While I agree with the below comment that a mouse and keyboard will do just fine, that's probably only true for more serious gamers. For more causal gamers (and for all sorts of other situations that will pop up) I'm guessing there will be a forward facing camera on the headset. If you look down at your hands, you'll see your hands (and the keyboard). Probably with the keys used in the game highlighted and labeled.

They read a complaint that was sent to them, watched the video that was sent to them, wrote a letter, stamped it, and sent it. The amount of money wasted by people looking at this thread on Slashdot instead of doing their jobs was greater than what was spent on this enforcement. But hey, sure, cut their budget when their equipment is 40+ years old and air traffic is increasing greatly. That'll learn them.

And basejumping is quite often isn't legal, especially in places where it might endanger people below. What's your point?

Who's going to buy a $150K car that is going to lose half its value in three years?

Isn't Israel also a hotbed of computer hacking, phishing, etc.? Kind of makes sense they would have have a strong cybersecurity presence, even if only to defend against themselves.

I was going to bring up Stanislaw Lem as someone who wrote outside of the American tradition for science fiction. In a lot of ways it's like he is descended more from Voltaire and Swift. And while I have no idea what Lem was like in the original Polish (and German, and French), there was a lot of great wordplay in English courtesy of his translator (Kandel?). Plus his jokes in Latin were funny too.

Change the topic and make an ad hominem attack - You're right! Predictable and childish!

But these biological problems are both hard to compute and hard to understand, What part of electron transfer to and from proteins do you find easy to understand? Can you use this understanding to make useful, non-trivial predictions?

See upthread:

At an elite school you will live and study with incredibly intelligent and ambitious students who are already beginning to have an impact in their fields before they get their BS/PhD. Your professors will include Nobel laureates who may well have invented your field of study. Together they will shape your approach to your studies and your career. Of course, that's elite in science/technology, not "elite" as defined by Minerva's PR firm.

My apologies: I used the CS definition when referring to Parent's using computer programming as an analogy: "This is true for your analogy as well". For the discussion about biology I just said quantifiable, but there are a bunch of different ways to approach complexity in biological systems, some rigourous, some not, and even Mr. Complexity and Self Organization Himself (Kauffman) would use different ones depending on the problem he is currently looking at. For quantum criticality, the one wikipedia gives for physical systems: "complexity is a measure of the probability of the state vector of the system" is a good start. For systems biology or genetics, an information theory approach would be better.

We're pretty good at the microscopic (observable with an optical microscope) level. At the level Kauffmann is studying, the models he is using have thus far been rife with inaccuracies and pretty much incapable of making useful predictions of actual physical behavior. I think this paper is really at risk of being GIGO until they back it up observations that haven't already been predicted by the assumptions/fudge factors they built into their model.

Really? So you can predict how proteins fold? Which drug candidates will interact with which proteins and what effects they will have? How about just modeling the interaction of a protein and water? These all fall under NP-complete, which is a pretty much the epitome of complexity.

No, complexity is not subjective. You are just using a very casual definition for complexity in a discussion for which there is a much more precise definition. In this case, complexity is a quantifiable property of physical systems. This is true for your analogy as well: in CS one definition for complexity is the number of steps that it takes to solve an instance of the problem as a function of the size of the input. Read the wiki and try again.

The trailer doesn't exactly leave much out.

It's even easier to make car bombs or ricin in your own home: no special milling equipment required. Laws should attempt to balance safety against liberty, not newsworthiness against DIYability.

You are right, Conservatives are very consistent about government control: So long as it feels like "Us" controlling "Them", they are for it. Control over abortions, control over marriage, control over brown people ...