Comment Re:Facebook should be fined. (Score 1) 159
That's a very good idea. Something like PCI requirements, but for personal information.
Submission + - Sony admits major security breach in PSN (arstechnica.com) 1
Sony also stated that it was possible that your profile data (including purchase history and billing address), and security answers have been obtained. If you have a dependent on your account, their data may also be compromised."
Comment Re:Toilet paper, AI rights. (Score 1) 111
If an AI is sufficiently advanced as to be distinguished from a human, does it have a right to not stare at people's goatses?
Can you imagine being the QA for that AI? Or even the developer tasked with developing that AI?
"What do you do all day?"
"Oh, I find pictures of people taking shits and feed it to my AI".
"..."
Comment No surprise (Score 2) 346
This should come at no surprise to any one. They have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. Of course they're going to panic when they see control of the distribution channels slip away from them. What these idiots don't understand is that if they adjusted their business model, they could make a decent amount of money with current technology. Maybe that's why they're idiots.
I'm sure they'll come up with some bullshit argument as to how this is "stifling competition". That seems to their answer for everything. Kind of like "OMG TERRORISTS!".
Comment Re:Compare and Contrast (Score 1) 554
Agreed. Personally I think IE9 is pretty good. But people in general are happier about an FF release and skeptical/cynical about an IE9 release. It's because MS has more to prove.
Comment Re:Who cares? (Score 1) 366
China is still in the year 1984. The censoring of the word "freedom" is very telling. It perfectly sums up what the Communist Party in China is all about; suppressing individual liberty. They are the boot stamping on a human face. I hope China is able to move out from under the shadow of Big Brother in the coming decades
Comment Re:Compare and Contrast (Score 1) 554
FF has a better history of adhering to standards than IE. IE also came from a company that went out of its way to try and dominate the web with its proprietary technology and almost succeeded. Some (if not much) cynicism is warranted.
Comment Re:DO NOT WANT (Score 1, Funny) 79
Goddammit. Wrong story.
Comment DO NOT WANT (Score -1, Offtopic) 79
This sucks. Really sucks. I've been a T-Mobile customer since 2002 and I've enjoyed their great customer service. They've rarely screwed me over. I'm not looking forward to dealing with AT&T's douchebaggery. I'm going to jump ship as soon as I can.
Sprint or Verizon? How do they compare to T-Mobile?
Comment Can Sony sue me for this? (Score 1) 254
Comment Re:I don't understand. why did this happen? (Score 1) 351
I made a pretty version of the key.
Comment Mundane detail (Score 4, Funny) 228
Ok! Ok! I must have, I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place or something. Shit. I always do that. I always mess up some mundane detail.
Comment Re:The one they always overlook (Score 1) 454
I just have one question. How was Doc able to build the locomotive time-machine without any access to technology?!
Chatbot Suzette Wins 20th Annual Loebner Prize, Fools One Judge 257
skwilcox writes "From Wikipedia: 'The Loebner Prize is an annual competition in artificial intelligence that awards prizes to the chatterbot considered by the judges to be the most human-like. The format of the competition is that of a standard Turing test. A human judge poses text questions to a computer program and a human being via computer. Based upon the answers, the judge must decide which is which.' My chatbot, Suzette, won this year's Loebner and even confused a judge into voting for her over a human (or should I say he confused himself). Here is the blow-by-blow of this weird event." Read on below for the rest; this sounds like it would have been a fun competition to watch.
