that's what I did, 2 year lease and 7500miles/year. Really cheap and in 2 years I'll lease a much better model

The OP is wrong on this, the guy is a JOURNALIST not a scientist. (He may have a science degree but he acts as a journalist).

If a scientist had done this they would be losing their job any minute. Any of the following would be enough to disgrace a practicing scientist (I am one):

1- carrying out research on human subjects without approval of the study by an independent review board
2- asking people to undergo a study that he knew before hand that was not beneficial to the subjects, in fact could likely be the opposite (this would mean he'd never get approval of the study)
3- lying to people about his affiliation and credentials in the paper

There are a lot of other problems with this "study", but it surely was not done by a scientist.

What it does reveal is that people cannot rely on popular press stories about science as journalist pay no attention to the important details of publications and fall for any hype. Unlike what the guy says, journalist can never be "peer" reviewers of any science... their role is different and yet they are not doing it properly.

Sure it is, but judges still need to be convinced

If you follow the link on the summary you find an article with title "Artificial Intelligence, Powered by Many Humans"

Good try, but even if this passes the Turing test, it is not AI in any way. Responses are by humans and there is no intelligence in it. So it will be the collective human engine behind it that will pass the test. Not really any big achievement.

hopefully they polished this one well enough...

No, in other words buy an AMD rather than an Intel

Are you sure?
I've downloaded both the static and dynamic versions and they are only 32-bit... where did you find information about a 64-bit version?

Great!

Weird times, though: this puts me in a position of wanting to thank Microsoft...

The most important question is whether they made a native 64 bit version? [for those of us who don't want to pollute our machines with 32-bit compatibility libraries]

anyone trusting the cloud to keep their property safe deserves losing it...

My entire mail store is over 16 Gb. I have single mbox files that are larger than 2 Gb.

This is one of the best things about OSS. Anyone can fork and when there is a strong need, the fork will happen.

I'm spoilt for choice

I pitty the slaves of a their Master's view of computing (yes, fanboys, I mean you)

I couldn't care less about "just works". Half of the fun of running Linux laptops is the challenge to set them up to do all those things you want.

The other half is to see the Apple funboys fiddling with their Macbooks to make projectors display their stuff (that is when they find someone who actually has the right widget to plug it in).

ROFL

> Oh, and keeping your phone in your pocket also circumvents it.

but gives you cancer...