I've user a variety of materials.
Lead isn't needed and if you can't use it right, well..that's a skill problem.

The fact you use needless alarm words means I can't take anything in your post seriously.

"Poison", "Dirty"

I have a Phillips dim-able LED, works great. No flicker.

this one:
http://www.usa.philips.com/c-p...

That is easy, when you flash the firmware on many of the high security types of systems it increments a counter when the bootloader loads the new firmware. they simply look at the counter and see if it matched the last time it was in for an update or was reported on the last update.

It's as simple as a small cheap i2C eeprom hidden away on the system that is not easily read from the running OS. the hacker would haveto disassemble the system hardware and basically reverse engineer the board to discover it. I have seen them hidden under other chips to save board space, but doing that would hide it from most hackers.

Turing would consider many of today's systems AI.

Rigged isn't the correct word here.

Lowered the bar. Intelligent people know that progress is made with many small steps. So the lowered the bar to see if it could pass.
Next time the bar will be raised a little more.
You'll never have a person run a 6 minute mile if you don't have measurable competitions to motivate runners.

No, cleverbot did not do a better job and would have done worse on this test.

The test has real, applicable and logical reason for the way the measured it.

You seem to be comparing the actual test to what the media claims it was, and then blaming the test for not being what the media misrepresented.
You're right about the media, but the media is always wrong about science.

Peopel who aren't aware they are in a test can easily be fooled by a computer today.

Did you know she was going to go to school for computer science? Because if you know that, the joke is even funnier.

Tragically, she was in an accident and then ended up with an abuses person who forced her to do porn.

I am a fan of putting a tilda after non serious comment, but it was a pretty obvious joke.

Actually most of America would applaud the SWAT team entering banks with shotguns and tasers.

Listening to an investment banker on the floor screaming "dont taze me bro" would pretty much make every single person on the planet smile at the same time. It would cause world peace and make cold fusion work.

Far more OI, better all the way around.

https://www.olimex.com/Product...

It's actual happened a lot, it's called 'emergent behavior'. The paper is old, poorly thought out, and written by people who want other people to think that are smart, but aren't actually smart enough to do science, you know: philosophers.

remember kids: philosophers are to science what homeopaths are to medicine.

A computer infected with a work and a virus led to them combining into a new program.

It was better and unique.

you have been able to buy cellphone watches for years now. Search ebay for "GSM watch"

"Siri, How do I get icky dying person off my shoes?"