For a Natural Language Processing project, I wrote a perl script that would take all of your Gaim logs, build a database of things you are most likely to say, in the style you are most likely to say it. Then, as you typed, it non-obtrusively suggested the rest of the word or next word that you were currently typing. You could hit a key and it would fill it in for you

If IM bots get sophisticated enough, they could start doing something like this. Not for typing something out, but for generating messages from a person that sound a lot like them. Perhaps copying a message of sending a link they had sent earlier, just changing the link location. Then if the person replied, they could use information from the logs on how to best respond like the person.

Hmm, perhaps I shouldn't be giving anyone more ideas...

I should find some reference material for this, but I'm too lazy.

My understanding is that in the past the parties chose their own candidates without the help of the state governments. This generally meant that a few powerful members of the party -- the elite or rich -- chose their candidate in what was seen by the public as secret, corrupt "smoke-filled rooms". Especially in a two-party system, this bothered the voting public, so reforms were passed to help make sure there was a fair and open system for the parties' to choose their candidates.

Is it me or does the line from the article:

1. Lowering soldiers' core body temperature might keep them from overheating.

sound like they are discussing the issues surrounding overclocked soldiers.

Alternatively, you can build anything using nothing but XORS.

This is false. With only XORS, the only functions that can be computed are parity functions -- those that depend only on whether the number of active inputs is even or odd.

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