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Electro

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    Comment #149742

    I've seen some of those videos before. I believe the chimp was called betty, but nevertheless, they gave it/her make up and it started drawing on itself using the mirror as a guide…

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    Comment #143943

    Three problems: 1) Wikipedia has far more information than a normal human, thus it would surpass human-level AI. 2) Compressing wikipedia into one persons mind would create a schiz…

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    Comment #143314

    All this shows is that College professors spend an absurd amount of time doing IQ tests compared to Truck drivers. The scientists who came up with the baseline work to study IQ fou…

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    Comment #137284

    I believe that's one of the greatest things of telling Thunderbird just to read the article and not add in any comment feeds. I don't want to read comments, unless I want someone e…

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    Comment #137279

    Agreed. I have no problem with government subsidising businesses to help get them off the ground, because a lot of the time it helps them grow to the level of competing quite quick…

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    Comment #135947

    I have a simple solution: get a girlfriend. I now wear nice shirts that apparently compliment my skin tone (who knew?), I wear layers (apparently very sexy) and I now have $300 sho…

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    Comment #134422

    NEC also make standard monitors, I really don't think they'd give a crap which one you buy. It isn't a study of NEC performance versus Acer or anything, it's just Standard Vs Wides…

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    Comment #134315

    My Dell's an Inspirion and was top of the line, on par with a MacBook Pro. It weighs like 5kg (vs a 1kg LifeBook) and is anything -BUT- a mobile computer. The battery lasts 2 hours…

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    Comment #134194

    From what I've learnt of business in France, it appears to have a lot of anti-competative laws built in. From talk between British Ex-Pats living out there, it appears most see mor…

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    Comment #133378

    That's pretty cool, although the writer pissed me off in the beginning by likening it to Frankenstein, and not his -monster-. A slightly crazed scientist who gets chased to the arc…

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    Comment #132924

    It's not the Golden Retrievers fault it's coded to retrieve every piece of crap that hits the ground.

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    Comment #132677

    I think the point is to be a successful company and not get sued. Getting sued is patently moronic, and being proud of it is more so. Wal-Mart is being sued for 11 billion (and gro…

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    Comment #132650

    I think the effects must be weighed. Is it wrong for a molecular biologist to take drugs if it means he can invent a cure for cancer in 5 years instead of 20? I believe one person …

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    Comment #132527

    I completely disagree. It's shoddy and inefficient to wait for a problem to arrive. Imagine if the guys at Google just sat around waiting for their server to kick the bucket before…

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    Comment #132471

    Whilst I think he makes a point that communication differs through the ages. My parents turn their phones off at night, one time when they had to pick me up from the airport they g…

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    Comment #132282

    If you could mount a powerful cell phone repeater it would be more valuable than an Aerostat as whenever a cell tower is taken down, you simply need to fly one or more over an area…

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    Comment #132181

    I heard whale song, and ocean sounds now thinking of it, is supposedly good, however I've never bothered to try it. I'll have to find somewhere to get it that doesn't charge $20, i…

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    Comment #132167

    That's one of the newtonian problems yes as time is essentially irrelevant you have one amount of energy 1 second after the big bang as you do 1 second before the end of the univer…

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    Comment #132111

    Go for instrumental music, it doesn't activate the part of your verbal part of your brain. Essentially to hear singing (or talking) your brain mimics it, however when you're trying…

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    Comment #132106

    As far as I understand, dark matter and dark energy are capable of being explained by us botching our calculations. You see time in the universe is predicted on an archaic model of…

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    Comment #132069

    The reason people think there are time travel paradoxes are largely because people think "going back in time" actually moves time backward. If you know the position of every atom i…

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    Comment #132029

    From what I've experienced, that's pretty much how any creative person works. When you're on a roll, you don't want to waste it. I'm like that myself, I've done a 36 hour 'shift' b…

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    Comment #131961

    If my Dell battery lasted more than 2 hours then I'd be at a higher risk. The other problem is that I live in England, I've seen it rain with a clear sky before. In a couple of yea…

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    Comment #131747

    My god, my sarcasm detector just exploded! And I spent years building it.

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    Comment #131745

    I multitask, in fact I'm completely capable of doing two seperate things at once without a problem. Although they have to be different tasks. It's psychologically proven that you c…