You people who believe in the singularity very obviously don't know how a computer works. It's simply an electric abacus; look at schematics for an ALU or a logic gate. How many beads do I need to put on my abacus before it becomes self-aware?

The danger is anthropomorphism; it's simply too easy to fool people into believing they see sentience where there is none. Evil people will use this to their evil ends.

It looks like you posted this JE Saturday, it just showed up in my "messages" today.

I almost never wash my car. Let it rain!

I might as well, it isn't that important.

You must have seen the typo...

Well, if Lo gets full justification I'll switch; that feature is critical for printed books. Upgraded Oo yesterday, and they added a maddening "feature" (it tries to guess what you're going to type) that I can't figure out how to shut off.

You know, danbert8, you would come across as far less ignorant if you googled first. FYI, that link leads you to information about federal taxes that go to schools. And you don't know that the INTERSTATE highway system was built by the federal government under Eisenhower, and that all the states get federal money for roads and highways?

Comments like yours is why I've spent a lot less time at slashdot lately. You should be ashamed of yourself.

Actually, that's a deliberate pun that makes a statement about the vast hordes of non-nerds that have invaded /. in the last few years. So just as Slashdot is /., Soylent News is S/N.

It doesn't work in Oo. "Save as" only saves as a differently named ODT file. Even copying from Oo and pasting into a text editor doesn't work.

That only works if you're not going to later need the smart quotes. It also doesn't work on a cut and paste from a newspaper.

I tried Lo, its lack of full justification was a show stopper. Have they fixed that yet?

It's their problem, I'll just link to S/N when I have an entry that might be in a book until they fix it. I'm not going to take extra effort because of someone else's lack of competence.

The problem you or I can't fix is quoting a newspaper in a comment, seeing it's fine in preview, and having /.'s garbage generator shit on it; you can't edit a comment.

Yes, if I enjoyed murder mysteries. It was well written, far better than that best-selling hack James Patterson. Stephen King is a great writer, but I've read few of his books because I'm no fan of dark fiction. I did enjoy The Green Mile, though.

Since you're looking to turn writing into a career, you did in fact choose the best genre. I don't care for them, but murder mysteries sell like crazy.

I compose in Open Office. Since what I write will probably wind up in a book, unicode is necessary and removing it is a hassle we should not have to put up with.

What's most maddening is that when previewing a journal or comment, slashdot's garbage generator doesn't shit all over it until you hit "submit". There's simply no excuse for it. Soylent News uses slashdot's code, and they had it fixed within a month or two of opening.

This should be especially embarrassing for what's supposed to be a tech site.