When a senator visits NASA or NIH headquarters, they openly ask for more money or new projects..how is it different?

From the article
"The questions were fed in plain text to Watson"

If "Watson" does speech recognition or Image processing for video clues then I'd be more impressed.
Its like playing chess with Blue where blue always plays with white.

Nevertheless, it's the first step...kudos to the team.

This is intriguing.
How is "Watson" going to get the clue?
Is it going to recognize Trebek's voice? - If yes, human competitors may have an advantage.
Or "Watson" will have a camera pointed at the clue board to do a OCR? - What about the video/audio clues. Are they setting some ground rule so that there won't be any audio/video clues?
Or Clues are directly fed into "Watson"? - If yes, "Watson" may have an advantage.

Interesting...can't wait to hear more about this.

Hence the smiley!

-2 = -2
1-3 = 4-6
1-3+9/4 = 4-6+9/4
(1-3/2)^2 = (2-3/2)^2
sqrt((1-3/2)^2) = sqrt((2-3/2)^2)
1-3/2 = 2-3/2
1 = 2 :)

As long as Chuck Norris is alive, earthlings need not worry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtQPBHhiAQI

These machines could very well be "hackable"...I am not doubting that. But you can't make these sweeping accusations

2. EVM makes it easier than paper ballots.
3. EVMs are significantly cheaper than paper ballots and do not need electricity..they are powered by 6V alkaline battery.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_voting_machines

Nah...that's MS yardstick. If a rogue developer hijacks IE then it's a MS problem. If a rogue developer does something to Appstore then it is that damn rogue developer.

In high school English we had an exercise called "Letter writing". They teach you how to write (or kiss ass) your higher ups (be it Government officials, or Headmaster, or your boss). Every letter will have "kindly", several pleases, most importantly will end with yours obediently. When I came to US for grad school, I saw no one using those crap, I stopped using them.

Thank you /. for the story, I found another reason to ignore items in the requirements documents.
Until they incorporate "please" in the RUP, I will be safe.

1. It's not open - So are iPhone, iPad, iPod. Users can't develop and deploy custom software without "Approval"
2. The "full" web - Yup. Without the flash support, users miss out full web experience.
3. Reliability, Security & Performance - What you say may be true, but let the users decide whether to enable flash on the devices or not.
4. Battery Life - Same as above.
5. Touch - More BS from you. If the flash is not user friendly on your devices, its site owners' problem. Let them opt for HTML5, don't force them.
6. The most important reason - Yes we get it. People will bypass your app store and depend on third party apps. So, stop BSing, just tell us that it will hurt Apple's bottom line that's why you are not supporting flash.

Huh...Revisionist history?
She was criticized for using personal yahoo email account to do state business.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2008/09/17/palins_yahoo_account_hacked.html

Come on guys...Funny (5)? Really?
It's getting old...any article about India is followed with a obligatory tech support joke.

I think this has lot of potentials to replace Text to Speech.
There are thousands of people with speech disability use some kind of tablet device to type/scan/etc. to formulate sentences and then they get fed into TTS.
This will definitely be faster...but..this technology has to mature into a commercial product which may take years...nevertheless...very good progress.