Its not a chatterbot. Its CALO. http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/projects/calo/

Is this the type of crap we can come to expect now that CmdrTaco is gone?

No. If it makes me feel superior to IE users, the story must run.

How appropriate. You post like a cow.

Your definition of "troll" is astoundingly wrong.

People who suffer from Aspergers or Autism (like many Slashdot users) are unable to read those cues in real life, much less on the internet. They are victims of a disease, but your definition lumps them in with people who try to raise the hackles of others on purpose.

If someone does not understand the nuance of your post, it does not mean they are a troll. The inability to read such nuance over the internet is very much akin to Aspergers and Autism. The person on the other end is working at a disadvantage.

It isn't nice to mock the mentally disabled, but you seem to think it's fine. You, sir, are the exact kind of person this story was written about.

No YUO!

This story sucks. Your all idiots.

FOAD, assholes.

of course, that this 'future' is now, and we've been watching and waiting for it to get to this point for, well, all of history

But when will "then" be "now"?

Oh lawd! Somebody catch me. I've caught the vapors!

Does it even matter as Mozilla-based browsers become less important as Internet usage moves towards Webkit-based browsers on mobile devices?

they are going to use the digg model: revamp the site and lose all their subscribers.

The article is speculating. What you start to hear is that they were storing their password answers as plain text, Sony has never said that their passwords were stored as plain text. Meaning, that the answers they would use to recuperate their forgotten passwords (e.g. "What is your mother's maiden name?") were what was compromised.

Now, combined with the rest of the personal information, I think that the password answers to their security questions may lead to more identity theft than actual passwords.

No ST cartoon.

The A people hire A people, B people hire C people originally came from Steve Jobs, right? The rest of your post is very depressing, and very true.

The Osborne 1 was an amazing machine, but the Osborne 2 was going to be even more amazing. Since it never got a chance to be released, comparing a second generation iPad to the Oz1 seems a bit unfair.

What about apples and oranges? These have never been fairly compared.