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Entries for May, 2008

What the British Skynet!?!

Whenever an advanced piece of AI is in the news you will always see someone mention the well known antagonist Skynet from the Terminator franchise. Well, the British actually have a system of satellites called Skynet. I’m actually kind of surprised that named it that because I figured it would be trademarked or something else [...]

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Hot-wiring cars in the movies is easy!

Why is it in movies that when the characters hot-wire a car the wires they grab always have the perfect amount of insulation already stripped from the wiring. Must be nice to be a car thief in the movies.

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Super Smash Bros. Brawl won’t play? Maybe your lens is dirty.

A friend’s Wii was having issues only with the new Smash Bros and he tried another disc and had the same issue. I was asking some of my contacts about it and a friend pointed me to this link and here is what Nintendo has to say:
Super Smash Bros. Brawl utilizes a double-layer disc which [...]

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