So here is yet another interface that I have to learn in order to be able to make a device do what I want it to do. When are we going to get to a point where the devices learn how I want to interact with them?

Honestly, this isn't some weird geek porn fetish. If you're travelling in Hostels or even Hotels, sleep with your passport, cards & your netbook. I've heard of people waking up to strangers in their room feeling under the pillow they're sleeping on, so it's best of tucked in with you. An added advantage if travelling alone and you get lonely, you could call it Mary and ...

It's better than being called a Wanker.

Evidently Marcus Fenix says, "I've seen things you wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die." just before the DRM shuts down the game.

Yet to look at the live site, but slashdot is all about immediacy isn't it?

From reading the article linked from slashdot it looks like the thing just substitutes words. Reminds me of my belief as a young kid that to learn a foreign language all I had to do was learn the corresponding words to English...and voila!

Also, there is infinitely more to a translation than merely word substitution & grammar. Translator's often can't agree to how a text should be rendered in another language, & I suspect that the subtleties of language will be a challenge for computer translators for a long time yet.