I suspect Dan just said this to please the suits who probably sign off on his funding, while having a giggle to himself. Using a "neutrino communication system" sounds a bit like buliding a house out of ice cream. It might be *just about* possible with huge expense and effort, but it is laughably ridiculous with the other options that are available.

This sort of epiphany evangelism is just fluff, and does not contribute anything at all. IDE's have been trying to do this sort of thing for the last 15 years, the attempt has brought us a few nice features (powerful inline debuggers, RAD tools, gui drag n drop, code generators), and also sometimes brought a few nightmares. Ultimately it has not removed the need for traditional coding, and there is no sign of it happening any time soon. The bottom line is that a system that removes coding will have to make assumptions about the nature of the problems it is trying to solve, the nature of the inputs and outputs. The ecosystem changes relatively rapidly in the programming world in the last 2 years for example there has been a massive shift to broweser/client side processing with jquery, around eight years earlier there was a shift from desktop to web. Anything that makes too many of these assumptions becomes quickly redundant. Traditional code has many advantages, it is very flexible, context independant, readily testable, easy to extend/supplement and keep stable.

First a large proportion of 'amateur' programmers are actually professionals during the day. Second, one of the best programmers I know works as a manual laborer in a fish farm. He tried the professional programmer route, but simply could not take the shit you have to put up with from incompetent managers. Thirdly I also know that the MAJORITY of professional programmers I know do not have the ability to 'make it' in most 'free' programmer ecosystems. There are a lot of stupid guys somehow survive in the corporate environment, largely because their managers value bullshitters more than talent.

You see posts like this quite a lot. "I have this idea for a game, now i just need someone to help me write it" This is getting things backwards. Concepts are cheap, execution is everything. You are a programmer, bite the bullet and get your hands dirty. In the 'programming for fun' market noone wants to write *your* game because they are busy writing *their* game. You will only attract external talent if you already have something concrete and valuable that they will want to be a part of. First thing is to pick a platform (sounds like you fancy it as a web app, so html5 or flash), then all you have to do is take it one step at a time, 'how do i get it to draw something' , then 'how can i get it to move', learning the tools and techniques as you go, and then keep going, refactoring as you find better ways of doing things.

From reading the article, it sound like it is because LSD allows people see themselves in a different light. It sort of makes you question whether this stuff should be illegal at all, if they are right, and this is *why* it works, then it seems likely that LSD could be useful to people in all sorts of situations.

I just watched a tv program on a guy who was in charge of an annual exhibition (a home design/decor thing). He said "We had to make the displays better every year, so people will keep coming. This just wasn't possible, so we just make it *different* every year, and hope that people would think its better." I think the same applies to microsoft windows. They just move stuff around and hope people will confuse 'different' with 'improvement'. Really it just means people waste time and effort hunting for the new hiding place of the stuff they need to use.

What is the slashdot rage against body scanners all about anyway? Are you all a bunch of attractive young ladies who constantly have to worry about security guard perverts? When I was young i used to get body searched just going into shops in town (which was normal at the time where i lived), so i really dont see what the fuss is about.

This is all true... but... the previous poster is complaining about the lack of a live cd, and i agree with them. I built my LFS system from their live cd (a few years ago now), and i suspect a lot of folk would like to approach it this way. If you are starting with bare metal, a convenient livecd is exactly what you need.

I met the guy. I wasn't impressed. He gave sort of a general talk on his historic work (atom bombs etc). When a physics undergraduate asked him if he had the choice would he have chosen to become famous for something other than helping to create such terrible weapons, Teller took the (well meant) question very personally, and more or less shouted him down. Right or wrong, I didn't like his apparent absolute certainty that the work on the atomic bomb he did was for all the best. Later in the evening he gave a lecture on his ideas in superconductivity, but after a few questions from folk, it appeared that he did not have the maths/theoretical physics to actually put his fuzzy idea into anything that might be usefull. My impression was that this was a mediocre physicist who only got an audience due to his controversial fame.

According this this logic my fridge is also greater than 100% efficient, and breaks the 1st law of thermodynamics. Turned on again after a defrost, it generates more heat than the electical energy it consumes from the socket. (If you ignore the cooling inside the freezer)