"Neil Johnson" wrote:
#
# Is it just me, or did anybody consider the fact
# that someone else was using her laptop ?
Spending three hours screwing around on her laptop?
Printing out a coupon for ice cream?
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Jimmy Crick wrote:
#
# http://www.msnbc.com/news/603082.asp?cp1=1#BODY
That's just fascinating, Choate.
Only no one has accused Condit of personally
making Levy disappear.
No one.
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Notes from Italy: the person who shot the
protester was not a regular cop.
He was a 20-year-old doing "national service".
http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,30155,00.html
#
# Police said Saturday they were looking into bringing manslaughter
# charges against the policeman who fired at Giuliani. They did
# not release the officer's name but said he was a 20-year-old
# drafted into Italy's Carabinieri, a unit that performs police
# and military functions. Police said the officer was in shock
# and had been hospitalized.
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http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,30163,00.html
#
# IBM Develops Annoying "Passenger" to Keep Drivers Alert
#
# DETROIT - You're driving along and suddenly a voice starts
# shouting personal questions at you:
#
# "Where did you go on your first date? What's your favorite song?
# What's your mother's maiden name? Where'd you go to school? What's
# your favorite food? Who won the ball game?"
#
# If you don't answer quickly enough, correctly or at all, then
# the fun really begins. Windows start opening and closing, a buzzer
# might sound and worse, you might get spritzed with a stream of
# cold water.
#
# It's a cross between Stephen King's maniacal car Christine and
# the yapping disembodied voice of Ann Sothern in the never-lamented
# TV show "My Mother the Car."
#
# Indeed, IBM's "artificial passenger" is designed to be as annoying
# as possible all in the name of safety, says David Nahamoo, IBM
# senior manager for human language technology.
#
# "Essentially, the technology and the system relies on
# conversational interaction as a mechanism for keeping a person
# alert," says Nahamoo.
But can you hump it?