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  1. Re:The Brain Uses the Cerebellum to Multitask on Multitasking Makes You Stupid and Slow · · Score: 1

    Your base instincts/reflexes in many martial arts situations will lead to problems. They have to be controlled by training 'new' stuff over it.

    Maybe there is also a lot of 'trained stuff' to remove in order to let the base work. Think of how (untrained) parents interfere with childrens' (natural) movements.

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  2. Re:The Brain Uses the Cerebellum to Multitask on Multitasking Makes You Stupid and Slow · · Score: 1

    chi, an explanation I have always hated

    Presumably you then also have to hate explanations revolving around 'dark energy' :)

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  3. Re:1 in 2000 people on The 1000 Genomes Project · · Score: 1

    one huge causality network ... you'll need to have a cascade of genes to get a particular outcome

    And if you, on top, follow the idea that physical conditions (starting at the molecular level, INGBER) are a major determinant of gene expression you might eventually come to your own conclusions regarding the value of simply linking 'the genome' to conditions of ill health.

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  4. Re:Why are systems like this hooked onto the inter on CIA Claims Cyber Attackers Blacked Out Cities · · Score: 1

    Actually I've just had a look at TFA, and it doesn't have any sort of details on what / where (not USA) / when (well vaguely - recently) / why (profit ???) / how these attacks occurred.

    Think psychological engineering – spread some information (valid or not is irrelevant) to raise level of consciousness among the sheeple. Start with those who, on average, are better informed. Wait for diffusion of information, then focus in on homeland security in order to justify this or that.

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  5. Advertisement for nothin ... on Lawyer Trademarks "Cyberlaw" · · Score: 1

    ... will not work with regard to the chicks, I suspect, though.

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  6. Re:Ah, but... on New Findings Confirm Darwin's Theory — Evolution Not Random · · Score: 2, Informative

    You offered a German proverb, I'll swap you an English one: you threw the baby out with the bathwater.

    Hmm.

    "When the proverb "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water" or its parallel proverbial expression "To throw the baby out with the bath water" appear today in Anglo-American oral communication or in books, magazines, newspapers, advertisements or cartoons, hardly anybody would surmise that this common metaphorical phrase is actually of German origin and of relatively recent use in the English language. It had its first written occurrence in Thomas Murner's (1475-1537) versified satirical book Narrenbeschwörung (1512) which contains as its eighty-first short chapter entitled "Das kindt mit dem bad vß schitten" (To throw the baby out with the bath water) a treatise on fools who by trying to rid themselves of a bad thing succeed in destroying whatever good there was as well. In seventy-six rhymed lines the proverbial phrase is repeated three times as a folkloric leitmotif, and there is also the first illustration of the expression as a woodcut depicting quite literally a woman who is pouring her baby out with the bath water.1 Murner also cites the phrase repeatedly in later works and this rather frequent use might be an indication that the proverbial expression was already in oral currency towards the end of the fifteenth century in Germany."
    http://www.deproverbio.com/DPjournal/DP,1,1,95/BABY.html

    Anyway, somehow I see it perfectly fits.

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  7. Re:Godwin's Law on Bobby Fischer Is Dead At 64 · · Score: 1

    Hitler was a quarter Jewish.
    br> Nope. see

    Werner Maser, Hitler: Legend, Myth & Reality
    http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler (German)
    http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois_Hitler (German)

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  8. Also of interest ... on Ray Tracing for Gaming Explored · · Score: 1

    There is a project 'The OpenRT Real-Time Ray-Tracing Project' (not so much open despite name, but noncommercial code available) out there, and presumably Blender should be there soon.

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  9. Re:monkey business on Monkey's Thoughts Make Robot Walk · · Score: 1

    Walking is a "controlled fall"

    Not necessarily; depends how much you lean forward and where you (thus) have your center of gravity.

    While I agree that the model is considered 'normal' within so called 'Western' societies, it is not the most efficient (IMHO).

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  10. Re:What consumers really want to know... on US FDA Deems Cloned Animals Edible · · Score: 2, Interesting

    GM food has been around for 13 years and nothing hugely alarming has come to light

    Yes – a few seconds after the engine of the oil-tankship stopped to work, nothing hugely alarming had come to light. Unfortunately, the vessel crashed into the pier after travelling for a few kilometers.

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  11. Re:Do I understand this right? on The Economics of Chips With Many Cores · · Score: 1

    If so, maybe this processor war we're fighting is ultimately not even worth winning.

    Probably more a sign of a new kind of software gap, IMHO due to still missing AI (not everyone is dealing with video/visual data), this again caused by an imbalance in investment in basic research which favours 'hard science' (with the assumption that there is much more to AI than 'logic', even if it is 'fuzzy').

    If there were 'intelligent' applications that could fix Joe Sixpack's everyday problems more autonomously – e.g., write this letter to ...! – you would even need more power than you have today.

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  12. Hardware DRM.... on The Economics of Chips With Many Cores · · Score: 5, Funny

    In related news, an initiative of car manufacturers spearheaded by Ford has introduced an enabling 'cylinder per need' model. Car performance is wirelessly monitored in real time to give the customer the option to add in additional power according to his needs if he has signed to a plan designed to optimally fit his profile (composed on his overall lifestyle information). This also creates a new exciting opportunity to reduce individual carbon tyreprints for the consumer.

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  13. A strange (but clever) 'saddle-bag keyboard' ... on 10 Strange Computer Keyboards · · Score: 1

    ... from a guy who fitted two keyboards to make A $14 "ergo" keyboard from surplus parts.

    Quote from his site (including pictures of the process): "Part of my symptoms were pains in my elbows from being constantly bent, and pains in my wrists from being held rotated, in the plane of the keyboard. I wanted a keyboard which allowed my wrists and arms to be in their relaxed positions, i.e. at my sides. What I imagined was, basically, a saddle-bag keyboard."

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  14. Re:Cue the OLPC griefers on OLPC To Be Distributed To US Students · · Score: 1

    isn't being used in anyway that it keeps being promoted as being

    What would you expect?

    "During the interview in May, Negroponte said he had known Murdoch since 1986 and had since worked with him on several projects.
    "More recently I have come to know (his wife) Wendi and consider Rupert to be one of OLPC's chief strategists," Negroponte said.
    "I ask his advice all the time. He asks mine on matters related to computers and communications. I would like to think I have been an influence on his distinctly digital life these days."" (Reuters, emphasis mine)

    "Last month, Negroponte's foundation disclosed that News Corp's MySpace social networking site was developing an Internet community for the underprivileged children who receive the group's laptop computers." (same source)

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  15. Re:Oy vey on Vinyl Gets Its Groove Back · · Score: 2, Funny

    it's a retarded format due to it's volatility

    Like the 'Human' one is. But I am sure the military, at least, is working hard on a replacement.

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  16. Distortion ... on Intel Employee Caught Running OLPC News Site · · Score: 2, Interesting

    TFA: "It turns out that one of the site's authors works on an Intel project that is competing with the OLPC. Oops."

    TFS: "An OLPC news site highly critical of the project was run by an Intel employee who actually is working on a project that competes with the OLPC."

    TFS: "Just more reasons to never believe anything on-line, including me I guess."

    q.e.d.

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  17. Re:What is the crisis? on Gentoo in Crisis, Robbins Offers Solution · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hopefully someone else can clarify further.

    The same blog can.

    "I am still upset that the Foundation has not been run properly over the last three years, and that many trustees apparently decided to take extended vacations from the project shortly after becoming a trustee, leaving the work to be done by very few - and often a single individual, which defeats the whole purpose of having multiple trustees to do the work rather than a single leader. I am also, like many of you, not happy at all with the way Gentoo has been going from a development and community perspective."

    You might also infer what was wrong by looking at what would be different.

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  18. Re:OH NOES!! on National ID Cards Mandated in the US, If You're Under 50 · · Score: 1

    but I doubt most of the fraud against the government is of a variety where a fake ID is useful

    One method is simply overcharging ( aka contract fraud ).

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  19. Re:Cash Cow Concerns on Congress To Investigate FCC · · Score: 1

    Anarchy comes to mind.

    Too difficult a concept yet.

    Remember the Connection Machine failed, parallel programming has not advanced much since (IMHO), and you want a self adapting social network (contrasted to a tree)?

    All the best (sincerely). Hopefully technology/biosciences advances enough to bestow you longevity.

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  20. Re:Tractor motor on $2500 Tata Nano Car Unveiled in India · · Score: 1

    The really interesting part is the CVT.

    Look at the DAF solution (Variomatic) from the late 50ies which developed into modern CVTs.

    http://www.philseed.com/daf-600.html

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  21. Think ... on OLPC, Microsoft Working Toward Dual-Boot XO Laptops · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1. Establish a charity-project to secure good-will from a variety of sources. Use 'open-source' flag as a catch for the proper targets.
    2. Exploit good-will
    3. Collect marketing intelligence while on the way
    4. Fork for profit businesses as you go along
    5. Discard 'open-source' if profits are in sight
    6. Start collecting ROI

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  22. Re:Negroponte on Negroponte vs Intel · · Score: 1

    A corporation's actions are dictated by the weakest morals of it's leaders.

    How does a charity differ if you look at the core sponsors?

    "Last month Negroponte's foundation disclosed that News Corp.'s MySpace social networking Web site is developing an Internet community for the poor children who receive the group's laptop computers. ... In an interview with Reuters conducted over e-mail in May, Negroponte described Murdoch as a personal friend and a key backer of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) foundation that makes inexpensive laptop computers for poor children." ( from http://www.javno.com/en/economy/clanak.php?id=67574 , emphasis mine )

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  23. Re:Good on GM Says Driverless Cars Will Be Ready By 2018 · · Score: 1

    Especially when the you try to place blame in a collision.

    Much more fun when people will be suing each other as a consequence of crashes in superfluous surrogate Ersatz-worlds (like: "General Motors' Pontiac division is spending thousands of dollars to create a make-believe dealership that will sell make-believe cars for as little as a few dollars a piece.").

    Or after two avatars collide in the real world – now that would be progress.

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  24. Re:Information, not crystal ball on Google's Prediction Market · · Score: 1

    Maybe consciousness is what happens when your "simulation" extremely recursively tries to predict itself.

    Interesting – my TaiChi master tries to get across that it is important to direct attention to what will happen in the not so distant future (to 'observe' what will happen), because you are always late if you observe what happens 'now'. My own idea on the issue was that you at least partially determine the future this way.

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  25. Re:how many? on Anti-Missile Technology To Be Tested on Commercial Jets · · Score: 1

    How many commercial aircraft have been shot down in the last 10 years?

    Some believe United Airlines Flight 93, within a larger time frame, definitely Iran Air Flight 655, and there is also some speculation regarding TWA Flight 800.

    ... hmm

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