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

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.

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 internet is the blue e on my desktop!

err i meant the orange smudge around the blue dot on my gnome panel! ;)

That's actually the reason that the US government will most likely never go to a physical denomination higher than the $100 bill.

If I understand correctly, all large electronic transactions (>$10k) are auto-monitored by the banks, and tracked by the government. It is a lot harder to pay someone $50 million dollars if you do it in cash due to the size of the physical dollar bills than if you do it as an electronic payment. Given that the government wants to monitor criminal activity, super large drug cartel type money movement is a lot harder with smallish $100 bills.

$3000 being prohibitive? Try to stuff $30mil into your wallet!

even better, use a FOSS middleware product for all your libraries, then just sell them a configured instance of that middleware!

So how did myself and tons of others upgrade to 3GS models in an apple store?

I left with my 3GS fully activated and able to make calls (with no data synced) and my 2G iphone with no service. No SIM card was changed.

Your phone number can be activated to a different SIM card... in the Apple Store.

Soooo....

Apple has no mechanism to transfer the registration of the SIM card to your phone number and set it up on the new phone.

is just outright wrong.

That makes sense. Common sense is that they bought a site license from an anti-virus vendor.

So how much is that Norton/Symatec/?? license for those 30,000 computers? Is that part of the Windows TCO, the mandatory virus protection and lcoal system firewall?

An answer from most people running windows is that linux systems should also have anti-virus measures in place, but in my limited experience (only ~100 machines), that was never needed since rarely was root access given out to users.

if you have driver problems with the desktop LiveCD... you should use the alternate install CD, it's what it is used for.

From https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation

"If your computer is not able to run the standard Desktop installation CD, you can use an Alternate installation CD instead. The Alternate CD also allows more advanced installation options which are not available with the Desktop CD. "

Chicago is doing that for their buses: http://www.ctabustracker.com/bustime/home.jsp

even with mobile applications (where you need the information the most).

God that made no sense. s/html/packets

"Are they just pinging twitter.com and waiting for packets over its default port returned?"