The BBC article is pretty light on detail, and the New Scientist one is subscribers only, but there is more stuff here.
They have hooked up to 41 neurons and:
For now, the team is focusing on the building blocks of words. In a series of experiments over the last few years, Ramsey has imagined saying three vowel sounds: "oh", "ee" and "oo". By watching his brain activity, the researchers have been able to identify distinct patterns associated with the different sounds. Although the data is still being analysed, they believe that they can correctly identify the sound Ramsey is imagining around 80 per cent of the time
The main lessons from TFA seem to be: get rid of CRT monitors (my last one died this year and was replace with an LCD) and turn things off when you're not using them - sensible stuff just about anyone could do.
I wouldn't recommend using it while on the phone. People might get the wrong idea from your heavy breathing. (Or the right one, depending on who you are calling).
You will find that it is not clear that RIPA is actually being used - in fact it probably is not:
It's unclear if the woman was given an official Section 49 notice or simply "invited" to hand over the data voluntarily as part of a bluff by the authorities.
Richard Clayton, a security researcher at Cambridge University and long-time contributor to UK security policy working groups, said that only the police are authorised to issue Section 49 notices. "What seems to have happened is that the CPS (who couldn't issue a notice anyway) have written asking the person to volunteer their key," he adds.
"Should they refuse this polite request, they are being threatened with the subsequent issuing of a notice, which might or might not require the key to be produced (it might of course just require the putting into an intelligible form of the data)."
Yeah, now all the terrorists have to do to bring down the US government is to send lots of emails with really big attachments to vice_president@whitehouse.gov.
Who would have guessed an article that tells you the plot of a movie would contain spoilers? Luckily TFA has so many spoiler warnings that I gave up reading before I got to any mention of the plot.
has a dumberer sentence ever been uttered in a/. submission?
I'm not sure, there are plenty of candidates. Leaving that aside, I think you have invented the perfect word for the sequel to "Dumb and Dumber", they can call it: "Dumber and Dumberer":-)
I can understand why a company might escort you off the premises after they lay you off - to avoid you stealing stuff and generally trying to get back at them. But when you resign you've already stolen everything you intend to (unless you're particularly disorganised), so what's the point?
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Yeah, because the best way to to deal with a small problem is to put it off until it becomes a really big problem.
I've heard rumours these cars are handing out cookies so Google can track everybody!
Or they don't. They propose a method that might. The meta-materials needed to do this with visible light don't exist yet.
Quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) is frequency based. It's 4 way (hence the 'quadrature thing)
No, the quadrature thing refers to the two carriers being 1/4 of a wavelength out of phase. You can have any number of different symbols and it is still QAM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrature_amplitude_modulation.
I'm not quite sure what the break though here is, and TFA isn't that clear, but I Wouldn't write it off.
So, 12%?
That sort of driver.
They have hooked up to 41 neurons and:
So why is the only quote in the summary from the only really negative bit of the review?
Ummmmm, because this is slashdot?
But will it run Linu^H^H^H^H rockbox?
Probably not.
Either way best not use Dual_EC_DRBG.
And if it is incompetence, in this case the malice can come later if anyone ever figures out the 'secret numbers'.
The main lessons from TFA seem to be: get rid of CRT monitors (my last one died this year and was replace with an LCD) and turn things off when you're not using them - sensible stuff just about anyone could do.
I wouldn't recommend using it while on the phone. People might get the wrong idea from your heavy breathing. (Or the right one, depending on who you are calling).
Heh, not quite quick enough there. Need more monkeys.
...they could clone typewriters too they could produce the Complete works of Shakespeare.
Yeah, now all the terrorists have to do to bring down the US government is to send lots of emails with really big attachments to vice_president@whitehouse.gov.
John Wiley and Sons could just edit the wikipedia article to be different. Problem solved.
Who would have guessed an article that tells you the plot of a movie would contain spoilers? Luckily TFA has so many spoiler warnings that I gave up reading before I got to any mention of the plot.
Yes, Slashdot should change "Anonymous Coward" to "Potential Paedophile".
I prefer to think of them as ON switches*.
Maybe we could compromise on ON/OFF switches?
* except for the ones that are for emergency off - aren't those called kill switches?
has a dumberer sentence ever been uttered in a /. submission?
:-)
I'm not sure, there are plenty of candidates. Leaving that aside, I think you have invented the perfect word for the sequel to "Dumb and Dumber", they can call it: "Dumber and Dumberer"
That would be "veteran", as in a person who served in the military, not "veterinarian".
I guess I should have put a smiley in there.
I still don't understand why they would get members of the military to look after sick animals though.
Why is it a holiday? Looking after the nation's pets and livestock is a necessary job, but hardly worth an anual holiday, let alone a Google logo.
And what have WWI helmets got to do with it anyway?
I can understand why a company might escort you off the premises after they lay you off - to avoid you stealing stuff and generally trying to get back at them. But when you resign you've already stolen everything you intend to (unless you're particularly disorganised), so what's the point?