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Comment: Re:Been there, seen it (Score 1) 593

by punkr0x (#37897558) Attached to: Federal Contractors Are $600 Screwdrivers
When you consider the overhead they're saving - the contractor takes care of interviewing, hiring, benefits, etc. this is the direction a lot of employers are going. It saves them a lot of time and liability, assuming the contractor is competent. This guy you describe may have started out at Best Buy but he turned out to be useful so I guess the contractor did their job.

Comment: Re:If that is representative of watson's capabilit (Score 1) 164

by punkr0x (#34550696) Attached to: 'Jeopardy!' To Pit Humans Against IBM Machine
If you read the full article, Watson was regularly crushing human competition. They've been testing it. They also mention Watson takes a "room full of servers" to run, so I doubt you're actually playing against it on the NYT site. Finally, that game was quite a bit different than jeopardy in that there are no timers and you get to answer every question or pass before Watson has a chance to buzz in. It should be interesting to see how Watson does in February.

Comment: Outrageous! (Score 1) 300

by punkr0x (#27401085) Attached to: Anonymous Blogger Outed By Politician
Followed the links to ,a href=http://www.akdemocrats.org/doogan/032709_2_doogan_in_juneau.htm target=_new>Doogan's actual post and I think it's ridiculous not only that he felt compelled to reveal this blogger's identity, but the manner in which he chose to do it. (Extra! Extra! Come on.) I emailed him letting him know I don't think this is right and I urge everyone who agrees to do the same. Maybe he'll send us a mass response!

Comment: The problem was not the violence (Score 2, Interesting) 640

by punkr0x (#27341879) Attached to: Why Fear the End of the R-Rated Superhero Movie?
This was a 3 hour movie! You're telling me by making it kid friendly, it's going to do even better? Kids don't have that kind of attention span, I don't have that kind of attention span. If you're going to make a 3 hour movie you may as well make it adult to keep my interest.

Comment: Re:Translation (Score 1) 291

by punkr0x (#27341443) Attached to: YouTube Music Content Takedown Continued
I agree that they're being ridiculously greedy, but I just wanted to point out it's not like Google went to them and asked to purchase licenses for the music. They just went ahead and used the music, even though they knew they didn't have licenses for it, and then when they got 100 million plays and PRS came to them and said, "Hey you have to pay for that," Google said, "No thanks," and now PRS has to take legal action to get the music off Youtube.

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