Would it be correct to call Marion Barry, former mayor of Washington, a cracktivist?

Sounds like they got back-traced. Consequences will never be the same.

Most slashdotters would be running ad blocking software anyway. I know I am. I'd also never buy something based on seeing it in a banner ad.

On the other hand, I'd actually think about buying iRacer, watching Top Gear, or buying the magazine after reading this interesting article. That's how the web is meant to be used.

"Hah! Attempted murder? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they?"

If you read the link in the article, you'll see that Eyebeam is more like an art project than a security research project.

If pressed, many logicians will admit that the modern foundation of mathematics (ZFC) is probably inconsistent.
See this article:
http://www.math.princeton.edu/~nelson/papers/warn.pdf

The author discusses an informal survey he took among loogicians on page three.

If someone ever discovers a paradox, we can simply scale back to some other system and keep most of what we know, but still...

Sorry for replying to my own post, but I guess I meant any non-supercomputer. Apparently they've managed to get clusters to play at amateur Dan level over the last couple of years.

For the record, the go ranking system works out as

30 Kyu ... 1 kyu 1 dan amateur ... 5 dan amateur european ... 9 dan amateur european

5 dan amateur european is about equal to 1 dan professional, due to inconsistencies in rankings between countries.

That's only on a 9x9 board. A competent low Kyu or Dan player could crush any computer on a 19x19 board.

For people who don't play go: the difference between 9x9 and 19x19 is a bit like the difference between ping-pong and tennis.

Hell, give them another TWO dimensions. That way, you'll be going to work and suddenly someone will rear-end you from above the previous Thursday. You can continue on your merry way because the whole mess will already have been taken care of.

That's what my dad used to say.

Until the accident.

Yes, the penny dropped when I looked up Steven Rado as mentioned in the summary.

Here's his website. It's one step away from timecube.
http://www.aethro-kinematics.com/

He seems to be supporting the idea of the luminiferous aether, a concept which physics abandoned over 100 years ago.

I wish it weren't so, but when you involve most people's kids in a story, all critical or rational thought goes out the window. That's just the way things are.

Let's go with
4+3+2 = (inf{n: two nilpotent endomorphisms from C^n with the same minimal polynomial and the same rank are not always similar}) + 2

To paraphrase one of Dave Foster Wallace's characters, that's freedom from, not freedom to.

Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.