It's more brilliant than you think—now the Microsoft employees who came up with this idea can get MacBooks without getting their boss's signature! In theory, anyway.

Yeah I wonder what its support length is.

ezmlm works fine for me.

Well... there's the beachfront property market.

So the U.S. is holding onto ideals that they learnt from the English, that the English have discarded because it's bullshit. Hmm. Thank you captain obvious.

It would be pretty poor if the VM couldn't be compiled for i686 or AMD64.

Android apps already run on Linux. Why can't I just fire them up on Ubuntu? The VM should br portable.

He's saying they needn't work for money. Many do, many don't. It's about what you want out of your life.

See also: Slashdot and unicode support.

Hey, definitely. I'm all for this sort of interest piece; I've done some truly worthless statistical analyses purely for the geek value. But it shouldn't be mislabeled, much less sitting on Arxiv. I guess maybe this happened because the lead author is a physicist? Assume a spherical cow, etc.

The point of the turing test is that it's a thought experiment that says (loosely) that if you can't be sure if something is human or not, then you might as well consider it an AI. It might be a parlour trick, but that doesn't matter. If it can behave intelligent, then it effectively is. If it can have interesting discussions about the last GoT episode, or help you with that tricky bit on your maths homework, then it is effectively intelligent. Regardless of whether it's an algorithm or a squishy meat-based neural network.

The Turing test is a thought experiment. It's not a test to "prove we have AI" or anything, though people do use it like that.

You deduced that the environment can change without humans! Well done. Animals can also be killed without humans! Therefore poaching isn't a problem. Trees can also be felled without humans! Chopping down the rainforest isn't a problem! People can die without other humans killing them. Therefore murder is not a problem!

Except the Marshall Islands are in the same body of water that is on the shore of USA, Australia UK, etc. None of whom have seen any substantial sea level rise. The island is sinking.

Most of the emissions from vehicles come from shipping. Which is certainly capable of being nuclear run.