Solar scientists well-placed to benefit:

1. 1. Area of research that still lacks full understanding of complex phenomena.
2. 2. Underfunded area of research.
3. 3. Backlash against proponents of AGW due to harsh Northern Hemisphere winter.
4. 4. ???
5. 5. Research Grants!!!

Wow. I may actually have prior art on this. I implemented such a system for my PhD thesis in 1990.

You operate a business which is part, whether you like it or not, of the industrialized copyright infringement and distribution networks which do flout the law and which are illegal

I understand your distinction that you yourself are not doing anything illegal

However, at some point you made a choice to operate this business

Possibly, you were naive and did not think that your service could be used for illegal purposes. Consider yourself now better informed and able to revisit your choice. This removes naivete from the list of possible excuses.

So you are able to make a characterisation: some or all of my customers use my services to carry out illegal activity.

Now you have a different decision that you can make: are you comfortable making your living taking money from those who are effectively acting as criminals.

Please note: I'm not making a judgement on you or your business. Simply pointing out that these are the decisions and assessments that you may have to or have made. Because there are implications. In many countries, as an owner or a Director of a business, you are liable for your actions and business decisions, including those of trading recklessly and there are legal penalties.

From my point of view, your business appears to be acting in the role of service provider so you have no direct liability for your customers' actions. A bit like a lockup storage operator who is not liable for any use of his facility by criminals to store stolen goods etc. However, at some point, a lawyer will make an assessment that your lack of diligence may represent aiding and abetting a crime. In which case, all bets are off.

"Never bring a sword to a gunfight."

Carbon-based life-forms using silicon-based computing systems with copper-based communication lines. We need to break these bonds.

...not having RTFA, that the article is bogus.

Who's with me?

Computer Science/Engineering professors can't tell the difference between chatbots and Computer Science/Engineering students.

1. Read the article without looking at the byline

2. Read the article assuming that "Pat Jordan" is male.

3. Read the article assuming that "Pat Jordan" is female.

Notice anything different in the dynamic between subject and interviewer in any of those readings?

Should read: "China plans to tap fibre-optic cables on the sea floor".

Remember the "manganese nodules" cover story for Glomar Challenger from the 1970s?

Given that ELO is relatively simple, it is more surprising that more complex algorithms with the benefit of acces to a lot of historical data only marginally outperform it. i.e. the transparency and simplicity of ELO combined with a relatively accurate outcome is better.

Hey, if it avoids synchronous bandwidth surges for TCP/IP, it's worth a try for power transmission.

Presumably, the double blind experiment is to avoid some sort of Hawthorn Effect?

Find another job. Anyone going in to major online content provision with minimal budget as described doesn't understand the problem.

I envisage this system as working something like in Wall-E when he follows the red light from the approaching spaceship. That would be cool - a little guide light showing you which way to run in an emergency. Or you could like shine it on some landmark that was a set height above the estmated wave and say "Try and get to this!". Or like a laser sight, shine it on someone running really fast in the right direction and say "Try and keep up". Man, look at those little ants scurry!

Someone want to compare and contrast FreeBSD jails with openbsd + sysjail?