Dec2103 Cut and Paste from internet (I didn't record where): Sleep deprivation has long been established as a helpful tool for the treatment of patients suffering from depression. However, how and why it works are still unknown. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies have indicated that large-scale brain network connectivity, especially in the so-called default mode network, seems to be changed in depression. Bosch et al. investigated whether sleep deprivation could influence this brain connectivity. They discovered that sleep deprivation decreased functional connectivity between a brain area called the posterior cingulate cortex and the bilateral anterior cingulate cortex. In contrast, connectivity between the dorsal nexus, a region that plays a crucial role in the pathophysiology of depression, and two areas within the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex was increased. These sleep deprivation–induced changes in resting-state connectivity indicate a shift in dominance from a more affective to a more cognitive network. This shift toward improved cognitive control should be particularly beneficial in depressed patients who suffer from rumination, negative anticipation, and excessive feelings of guilt and shame.
1. Howard K Bloom, The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into The Forces of History. Says "evil" doesn't exist. Shows the biological basis of "evil" and how societies work.
2. Flowers for Algernon 1966 novel by Daniel Keyes. (was banned for a while by morons. I learnt about it on slashdot)
3. The Inheritors by William Golding (author of Lord of the Flies) is an imaginative reconstruction of the life of a band of Neanderthals as they meet Homo sapiens
4. Bone People, by Keri Hulme
5. Eric Hobsbawm - Labouring Men, – brilliant series of little essays on topics of English working class history
6. Moby Dick by Herman Melville is vastly underrated. Melville is brilliant. His imitations of Shakepearean language are outstanding
can someone please parse the English for me (first line of TFA): "Open-source developers this week achieved a pleasant late Christmas present for Fedora users of having a working system with using the in-development Linux kernel DBus implementation (KDBUS) paired with the latest systemd code can now yield a booting system."
As a naive user, I'd be wary if they can't even write in English.
No. Your comment is illogical. Some people will ALWAYS seek to be richer than others, to control them, to kill them. They're called sociopaths and even Norway has them and so does Slashdot. It's in the genes of some people. It's just that Norway and other Scandinavian countries deal with "criminality" a huge lot better than English speaking countries.
I've got lots of moderator points to use on SlashdoG, but why bother? EVERY time I visit/dog, even with my comments score set to 5, I get so much crap and repetition, repetition rep rep repitition that I wonder why I bother. Check my logs/dog. I'm spending less time on the site because it's not worth the time trawling through crap. Giving me Mod Points is not going to solve that. Surely we can devise a better system???
I have to agree about the health profession. And here's an example that may be useful for geeks. For years I suffered from painful hips. At the age of 35 I thought I had early onset arthritis. Two different doctors about two years apart said no, but didn't know what it was. The pain got so bad after four years that I went to another doctor who asked me questions about my lifestyle. He established that I sat in front of a computer too long and then asked me to touch my toes. I couldn't. He said the problem was my hamstrings had shrunk so badly that they were crunching my leg bones up into my hip sockets. Answer simple stretches. Instant relief. Now I do my !@%$! stretches.
My understanding at the time was that the annoyed sting ray had the ability to sense where the heart was and aimed accordingly. I'd be happy to be proved wrong.
1989 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CfA2_Great_Wall The Great Wall (also called Coma Wall), sometimes specifically referred to as the CfA2 Great Wall, is one of the largest known superstructures in the Universe, (the largest being the Huge-LQG). It is a filament of galaxies approximately 200 million light-years away and has dimensions which measure over 500 million light-years long, 300 million light-years wide and 16 million light-years thick, and includes the Hercules Supercluster, the Coma Supercluster and the Leo Cluster.[1] It was discovered in 1989 by Margaret Geller and John Huchra based on redshift survey data from the CfA Redshift Survey.
for us all. Better deal would say, by all means copy, BUT you must make it fully available. I'm going through awful problems right now trying to get a copy of a 1776 book which was microfilmed ages ago, then digitised more recently. I don't mind people who did both processes getting a fair return but we need to decide what a fair return is. Super profits for people like the infamous convicted modern Enlgish airport fiction writer just don't cut it.
because it imagines USA has democracy to begin with. You can define anything you want to be democracy, but it's best defined as Proportional Representation. Most people in the USA don't even know what that is. Plato : The penalty for not being involved in politics is to be ruled by your inferiors.
yep. lots of theory about leds but many are a disaster when it comes to quality control (including some expensive ones I put in our house). Let's hope they can do better than the pro-business New Zealand government leaving it all to the market. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11131680
Why I resigned from my stupid cycling organisation. http://kmccready.wordpress.com/2013/03/01/cycling-deaths-i-resign-from-cycling-action-network-can/ Short version: 1. dooring (a cyclist riding into a car door as it’s being opened because the cyclist is too close). Dumb cyclists should NEVER ride in the door death zone. Attempts to blame car doors (kids in back seat? drivers who haven't been born with x-ray vision to see through door frames?) are dumb 2. attacking coroner's report which said wear bright clothing. (how dumb is that?) 3. No helmet stupidity - any protection is better than none, even if you accept the dumb arguments presented.
Susan Blackmore at skeptics 2005 conference orchestrated an audience participation activity that replicated Libet’s experiments demonstrating that motor action potentials appear before a decision to move is made. That is, free will is an illusion. “It would be very singular that all nature and all the stars should obey eternal laws, and that there should be one animal five feet tall which, despite these laws, could act as suited his caprice.” Voltaire And here's some more links: Sam Harris - a little verbose but worth reading http://www.samharris.org/free-will http://io9.com/5844679/scientists-attempt-to-prove-that-free-will-is-an-illusion
Can someone please post a couple of links to show what the software looks like on a site. I have no idea what the typical layout and default look and feel is like.
You don't drive through red traffic lights. You don't spread your stupid diseases to innocent Children who for GOOD reasons can't be vaccinated. And you don't waste my taxes trying to treat your sick kids because you're too stupid to understand some basic science.
1. Mediapart - French website with both French news and world news
http://www.mediapart.fr/en/english
Edwy Plenel heads it and is a great bloke.
Mediapart has now attracted paying subscribers and is making a profit. Mediapart broke the story of President Francois Hollande's budget minister evading taxes when he was supposed to be cracking down on tax cheats. After vehemently denying the allegations, in the face of overwhelming evidence, Jerome Cahuzac was forced to resign. Mediapart also did the Bettencourt Scandal which embroiled Sarkozy.
2. Crikey.com.au
The first successful online pay newsite in Australia.
By my reckoning there were two, maximum three comments that should have been modded 5 in this discussion. Can't we have a system that ranks these up and saves me reading dross? I also have a strong feeling in this case that most readers and moderators would agree on the two or three that should be at the top.
Slashdot Mirror
Dec2103 Cut and Paste from internet (I didn't record where): Sleep deprivation has long been established as a helpful tool for the treatment of patients suffering from depression. However, how and why it works are still unknown. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies have indicated that large-scale brain network connectivity, especially in the so-called default mode network, seems to be changed in depression. Bosch et al. investigated whether sleep deprivation could influence this brain connectivity. They discovered that sleep deprivation decreased functional connectivity between a brain area called the posterior cingulate cortex and the bilateral anterior cingulate cortex. In contrast, connectivity between the dorsal nexus, a region that plays a crucial role in the pathophysiology of depression, and two areas within the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex was increased. These sleep deprivation–induced changes in resting-state connectivity indicate a shift in dominance from a more affective to a more cognitive network. This shift toward improved cognitive control should be particularly beneficial in depressed patients who suffer from rumination, negative anticipation, and excessive feelings of guilt and shame.
1. Howard K Bloom, The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into The Forces of History. Says "evil" doesn't exist. Shows the biological basis of "evil" and how societies work.
2. Flowers for Algernon 1966 novel by Daniel Keyes. (was banned for a while by morons. I learnt about it on slashdot)
3. The Inheritors by William Golding (author of Lord of the Flies) is an imaginative reconstruction of the life of a band of Neanderthals as they meet Homo sapiens
4. Bone People, by Keri Hulme
5. Eric Hobsbawm - Labouring Men, – brilliant series of little essays on topics of English working class history
6. Moby Dick by Herman Melville is vastly underrated. Melville is brilliant. His imitations of Shakepearean language are outstanding
7. Middlemarch by George Eliot
8. Rohinton Mistry, Fine Balance (1995)
9. The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal.
can someone please parse the English for me (first line of TFA): "Open-source developers this week achieved a pleasant late Christmas present for Fedora users of having a working system with using the in-development Linux kernel DBus implementation (KDBUS) paired with the latest systemd code can now yield a booting system."
As a naive user, I'd be wary if they can't even write in English.
random is a silly concept too. It often means we don't know the reasons, so we call it random.
evil is a silly construct. Read: Howard K Bloom, The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into The Forces of History
No. Your comment is illogical. Some people will ALWAYS seek to be richer than others, to control them, to kill them. They're called sociopaths and even Norway has them and so does Slashdot. It's in the genes of some people. It's just that Norway and other Scandinavian countries deal with "criminality" a huge lot better than English speaking countries.
A program is an alogrithm or group of algorithms.
So surely we're talking about "correctness" of algorithms?
Isn't the best textboom on this by Dr Jeffrey Kingston, Algorithms and Data Structures: Design, Correctness, Analysis ??
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2682170-algorithms-and-data-structures
Have to agree with the above comments, but hey, slashdot is not what it used to be (they let me on for example).
I have to declare a possible conflcit of interest too; I know Kingston.
cartoon of ELSEVIER SHOOTING ITSELF IN THE FACE wearing King Caunute clothing.
http://kmccready.wordpress.com/2013/12/06/elsevier-shoots-itself-in-the-face-again/
I've got lots of moderator points to use on SlashdoG, but why bother? /dog, even with my comments score set to 5, I get so much crap and repetition, repetition rep rep repitition that I wonder why I bother. Check my logs /dog. I'm spending less time on the site because it's not worth the time trawling through crap. Giving me Mod Points is not going to solve that. Surely we can devise a better system???
EVERY time I visit
I have to agree about the health profession. And here's an example that may be useful for geeks. For years I suffered from painful hips. At the age of 35 I thought I had early onset arthritis. Two different doctors about two years apart said no, but didn't know what it was. The pain got so bad after four years that I went to another doctor who asked me questions about my lifestyle. He established that I sat in front of a computer too long and then asked me to touch my toes. I couldn't. He said the problem was my hamstrings had shrunk so badly that they were crunching my leg bones up into my hip sockets. Answer simple stretches. Instant relief. Now I do my !@%$! stretches.
My understanding at the time was that the annoyed sting ray had the ability to sense where the heart was and aimed accordingly. I'd be happy to be proved wrong.
1989
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CfA2_Great_Wall
The Great Wall (also called Coma Wall), sometimes specifically referred to as the CfA2 Great Wall, is one of the largest known superstructures in the Universe, (the largest being the Huge-LQG). It is a filament of galaxies approximately 200 million light-years away and has dimensions which measure over 500 million light-years long, 300 million light-years wide and 16 million light-years thick, and includes the Hercules Supercluster, the Coma Supercluster and the Leo Cluster.[1]
It was discovered in 1989 by Margaret Geller and John Huchra based on redshift survey data from the CfA Redshift Survey.
for us all. Better deal would say, by all means copy, BUT you must make it fully available. I'm going through awful problems right now trying to get a copy of a 1776 book which was microfilmed ages ago, then digitised more recently. I don't mind people who did both processes getting a fair return but we need to decide what a fair return is. Super profits for people like the infamous convicted modern Enlgish airport fiction writer just don't cut it.
because it imagines USA has democracy to begin with. You can define anything you want to be democracy, but it's best defined as Proportional Representation. Most people in the USA don't even know what that is. Plato : The penalty for not being involved in politics is to be ruled by your inferiors.
yep. lots of theory about leds but many are a disaster when it comes to quality control (including some expensive ones I put in our house). Let's hope they can do better than the pro-business New Zealand government leaving it all to the market.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11131680
Why I resigned from my stupid cycling organisation.
http://kmccready.wordpress.com/2013/03/01/cycling-deaths-i-resign-from-cycling-action-network-can/
Short version:
1. dooring (a cyclist riding into a car door as it’s being opened because the cyclist is too close). Dumb cyclists should NEVER ride in the door death zone. Attempts to blame car doors (kids in back seat? drivers who haven't been born with x-ray vision to see through door frames?) are dumb
2. attacking coroner's report which said wear bright clothing. (how dumb is that?)
3. No helmet stupidity - any protection is better than none, even if you accept the dumb arguments presented.
Susan Blackmore at skeptics 2005 conference orchestrated an audience participation activity that replicated Libet’s experiments demonstrating that motor action potentials appear before a decision to move is made. That is, free will is an illusion. “It would be very singular that all nature and all the stars should obey eternal laws, and that there should be one animal five feet tall which, despite these laws, could act as suited his caprice.” Voltaire
And here's some more links:
Sam Harris - a little verbose but worth reading
http://www.samharris.org/free-will
http://io9.com/5844679/scientists-attempt-to-prove-that-free-will-is-an-illusion
Can someone please post a couple of links to show what the software looks like on a site. I have no idea what the typical layout and default look and feel is like.
You don't drive through red traffic lights. You don't spread your stupid diseases to innocent Children who for GOOD reasons can't be vaccinated. And you don't waste my taxes trying to treat your sick kids because you're too stupid to understand some basic science.
win the award for website design. Jesus, is there a better link to actually view the pics and something sensible about the house?
Love your sigblock. Can you suggest a similar one from the Koran for me?
Get someone to try it on your own registrar and post us the results.
1. Mediapart - French website with both French news and world news http://www.mediapart.fr/en/english Edwy Plenel heads it and is a great bloke. Mediapart has now attracted paying subscribers and is making a profit. Mediapart broke the story of President Francois Hollande's budget minister evading taxes when he was supposed to be cracking down on tax cheats. After vehemently denying the allegations, in the face of overwhelming evidence, Jerome Cahuzac was forced to resign. Mediapart also did the Bettencourt Scandal which embroiled Sarkozy. 2. Crikey.com.au The first successful online pay newsite in Australia.
I'm reminded of Kelly F in this post http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/Qly1p2sE394 Shall we take the 10, one by one? 1. Please why can't I have "search within results"?
By my reckoning there were two, maximum three comments that should have been modded 5 in this discussion. Can't we have a system that ranks these up and saves me reading dross? I also have a strong feeling in this case that most readers and moderators would agree on the two or three that should be at the top.