What's being done is starting with a chess game, throwing out most of the information (the positions of non-moving pieces, which piece is moving, and one of the two dimensions of movement), converting (deterministically) what little is left into a sequence of notes, deciding (creatively/non-deterministically) what rhythm to put them in, and deciding (creatively/non-deterministically) how to harmonize them. It's only a mapping between maybe 10% of the game and maybe 20% of the music.

It's a mildly interesting way to "seed" the creative process, but it's neither an impressive intellectual accomplishment (from a musical or mathematical perspective) nor a testament to hidden order in the universe. Most people seem to be misinterpreting it as one (or paradoxically both) of those.

In what way is a large, powerful institution that can control the flow of information NOT a government? In what way is showing preference for certain packets over others NOT regulation?

Anarchism is feudalism. There is no such thing as total deregulation--the choice is about who gets to regulate and how much say you and I get in it.

I'm not on your lawn! While I freely admit to being an uninvited guest on this lawn, it is clearly in a primes-only neighborhood.

That's right, I'm a prime-supremacist. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got a neo-Platonist rally to go to.

It was intentionally a reference not a quote. See how my paraphrase matches the structure of the two sentences preceding it?

_____ makes _____ x 3

Humor is about context!

I never leave New Hampshire if I can avoid it

Do you have to make sure your bed is oriented north-south to accomplish that?

Less than a month ago. http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/03/16/1931214/Users-Rejecting-Security-Advice-Considered-Rational

Kudos to the /. editors for cutting way down on the number of dupes and summary-contradicts-article stories over the past couple of years, but they're certainly not eradicated. Maybe dupe-checking should be part of slashcode--an automatic search for links and link titles that the editor (or submitter?) has to at least scroll past to post.