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Comment Re:Bah! (Score 1) 496

by faaaz (#24529387) Attached to: Computer Beats Pro At US Go Congress

Like every other AI-opponent, the major flaw in your reasoning is, well the fact that you can't describe your reasoning. You can say "well, I group things into this and that", but you're only describing the experience of thought. Not the actual mechanisms behind it. Discussions like these tend to never lead anywhere, but no one knows how the mind works. We only experience it at a high level.

Comment Intresting choice of words (Score 1, Insightful) 674

by DarthApoc (#22557012) Attached to: Antidepressants Work No Better Than a Placebo

However, when the unpublished data is taken into account the difference between the effects of drug and placebo becomes clinically meaningless -- just a 1 or 2 point difference on a 30-point depression rating scale -- except for the most severely depressed patients.
I'd say that this part could be interpreted as "People resort to drugs against depression too lightly" That's what I thought when I read those words at least.

Intel Patents the "Digital Browser Phone" 170

Posted by kdawson from the move-over-skype-yahoo-and-google dept.
tibbar66 writes, "This sounds like an invention that has been invented many times before (e.g. Skype). Yet on October 10, 2006 Intel was granted a patent for a 'digital browser phone.' The patent was filed on Feb. 25, 2000. Here's the abstract: 'A telephone system wherein all the functions of a digital telephone can be accessed and implemented on a personal computer alone, thereby eliminating the need for a telephone set. By means of the computer display and mouse, keyboard or other input/output command devices, a user accesses and implement all digital telephone functions without the physical telephone set, the personal computer also providing the audio function. A graphical representation of a telephone set or other telephone-related form is provided on the computer display and accessed by the mouse, keyboard or other command device, this being accomplished by a computer program providing graphical interface implementation. A significant advantage of the system is computer access to and utilization of digital telephone functions from a remote location with communication via Internet, LAN, WAN, RAS or other mediums.'"

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