MurphyWasRight
"The machine for the interpreting of long ribbons of paper featuring small holes" (aka paper tape reader)
ChristiaanJ
Amazingly, the Google translation program is slowly but steadily getting more and more of it right.
I understand that it works rather differently from previous machine translation efforts. It seems they have a database of documents that have been conventionally translated and they just do dumb (in the sense that they do no linguistic analysis) matching against the big pile of documents.
Voila!