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What are they going to do, read the encrypted data off the flash drive the hard way?

The portrayal of such an act could clearly be art. You are just being absurd.

Nothing is off limits for art exhibits.

The creator, Julian Oliver, is also one of the guys responsible for the "Newstweek" (http://newstweek.com/overview) device that was on hacker news about a year ago.

Originally presented by a fake news article about one being discovered, it's a pretty neat device. Basically just a plug computer that you hide near a public AP which then mitm's all the AP's web traffic and according to a set of rules rewrites news headlines.

Presumably salt on grapefruit is thought to be weird since grapefruit is thought to be good for your heart, while the perception of salt is quite the opposite.

Seems like a great idea to me.

I take it you think there is something intrinsically wrong with that idea?

Postfix notation is popular in the financial industries.

One could have made the same argument in favour of Roman numerals, in the face of the less familiar Arabic numerals

s/most/many/

Oh, I feel so much better now.

In my experience the best events to crash are art exhibit openings. You can do it with any attire (so long as you are the attire) and it's not hard at all to fake an appreciation for whatever art they may be showing.

Furthermore, the faster you drink the less people care about how you act. People at exhibit openings tend to get positively sloshed.

I'll have to take your word for it but I you'll have to understand that I am sceptical, considering child pornography was already banned from reddit.

You must not be describing it very well. Provocative pictures of teenagers in swimsuits hardly seems "seriously perverse". It neither qualifies as child pornography under the law, nor would being attracted to that make somebody a pedophile.

I take it you've never seen teenagers at the beach.

To be fair, the JVM is why Clojure doesn't have TCO (and no, trampolines don't count).

Is there a purpose to that?

Please excuse my ignorance, but what does "like a porn star" mean?

The effort it would require to do something that absurd is astonishing.

I'm not sure where your math went wrong, but iirc I pay between 5 and 6 something a month. I'll check exactly what it is later.

"*This does not apply for tiny websites. If your hosting bill is 100$ or less a month, amazon is likely fine for you and maybe the most effective cost saver."

I was going to say this. Using an US-East micro instance reserved for 3 years is cheap as hell for my screen/irssi and occasional VPN needs. The cost per month is something like the change I currently have in my pocket.

For starters, detaching.

I never understood why people want their terminal emulators to have tabs. Screen/tmux do it so much better...

Eh.. The Turing test (Turing was a man, and the Turing test is a concept posed by him) is restricted in the way that it is to eliminate irrelevant factors such as robotics.

The concept itself that is presented is quite sound: If you cannot tell that it's not intelligent, how can you say that it is not?

I cannot think of a better test. The only weak point as I see it does not say anything one way or the other about intelligence that is fundamentally different from our own (for example: doesn't happen to use natural language).

The burden of proof is definitely on anybody asserting that intelligence isn't a physical phenomenon. We have no evidence to suggest that it isn't, but a hell of a lot to suggest that it is.

Longbets is fine, but such unfounded speculation doesn't have much use in serious conversation.

"proving the position proving the position"

It seems like you might be misunderstanding the role of science.

That was my entire point with bringing up gravity...

Anyway, comparing creating intelligence to creating gravity is nonsensical. I literally cannot make sense of that.

Again, you are speaking in terms that make it difficult to extract your meaning, so correct me if I have failed to understand what you are trying to say.

In particular I would be interested to hear what some of these phenomena are. See, the lack of a "concrete explanation" isn't really a useful thing to say about something. We don't yet have anything that could be called a "concrete explanation" of even things like gravity. What we do have are theories that allow us to make useful predictions about how gravity will effect things. Imperfect as those, like all, theories are, we've still put stuff on other planets with them.

There certainly are many "open problems" in science, but to my knowledge we have yet to ever encounter anything that is fundamentally beyond the grasp of the physical sciences. Take for example the Coronal Heating Problem: On the surface it seems to violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics (which is some rather heavy shit...) but even in extreme cases like that science solders on. There are numerous hypothesis that have been proposed to explain it, and over time our understanding of it will only become more robust.

Anyway: To address this particular concern I'd like to say that until we have any strong evidence to suggest that humans possess a more powerful model of computation than we already regularly reason about, we have to assume that they do not.

The problem here is that you are being so vague that your comment can really only be understood if actually are talking about something 'supernatural'.

Biology is really not much more than a self-replicating subset of chemistry. Without evidence to suggest something sort of psuedo-supernatural difference between the simplest of single cell organisms and homo sapiens, I think the only reasonable position is that whatever it is that "preforms" intelligence falls under the realm of the physical sciences.

Until we acquire evidence to suggest otherwise, it is silly to assume anything else.

If you look at the whole introduction instead of merely the snippet presented, it appears as though the introducer followed your guidelines.

If it's not supernature, than science can evaluate it and in time even understand it.

After that, it's just a question of engineering.

It is very rare that I hear people acknowledge that women are capable of sexist comments as well.