Comment Re:Next Killer App (Score 3, Informative) 391
Already got it:
Comment Re:If you support democracy, leave Libya alone (Score 1) 463
The West is part of the problem here, not the solution. Leave them alone. This could be the blood bath that will end all future blood baths.
LOL, yes, just like in 1914, this will be the war to end all wars.
Comment Genuine People Personalities! (Score 1) 150
Douglas Adams descibed people doing this sort of thing with elevators as I recall. I think it worked out less well than the designers anticipated...
Comment how to do it in NYC (Score 1) 1322
Reason Magazine talked about this a few years ago.
The NYC version:
http://oldsite.reason.com/0610/howtofireanincompetentteacher.pdf
Philosophy and Computer Science Revisited 204
Soren Kierkegaard writes "While reading the two-and-a-half-year-old Slashdot post on Does Philosophy have a role in Computer Science, it occurred to me that over these past few years Philosophy has a more prominent role in Computer Science then ever before. Cognitive Science and Computer Ethics are more established disciplines in universities, and the numbers of philosophy graduates double majoring in computer science and information systems are climbing. Is a merger of Philosophy, a discipline steeped in history and intelligent thought, and Computer Science, a discipline that looks to the future, the best of both worlds?"
