Comment Re:What is currency? (Score 1) 152
You're trying too hard once again, son.
Submission + - Bitcoinica looted again (bitcointalk.org)
Mike Van Pelt writes: From the "What kind of idiot uses his LastPass password for anything other than LastPass" department:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=93074
Comment Re:Wrong (Score 1) 745
Obama's behavior is Bush's behavior. More authoritharianism, more keynesianism, more orwellianism.
The wild west of the internet will be gone by the end of his next term.
And the world will be a much worse place for his actions.
He's charming, though, and it's impossible to hate him--more reason to be scepitcal of this ndaa dude.
Comment Re:Wrong (Score 1) 745
It's not *intended* to be a democracy. It's intended to be a republic.
Sad that you can't grasp the difference.
Comment Re:Wrong (Score 1) 745
Good luck to Debt-brother-from-planet-0 then. The economic collapse that's about to strike just might kill the democratic party. It's a shame, as it's the only party that actually believes in science.
Submission + - Geeknet considering selling Slashdot, Freecode, Sourceforge (geek.net)
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."
"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."
Submission + - Bitcoinica hacked; 18k+ btc stolen; "expect mass leak" forever in the blockchain (bitcointalk.org) 1
linhares writes: The bitcoin-website-hacked-fiasco-of-the-month award goes to bitcoinica.com. Over 18.000 bitcoins have been stolen, and whoever did it knew bitcoin, as they actually wrote on the blockchain, for all posterity, the phrase "expect mass leak".
Submission + - Senator Seeks More Info On DOJ Location Tracking Practices (threatpost.com)
Gunkerty Jeb writes: Senator Al Franken (D-MN) is demanding answers to questions about the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) practice of gathering data from wireless providers in order to monitor individuals’ movements using mobile phone location data.
Comment Re:Wait a second... (Score 1) 71
you can still try to hack into a ___@google.com account, but prepare your behind to be rapEF0A error
Error address 0A13FE7F: user has been deprecated
Comment Re:Watson rules! (Score 1) 100
sorry to disappoint, not a chatterbot
who's the cowboy in washington?
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2475476&cid=37710660
Comment Re:Watson rules! (Score 1) 100
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
anything close to either GW Bush (or perhaps R Reagan)?
Yup. That Hofstadter.
Comment Re:Watson rules! (Score 1) 100
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
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.
Comment Re:It's called Kalocin. (Score 1) 414
Wow, did this post ever reveal a lot about you.
It revealed he is a man. Anything else?
Comment Re:It's called Kalocin. (Score 1) 414
Probably the greatest discovery in history... up there with fire, farming, electricity, etc.
you forgot facebook!!!11!
