There's a reason it's called *artificial* intelligence. You're right, it's just a lot of syntactic association capability. But it *looks* like intelligence when you observe it. Watson is not really "thinking" like a rational human being, though; that's why it's *artificial.* :)

Seriously? Do you have a citation or link or something for that? (I've never heard of this before. I'm not terribly surprised, but would like to read about it)

If true, my already pretty bad view of Apple just got worse. :P

You might call the Colosseum the Roman version of a violent movie. Except it wasn't a movie.

Because, clearly, a shotgun can't cause much havoc.

Did they have fins? Useless "hands" + no fins = dead fish.

Yes. Christians should condemn this. And they have.

I don't see how "hacking" = "free speech."

Hacker gets into Chase Bank. Publishes credit card information. Is publishing that information "free speech," too? Seems like we shouldn't change our stance against something just because it possibly has monetary consequences.

This. Other people's rights to what? Rights to not be offended? You have that right if you're on your own private property, because you can tell someone to get off it and they have to (trespassing, etc.). But in a public space? I don't think you have a right to "not" hear something by some other free individual.

Lots *of* flaws. Modded insightful. ;)

... I can do 120 WPM with my new-ish (last 5 years) wireless Logitech keyboard, too. I would have thought that layout (QERTY vs. Dvorak) and familiarity is important, not the sturdiness (I-can-use-my-keyboard-as-a-cludgel) and clickiness (you-can-hear-me-type-from-the-next-block). And I like the start key, actually. It's handier than cntrl-escape. ;) :)

Why do you use the Win98 machine? Just no reason to upgrade, or are there compatibility issues with some of your devices?

Do you have a citation for this? I've never heard this particular statement before. Furthermore, if the problem was that they threatened vendors, shouldn't that have been what the lawsuit was about, and not about bundling the browser?

It seems silly to me that the argument went like: "You are threatening vendors and forcing them to not put other browsers on OEM builds. Therefore, we require that you remove your own browser, even though that's not the problem, that's not what was illegal, and there's nothing wrong with you having it there."

Fixing problems caused by regulation (government-granted monopolies) with more regulation. Something seems wrong with that.

Maybe coming up with a solution such that the whole government-granted monopoly thing is no longer "necessary" would be better?

Exile III was ported to Linux. Just saying. ;)