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Slime Mold Could Lead To Better Tech
FiReaNGeL writes to tell us that recent observation of slime mold could eventually lead the way to improved tech like better computer and communications networks. "This revelation comes after a team of Japanese and British researchers observed that the slime mold connected itself to scattered food sources in a design that was nearly identical to Tokyo's rail system. Atsushi Tero from Hokkaido University in Japan, along with colleagues elsewhere in Japan and the United Kingdom, placed oat flakes on a wet surface in locations that corresponded to the cities surrounding Tokyo, and allowed the Physarum polycephalum mold to grow outwards from the center. They watched the slime mold self-organize, spread out, and form a network that was comparable in efficiency, reliability, and cost to the real-world infrastructure of Tokyo's train network."
Since mold and slime are already there...
Who cares? If you were really hardcore, you'd be using GNU/Turd. You aren't because open source sucks.
It's illegal, too. The Linux kernel violates 42 Microsoft patents, while its user interface and other design elements infringe on a further 65. OpenOffice.org infringes on 45, along with 83 more in other free and open-source programs. This clearly stands as proof that Richard Marx Stallman and all his free software hippie friends are terrorists whose mere existence is a threat to all of our freedoms.
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"Japanese and British researchers"?
Why not Haitian researchers?
Or Liberian researchers?
Or any other country in Africa?
I think we all know...