Really all that needs to be simulated is one person's perception, you have no way to prove that what you perceive, including other people is actually part of the simulation or all in your head.

We'd all be carrying around guns trying to kill each other. I have to say I like your idea better, but I'm not a religious fundamentalist either, which I believe creates some bias against sex and for murder.

...it's all around us, even here in this room.

Changing passwords regularly has been found to be more of a security risk than not changing them and having a more restrictive password policy. I've had informal discussions with a number of people at various companies where password changing every 3 months causes more problems with lost passwords and written down passwords.

How many of anyone has been brushed off by management for what they thought were serious safety or security concerns. I know I've been there for both cases. Management however was more interested in other stupid crap than doing things right.

A coworker suggested that the fourth chassis they make should be the Model Y. SEX and Y. I hope it's not a cargo vehicle, they need to do a new Roadster.

I have to agree with the suggestion for Bittorrent Sync, it's super easy, will mirror between sites, and runs in a really small process.

Surely there's solid medical need for beer while ice fishing and the FAA by blocking said delivery is putting the lives of those who do it in serious danger. I mean obviously anyone who Ice Fishes is nearly insane, and probably near hypothermic death. In addition it's been scientifically proven that you'd be a lot warmer and a lot happier with a bellyfull of mead.

This would be nice if you could disable the device completely when the police confiscate it for no legal reason.

Don't explain to them that you used jQuery, just tell them you used XMLHttpRequest(), and if they didn't intend it to be used, they should have included it in their JavaScript processor.

If I was going to do something crazy, I'd look at getting rid of our screens, and replacing it with voice. That means probably doing better with voice generation, and leveraging and improving voice recognition. I have a thought or two about the idea at a basic level, but I don't have the programming or theoretical chops to make it happen. That would be neat though to see something go that way. Granted that's not all that crazy as evidenced by the movie "Her" but it's a start in the direction Woz was talking about.

This response seems to miss the point where the conspirators were using their cell phones and text messages to copy and move around these test answers. This is certainly the easiest thing to track since technically SMS messages are actually cell phone meta-data, and it's already text that can be indexed and searched. This Air Force cheating ring is exactly what the NSA should be doing. Plus one for the question, "Where was the NSA?" Maybe they're cheating on their tests too via SMS.

This is pretty accurate historically. Examples include Intel, Dell, Samsung, Apple, Cisco, Sony, Logitech, etc. Basically if you make hardware you are typically an absolutely terrible software maker. It isn't even about the developers, it's about management, who's always in the way of innovative software development. It works conversely as well, historically software companies don't do hardware very well either, look at Microsoft, and Google, they both send out their hardware to others to be made.

"Mr. Snowden, I, Barrack Obama, apologize for this ordeal you've been through. You've done the people of your country the greatest service any of us could possibly ask of you. In that vein, I issue you a full pardon for whatever crimes some people may think you've done, I also want to thank you for your help in identifying these issues that my administration has continued to perpetrate. You are a man of great integrity, honesty, and owner of the biggest set of cohones next to Jack Ryan that I've ever known. Not only is it a great honor to meet you in person to offer you this sorry excuse of an explanation, but in addition, I'd like to offer you a free home on Federal land, and a generous allowance to live out your life on US soil as you legally see fit. It would be my hope that you would also accept an offer of permanent employment with the Federal Government in a role of Homeland Security Watchdog where you can continue your work of protecting our people from ourselves going forward." That's kind of the gist of what should happen.

This post is perfect for a monday! It's about cats, it's on the internet, and it's about a tornado in England of all places. Along with that it's certainly due to be a Syfy movie of the week, following up after Sharknado, Sharkalanche, Sharkicane, and Sharkano.