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  1. won't work on How IBM Plans To Win Jeopardy! · · Score: 1

    The 'Watson' computer system uses natural-language processing techniques to break down questions into their structural components and then search its database for relevant answers.

    Well DUH, that won't work! On Jeopardy they give you the answer and you have to respond with the question. Geez, haven't they ever watched the show?

  2. CLI == Linux? on College Police Think Using Linux Is Suspicious Behavior · · Score: 1

    "..and the other is a black screen with white font which he uses prompt commands on"

    Wait, how do they know he wasn't running MSDOS?

    Surely if he was running a Microsoft OS then it couldn't be terrorism.

  3. Re:Yeah, but what's the point? on Segway, GM Partner On Two-Wheeled Electric Car · · Score: 1

    It looks to me like the fore and aft wheels don't touch the ground during balancing and normal driving, so I don't think friction is an issue. I think they are there for a) when it is off, and b) when the balancer fails at 35MPH. Probably also good to have that one in front during a panic stop.

  4. Gee, that's great. on North Korea Launches "Communication Satellite" Rocket · · Score: 1

    So does North Korea now have the ability to land a "communications satellite" on American soil?

  5. Re:Low Cost? on Best Wi-Fi Portable Browsing Device? · · Score: 1

    His spell checker probably insisted on putting a "u" after the "q".

  6. Re:I'm not dead yet on Why TV Lost · · Score: 1

    If the article literally means that we're all going to be crowded around computer screens to watch entertainment instead of sitting comfortably on our couches in the living room, then yeah, it's wrong.

    What? You haven't hooked up your "TV" (large LCD monitor) to your computer yet? Modern video cards do have HDMI outputs now. Do that then go back to your couch.

    FWIW, my family actually does gather 'round the computer to watch "TV", but then, we don't subscribe to cable TV, and yes I realize I'm in the minority. But when I do get a large screen "TV", it will actually be another monitor hung off my computer.

  7. Re:What's stupid... on Audio Watermarks Could Pinpoint Film Pirates By Seat · · Score: 1

    In -fact-, you could make it really simple. ... So you have 14 things in the movie, in 14 scenes, that the director uses, say, pepsi as a prop rather than coke. In post production, assuming that all of these clips are in the computer, you could, for each film print, select the various combinations of each of the scenes such that each film is unique.

    That doesn't sound very simple at all. Shooting different scenes? A simple way would be to delete single frames, probably at scene transitions. Hard to detect, unnoticeable to the eye, but through an analysis of the CAM it could be identifiable.

  8. Re:You guys are missing the point... on UK School Introduces Facial Recognition · · Score: 1

    Seeing as how this is the UK, I assume this is the alpha test for the eventual deployment on the streets, tracking every citizens every movement.

  9. Re:No WInchester drives ? on A History of Storage, From Punch Cards To Blu-ray · · Score: 2, Informative

    Also conspicuously absent: DDS tapes.

  10. Re:Bandwidth challenged need not apply? on ZillionTV Offers On-Demand Streaming TV Box, But Only Via ISPs · · Score: 1

    I should think that if this were coming from the ISP itself, and thus no data ever travels from The Internet, then it should not count as part of your capped bandwidth.

  11. Re:You Have Stolen From Your Bandmates & the R on Lars Ulrich Pirates His Own Album · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hmmm... so if I was torrenting at the same time he was, and connected directly to him, and thus downloading directly from a band member, am I downloading legally too?

  12. Re:I can find work somewhere else on Should Job Seekers Tell Employers To Quit Snooping? · · Score: 1

    My opinion is that if a place won't hire me over petty personal stuff, I don't need to work for them that badly.

    and thankfully, in today's booming economy, jobs are so plentiful you can afford that luxury.

  13. Re:No, they don't on Should Job Seekers Tell Employers To Quit Snooping? · · Score: 1

    *backfire*! If you knew that about him, he certainly wouldn't want to have you around now would he?

  14. I have a sinking feeling about this... on 3-Man Team Begins Ice-Survey Trek To the North Pole · · Score: 1

    So we'll know if the ice is too thin by whether or not they return? ;)

  15. interpreters? on Google NativeClient Security Contest · · Score: 1

    NaCl is designed to make dangerous code impossible

    Does this include the case where the machine code implements a byte code interpreter along with a bunch of byte code data? That makes analyzing the code a bit more complex.

  16. Easy, on Nintendo Asks For Government Help To Fight Piracy · · Score: 1

    Why not just steer your shipload of Wii's around Somalia so the pirates don't take it over?

  17. Re:What, 33% market share and we're complaining? on 1 of 3 Dell Inspiron Mini Netbooks Sold With Linux · · Score: 1

    I may be in the minority here, but I don't want Windows to die.

    You are in the minority here.

  18. Finally! 2009... on 1 of 3 Dell Inspiron Mini Netbooks Sold With Linux · · Score: 1

    the year of Linux on the netbook.

  19. Re:Comcast on Netflix To Offer Streaming-Only Service Plans · · Score: 1

    Right, and a Blu-Ray is what? 50GB? 5 of those and you're done for the month.

  20. Re:A horse in my wallet. on Coming Soon, 250 DVDs In a Quarter-Sized Device · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but the human technology that let's him keep it on an SD card in his wallet is more impressive than keeping a single horse cell in his wallet.

  21. Re:Good Joke on Bill Would Require ISPs, Wi-Fi Users To Keep Logs · · Score: 1

    DHCP logs only record MAC addresses,

    But wait, the bill says,

    "...shall retain for a period of at least two years all records or other information pertaining to the identity of a user of a temporarily assigned network address..."

    It says "identity" not "MAC address". How are you supposed to know the identity of the person? Heck, if one of my kids logs into the wireless laptop upstairs, I don't even know which one it is. How am I supposed to know who my neighbors are?

  22. Re:So long cables running from space to earth? on Space Based Solar Power Within a Decade? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually, they could combine this project with the space elevator. As long as you have a long tether to a big weight out in space, why not make that weight a power generator and have the cable do double duty as tether and conduit.

  23. Re:Naive thinking... on Facebook's New Terms of Service · · Score: 1

    So could anyone who archived the page, or even took a screenshot.

    Yes, but if they did then they'd be violating Facebook's intellectual property cuz they own it. ;)

  24. Re:Sub nano data recovery??? on Stanford's Quantum Hologram Sets Storage Record · · Score: 1

    No, don't mirror, use RAID and store 4 electrons worth of data in 5 electrons.

  25. Re:Liability insurance? on Toward Autonomous Unmanned Aircraft Technology · · Score: 1

    Well I was referring to general failure of the system. When a plane fails, the pilot ususally steers the plane in a valiant attempt to avoid signs of humanity. That would be absent in this robotic system.