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  1. Re:Yep...been happening for years on L.A. Times Columnist Says Geek-Autism is a Good Thing · · Score: 1

    "Public school serves one pupose == socialization."

    Then why do the teachers always say "No Talking!"?

  2. Re:Uhhh..300:1 on airline failure? on Betting on Y2K Disasters · · Score: 1

    Yea, but even without a computer glitch, 300:1 doesn't sound that unreasonable. Thats about one per year. Plus I'm sure they've given themselves a very wide profit margin.

    One the other hand, I don't remember ever hearing about banks failing in any major way.

  3. Re:Squating? on "N-word".com Owned by NAACP · · Score: 1

    If I didn't know how to spell it, I wouldn't have noticed it afterwards would I?
    Now, direct your eyes to your keyboard. Notice how close the 'u' and the 'i' are.

    And besides that, it doesn't matter, My intelligence, my spelling, or my OS is completely beside the point I was trying to make.

  4. Re:Squating? on "N-word".com Owned by NAACP · · Score: 1

    Hmm... I must remember to check spelling on my posts...

  5. Re:Squating? on "N-word".com Owned by NAACP · · Score: 1

    If Microsoft had registered every available permutation of the word "Linix" the opinion on Slashdot would be considerably diferent.

  6. Re:It's not sad, it's very funny on "N-word".com Owned by NAACP · · Score: 1

    But it's not redirected to something relevant! Redirecting kkk.com to naacp.com would be like redirecting IBM.org to Apple.com or Slashdot.com to Microsoft.com!

    Being the complete opposite of something is not being 'relevant' to it.

  7. Re:Spitball "cyber war" anyone? on Pakistan-India Cyberwar · · Score: 1

    No, "A Private Little War" involves flint-lock riffles. Somebody armed some primatives with Flint-locks, so Kirk arms the other side of the conflict with flint-locks to even the odds.

  8. Re:Urrrrghhh... on Who Owns The Database? · · Score: 1

    Yes. But what if right before the copmiler of the data was finished, he relised the Very Big Corp. or America had published a similer list?

    Theoreticaly, since they both got the data form public domain sources, They should both be within the law right?

    But if VBCoA decides that Mr. Compiler has ripped off VBCoA's list he can't do a thing about it. With this law in effect he'd be screwed. VBCoA's lawyers would point to the fact that his list came out right after thiers, and the fact that it is identical to thiers. He wouldn't stand a chance. Never mind that it HAS to be identical because there is only one set of data that is correct.

  9. Re:cool! i want one on Zilog (re-)introduces the Z80 · · Score: 1

    It doesn't look like it'd be easy to get out and replace. Everything's cramed on the board pretty close together.

  10. Re:billboards on Plan for Privately-Funded Moon Base · · Score: 1

    I have absolutly no problem putting up a Microsoft billboard on the moon if somebody sends me there to do it. (And you know it will say "Where do you want to go today?")

  11. Re:Should have happend long ago on Plan for Privately-Funded Moon Base · · Score: 1

    Tell you what. When we go to the Moon. I'll bring a spare computer and we can set it up as a luner Quake sever. We can still play Quake but only with each-other.

    Also, after a while we'll probably want a sever with modified physics.

  12. Re:Moon already owned on Plan for Privately-Funded Moon Base · · Score: 1

    We can all own part of the Moon. I think there's a booth in the Boston Museum of Science that sells land on the moon.

  13. Re:Should have happend long ago on Plan for Privately-Funded Moon Base · · Score: 1

    There's no reason you couldn't have net access. We could still access SlashDot from the moon. Hopefully there'd be a proxy with a cach. And we'd be all set.

  14. Re:Ahem (Clarke) on Liquid Ocean on Europa? · · Score: 1

    I think he was refuring to the book. The movie sucked.(2010 of course not 2001.)

    If he was refuring to the Movie there was an extra line in the message. In the book it's made clear that the Monoliths had determined that the more intelligent forms of life on Europa could stand the warmer climet. And living on land was essantual to thier development.

  15. Re: Seems fitting on Man vs Machine Story Writing Contest · · Score: 2

    Oh great! In the future computers will indulge in sexual fantasies for us. No longer will we be held back by the dull drudgery of fantasizing about naked women! Gone will be the days when we have to glance down to check a hot chick's cleavage! Using advanced Artificial Intelligence algorithms and a state-of-the-art $25 million computer system that could fill an entire room, Dr. Smith has create a system that perfectly emulates the human mind's capacity for smutty thoughts. Right now it working on a top secret project for the United States Military, but who knows, Maybe one day a machine like this will spend all day visualizing that hot number next door naked so you don't have to.

    Wow. Talk about the march of progress.

  16. Re:Such limited thinking on Man vs Machine Story Writing Contest · · Score: 1

    I seroiusly hope the DOD is working on an AI like you described. And I realy, realy, hope I get a chance to meet it. I'd absolutly love to meet something with the Interenet for a mind. It'd be truly bizare. It'd be like you used Dejanews as a training file for MegaHal!

  17. Re:Tweaking software for one-time output on Man vs Machine Story Writing Contest · · Score: 1

    A fair way to run the contest would be to turn the program over to a third party. THEN choose the subject of the story. Otherwise you could just hard-code a story into the program.

  18. Re:Plam naming convention is sooooo munted on Palm Vx Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks this. They name thier devices with roman-numerals. Fine. But then they use 'X' to denote "eXtra"?

    I think someone didn't think that through.

  19. Re:Text input? on Palm Vx Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    I don't know. I've been useing the pilot for only a couple of months now. But already every once and a while, I'll look back at something I wrote on paper and see that some of the characters are Grafitti strokes.

    Well, at least I'm still writing along the line.

  20. Re:Double-ugh on Palm Vx Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Grafitti is an easy way to input alphanumerics. But it's a lousy way to input punctuation. I don't think I'll ever memorise all the punctuation marks. Alot of the grafitti strokes for punctuation don't look at all like the strokes they're supposed to reprisent. So if I need anthing more then -,.!() I just leave it blank and go back with my GoType or my PC.

    There's also a onscreen keyboard, and an onscreen grafitti help thing.

  21. Re:BBC --> US rebroadcasts? on BBC Documentary About Slashdot · · Score: 1

    Hmm... Don't US Documentarys usualy have a narater with a british accent?

  22. Re:How old is this post? on One-person Air Scooters · · Score: 1

    "Mainenance demands for airplanes have gone done as well, and the anal level of checks/fixins is the cost of very safe transportation. "

    I think your spell-checker is a bit off.

  23. Re:Artificial Intelligence Questions on Implementing Artificial Neural Networks · · Score: 1

    Ok, but you'll have to train them sepretly you can't just make three copys of the same network.

    Also they have to be trained with complely diferent training systems. Otherwise it'll go like this :

    AI1 : Hey, look at that! That looks like one of those old fashioned planets.
    AI2 : Yea, one of the square ones!
    AI3 : Ok then, Let's turn left. Towards the sun.
    AI2 & 1 : Sounds good!

  24. Re:Has anyone gotten a neural net to do anything? on Implementing Artificial Neural Networks · · Score: 1

    I think it was PBS's "The Machine that Changed the World". One of the episodes near the end of the series.

  25. Re:Pilot Training on US & UK Issue Y2k Travel Warnings · · Score: 1

    In an event like this, what's to stop pilots from just turning on thier radios and just start talking to eachother? It'd be less efficiant. but since there wouldn't be any planes taking off there would be twice as much room to land right?