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I once wrote a brainfuck interpreter in assembler which would run at boot time. It's Turing completeness closer to the machine.

But the internet already thought of that and crazier things: http://www.masella.name/technical/BF-CPU.pdf

There are only two camps in this debate: cut taxes (to grow the economy and increase gov revenue) vs. increase taxes (to directly increase gov revenue). There is almost no talk about the underlying problem: spending.

This is a momentary media phenomenon, like the stories about Obama around the time of the elections.

That said, it would be nice to have a way to filter out duplicate stories posted at the same time.

"The largest public works project undertaken in the state in 50 years"

The sheer size and scope of the thing will make it vulnerable to corruption. The costs are probably understated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig

It's sad that you can't really have public works without that sort of overhead.

What particular piece of software would you want or need but can't afford? Nowadays there are complete F/OSS development stacks and tools available.

Correction, "10 million rules"

Doug Lenat keeps saying that inteligence is "one million rules", throw enough structure at something and it may come alive :)

http://www.norc.ro/street-view/ was way ahead of them (since 2008)

Also available for Austria, The Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Hungary.

Also, in 3D.

I'll grant it that the hero here is Bradley Manning, who should really receive more support.

The claim is that Assage is selling some of the secret documents on the side instead of making them public. Is there some proof to that?

Your laptop may be marginally safer from irrecoverable theft (if the thief doesn't bother to reinstall the OS), but it becomes vulnerable to the LockItTight service. They are, after all, getting a live feed of your location and keystrokes.

Do firmware-based (rather than OS-based) solutions exist for such tracking purposes?

The idea is that the Singularity would be a point in time where the totality of human expert knowledge would be insufficient to comprehend what an AI (or an AI-designed AI) would be capable of comprehending.

If we think human-level AI is possible, then superhuman AI would also be possible. Note, though, that while not infinite, human cognition is complete, that is, a human or group of humans is only limited by time or resources. No matter how much time we have; a dog will never stumble upon quantum mechanics. But given enough time, a human being can construct an expert knowledge repository, even though he himself is unable to understand some of the intermediary steps or details.

Now, this is where Singularity takes a turn to religion. Some people believe "it" to a future AI with enough physical means to be indistinguishable from a god. Not just a god, but one single God.

True enough.

Still, I fail to see the similarity between Lieberman and McCarthy in this context.

McCarthy was somewhat right in that the administration, secret services and universities were riddled with Communists.

He may have been wrong about who exactly was a Communist or wrong about his methods, though.

What furthers US interests furthers Good; the US is Good and its purposes noble; the US acts for the Good of the world and disagreement with the US is Evil.

As a democracy, Americans elect their officials. As leaders of a force for Good, these officials act with noble purposes; embarrassing them hurts Good and is therefore Evil.

So the Air Force can get "Other OS"

"The fourth charge accused Assange of having sex with a second woman, Miss W, on 17 August without a condom while she was asleep at her Stockholm home"

Does that mean sex with a second woman while "she" as in "the first woman" was asleep, or while "she" as in "the second woman" was asleep and apparently unaware of what was going on?

Also curious to the sort of evidence to prove these accusations; video/audio recording?

An older story:

http://classes.yale.edu/fractals/mandelset/mandelmonk/mandel...

n.b. The OP picture looks more like a Julia Fractal.

Is there a framework where you can use Prolog as a web development language? Server and/or client-side.

If he is (perhaps secretly) deemed an enemy combatant, he can be held indefinitely in custody without having any charges against him.

The DCG functionality of Prolog is very nice. I used it to write a crude XML parser just days into learning about the language.

http://pastebin.com/sUpPd5jb

Is this correct: in Sweden it is considered "rape" (by the male) if there is no condom involved?

It (the witch hunt) has begun...

It would only be fair. I'd like to see someone try to pull the same kind of thing with NY Times, Le Monde, Der Spiegel etc. as they were doing to wikileaks. It's much easier to go after Assage and his organization.

Nothing would be stopping ISPs from adding one or more non-ICANN DNS servers in their resolution chain. In fact, independent ISPs may do just that if they're not explicitly banned and there are a set of standards standards in place.

DNS is one of the easiest thing to do infrastructure-wise on the inter-networks.

There is a history of (non-rap) songs featuring the expletive in titles or lyrics:

Beautiful South, Don't Marry Her Fuck Me

Lily Allen, Fuck You Very Much

and don't forget Tenacious D, Fuck Her Gently

In other words, a Soylent (Green) transportation network.

The first chapter is good enough to carry you to the end: http://militera.lib.ru/research/suvorov6/01.html

There is no (Paul) Graham's Lemma, but there is Graham's Number.

The link is fine, just their server overloaded at the moment.