There will always be stupid dickheads in every aspect of life. Some of these dickheads have managed to get in a position of influence, usually we call them politicians but they do appear in other places as well.

You just got to love it that in a supposed "free country" like America, people are being fined for using a mobile phone while walking, yet in a country that is perceived as having a heavily controlled population, they are providing safe areas where people are free to walk and use their phone. Interesting.

So, of the tree listed examples, only the first one is a valid test. why?

- The Simpsons is not funny, hence a simple call to sleep(1320); would correctly identify all times to laugh (based on a 22 minute episode)
- The first rule of Ikea is that you don't read the instructions. If a bot was to read the instructions, then it could be determined that it is not human. Further to that, of the humans that do read the instructions, they are usually incapable of interpreting the glyphs on the (single) sheet. Therefore, if an individual (be it human or bot) could correctly fulfil the third example, it must be a bot.

After reading the article I have a question, how does a bomb squad detonate a non explosive device? Or did they strap the explosives to the device (and hence the bridge) and then detonate them?

Perhaps there are not many girls in IT (any fields) because it is a shit job in where the smartest people (the devs) are always told what to do by the dumbest people (the managers).

Devs are require to build a bridge at a level not much higher than the molecular level without proper instructions and with the possibilities of huge structural changes that would result in either an unstable system (dev's fault) or a broken system (dev's fault) or a system that does not match what the customer thinks they want (dev's fault).

Fuck, if I could do my time again I would be as far away as possible from computers.

I heard...
... they will be taking this in their stride.
... they will be addressing it one step at a time.
... they don't have a leg to stand on.
... they have a solution but it will cost an arm and a leg.

It's obvious that Amerika is performing a DDOS attack on North Korea because I once saw some text in a file that was written in Amerikan english.

Curiosity has no one to blame. NASA proves that "he who smelt it, dealt it"

This reminds me of the indestructible passports found in the rubble at ground zero.

Or what about this... the malware was created in South Korea by a phone manufacturer / electronics company that competes with Sony?

Nah, they're friends with Amerika.

So, not only are they going for binary compatibility, but also stink compatibility. cool.

but y?

Won't someone think of the y!

I'm not schizophrenic as I know aliens control my movements and they are not just hallucinations.

Once they remove Windows, the planes won't suffer from BSOD failures.

Computer science sucks as a career option. Once it was seen as an art form, now it is nothing more than a place on a factory production line with fucked up deadlines set by people who have no fucking idea what it takes to write a hello world program. Of the two sexes, women were the smart ones who saw that computer science was heading for the shitter and got out early. It's just the dicks like myself that sit in a dark room squinting at a bunch of monitors with chronic back pains and little social abilities that have continued in the career choice of everyone's bitch.

I fucking hate computers.

The assertions based are based on current technology and surely at that point in our future where we find ourselves locked in an interstellar battle against aliens, we would have developed flight systems that are capable of simulated planetary based flight (that is, deal with all the thrust to change directions crap) as well as a vast improvement in weapons technology to allow high intensity energy weaponry be accurate enough over long distances.