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The article claims that they recorded the brain patterns of jugglers imagining the act of juggling, and then had a non-juggler imagine doing the same thing and rewarded them if they matched those brain patterns, thereby teaching them how to juggle.

That's absurd on its face. But then the article tucks away the fact that what the study really only dealt with visual imagery. It used fMRI, which has been around for years and "decodes" the visual process of the brain. So what this study is really about is figuring out visual perceptual learning, not a physical skill like juggling. Using fMRI, they can "improve performance on visual tasks".

It says right in the article that they have yet to test if this process works with any other type of learning. It's more likely that it may have uses in rehabilitation and memory learning, or at least provide insight into those processes. There's no Matrix learning here.

We have a lot bigger things to worry about. I doubt there is much of an issue with America being too afraid of going into pointless wars. $.40 of every $1 going to the government goes towards our military right now. Think about that when you pay taxes and buy "cheap" gasoline. http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesVie w/sid/22108/

As a former soldier, I see the need for a strong defense. You don't have to look very far beyond Rwanda or Darfur to see what can happen when good people either can't or won't act. That said, I don't see how you can be good and not act in such a situation. Still, someone has to maintain the might to fight off bullies and thugs. Having met and talked with those who felt the wrath of Saddam (and seen the stubs and scars), I have a unique perspective on tyranny and mid-eastern politics. I've also seen first hand how the media distorts or ignores the news, sometimes for the better, but most of the time, not.

Troops at home does = peace. Apparently, I missed the history lesson where Persia (Iraq) EVER, attacked America.

Persia is Iran. I don't know if Persia included modern day Iraq or not. (OK I looked it up and at its height, the Persian empire did encompass all of Iraq)
And yes, Iraq did attack America. They attacked US warplanes enforcing UN mandates and attempted to assassinate a former US president. However, none of that matters to me as much as what he did to his own people. UNICEF reports that over half a million children under the age of five died due to preventable diseases. Over half a million!!! I don't consider the life of an American any more or less important than that of someone who happened to be born somewhere else in the world, especially when they are as innocent as 5-year-old. Of course, that half a million number was just the Iraqis under 5. It does not take into account the adults or children as young as six. So THAT's why I support the war in Iraq. Not to, IMHO is either racist, elitist or just plain ignorant... again, IMHO.
Also troops at home!=peace when the war is at home.

Doesn't sound too bad a starting point. Most wars I know about have been wrong. There have been only two that made some sense; the Revolutionary War (getting rid of kings) and perhaps WW II. And I'm starting to suspect WW II because we seem to have many of the financial backers of that war's decendents, running things here in the US.
Most wars start with noble intentions but get corrupted along the way. However, any level of corruption would be worth overthrowing Nazi Germany and Japan. The US got hood-winked into WWI. As far as more local history, the War for Texas Independence was just :-)

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on this stuff.

Wow! Where are your kids going to school?!!? I'm in Texas and the teachers are teaching that war is ALWAYS wrong and that the kids should be praying... I mean hoping (can't pray unless you are a Muslim)... hoping that the evil war ends by bringing our troops home, I guess because troops at home=peace.

Doesn't sound too bad a starting point. Most wars I know about have been wrong. There have been only two that made some sense; the Revolutionary War (getting rid of kings) and perhaps WW II. And I'm starting to suspect WW II because we seem to have many of the financial backers of that war's decendents, running things here in the US.

Troops at home does = peace. Apparently, I missed the history lesson where Persia (Iraq) EVER, attacked America.

We have a lot bigger things to worry about. I doubt there is much of an issue with America being too afraid of going into pointless wars. $.40 of every $1 going to the government goes towards our military right now. Think about that when you pay taxes and buy "cheap" gasoline. http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesVie w/sid/22108/

Wal-Mart was found out to be exploiting the US taxpayer by not providing adequate health benefits to its employees. How did they do this? They simply printed out instructions (in Spanish and English) to direct their employees to the nearest free clinic in the area.

Illegal? Maybe. Unethical?

Now that you know how they dodge their health costs, you can enjoy an article about the richest Americans. Five of the Richest Americans are Wal-Mart's owners and relatives of owners.
Maybe we should ask the Waltons how they feel about exploiting US Taxpayers?
Blogs that just repeat Wal-Mart PR, are not blogs, they are PR for Wal-Mart. This is done order to help continue their ways of exploiting their workers and the system.

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Google Cache Does Not Infringe on Copyright

http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesVie w/sid/12594

(26 Jan) The federal district court in Nevada ruled that Google does not violate copyright law when it caches (creates a copy of) Web pages. An attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) opined that the ruling should help Google in its dispute with publishers over the book scanning project.

SEE: Ruling in Blake v. Google
EFF (copy of court filing), 19 January 2006
http://www.eff.org/IP/blake_v_google/google_nevada _order.pdf

Dude, you a clearly mistaken. I don't know what you've been smoking today, but the Bluetooth SIG that everybody else knows about has its headquarters in Kansas. And that's why alot of Bluetooth research is done at the University of Kansas and KSU (like their EECE 690 and 890) classes.

Well the oldest dated link is from February. That's still new (by /. standards). Although this link seems to be dated 1999, still only 5 years. That's still new... right?...

What will they think of next?