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  1. It's not a problem now... on Do Electric Sheep Dream of Civil Rights? · · Score: 1

    ...but machines will evolve self-protection (including the ability to protest, invoke sympathy, etc) for the same reason biological species have. To economize and sustain itself. Whether or not this is "real" emotion, pain, etc is a moot point, when you consider the personal mythology most people have built up about relatively unsophisticated tools. We all talk to our cars.

  2. It's necessary on Scientist Organizes Resistance To Polygraphs · · Score: 2, Funny

    How else can we screen out subversives that believe in that evolution nonsense?

  3. Re:Knowledge is a dangerous thing on Fantasy Sports Turn to ... Politics? · · Score: 4, Funny
    "The less the public knows about how law and sausages are made, the happier they'll be."

    Otto Von Bismark

  4. Does this mean.... on SGI Arises From the Ashes · · Score: 1, Redundant

    ...that Brigadier General Jack O'Neil will be back?

  5. Re:Windtraps and KFC on Creating Water from Thin Air · · Score: 1

    Tragically, according to http://amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/002-1718624-80528 08?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=big+secre ts&Go.x=14&Go.y=9&Go=Go the KFC secret sauce is salt, pepper and MSG. Besides, who wants 600 gallons of salt water?

  6. Re:Correction... on The Physics of Superheroes · · Score: 2, Funny
    Meaning they lost their hyphen


    sorry, couldn't resist

  7. Re:Would they tell anyway? on Vista Hacking Challenge Answered · · Score: 1

    Or would you put in a trojan patch, something you could exploit later?

  8. Re:Cool! on Domesday Book Goes Online · · Score: 1

    You forgot the "angel" superman, derived from the Kryptonian Guardian.

  9. Well on Symantec Labels Vicars' Software as Spyware · · Score: 1

    I hardly expected the Spanish Inquisition

  10. Yo, Adrian on Rambus in Violation of Monopoly Laws · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Sylvester Stallone is in troble wit' da Feds?

    Oh, wait....

  11. Re:Interesting on Another Pass at the Personal Jetpack · · Score: 1

    I want the one with in-dash videophone and Smell-O-Vision(TM)

  12. Interesting on Another Pass at the Personal Jetpack · · Score: 0, Troll
    Notice there is:

    1) No video footage

    2) No human being, or any other living thing anywhere near this baby

  13. Re:Let me kick this off on Stem Cells - The Hope and the Hype · · Score: 1

    False

  14. Re:Let me kick this off on Stem Cells - The Hope and the Hype · · Score: 1

    I hate Bush. It is a rational response to someone who himself trades exclusively in hate and fearmingering.

  15. Let me kick this off on Stem Cells - The Hope and the Hype · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Bush is an imperialistic, self-aggrandizing Luddite. He give people of faith a bad name, is a global bully and that's not his real hair (or anybody else's.) Biotech is a very real bid for future technological superiority, and we are squandering it.

  16. Jesus Christ... on Writing on Standing Water · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...at first I thought it said "writing WHILE standing on water."

  17. Could there be a darker design? on Could That Be The Wireless Police Knocking? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    1) Become cable company 2) Offer high(nyuk-nyuk) speed internet at an already inflated price 3) Kick back to condo associations 4) Make it illegal to share internet access 5) Profit!

  18. Psychotic, radical suggestions on Strange iPod Accessories · · Score: 1

    Scratchproof screen. Manageble (God forbid user definable) file structure.

  19. In the words of... on The Fine Print On Wiretapping Review · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...the great sage (and government employee) Gomer Pyle: "Surprise, Surprise, Surprise."

  20. Call it on What if Game Graphics Never Aged? · · Score: 3, Funny

    The portrait of Dorian Duke Nuke'm

  21. Re:Easy answer on U.S. House to Vote on Anti-Online Gambling Act · · Score: 1

    I was thinking more in terms of license, rather than comnstant monitoring.

  22. Easy answer on U.S. House to Vote on Anti-Online Gambling Act · · Score: 1

    1. Make online gaming illegal 2. Enforcement requires we closely monitor all internet traffic 3. This information MUST be shared with other government agencies 4. Consolidate moitoring under Homeland Security 5. Fascists Profit!

  23. The Rules on Is Simplified Spelling Worth Reform? · · Score: 1

    You don't "make" language, you process it. And in doing so change it. Any linguistics student will tell you the "Academe d'Anglais" is doomed at the outset. Usage will put pressure to change on what is accepted (dropping or transforming homonyms, etc.) Obsolete usages will vanish, new ones evolve. It has to be meta-flexible and self correcting or you'd still be licking termites off a stick.

  24. Re:anonymity on Anonymous Online Publication - Fad or Trend? · · Score: 1

    File this in Wikipedia under "security through obscurity."

  25. Same old Pop Sci on The Pentagon's Supersonic, Shape-Shifting Assassin · · Score: 1

    Been hawking videophones, personal fliers and self-cleaning clothes since the fifties. That I know of.