Geek Week in Review

As far as I know, the virgins available to Jihadists in the afterlife are hundred-year-old nuns.

I have it on good authority that those virgins the jihadists receive are macabre creatures from hell that breathe eternal fire and brimstone and that they remained virgins for a good reason, being reserved for the likes of the jihadists and their ilk. The jihadist's god is waiting impatiently for them to blow themselves out of this life so they can receive their reward directly from him in the next life. I hope they get overanxious to hasten their reward quicker rather than sooner. Good riddance! Those jihadists have chosen to divorce themselves from the human race and thus have no place on this planet with the rest of us. They will find the next life much more to their liking, being able to worship their god in person. I will glory in their success when they do that.

According to Stephen Colbert, the virgins waiting in heaven for jihadists all look like Steve Carell's 40-Year-Old Virgin.
http://imdb.com/gallery/ss/0405422/Ss/0405422/20R.jpg

No guys, they're not virgins, they're Virginians...

Never heard that joke?

Boy that whole jihad thing is fodder for chatter, isn't it?

It's fascinating history with judaism, christianity and islam circling the Mediterranean and rattling their swords.

The techniques of assassins, their development as weapons, the babes and honey rewards, the drug induced stupidity... WOW! It's better than anything on TV.

But the real story here is the Captcha event.

Ignoring the fact that Captcha is missing 3 T's,
the idea that a Turing test could be developed that allowed machines to use humans is just mind boggling.

It was little more than New Millenia Science Fiction until this story broke. From here the possibilities are endless. Just wait til those millions of hackers honing their skills in China right now, figure out how to connect game players to run GI equipment. They could take over countries and never even realize the war was real.

I watched one of my sons a few years ago master some video game that had multiple level coordinations and equipment engaged in complex sequences and I swear that could have easily been training for single handedly running an entire plant, with no awareness of the actual product.

oooooohhhhhh...

Hey tcapun,
That's Ender's Game.

tcapun, sounds like you've been watching your Alias DVDs...those of you that followed the show before ABC dropped everything else to focus their attention on Lost, will remember that was how Jennifer Garner's character was trained by her parents

or you've been reading about grandpa training Sophie to watch after the holy grail in the davinci code

or you've been watching old Matthew Broderick movies, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/

I:
I saw the entire ALIAS series, one week at a time, and loved every bit of it, subplots, drama and costumes. I enjoyed the justice of Sloane's immortal burial and the foreshadowing of Sydney's child assembling the 3D puzzle in the concluding episode. There's even a fantastic movie plot potential for a Rambaldi backstory.

I know about thousands of years of church arbitraries and control plots, as religion has always been the best hiding place for evil.

I thought War Games was one of the great movies of the 80's (modem tone searching is the predecessor to todays pinging and I loved the ominous hum of the WOPR).