Sure it does. "This is the address bar. This part is the hostname. 'http' means you're in danger, 'https' means there's a bit less danger, a green bar with the name of the company you're trying to do business with means there's even less." "Don't open unexpected email attachments, no matter how much free porn they promise." "If the lights on your modem are always on even when you're not using the computer, get the computer looked at by a professional."

This is the idea. Not so much computer "driver's license", as computer "driver's ed."

Also, if the protesters have to rely on Twitter uptime ... They're pretty much screwed.

Does Twitter need to introduce the "Fail Camel" to not alienate the Iranian population?

Just to clarify, Iran is a mountainous and largely forested country inhabited neither by Arabs nor Arabic speakers.

Over what time? In total?
Because I'd have no problem, paying $2 a year for YouTube. Even more, if most of it goes straight to the creators of the videos I'm watching, and the videos are in the uploaded quality (up to full-HD). Kutiman alone would be worth that.

I'm all for micro-payment. Sounds fair to me. And they would make good money off of it, while supporting artist directly. (As long as they do not do it like the old media industry, and take 96.5% for themselves, and then still expect the artists to pay for the studio and everything... off of that money.)

I believe they are "captured." Except for pawns. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to "redeem" one of the pieces with a pawn.

Just FYI, the piece you place does not have to have been previously captured. This is the reason a lot of sets of pieces come with two Queens.
How this affects the analogy, I have no idea...

... these are the same people who believe that a computer can "think" about chess, instead of just searching through N number of plies in T time, then offering the best solution it has found in those constraints...

Who says that this is insufficient for "thinking"?

I think understanding the Chinese room paradox as having provided a solution to this question is a misinterpretation. The best thing to take away is that "thinking" is not well defined.

..., and a 3-D version of Microsoft Surface.

Microsoft Volume?

That'll make such a great party trick.

The real trick will be getting the host to let you into the party with a corpse slung over your shoulder.