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tugfoigel writes
"Built by "Kevin" for a contest, this computer-controlled alarm clock is touted as the world's largest. To be more specific, he 'mounted a large air cylinder to the head of [his] bed and a valve, controlled by a computer, which [he programmed] to wake [him] up in the morning.'"
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Maximum Prophet writes:
In this article, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/science/14tier.h tml?8dpc, John Tierney, posits that we might just be a simulation in someone else's computer, based on the work of Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford University.
Not really a new idea, but it's the first time I've seen it in the mainstream press.
They don't mention it in the article, but the way to prove the hypothesis would be to look for bugs in the OS, and gain root privileges.
