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Submission + - Non-invasive spinal cord stimulation gets paralyzed legs moving again (gizmag.com)

schwit1 writes: Five men with complete motor paralysis have regained the ability to move their legs voluntarily and produce step-like movements after being treated with a non-invasive form of spinal cord stimulation. The new treatment builds on prior work to generate voluntary movements in paralyzed people through electrical stimulation â" in particular, two studies (one completed in 2011, the other in 2014) that involved surgically implanting an electrode array on the spinal cord. This time, however, the researchers found success without performing any invasive surgery.

The new treatment uses a technique called transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, which involves strategically placing electrodes on the skin of the lower back. While receiving stimulation, the men's legs were supported by braces that hung from the ceiling. At first their legs only moved involuntarily, if at all. But they soon found they could voluntarily extend the distance their legs moved during stimulation. They doubled their range of voluntary motion after four treatment sessions.

Comment Re:If you think Windows is bad (Score 1) 371

But his statement is based on the fact that many software sellers don't have a version of their software for anything else but Windows. In the cell phone space you are more likely to find something you want done in both iOS and Android. There are also more apps you can use in Android than in iOS because you are not limited to the Google app store.

Submission + - "Happy Birthday" Public Domain after all? (techdirt.com)

jazzdude00021 writes: No song has had as contentious of copyright history as "Happy Birthday." The song is nearly ubiquitous at birthday parties in the USA, and even has several translations with the same tune. Due to copyrights held by Warner Music, public performances have historically commanded royalty fees. However, a new lawsuit has been brought to prove that "Happy Birthday" is, and always has been in the public domain.The discovery phase for this lawsuit ended on July, 11 2014, yet this past week new evidence surfaced from Warner Music that may substantiate the claim that the lyrics were in the public domain long before the copyright laws changed in 1927. From the source:

And, here's the real kicker: they discovered this bit of evidence after two questionable things happened. (1) Warner/Chappell Music (who claims to hold the copyright for the publishing, if it exists) suddenly "found" a bunch of relevant documents that it was supposed to hand over in discovery last year, but didn't until just a few weeks ago, and (2) a rather important bit of information in one of those new documents was somewhat bizarrely "blurred out." This led the plaintiffs go searching for the original, and discover that it undermines Warner Music's arguments, to the point of showing that the company was almost certainly misleading the court. Furthermore, it definitively shows that the work was and is in the public domain.


Submission + - Open Hardware Team successfully replicating Tesla inventions (fixtheworldproject.net)

lkcl writes: A small team has successfully overcome the usual barrier to replicating one of Tesla's inventions (death threats and intimidation) by following Open Hardware development practices, encouraging other teams world-wide to replicate their work. Their FAQ and several other reports help explain that the key is Schumann resonance: "tuning" the device to the earth's own EM field and harvesting it as useful electricity. Whilst it looks like it's going mainstream, the real question is: why has it taken this long, and why has an Open Hardware approach succeeded where other efforts have not?

Comment The delusion of "creative professionals" (Score 1) 90

http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
Where an Anonymous Coward says that he is a "creative professional" and that whoever arrives at stuff that "creative professionals" arrive at should own it forever and it's hard work.

I suggest he find easier work and let people who find that sort of thing easy do their thing.
http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
Claim by fyngyrz that people infringe copyright because the abstraction that someone actually put some valuable time into the work is too abstract for them to grasp. Also, individuals violating copyright on a "I copied this work to use for myself" level is antisocial

I point out that people put "valuable time" into lots of things. Doesn't mean they should get paid for it. And with people throwing around concepts like "the universe creates itself", I'm not sure anyone has a workable meaningful definition of what create or design actually means.

Fyngyrz claims that the whole copyright debacle is the most trivial of ethical mazes.

Bzipitidoo says " I disagree that copying is antisocial. Copying is a natural right, and has a long history. It is only our current customs that push the idea that copying is harmful, and attempt to regulate it and restrict it by fiat." ... Might as well argue that children should not receive the fruits of knowledge that our civilizations have produced over the millennia, without paying for the "privilege".

I've kind of lost interest in mining previous discussion I participated in, but there's more in those links that make for interesting reading.

Comment Re:Whistle blower (Score 1) 608

No I don't want an answer from someone who: can speak for everyone and has polled a "representative sample". I want you to stop talking as if you had that information.

As for "whatever that is", I typed poll representative sample into Bing and it suggested the search what is representative sample in a poll.
http://www.investopedia.com/te... is first in the results.

As for the rest of your post, it makes no sense.

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