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It's not that hard to make the GA construct a program that always compiles; you just have to use a functional approach. Construct a program as a tree of functions. A function takes a certain number of parameters and gives an output (and ignores excess parameters). If you want modularization, you could have an alias operator, where if a function has an alias root, it's not called, and the main tree substitutes that function whenever it sees an alias reference operator among its nodes.

For more information, see the chromosome representation section of the Wikipedia article on genetic programming, here. If you know Standard ML, ADATE may also be of interest.

Which is why the good people at NRK went to great lengths to explain how BitTorrent works, why it isn't illegal and how you can use it. But in this particular case we are still talking about a sandbox experiment. (Notice the name, NRK Beta.) If NRK were to base a major distribution channel on BitTorrent, you can be sure they would package it in some user friendly way. At any rate they still have traditional web TV in lower quality. (Though they have another experiment running in cooperation with a engineering school where techie people connected to the national educational network grid UNINETT can get all their channels streamed in full DVB-T quality, not likely to make to the mainstream anytime soon. http://media.hiof.no/english/) At any rate, I appreciate what they're doing with my television license money.

You are a typical example of a Westerner who is oblivious to past and current US foreign policy in the mid-east and are therefore amazed of why resentment towards the US exists.

Does middle-eastern radicalism exist because they 'hate freedom' or because of events such as these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qana
http://almashriq.hiof.no/lebanon/300/350/355/april -war/qana/ (WARNING, THESE IMAGES ARE GRAPHIC)

Does Iran hate the US because they hate freedom, or is it because we overthrew a democratically elected government and replaced it with a brutal dictatorship that was willing to give us cheap oil in return?

You decide: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax

For moment, imagine Russia overthrew our current government and replaced it with a dictatorship that stayed in power through an SS-like Russian trained secret police which tortured and murdered dissidents - at the same time this dictatorship sold our resources to Russia for next to nothing. Would you like Russia?

I'm not saying terrorists are right but don't pretend as if resentment exists for no reason at all.

We had a whole industry based on this in Norway a while ago, until Ford pulled the plug on it. Thanks for stifling our innovation!

Think
and Think again

Then get a DAB radio, here in Norway there's at least four (or five) stations (and we're 4.5m people in a quite large area) broadcasting on DAB. Not sure about the general coverage, thou. The quality is dependent on the station, but is mainly 128kbps or 160kbps IIRC.

WorldDAB for more information about DAB. Another option would of course be to just get music from online broadcasting services, the norwegian public radio broadcasts are available for free on the net (http://radio.hiof.no/) f.ex.

Automated algorithm design

This is the furst guy to do something like this with IPv6.

Uhm, have I been trolled, but the author *is* the one from adate? Check the same site as the note

So I guess the answer is yes.

I have been thinking about doing something like this for years.
But I never seems to have time.
But if someone started a open source project I would like to get
involved.

I can do the GA algorithms, so we need someone to do the network code
and someone to put together the web site.

By the way take a look at this.

On the 17. of July Roland Olsson posted to comp.ai a message saying he had made a program
using ADATE
The program searches after a SAT solver.
The satisfiability problem (SAT) is one of the fundamental problems
in theoretic computer science.
If we had a fast algorithm to solve this problem, we could solve a big
class of very interesting problems.
Example factoring of big integers and solving the travling salesman problem.

Your can find more problems with instances
here, if your are interested.

So if your computer got some spare time, give it a try.