This is because chess is already a 100% solved solution space.

No it isn't. Far far from it.

The tactics (he takes and I take...) computers have down cold. That's how they beat humans. They never miss a trick, and so even the best humans get worn out sweating every crazy possibility. Many many computer games have been won by some one crazy move that makes a seemingly lost position tenable.
The strategy (long-term planning and positioning) is where computers are weaker. Not weak, but weaker.

Once the end game is reached a large database of positions is used. (Humans effectively do this too, in the sense that a particular ending is a known win, and so they can steer for it without having to work it all out ahead of time.)

But at least it's consistent. If you truly believed that people will go to Hell if they don't convert, wouldn't it be your moral obligation to do everything you could to help them?
Sure, the least annoying fanatics are the ones who leave you alone, but they are also, at best, hypocrites.

Duck Soup. It's like a thousand times as good as the Interview.

Plus it's got the mirror scene. I'll bet The Interview doesn't have that.

They have things called "brakes" as well.

Those brake things are still governed by how the tire interacts with the surface.

The office network probably is not to get work done.

Of course not. The Facebook, porn, and shopping, for the most part. Oh, and cat videos.

Correction: Navy *pays* a company $0.01

Thank you for your two cents on the matter.

As a book collector, I'd never ruin a book by writing in it

The author suggested how to work around that in his opening post. Sign a sheet of acetate and place that over the copyright page.

1080p is the limit your camera can successfully show to you. Any other pixels are a waste of disk space unless you're saving everything for the future.

So earlier in the discussion we've got a post confusing RAM and storage, and now one "thinking" that 1080p is the limit of usefulness. WTF?

There's a LOT of subjectivity in Olympic sports.

How about walk-racing? The rule is the walker must be in contact with the ground at all times....but slow motion video clearly shows they break the rule with every stride. So now they say "visible to the naked eye." And it's back in the hands of judges who, knowing full well that the walker is losing contact, have to decide if they can actually see it or just "know" it.
I guess the reason they don't fully enforce it that it would be even less interesting to watch.

Everyone should watch this movie just as an act of patriotism.

Are you sure North Korea was actually the culprit? Bruce Schneier doesn't think so.

How would they do that? You created the connection to the proper server. They are not connecting to you, so there's no spoofing.

I did say "after this." However (heh), as you have now made a more recent mistake, now we do have to reset the timer....

But, why on earth was there not a decent socket set on the ISS in the first place? (pun intended)

I hate to sound dumb, but what pun?

the relatives of the one shot will sue Sony for millions of dollars due to the release of the film that Sony KNEW could unleash terrorism.

You don't really think they could win that lawsuit, do you? The only think they KNEW was that there was a threat. Sure, lawyers would probably have made the theaters and Sony post signs about the threat, but then the patrons also KNEW about the threat.
Otherwise any event in the country could be stopped by a mere phone call or email or even a tweet.