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I don't disagree with you on any particular point. However, who do you suppose we trust to decide what is a software implemented weapon and what is not? Of course there are very cl…

Indeed, I did not take all of the above mentioned things into account.

Emissions of CO2 on its own does not necessarily imply that there is a carbon footprint. Besides the carbon footprint of transporting food, the food we consume is carbon neutral si…

I don't see them claiming to have found the missing link. In any regard, biologists are unlikely to use the term 'missing link' since it implies evolution is discontinuous, which i…

I have a small cluster of machines that I run experiments on. GNU parallel makes the dispatch of jobs on remote machines very easy. In addition, I often use it to search for sequen…

Could someone explain to me how this is not a correlation implies causation fallacy? I don't where a causal relation is demonstrated.

Although not this particular face recognition. I managed to fool face recognition passwords in the past with a simple photograph of the person. As you would expect it works perfect…

I am not sure that this constitutes a proof. It seems induction would be required to show that the property holds.

Most world class athletes are already genetically superior by the measure of athleticism. Even though these favourable mutations or inherited traits have not been engineered, they …

London does it. http://abstracts.aetransport.org/paper/index/id/2041/confid/... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4oeMB0tYII The video is a bit cheesy, but it gets the point across.…

This seems relevant to your questions. Among other things, it discusses which crops are best suited for salinated soil as well as improving conditions for crops in salinated soil u…

This might be of interest to your temperature question. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18592898

"All practical purposes" for a discovery is not always immediately apparent.

Write me a programs that could write me a program that could write Doug Lenat's Automated Mathematician ... and so on and so forth.

The Linux Documentation Project has this to say about flushing of buffer cache: "In traditional UNIX systems, there is a program called update running in the background which does …

How do you do the shutdown on USB change? I would like to try that out. I would imagine, depending on how it is done, that the malicious usb device might get a few keystrokes in be…

What sort of supporting infrastructure is required to reliably store it for a long time? Infrastructure such as cooling, dessication and warehousing.

Ah is see. Although I would not put it past people to protest nuclear fusion, it would be strange indeed, since nuclear fusion does not produce the same kind of radioactive waste(s…

Something related, vlc has a mode where one can play movies as ascii art. It even works through a terminal.

By just looking at the title and before reading the article, I though they meant that they are checking for illegal strings that are illegal to transmit. https://en.wikipedia.org/w…

What political problems might that be?

This just in ... one vehicle on the road hit another vehicle on the road.

I would not put it in the category of brute-force since it really does have all the properties of a genetic algorithm. But yes it does succeed to a greater extent at cracking passw…

I really appreciate your enthusiasm. It is one of the core concepts and passwords seemed to be a good way to explore my FIFO idea in a practical manner. It might well have been don…

The part about not deleting organisms, is a small caveat that I omitted in most of the discussion since it makes the algorithm just a bit harder to understand. To clarify that poin…