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" Leave it to the \u00FCber geeks of Silicon Valley to find a creative way to get great tables at the hottest San Francisco restaurants. They&amp;#039;ve been using bots.  No, not robots, bots. An automated Internet program that can be assigned to do simple, repetitive tasks at a very high speed. Like hit up a bistro&amp;#039;s reservation system the second it comes online, scoring the best seat at the best time without their creator having to take time from developing the next hot iPhone app to do something so mundane as arrange for food. Of course, this leads other hungry, tech-minded folks to write their own bots, each of them upping the complexity of their program to beat out the other&amp;#039;s. It&amp;#039;s the same technological concept as the programs scalpers use to buy up all the prime concert or sporting event tickets the second they go on sale. What does this mean for flesh-bound regular folks who just want to take their dates to a nice place, without needing a Ph.D. in software engineering to do so? Well, so far as we know they&amp;#039;ve yet to build a bot that can keep up with the old standby of greasing the ma\u00EEtre d&amp;#039;s palm with a couple sawbucks upon arrival. The real question is, who wants to sit down to a fancy meal lit by the soft blue ambience of a bunch of workaholic computer geek&amp;#039;s laptops? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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