If you read the link in the article, you'll see that Eyebeam is more like an art project than a security research project.

If pressed, many logicians will admit that the modern foundation of mathematics (ZFC) is probably inconsistent.
See this article:
http://www.math.princeton.edu/~nelson/papers/warn.pdf

The author discusses an informal survey he took among loogicians on page three.

If someone ever discovers a paradox, we can simply scale back to some other system and keep most of what we know, but still...

Sorry for replying to my own post, but I guess I meant any non-supercomputer. Apparently they've managed to get clusters to play at amateur Dan level over the last couple of years.

For the record, the go ranking system works out as

30 Kyu ... 1 kyu 1 dan amateur ... 5 dan amateur european ... 9 dan amateur european

5 dan amateur european is about equal to 1 dan professional, due to inconsistencies in rankings between countries.

That's only on a 9x9 board. A competent low Kyu or Dan player could crush any computer on a 19x19 board.

For people who don't play go: the difference between 9x9 and 19x19 is a bit like the difference between ping-pong and tennis.

Hell, give them another TWO dimensions. That way, you'll be going to work and suddenly someone will rear-end you from above the previous Thursday. You can continue on your merry way because the whole mess will already have been taken care of.

That's what my dad used to say.

Until the accident.

Yes, the penny dropped when I looked up Steven Rado as mentioned in the summary.

Here's his website. It's one step away from timecube.
http://www.aethro-kinematics.com/

He seems to be supporting the idea of the luminiferous aether, a concept which physics abandoned over 100 years ago.

I wish it weren't so, but when you involve most people's kids in a story, all critical or rational thought goes out the window. That's just the way things are.

Let's go with
4+3+2 = (inf{n: two nilpotent endomorphisms from C^n with the same minimal polynomial and the same rank are not always similar}) + 2

To paraphrase one of Dave Foster Wallace's characters, that's freedom from, not freedom to.

Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

Cloaking uses metamaterials which have a negative refractive index- these bend light rays around the object being cloaked. Very recently, physicists and engineers realised that a similar principle can be applied to pressure waves caused by earthquakes. With the right design, the shockwaves might be bent around a building, rendering it "invisible" to an earthquake.

This was previously thought impossible due to mistakes in some engineering research articles.
Link here:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090720105125.htm

More techncial articles can be found by googling "elastic cloaking".

Precisely. In your example, without conditioning on the fact that there is one boy, the possibilities are:

BB BG GB GG.

with a uniform distribution on each outcome. Once you condition on at least one boy, GG is removed, and you are left with three equally likely events.

Dave Foster Wallace's fantastic book "Infinite Jest" touched on this idea. Here's an excerpt from the book:

        Good old traditional audio-only phone conversations allowed you to presume that the person on the other end was paying complete attention to you while also permitting you not to have to pay anything even close to complete attention to her. A traditional aural-only conversation [...] let you enter a kind of highway-hypnotic semi-attentive fugue: while conversing, you could look around the room, doodle, fine-groom, peel tiny bits of dead skin away from your cuticles, compose phone-pad haiku, stir things on the stove; you could even carry on a whole separate additional sign-language-and-exaggerated-facial-expression type of conversation with people right there in the room with you, all while seeming to be right there attending closely to the voice on the phone. And yet — and this was the retrospectively marvelous part — even as you were dividing your attention between the phone call and all sorts of other idle little fuguelike activities, you were somehow never haunted by the suspicion that the person on the other end’s attention might be similarly divided.

        [...] Video telephony rendered the fantasy insupportable. Callers now found they had to compose the same sort of earnest, slightly overintense listener’s expression they had to compose for in-person exchanges. Those caller who out of unconscious habit succumbed to fuguelike doodling or pants-crease-adjustment now came off looking extra rude, absentminded, or childishly self-absorbed. Callers who even more unconsciously blemish-scanned or nostril explored looked up to find horrified expressions.

"it's quite possible that Sir Terry saw it too. - although he probably doesn't remember"

Pratchett has Alzheimer's disease.