True. However, does Richard Stallman now seem so stupid for asking that everyone call "Linux" systems "GNU/Linux" systems? We now have Android/Linux as well as GNU/Linux, so the distinction actually turns out to be a rather important one to make. Everyone likes to joke about how RMS is a crackpot with bad hygeine, but it seems he's been right more often than not.

Once the discovery of the element is confirmed, the people who discovered it get dibs on naming the new element. The funny names like 'Ununpentium' are the temporary IUPAC systematic element names used for elements whose synthesis has not yet been confirmed. Of course, priority of discovery and confirmation of discovery can be a highly politicised process, so the systematic name remains in use until this gets settled.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

Why not just build a robot then? Then the world becomes its own best model. Or are sensors that allow a robot to experience the world as a human would still that hard? I don't think this is true for vision or hearing, though it probably is for other senses.

And that just goes to show how terrible a marketing misstep Microsoft made here. One device is an otherwise normal PC that can run every application ever written for the WinTel platform. The other has a rather paltry set of applications by third party developers and doesn't even have an x86 architecture processor. They're both called 'Microsoft Surface', and both run 'Windows 8'. Did Microsoft really expect that most people would be able to immediately tell that there was such a major difference between the Surface RT and Surface Pro?

...as self-fulfilling prophecy. The trouble is that the leaders of the world read books like 1984 and Brave New World and see them as instruction manuals rather than warnings.

Not sure if that is true. Ordinary stellar nucleosynthesis can only produce elements up to iron, because nuclear fusion of iron or any other heavier element produces less binding energy per nucleon, and thus cannot be a viable means of producing energy for a star. The s-process that takes place in stars prior to going supernova is capable of producing elements like gold, all the way up to bismuth. Heavier elements are produced by the r-process, that is supposed to occur in core collapse supernovae.

Might as well reopen the Star Chamber while they're at it.

Try to find a machine without Windows 8 on it, if you can do so. That way you don't pay Microsoft any money for their misbegotten operating system. This is becoming ridiculously difficult to do and can only get harder as time goes by.

It's strange that articles here only seem to have one of those icons with them nowadays. I could remember a time when there were three or sometimes even four icons relevant to a story when you opened it up (e.g. Google and Microsoft icons for stories involving both companies). Wonder why that stopped.

There was an article right here about it not a few days ago: MS To Indie Devs: You Have To Have A Publisher.

There was an article about it here a few years ago. A followup someone made to a comment I wrote to the article mentions some work being done by some guy from Purdue that sounds a lot like what's being done here. IBM also seems to be doing work on canary trap-based ideas.