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Comment Patents and papers (Score 1) 140
do not mean much because many patents and papers are low value. A better measure of innovation would be papers in prestigious journals like Nature and Science. If you look you will see a decent number of authors with Chinese names, but most of these researchers will be based outside of China.
Comment Sosumi is now (Score 5, Funny) 401
aisuyu.
Comment Re:I don't care what anyone says (Score 0) 309
The misconception is that Richard Stallman is stopping or hindering the “quiet extremism” of corporations. People like Richard Stallman actually hurt software freedom by promoting ideas that are not convincing to policymakers largely because they are bad ideas. Software developers need to make money, and Richard Stallman’s proposals would make this much more difficult. A better solution would be no software patents and shorter copyright that encourages open source software (e.g. 9 years of copyright protection for closed source software and 14 years for open source software). This would greatly increase the amount of free software without jeopardizing the livelihoods of software developers.
Submission + - Goat on roof trademark (wsj.com)
wen1454 writes: "Some patrons drive from afar to eat at the restaurant and see the goats that have been going up on Al Johnson's roof since 1973. The restaurant 14 years ago trademarked the right to put goats on a roof to attract customers to a business.... So when a tourist spot 750 miles away decided to deploy a rooftop-caprine population, Mr. Johnson made a federal case of it. Last year, he discovered that Tiger Mountain Market in Rabun County, Ga., had been grazing goats on its grass roof since 2007. Putting goats on the roof wasn't illegal. The violation, Al Johnson's alleged in a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, was that Tiger Mountain used the animals to woo business."
Submission + - Evolution of National Nobel Prize Shares (arxiv.org)
wen1454 writes: Juergen Schmidhuber "analyze[s] the evolution of cumulative national shares of Nobel Prizes since 1901, properly taking into account that most prizes were divided among several laureates." Basically he finds that Germany lead from 1901 to 1956, and the US has lead since 1976. Between 1956 and 1976 the leader depends on the criteria used (science prizes vs. all prizes and citizenship at birth vs. citizenship at time of award).
Comment Re:This is also against the law (Score 1) 325
It is hardly undisclosed. The review on Amazon is posted under the user name www.pacificbookreview.com, and the website clearly says that they charge $125 to $195 per review link. I am going to assume that samzenpus was high on peyote and having sex with the entire college cheerleading squad when he posted this.
Comment Time & money (Score 2, Interesting) 146
The average person does not have the time to create disinformation or the resources to move to New Zealand. On the other hand governments and large organizations will find disinformation strategies very useful. It is only a matter of time before sites like wikileaks are inverted.
Submission + - China Explores a Frontier Two Miles Under the Sea (nytimes.com)
pickens writes: The NY Times reports that earlier this summer when three Chinese scientists descended more than two miles in a craft the size of a small truck and planted their nation’s flag on the dark seabed, they signaled Beijing's intention to take the lead in exploring remote and inaccessible parts of the ocean floor which are rich in oil, minerals and other resources that the Chinese would like to mine. "They're in it for a penny and a pound," says Dr. Don Walsh, a pioneer of deep-ocean diving. "It's a very deliberate program." The global seabed is littered with what experts say is trillions of dollars' worth of mineral nodules as well as many objects of intelligence value: undersea cables carrying diplomatic communications, lost nuclear arms, sunken submarines and hundreds of warheads left over from missile tests. The small craft that made the trip — named Jiaolong, after a mythical sea dragon — is meant to go as deep as 7,000 meters, or 4.35 miles, edging out the current global leader but China is moving cautiously, its dives going deeper in increments. "They're being very cautious," Walsh adds. "They respect what they don't know and are working hard to learn."
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Comment Not the main reason (Score 1) 231
I do not disagree with this article, but I think there are many other reasons why Microsoft is being nice. 1) Reputation. It is harder for Microsoft to attract talented programmers and “elite” users if they are viewed as some kind of Mordor. 2) Hurting competitors. Microsoft was no fan of freeware, but they made IE free (as in beer) for obvious reasons. 3) Helping the PC. Microsoft’s success is connected to the success of the personal computer. If more people switch to tablets or to the cloud, Microsoft suffers.
Comment Blood glucose (Score 1) 470
Maybe. But alcohol is also known to reduce blood glucose levels.
Comment Re:True Geeks at Heart (Score 2, Informative) 95
31337 = eleet. It took me like 10 minutes to figure that out. I guess that proves I am not a geek.
Comment Re:Not ready for humans yet (Score 1) 216
Human TRIM5alpha protects against SIV. Rhesus Macaque TRIM5alpha protects against HIV. But humans infected with HIV usually live more than 10 years, whereas Rhesus Macaques infected with SIV usually die within 18 months. Be careful what you wish for.
Comment Tasmanian devils (Score 1) 320
Tasmanian devils would disagree that biting is a terrible way to spread a disease.
