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Submission + - Geeknet considering selling Slashdot, Freecode, Sourceforge (geek.net)

Submitted by siliconbits
siliconbits writes: Pretty much summed up in the title. Also, Cmdrtaco has no comments on that.

"Geeknet, Inc. (Nasdaq:GKNT), the online network for the global geek community, today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized the Company and its advisors to explore strategic alternatives with respect to its online media business, including the SourceForge, Slashdot and Freecode websites. The Company and its advisors will evaluate a range of options to maximize shareholder value, including, but not limited to, a potential sale of the Company's online media business, investing additional capital to expand the online media business, or other possible transactions involving the online media business."

Comment Re:Watson rules! (Score 1) 100

by linhares (#37710740) Attached to: IBM Eyes Brain-Like Computing
which means, in other words, that while they remain "logical", they can't comprehend us.

But computers might one day also be "illogical", in the sense, as Hofstadter put it, as "subcognition as computation": human thought as an emergent property of a highly interacting system. This cowboy in washington is one query in millions. Here's a paper by Robert M French that clearly show some crucial distinctions (for the really interested people in this debate, check out his paper's on the Turing Test also; they're amazing).

Why co-occurrence information alone is not sufficient to answer subcognitive questions

Comment Re:Watson rules! (Score 1) 100

by linhares (#37710380) Attached to: IBM Eyes Brain-Like Computing

Mind blowing achievement that I think gets little attention. If only we could pair the Siri interface with Watson, and have him tie back to Google, Wikipedia, and Wolfram Alpha, the amount of discoveries we could make would happen in weeks if not days.

Oh boy; here we go again. As a cognitive scientist, I'm appalled by /. people buying on the hype.

Hmm.... huge discoveries... intelligent machines... let's see:

Wolfram: who was the cowboy in washington?

Google: who was the cowboy in washington?

Yup. No improvement after all these years.

Wanna Tip? Please read some Hofstadter.

Sony

Sony Lawyers Expand Dragnet, Targeting Anybody Posting PS3 Hack 437

Posted by Soulskill from the scorched-earth dept.
markass530 writes with this excerpt from Wired: "Sony is threatening to sue anybody posting or 'distributing' the first full-fledged jailbreak code for the 4-year-old PlayStation 3 gaming console. What's more, the company is demanding that a federal judge order Google to surrender the IP addresses and other identifying information (PDF) of those who have viewed or commented about the jailbreak video on a private YouTube page. The game maker is also demanding that Twitter provide the identities of a host of hackers who first unveiled a limited version of the hack in December."

Comment Re:Damn... (Score 1) 429

by linhares (#35132742) Attached to: Motorola's XOOM Tablet To Cost $799; Wi-Fi Requires 3G Activation?

Why can't we get some decent competition for the iPad? The iPad2 will probably be released around the same time, or shortly after, and be the same price as the current iPad, blowing this out of the water.

Rather sadly, I think you're right. Apple is in on this with guns blazing, and they want to reap the network effects to the max; more users, more apps, rinse repeat. After a threshold, it might become all qwerty: perhaps substandard (one day), but pretty much a system in equilibrium, with market forces unable to enter significantly. Motorola--and google by the way--are really losing the timing with this bending over for the telcos. Sad state of affairs; I was ready and willing to get one.

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