The 'Watson' computer system uses natural-language processing techniques to break down questions into their structural components and then search its database for relevant answers.

Well DUH, that won't work! On Jeopardy they give you the answer and you have to respond with the question. Geez, haven't they ever watched the show?

"..and the other is a black screen with white font which he uses prompt commands on"

Wait, how do they know he wasn't running MSDOS?

Surely if he was running a Microsoft OS then it couldn't be terrorism.

It looks to me like the fore and aft wheels don't touch the ground during balancing and normal driving, so I don't think friction is an issue. I think they are there for a) when it is off, and b) when the balancer fails at 35MPH. Probably also good to have that one in front during a panic stop.

So does North Korea now have the ability to land a "communications satellite" on American soil?

His spell checker probably insisted on putting a "u" after the "q".

If the article literally means that we're all going to be crowded around computer screens to watch entertainment instead of sitting comfortably on our couches in the living room, then yeah, it's wrong.

What? You haven't hooked up your "TV" (large LCD monitor) to your computer yet? Modern video cards do have HDMI outputs now. Do that then go back to your couch.

FWIW, my family actually does gather 'round the computer to watch "TV", but then, we don't subscribe to cable TV, and yes I realize I'm in the minority. But when I do get a large screen "TV", it will actually be another monitor hung off my computer.

In -fact-, you could make it really simple. ... So you have 14 things in the movie, in 14 scenes, that the director uses, say, pepsi as a prop rather than coke. In post production, assuming that all of these clips are in the computer, you could, for each film print, select the various combinations of each of the scenes such that each film is unique.

That doesn't sound very simple at all. Shooting different scenes? A simple way would be to delete single frames, probably at scene transitions. Hard to detect, unnoticeable to the eye, but through an analysis of the CAM it could be identifiable.

Seeing as how this is the UK, I assume this is the alpha test for the eventual deployment on the streets, tracking every citizens every movement.

Also conspicuously absent: DDS tapes.

I should think that if this were coming from the ISP itself, and thus no data ever travels from The Internet, then it should not count as part of your capped bandwidth.

Hmmm... so if I was torrenting at the same time he was, and connected directly to him, and thus downloading directly from a band member, am I downloading legally too?

My opinion is that if a place won't hire me over petty personal stuff, I don't need to work for them that badly.

and thankfully, in today's booming economy, jobs are so plentiful you can afford that luxury.

*backfire*! If you knew that about him, he certainly wouldn't want to have you around now would he?

So we'll know if the ice is too thin by whether or not they return? ;)

NaCl is designed to make dangerous code impossible

Does this include the case where the machine code implements a byte code interpreter along with a bunch of byte code data? That makes analyzing the code a bit more complex.