Isn't it better to be more common that to be more unique? Setting the USER-AGENT to something randomly generated will make you unique, but it's it better to "blend in" than to "stand out" ?

I think the automatic translation is a bad example, because it requires you to solve several problems, which are not exactly related to AI. First of all you need to parse the text(syntactically) in the original language which is a hard problem because although languages are thought to be context free, context-free grammars are not known for most of them and there are few suitable and complete data sets(corpora). Second problem is semantics and it is related to AI. Third problem is again constructing a morphism from the original language with the semantic information attached to the target language, which again requires a good corpus and a good algorithm which takes both syntax and semantic into consideration - AI is partially involved here.

You are responsible for having a retard for a guard.

Landmark Forum?

... Swedish motherfucker, do you speak it? It's Celsius(https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Anders_Celsius), not Celcius.

That's funny, but google is your friend. http://www.google.com/search?q=compute+the+nth+digit+of+pi

Actually there is an algorithm to compute the n-th digit of Pi without computing the rest.

You're wrong :P Resistance is Fusile.

It's not thoughtcrime(1984). It's precrime(The Minority Report).

And he said .NET is evil because it's patent ridden. To which de Icaza responded saying "it's ok, they promised not to sue"(paraphrased). So, what about my mold? Maybe I'm missing something.

When Stallman said the same thing, de Icaza called him a fanatic. Well, most voices on /. called him the same thing. He was right then like he was right with his movement from the start. You can't have half-measures.

No, I think it just makes parts of the patent invalid because there is prior art. Which might mean it won't stand in court.

Problem is Linux runs on 386+. You might be able to run something like ucLinux on 286, but i doubt you'll be able to run anything like Linux on a 8088/8086/80186. With 512k RAM you won't be able to boot any kernel, no matter how old.

Makes you check calendar to see if it's April's Fool, doesn't it?