Uncertainities in constants (G, h, c, etc), are included in calculations. They do not explain why experimental values are different. Heim Theory is beautifull, but just wrong. Or there is some error. For example the measurments was actually done based on some incorect theories (for example you do not measure, for example mass directly, you measure energy it given to calorimeter, or how it behaves in magnetic field, and froom this infering mass BASED on other (well established) theory).

This is big problem in interpretation and desigining experiments.

Well it is quite straightforward calculations to optimize path, and could be easly done even 50 years ago. There is probably some reasons nobody done and used this results, it already.

I have read 20 more Tab-xxx.pdf files. Claiming that they are copy&paste is again nonsense.

They mostly consists of straight forward code, #defines or function definitions which looks similar.

Of course they are similar becuase this are POSIX functions and defines!

Their claims are just ridiculus.

What a nonsense.

ELF which is a file format, and is pretty stright forward to implement, and also have some functions and names directly embeded in the standard specification. It is not any proof.

FUD again.

Every sufficiently advanced cryptography technique is indistingushible from magic.

rfc1321
"The algorithm takes as input a message of arbitrary length and produces as output a 128-bit "fingerprint" or "message digest" of the input."

So it basically means that there is no limit.

(newer hashes, for safety or becuase they use ctr-like modes, define maximal lengths, for example SHA-1 and SHA-256 have limit of 2^64-1 bits. SHA-384 and SHA-512 have limit of 2^128-1. Still 2^64-1 bits is bilions of gigabytes.)

How long we have been waiting for this? 10, 20 years? It looks that designing, simulating and building was harder than it was initially projected.

And this is still prototype.

There is many script which scans webpage for tinyurl type links and performs reverse operation and make them show as original url. One of such scripts is URL Elongator Plus for Opera http://extendopera.org/userjs/content/url-elongator-plus (it is UserJS script). Works fast, is configurable and supports lots of pages.

There is also other similar scripts.

Eventually it would take maybe decade or two, but it will be discovered. And Einstein have big help of other physicists, and mathematics, notably Riman, Minkowski, etc.

It is stupid. Some things are better then othr in different things.

Currently people are good in generlizations, abstract thinking, spatial coordination, pattern recognition and finding. Computer are better at borring stuff which repeats the same many times, like searching for something on big list, or calculating trylions of formulas by repeativly applying rules.

Things are slowly changing and more and more stuff which was reserved for people can be done by computers, but this doesn't underestimate us in any way. We created this machines, we programmed them, now we have more time for other usefull things, we move humanity to the new future. I really don't see a problem.

I personally always very happy when my own programs can outsmart my or make me supprise :)

Chees or music isn't very hard thing. Actually Deep Blue or this robot achived they results slightly in different manner than we, and I would still say that they failed. Deep Blue was using brute force, not asbtract and general strategy planing, he was not very good at assosciating common patterns and predicting what will happen without simulation. This is what is called inteligence, to predict what will happen without actually simulate or carry experiment. But Deep Blue was performing full scale brute force simulation, so it isn't inteligent. It is soft-AI, Deep Blue, doesn't know about abstract properties of chees.

The same is with music. Maybe this program have rules, maybe it can compose greate music. But this music is created for people, and it isn't human, so he is actually creating music which he can't hear. This is ironic. But he doesn't really feel or know by itself how to create this music. Is it very innovative? Could he create new style in music? Or create new tonic system, could it have good imagination to create new music instrument? Good in the sense that it will be nice to hear such instrument be humans? I don't think so.

It is still soft-AI. All this is fake.

I don't see any problem. Whay is special about Mozart or Bethoven? it is simple, they was first to compose this masterpice of music.

What is a problem, is who will have copyright right to this AI works?

You underestimate the problem of making clean room. It is extreamly complicated. In fact in this problem is the essence of the AI! I would bet for year 2049 as date when AI will pass Turing test. +15 years, and it will achive first scientific discovery beyond human (but this will still be something we will understand). I could be wrong, but then i would put something like 2250, or never.

I think "EPIA SN 10000" or "18000" is the best in kind of performance and energy. I was thinking about some MIPS or ARM based boards, like rt433uah, but there are problems with performance and sata ports. EPIA SN 10000 is standard PC, in really small form factor, and have fanless CPU 1.0GHz, up to 4 GB of ram, 4 sata ports, 2 ethernet ports (one of them is gigabite), audio, ide, compact flash, minipci, and lots of usbs. ANd of course vga. I'm currenlty creating system from it, and mirrored set of 4 caviar green series hard drives + system on compact flash. Eventually i will add one SSD as a kind of cache. All powered prefrebly by ZFS :) All i need now i good and efficient Power Supply for it.

Not only number of characters, also delay beetwen characters! It is quite common to type password in public. any body can check your screen, in when you are giving presentation using projector! I completyl disagrry with proposition of displaying password. They shouldn't be displayed at all, or masked as usual.

Yes for FORTRAN, but no as a first language. Hi, students of Physics and Chemistry here in Cracov Poland also are learning FORTRAN somewhere on first or second year. I think it is horiblle language compared to modern ones, but it is really fast, and libraries are really robust. So FORTRAN is needed, but i think most times students should write C code which talks to FORTRAN libraries, this is simpler. And FORTRAN shouldn't be first language teached. I opt for Phyton, it is so easy to learn complex aplications. I also personally like D. :)