Alpha/beta/gamma waves aren't exciting at all, you can get those out of a very simple model of nonlinear D.E.s.

I'd be more interested in:
  - whether they can simulate it in real time
  - what sort of inputs and outputs it takes

Of course the biggest question is how much scope there is for it to evolve, because nothing really interesting is going to happen until we let (short-term) evolution take care of most of the designing.

Cue the overlords jokes.

My Australian university (I'm a grad student in the physics department) is ridiculously anal about safety. There are regular audits and weekly safety meetings.

It's all got something to do with much lower WorkCover insurance premiums for certified institutions.

It's quite a common analysis. I know it's one of the most basic tricks used by the Australian Tax Office to detect fraud (they don't mind talking about it because they've got lots of other tricks too.)

And how does this stop a man-in-the-middle attack?

I don't believe you. I can name more than that off the top of my head.

Mapdata Sciences

Navteq

Digital Globe

USGS

They may not all have complete sets of road data, but I'm sure there are more than two.

I happily play Starcraft and TA Spring on ubuntu. I kept windows around just for games and haven't used it for months.

I get more work done in Linux.

If so many people are doing it, would it make more sense for it to be legal?

I fail to understand why this matters. As long as they're working somewhere, that's good, right? They might even help the people they're working with in countries other than America.

Why does it have to be a competition?

Wikipedia (and my little IT Consulting company) uses OTRS for this sort of thing.

I resent the implication that we share a point of view.

1054 AD in your time or mine?

Actually, it's only inverse square. If there is no appreciable absorbtion in the medium, the power spreads out over the surface of an expanding sphere.

I agree with your other comments.

Didn't think to use the handbrake?

Although the Spanish _love_ their king for turning them from a dictatorship into a constitutional monarchy in the 70s.

It's

So many scientists use the word "codes" when they mean "program(s)".

Why is this?

Let's block Russia!