Shooting fish in a barrel

[m31andy]

Ah, back to looking at newscientist and we have two absolute gems today.

Firstly, contender for the "Pigs Might Fly" award, is the news that Microsoft's "Clippy" gave software assistants a bad name, but a new helper developed by the US military hopes to be less annoying.. Riiiiight

Comments

[rjw1]

how long till it rises up and kills us. military AIs are always a bad idea :)

[m31andy]

*giggle* What with that and the domestic robots which all have the same personality, the future is pretty much shagged...

Pass the beer...

The Brain Haemorrhage

[peppapig]

a new cocktail there?

Re: The Brain Haemorrhage

[m31andy]

A very old cocktail. We used to make them back at college. (it's vile, btw)

There was also the variation with Creme de Menthe, hopefully not_here could remind me what it was called though...