only for those to whom 'intensive' means the same thing as 'intents and'.

  20. Re:This is not about protecting Kids ITS SOCIALISM on On the Web, Children Face Intensive Tracking · · Score: 1

    His anger, sex and race make him wrong?

  21. Re:Fuck this shit on IE9, FF4 Beta In Real-World Use Face-Off · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually, no they don't. A few houses worth of friends and mine all interconnect without the use of anyone's services. Now, if I want to read The Tokyo Daily, I have to use something that connects to it. Can't afford the 12,000 mile of cabling m'self. They have every right to charge me for the use of all the shit they had to do to get my browser linked up with Tokyo.

  22. Re:Fuck this shit on IE9, FF4 Beta In Real-World Use Face-Off · · Score: 1

    Maybe at some point, but that point ain't now. I develop apps for local use, and I would want my response times to ideally be as low as a compiled app. Any javascript or rendering speed improvement is still a plus to me.

  23. Re:When is a bank not a bank on PayPal Withholding Indie Game Dev's €600,000 Account · · Score: 1

    That post was the sound of an annoying fly being whacked by a Sunday edition rolled up newspaper.

  24. Re:For me on Should Developers Have Access To Production? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Sometimes developers need access to production--such as on a critical system..."

    No, they don't. Not for any meaningful definition of the word critical. Developers have a mirror system with whatever adjustments they're doing. Fix the problem in test, move it over. Developers have no need of touching a live system.

  25. Re:And wildlife everywhere is rejoicing.... on Why the World Is Running Out of Helium · · Score: 0, Troll

    A swing and a miss.