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  1. Re:Interesting, but... on Toddlers May Learn Language By Data Mining · · Score: 1

    I'd say it's the other way round. Data mining is an attempt at artificially mimicking skills like pattern matching, spotting connections and inferential logic - things that we've know for some time that humans are quite good at.

  2. Re:Well it seems to work pretty damn well! on Physicist Calculates Trajectory of Tiger At SF Zoo · · Score: 1

    So if one asshat drives like an idiot and wraps himself in a tree, but another asshat drives like an idiot and gets away with it (this time), it's the tree's fault? Consider the unstated third case.

  3. Re:Blashphemy ! on 111 Years Ago, Indiana Almost Legislated Pi · · Score: 1

    Ooops, I meant 75!

  4. Re:Blashphemy ! on 111 Years Ago, Indiana Almost Legislated Pi · · Score: 1

    Er, the 10 cubits is surely the surface measurement of the bowl
    Wouldn't that be 125 square cubits?
  5. Re:Blashphemy ! on 111 Years Ago, Indiana Almost Legislated Pi · · Score: 1

    "Round" doesn't (necessarily) mean the same as "circular".
    True, it could also mean "spherical".

    I guess that's not helping much.
  6. Re:Another interesting calculation... on Physicist Calculates Trajectory of Tiger At SF Zoo · · Score: 1

    I think your figures are a bit off, seems you're combining the weight of a draught horse with the acceleration of a racehorse.

  7. Darwin award contender? on Physicist Calculates Trajectory of Tiger At SF Zoo · · Score: 1

    Being a jerk for a few minutes to a tiger doesn't mean you should die.
    But it does mean that if you do die, it's your own stupid fault.
  8. Re:The opposition made their homework this time on Four Indicted in Pirate Bay Case · · Score: 1

    While linking to copyrighted material may be legal, making money from actively enabling people copyright infringement probably is harder to sneak by the courts.
    Are you saying that they haven't got a (wooden) leg to stand on?
  9. Re:head injuries on Scientists Discover Way To Reverse Memory Loss · · Score: 1

    Does anyone see the astonishing stupidity of this? The guy was going to die anyway, and did. Why not offer him the chance to possibly live?
    And risk having him sue us - are you mad?
  10. Re:Swiss independence on Anti-Piracy Group Violates Swiss Law to Track File Sharing · · Score: 1

    I know the Swiss are closely related to the Germans, but maybe he was ... joking?

  11. Re:abusive behaviour on Smartphones Patented — Just About Everyone Sued 1 Minute Later · · Score: 1

    It's not completely legal to persistently bring frivolous, speculative or nuisance lawsuits, at least in some jurisdictions.

  12. Re:Sad but necessary on Colleges Being Remade Into "Repress U"? · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't you load and aim first?

  13. Re:Sad but necessary on Colleges Being Remade Into "Repress U"? · · Score: 1

    I believe that in order for a law or custom to be just, every member of the population must agree that it is fair.
    Every member? So just one can veto a law that several million agree with? Good luck with that.
  14. Re:Just hoopla over definitions on The Tree of Life Consolidates · · Score: 2

    It used to be a planet, so it should stay one. Raising its hopes then taking it all away like that is just plain mean. You wouldn't like it if they did that to you.

  15. Re:Human Error on MPAA Botched Study On College Downloading · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I guess changing the results does constitute "human error"...
    Only if you'd class a kamikaze attack as a pilot error.
  16. Re:Mod Parent Up on Collapsed UK Bank Attempts to Censor Wikileaks · · Score: 1

    In Latin, "ad" takes the accusative. Even if it didn't, the nominative is "homo".

  17. Re:Documentation on Down Time At Work — What Do You Do? · · Score: 1

    An ounce of *good* documentation is worth a pound of analysis.
    Fixed that for you.

    The guy I took over from wrote tons of documentation, and most of it is worse than useless. He certainly has a talent for packing a very small amount of information into a great number of words. He apparently also thinks a diagram is something like a tiara.
  18. Helium on Helium Crisis Approaching · · Score: 1

    Have any of them there Ay-rabs got any? Just asking.

  19. Re:Golf on What Skills Should Undergrads Have? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Learn to stick your tits out and flutter your eyelids, it works for the bitchcow in my office.

  20. Hoser on What Skills Should Undergrads Have? · · Score: 1

    I am currently attending a small Canadian University
    Stop right there, I think I've spotted your mistake. Only kidding, eh.
  21. Re:Anecdote on Scientists Restore Walking After Spinal Cord Injury · · Score: 1

    Takes "feels like someone else is doing it" to a whole new level. Well, not quite like someone else doing it. So I'm told.

  22. Re:How beautifully naive. on Airport Profilers Learn to Read Facial Expressions · · Score: 1

    You're not inside my head. Things come out weirdly, worded wrongly, stuttered. This happens frequently when I'm nervous and I don't think for a second I'm unique.
    Not unique, but then people who act like like that aren't exactly common either. Maybe that's why your schoolbus wasn't, how can I put this, as long as the other ones?
  23. Re:Monkey Trials? on Snortable Drug 'Replaces' Sleep For Monkeys In Trials · · Score: 1

    I knew it was only a matter of time before they started traning as lawyers.

  24. Re:China and Technology on China Anti-Corruption Web Site Crashes On First Day · · Score: 1

    Well, that certainly puts a different slant on things.

  25. ob on Wisconsin Mulls an Earmarked Video Game Tax · · Score: 1

    I hope they don't use too much cinnamon; some people find it overpowering.