I bet the numbers are getting multiplied artificially. I have no proof this is how they got the number but I bet it's some broken algorithm like this:

User A has a song on limewire.
User B has the same song limewire.
User C downloads and shares the song and gets bits from both users.
User C is now also sharing the song and user D comes and gets fragments from each of the users.

Each user is potentially contributing to the theft of the song but you can't say there were 100,000 illegal downloads of the song and each user is responsible for 100,000 thefts creating 400,000 thefts. If user D never shared it, the number of thefts would probably still be the same unless someone got queued up and canceled their download.

If someone decided it was taking to long to steal a song then you can imagine their desire to obtain the song was probably not that great in the first place meaning they probably wouldn't have bought it.

I'm glad they are putting out such silly numbers. I bet people would feel less inclined to share at $3 a song thinking, "Wow, I don't really want to get busted and have to pay out $1800." as opposed to people saying, "Screw it! Let them sew me for $429,000 because they'll never see it."

Too bad the google cached links are not also ssl. That would have been a nice encrypted path into actual content.

And the probability for all future events is 50/50.. they either will happen or they won't :)

How about the iPhone uses Sliverlight!!

Wait.. something there seems off a bit.

If I were the owner of a fast food restaurant in Santa Clara County I'd try to close down my business and let the people of Santa Clara lose jobs over it.

You can't do anything like that though because you'd be out so much money, both past and future.

TFA says "County officials vote to ban toys and other promotions that restaurants offer with high-calorie children’s meals."

What I would do if the law actually read that way is just say "Free toy with any meal purchase." Let adults and kids have them regardless of what they order.

True, but they do have a monopoly on geek toys that sound like feminine hygiene products that don't run flash.

Adobe seems bent out of shape that they can't get on the ipad. I'm an apple fanboi and that thing is a waste of time and money and lowers your already pathetic social status.

If we program the logic for the AI and the AI system predicts outcomes it's based on the algorithm that is used to make predictions.

I cannot grasp how a computer can think of something that a human cannot because a computer only knows what we know. It is not capable of experience. As far as I can tell, the only thing AI can do is calculate something faster than humans can.

If you have a robot that learns how to move around a building without crashing into objects that learns through the experience of bumping into them it's just processing and responding as it was told to do.

Maybe I'm wrong. I'm not an AI expert but it all seems like a fancy way of saying, "I programmed a device to act how I wanted it to." All of the probabilistic data is analyzed by a person first. An AI device can only be as "intelligent" as it's creator.