Comment Re:Stallman For President (Score 0) 183
This is all off-topic but: You people don't understand affirmative action.
Affirmative action is supposed to eliminate "closet racism". In theory it should work well in a society where there is a visible racial/ethnic/gender bias which is not openly expressed and still discriminates "under the hood".
Its supposed to create a culture of (initially) fake equality where every person (no matter their race/gender/ethos) are shown to be capable of holding a certain position which would otherwise be unlikely to get to - not because they're not capable, but because they're being discriminated against.
When future generations will take look at the world they will see a lot of examples of all kinds of people holding all kinds of positions in society. Learning by seeing is much stronger than learning by "being told" - the second method being the most prevalent method of transferring "closet racism" to the next generation. Thereby, the previously "fake" equality becomes natural equality, eliminating the need for "affirmative action" and undoing past harsh discrimination.
Afterwards (in theory) you have a level playing field and no discrimination. From that point on employment based solely on qualifications is the next step.
Of course, whether this is still necessary or not is debatable.
Comment Depends what you mean by "comparable" (Score 0) 201
I don't know if this one qualifies as "comparable". Its Connect4, has an AI and also has online play via Facebook.
It uses SVG/VML (actually Raphael) for graphics and doesn't even require HTML5
Is There a Future For Mature Games On Wii? 186
digitalfever writes "There are more than 50 million Wii systems worldwide. Logically, the audience for a wide range of games and interactive experiences should be rather big, but based on the evidence so far, either that's not true — or publishers have been hedging the wrong bets. No one has conclusively proved the case for (or against) the viability of mature games on Wii, but 2009 was a litmus test on a number of fronts, including the DS. The results aren't encouraging. "
Comment Re:cash4cronies (Score 0) 434
One of the reasons would probably be corruption which is harder to police and expose. What would stop the individual shareholders from donating money? They would obviously qualify as people.
Comment Re:You're right - the tools are stupid. (Score 0) 500
If you switch to the new (and sometimes painfully slow) comments interface then the problems should disappear for all browsers
Google Launches CADIE, the First True AI 246
eldavojohn writes "Google has announced CADIE, the world's first Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity. 'We based our work on three core principles. First we designed the entity ... as a collection of interconnected evolving agents. Second — and this really cost us an arm and leg in hardware and core time — we let the system build its own heuristics, deploy them as agents and evolve them by running a set of evolutionary cascades within probabilistic Bayesian domains. The third — a piece missing in most AI reasoning work thus far — was to give the entity access to a rich, realistic world from which to learn and upon which it could act directly.' It quickly started its own blog and YouTube video. Two hours after midnight, CADIE announced independence on its blog and decided to leave Google to venture out into the world. "
Comment Re:Here we go again..... (Score 0) 249
Perhaps the name Currentchange would be better.
Comment Re:DOD Guidlines. Re:"The only fireproof (Score 0) 527
6. Send the copy of the drive (made before step 1) to your enemy?
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