Stephen Baker: Why IBM's Watson Is Smarter Than Google

This Is The Guy Playing Match-Maker To JP Morgan, Silicon Valley And Afghanistan (JPM, IBM, NT, JDSU)
Email Sent! You have successfully emailed the post. His name is Paul A. Brinkley and he's basically America's Big Business chaperone in Afghanistan. According to Bloomberg, Brinkley has ushered execs from JPMorgan, IBM, and a whole host of American corporate giants into the war-torn country to begin business. He did the same thing in Iraq, and now the government wants him to do it in Kabul too. He is part of a 75-person Department of Defence (DOD) team with a $150 million annual Budget from the...

The Big Gamble
Lesley Stahl reports on the proliferation of gambling to 38 states and its main attraction, the slot machine, newer versions of which some scientists believe may addict their players. Sunday, Jan. 9, 7 p.m. ET/PT. 60 Minutes Overtime is a weekly Web show that begins where the weekly television broadcast ends. The posting of advertisements, Profanity, or personal attacks is prohibited. By using this Web site you agree to accept our Terms of Service. Click here to read the Rules of Engagement. J...

Gov. Rendell to 60 Minutes: Youre Simpletons!
HARRISBURG, Pa. (CBS) - Television viewers across the nation will get to see something on Sunday night that Pennsylvania residents have experienced before: an angry eruption from Governor Ed Rendell. In a “60 Minutes” interview with correspondent Lesley Stahl (right), Governor Rendell explodes on camera as he is pressed about the negative impacts of expanded gambling. The eruption comes as the governor hopes to land a gig as a TV news commentator.  In an exit interview wit...

Outburst at Lesley Stahl on 60 Minutes is pure Rendell, observers say
This Sunday, on CBS's 60 Minutes, an event will occur that will shock the heck out of everyone in America. Except those who live around here. Ed Rendell's going to blow up at a reporter. The outburst is recorded and ready to roll. The subject is casinos. Lesley Stahl, longtime CBS reporter, one of the smarter people in the business, is pressing Rendell about casinos and their effect on addictive gamblers. He takes it less than well. "People are losing money for the state to get its reven...

Rendell defends bringing slots to Pa.
HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, in an interview with the CBS show "60 Minutes," angrily defended his decision to bring legal slot machines to the state. Clips from the show to be aired Sunday show Rendell arguing that gambling addicts already have available casinos. He said that now, at least, Pennsylvania will benefit instead of Atlantic City, N.J. "You guys don't get that," Rendell snapped at interviewer Leslie Stahl, who interjected "I do get that." "You're simp...

Tom Coughlin Lets His Critics Know Where They Can Kiss Him
We all know that Tom Coughlin is a man who sometimes lets his emotions get the best of him. Thanks to the cameras that NFL broadcasters keep trained on him for 60 Minutes every Sunday, the world has seen Coughlin overreacting like a madman to everything that happens on the field of play. Arms wave, cheeks get red and the occasional punter gets reamed out by a man who rarely seems to be anything short of apoplectic. When he's standing in front of the media, however, Coughlin is a very different c...

Rendell Explodes On Lesley StahlYoure An 'Idiot!'
Governor Rendell isn't a big "60 Minutes" fan, apparently. In a preview of this week's show on the "60 Minutes website," Rendell yells at reporter Lesley Stahl, who's covering the state gambling boom. The Governor calls her an "idiot" and "simpleton" in the clip. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of thought, expression, and worship. Read more... We invite...

Rendell Calls "60 Minutes" Staff "Idiots."
No Going Gently Into That Good Night Here. From our friends at The Inky : "A clip being televised this morning shows an angry Gov. Rendell saying "you're simpletons, you're idiots" during a CBS 60 Minutes interview. The segment is to air Sunday evening as part of an examination of the proliferation of casino gambling across the country. Interviewed by correspondent Lesley Stahl, Rendell reportedly was explaining that gambling addicts already had opportunities elsewhere. But by allowing casin...

Video report: Obama Using Taxpayer Money To Secure Top "Obamacare" Search Engine Results
I posted this video a few days ago of liberals vehemently objecting to the use of the term "ObamaCare" because it's somehow partisan attack word: Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't using Taxpayer money to fund a Propaganda campaign via buying Google search results... ILLEGAL? I can't off the top of my head think of the precise act, but I'm positive I heard the establishment MSM harp about it during the Bush years. In the Obama years, not so much. ...

Someone Needs a Lesson in Blogging Etiquette
I’m behind on everything and the last thing I felt like doing this morning is dealing with a content thief. Now it’s almost 1:00 PM and I still haven’t gotten anything done. Over the past few days I’ve noticed trackbacks from a website called Conservative News. This morning I discovered this site was posting my entire RSS feed, meaning every word from every one of my posts was posted at his site. There was no contact information that I could see so I posted a comment as...

Get involved
Highland Park: NCTC Learning Lab, 15004 Third Ave., Highland Park, will hold an open house 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday. The Learning lab provides free GED/ABE classes, English-as-a-second-language instruction, computer skills and job readiness training. Open enrollment; make your own schedule. For details, call 313-868-8849. TROY: Budding engineers can learn friction, forces, aerodynamics and design through two Lego classes beginning Saturday at the Troy C...

The Constitution Did Not Condone Slavery
The Slaveholding Republic, he writes: "[The] fraction ‘three-fifths' had no racial meaning. It did not represent a perception of blacks as three-fifths human..." It was a Compromise on methods of levying taxes and apportioning representation in Congress. Further, the Three-Fifths Compromise reduced the power in Congress of slaveholding states while giving an electoral Bonus to any state that voluntarily emancipated its slaves. When seven of the original thirteen states abolished ...

Harry Reid and Democrats seek to use backdoor methods to change filibuster rules
Senate Democrats are floating the idea of making major changes to Senate rules applying to the use of the Filibuster.  An important check against the majority, the filibuster exists in part to distinguish the Senate from the whims of the “majority-rule” House.  Structured as a more deliberative body, the filibuster is designed to allow the minority an opportunity to oppose or defeat bills or nominees in certain circumstances.  Democrat Senator Tom Udall is working to a...

Gillibrand Wants To Bring Mr. Smith Back to Washington
In Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, an appointed senator tries to save the public from a corrupt Public Works bill with an epic Filibuster on the Senate floor. Seventy years later, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand—who finally shed her appointed tag this week when she was sworn-in for a two-year term—is trying to save the public from the filibuster. On a Conference Call this morning, Gillibrand announced her plans for Filibuster reform, in the hopes of returning to the Mr. Smith days, when o...

From The Mouth Of Babes
RedState Morning Briefing For January 6, 2011 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to get the Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. 1. America’s Mother-In-Law Puts Down the Gavel 2. So Called Constitutional Option Is A Trick 3. Who’s Pulling the Puppet Strings on Filibuster Reform and Why? 4. From The Mouths Of Babes 5. AFL-CIO Top Boss: Union Movement is Creating Permanent Progressive Structure 6. My Microphone Is Live at 50,000 Watts ———————&...

Survey Shows HPC Users Experimenting with Private and Public Clouds
TORONTO, Jan. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sixty-two percent of high performance computing (HPC) users have experimented with private or public cloud, according to a survey of delegates performed by Platform Computing at the Supercomputing Conference (SC'10) in November 2010.  HPC users cited a number of ways they are evaluating private cloud infrastructures, including building shared infrastructures (36 percent) and bursting existing workloads (15 percent). Users are also experimenting with off...

Is Samdroid the new Wintel?
With the popularity of Samsung Android phones exploding, one analytics company is wondering if another dualopoly is on the horizon. Flurry Analytics took one look at the rising popularity of Samsung Android devices, its Galaxy line in particular, and wondered if Samsung will someday dominate the Android space.  Android, in turn, would have to dominate the Smartphone space.  Samsung is certainly taking off: Microsoft (MSFT) and Intel (INTC) became the dominant PC Manufacturing partners...

Open Thread: Alas, Poor Orange John
Matt Taibbi’s new Rolling Stone article on “The Crying Shame of John Boehner” starts promisingly: John Boehner is the ultimate Beltway hack, a man whose unmatched and self-serving skill at political survival has made him, after two decades in Washington, the hairy blue mold on the American congressional sandwich. It’s well worth clicking over and reading all six pages, not just for the anecdotes (I had not heard about Boehner campaigning for Marcy Kaptur’s oppone...

Quite possibly the most idiotic government program to date: let's help illegal aliens cross the boder.
This is quite possibly the stupidest thing I have ever heard in my entire life. CALEXICO, Calif. - A government agency on the front lines of the Immigration debate has begun installing lifesaving buoys in a fast-moving canal along the U.S.-Mexico border where migrants drown each year as they sneak into the country illegally. The debate over the lifelines has long presented authorities with a moral dilemma: Is it acceptable to do nothing when so many immigrants are dying in the water? Or do...

Gov. Ed Rendell Goaded into Turning into Hulk on National Television
Don't make out-going Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell angry. You wouldn't like him when he's angry. Apparently… A CBS promotional video clip shows an angry Gov. Rendell saying "you're simpletons, you're idiots" during a 60 Minutes interview. The segment is to air Sunday evening as part of an examination of the proliferation of casino gambling across the country… Rendell reportedly was explaining that gambling addicts already had opportunities elsewher...

Government Spending Per Minute: $6.85 Million
House Republicans on Thursday trimmed about $35 million from the House's operating Budget, a move that Speaker John Boehner hailed as "a strong signal" of the new Congress' "commitment to making the tough choices necessary to end Washington's job-killing spending binge." But while $35 million is a lot of money to the Average American, it's worth thinking about just how "strong" a signal the House really sent. Consider: According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the government's pr...

Behind the mask: Afghan TV program exposes the horror of abuse against women
Natalie Alcoba, National Post · Friday, Jan. 7, 2011 The young Afghan woman was nervous. So was the television director. They were standing outside the Kabul studio of a fledgling broadcast station, minutes before taping the first episode of a new show about abused women. Sami Mahdi, the program creator, was trying to calm the 16-year-old participant down. At the age of 12, she was married off as a dispute settlement after her brother killed a member of her would-be husband’s family....

Bernanke grows more confident in recovery
By Pedro Nicolaci da Costa WASHINGTON | Fri Jan 7, 2011 7:48pm EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy may finally be hitting its stride even if growth remains too weak to put a real dent in the nation's jobless rate, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Friday. Offering no real clues on the future direction of Monetary Policy, Bernanke sounded cautiously more upbeat than he had in his most recent public remarks. He cited improvements in Consumer Spending and a drop in jobless be...

Bernanke: Tax codes should be reformed together
Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, said Friday that it made sense to make changes to the individual and Corporate Tax codes at the same time, instead of just revamping the corporate code. Speaking before the Senate Budget Committee, Bernanke appeared hesitant to delve too deeply into the politics of Tax Reform. But he did note that there are “many interactions” between the two tax codes. “So yes, ideally I hope that you would look at the tax system as a holistic single pa

Bernanke Cites Economic Improvements
Reuters reports: (Reuters) - The U.S. economy may finally be hitting its stride even if growth remains too weak to put a real dent in the nation’s jobless rate, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Friday. Offering no real clues on the future direction of Monetary Policy, Bernanke sounded cautiously more upbeat than he had in his most recent public remarks. He cited improvements in Consumer Spending and a drop in jobless benefit claims as hopeful signs a languid recovery w...