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  1. Re:No, MS is going after VistA, Google is drafting on Google to Offer Online Personal Health Records · · Score: 1

    You missed this Vista (the Visual Statistics System by Forrest W. Young), which is probably the (much underrated — quality does not 'sell') 'original'.

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  2. Re:It's asshats like this one on Man Hacks 911 System, Sends SWAT on Bogus Raid · · Score: 1

    Once upon a time, language was more precise. But the battle is indeed lost.

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  3. Re:So in other words.. on "All Quiet Alert" Issued For the Sun · · Score: 1

    And those were able to detect patterns as well, possesing the ultimate nanocomposite scientocrystalite ball:

    Quote: "The next sunspot cycle will be 30-50% stronger than the last one and begin as much as a year late, according to a breakthrough forecast using a computer model of solar dynamics developed by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)." (as of March 6, 2006)

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  4. Re:Not the prisoner's dilemma on What if Google Had to Design For Google? · · Score: 1

    "However, such multi-player PDs are not formal as they can always be decomposed into a set of classical two-player games."
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner's_dilemma

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  5. Re:i was a basic kid on Forty Years of LOGO · · Score: 1

    the older ones among us will instead fight between FORTRAN and COBOL ...

    ALGOL was also around (nice Computer Languages History Chart). My camp, on a machine like this.

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  6. Similar ... on Microsoft Wants To Read Your Brain · · Score: 1

    ... though probably more down to earth.

    Berlin Brain-Computer Interface

    Quote: "For several years, research groups in Europe and the USA have been working on systems which allow for a direct dialog between man and machine. To this end, a "Brain Computer Interface" (BCI) has been developed. Cerebral electric activity is recorded via the electroencephalogram (EEG): electrodes, attached to the scalp, measure the electric signals of the brain. These signals are amplified and transmitted to the computer, which transforms them into device control commands. The crucial requirement for the successful functioning of the BCI is that the electric activity on the scalp surface already reflects motor intentions, i.e., the neural correlate of preparation for hand or foot movements. The BCI detects the motor-related EEG changes and uses this information, for example, to perform a choice between two alternatives: the detection of the preparation to move the left hand leads to the choice of the first, whereas the right hand intention would lead to the second alternative. By this means it is possible to operate devices which are connected to the computer; such a communication can even be realised via the internet."

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  7. Re:Don't really buy it ... on Does Computer Use Actually Cause Carpal Tunnel? · · Score: 1

    You know you can have more than one mouse, right? I have one one each side of the keyboard, ...

    Yes (e.g.), but never had the idea to use two mice myself; I shall give this a try, sounds good (and for sure creates more symmetry/balance (lack thereof related to CTS etc. as well)). THNX

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  8. Don't really buy it ... on Does Computer Use Actually Cause Carpal Tunnel? · · Score: 1

    ... because the layout of the studies seems to simple (I suspect that the risk of CTS is (extremely) increased by covariates - amount of exercise, quality of 'general posture' etc.).

    Besides, the finding "Moderate evidence was concluded for a positive association between the duration of mouse use and hand-arm symptoms." (from a related study, http://oem.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/64/4/211 ) constitutes evidence for my pet theory that right-hand usage for 'right'-handed people is not appropriate, as it constrains the well trained hand two only simple movements (I am retraining 'lefthandedness' but did not change the keyboard/mouse layout for that reason, so there is at least single case evidence :)

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  9. Re:Release Too Soon... on What's Really Broken with Windows Update - Trust · · Score: 2, Funny

    You can have it: * Fast * Cheap * Good. But, you can only choose 2 of the above.

    But you get it: Slow (with more than one semantics), Expensive and Ill-Designed all at the same time.

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  10. Re:Time to switch on Verizon Wireless Opt-Out Plan For Customer Records · · Score: 1

    I think, the blogger, whom you copy-pasted here, got confused and confused you...

    All those blogs, oh dear, how this confuses my simple mind ... CC.

  11. Re:Don't bother RTFA on Sharp's Tiny LCD Doubles As Scanner · · Score: 2, Funny

    You miss the subtlety hidden deep within the blurb: "... And since each pixel has a scanner it may as well be a multi-touch screen."

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  12. Progress all around us ... on New Apps Enable Social Network Snubbing · · Score: 1

    From TFA: "Over the summer, Kevin Matulef, who is doing a doctoral thesis on algorithms at MIT, designed Enemybook, a software application that lets people list enemies below friends on their personal Facebook page. He describes the program as "an antisocial utility that disconnects you to the so-called friends around you."

    How creative. At least, one can infer that he is able to relate 'freak' (or 'foe') to 'enemy'. A true candidate to successfully 'do a hardware application' by 2050.

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  13. Re:Good! on US Faces $100 Billion Fine For Web Gambling Ban · · Score: 1

    "World Press Review takes an in-depth look at the role of international law and the United Nations in the debate over whether to go to war in Iraq." http://www.worldpress.org/specials/iraq/

    Not that I think it will help much, but one should always try to help improve the capabilities of the challenged.

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  14. Re:Good! on US Faces $100 Billion Fine For Web Gambling Ban · · Score: 0, Troll

    The United States is a signatory of the WTO, and is therefore bound by both international and domestic law to abide by.

    Explain how this is relevant!

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  15. Re:Reason To Buy A CPU on First Actual CPU Energy Use Statistics Published · · Score: 2, Informative

    "The plan includes new products and services for IBM and its clients to sharply reduce data center energy consumption, transforming the world's business and public technology infrastructures into "green" data centers.

    The savings are substantial -- for an average 25,000 square foot data center, clients should be able to achieve 42 percent energy savings. Based on the energy mix in the US, this savings equates to 7,439 tons of carbon emissions saved per year."

    http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/21524.wss (emphasis mine :)

    I think otherwise.

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  16. Somehow ... on US Faces $100 Billion Fine For Web Gambling Ban · · Score: 1

    The Sorcerer's Apprentice comes to mind. Much like patent trolling.

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  17. Re:If this doesn't stop EU swpatents nothing will on Linux Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat/Novell · · Score: 1

    There are lots of people in EU using linux distributions

    Whole parliaments. French Parliament Chooses Ubuntu

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  18. Re:many write cycles? on Alienware Puts 64GB Solid-State Drives In Desktops · · Score: 1

    Cost may continue to be an issue as well.

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  19. Re:Exhaustive? on Cracking Go · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Q: Where has AI failed?

    A: AI's greatest disappointment is the failure to come up with a general theory of intelligence, or anything like a general theory of intelligence. In 1970, if you had asked what's the general theory of intelligence, you would have gotten answers like, ``It's all means-ends analysis,'' or ``It's all theorem proving,'' but there are very few people nowadays who say it's all anything. There's just no answer to that question. I don't see anything on the horizon that will provide that kind of theory in the future.

    (c.f.)

    Which is why brute force is popular.

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    P.S.: good.luck@conference.edu

  20. Re:Exhaustive? on Cracking Go · · Score: 1

    look for E. C. D. van der Werf -- see also

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  21. Re:How much does that baby cost? on Heart Corset to Reduce Congestive Heart Failure · · Score: 2, Informative

    We're still the best medical system in the world as far as quality goes ...

    ... drum fills ...

    "Seven years ago, the World Health Organization made the first major effort to rank the health systems of 191 nations. France and Italy took the top two spots; the United States was a dismal 37th. More recently, the highly regarded Commonwealth Fund has pioneered in comparing the United States with other advanced nations through surveys of patients and doctors and analysis of other data. Its latest report, issued in May, ranked the United States last or next-to-last compared with five other nations -- Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand and the United Kingdom -- on most measures of performance, including quality of care and access to it. Other comparative studies also put the United States in a relatively bad light."
    http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/opinion/12sun1.html

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  22. Re:Evolution would have gotten rid of it on Purpose of Appendix Believed Found · · Score: 1

    I doubt that is their function

    It must be (though not an exclusive one), as the whole body is involved in control of posture, which is not a particularly easy task, neither from theory (for an idea) nor in practice (see sig).

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  23. Re:What Breakthrough? on Linux on the Desktop Doubles in 2007 · · Score: 2, Informative

    DG9965WH Motherboard

    This must be so new even intel does not now about it.

    If you instead meant 'Intel® Desktop Board DG965WH" intel thinks it supports Linux.

    Maybe the offered BIOS upgrade will do, just a wild guess.

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  24. Re:just a ploy to visualize the slashdot effect on Logfiles Made Interesting with glTail · · Score: 1

    Great work (How I love that I may contribute a positive remark ;)

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  25. Re:OfCOM on Apple Sued Over iPhone Bricking · · Score: 1

    "The Brits may have beaten the Americans, but it seems we were both pipped by the Germans. No, not football. Computers.

    Colossus was not, in fact, the world's first programmable computer: that particular distinction belongs to the Z3, built in 1941 by Konrad Zuse, a German civil engineer."

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/02/zuse_computer/

    Now who was financing Hitler for what reasons?

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