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Comment Cat mentaity (Score 0) 428

"A computer with the power of a human brain is not yet near. But this week researchers from IBM Corp. are reporting that they've simulated a cat's cerebral cortex, the thinking part of the brain, using a massive supercomputer."

So it basically puts itself in sleep mode 20 hours a day and the other 4 hours it spends ignoring the user?

Comment Re:Barriers to leaving a country (Score 2, Interesting) 676

Actually Japan does this all the time. If you're trying to leave and they found out you over stayed your visa they'll arrest, try and imprison you for the maximum amount of time then deport you. I had trouble leaving once because a government agency kept my foreigner card. I had to wait in custody about an hour, making the plane late before they decided to let me go.
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Submission + - Global Warming: The Surface Temperature Record (climateaudit.org)

Budenny writes: An extraordinary correspondence will be found at climateaudit.org. The participants have been attempting to reconstruct exactly how Hansen gets from the raw station data in various parts of the world to the data as reported by the IPCC. Russia, India and other parts are being scrutinized. Turns out its very hard to do, Hansen will not reveal what he did or how he did it, when you look at the results half the time they seem nonsensical. And we are all being asked to spend billions if not trillions on the basis of this 'evidence'.
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Submission + - NBC to End iTunes Sales of Its Shows

Silver Sloth writes: No more Heroes?

There's a report in the New Your Times saying that NBC is to end it's contract with iTunes. From TFA

The media conglomerate — which is the No. 1 supplier of digital video to Apple's online store, accounting for about 40 percent of downloads — notified Apple of its decision late yesterday, according to a person familiar with the matter who asked for anonymity because negotiations between the companies are confidential.
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Submission + - BBC reports - researchers re-invent BitTorrent?

tyroneking writes: BBC is reporting that "Researchers have found a way to enforce good manners on file-sharing networks by treating bandwidth as a currency" through a software package called Tribler that allows "selfless sharers" to see faster up/download speeds. It claims to be an all-in-one media viewer, BitTorrent client and social networking client — but is it really just a media friendly BitTorrent client? Worst of all, one of the researchers is quoted as claiming that Slashdot is "obscure" (in 1999 admittedly)!

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