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Submission + - Chimps recognize others' ignorance and act

Submitted by RogerRoast
RogerRoast writes: Don't think that only humans can recognize ignorance in others and act to remediate it. According to a new research report, chimpanzees consider the knowledge of others before sounding an alarm. The study shows that chimpanzees produce a specific 'alert' call to threats, such as a deadly snake. They produce these calls more when audience members are ignorant, rather than knowledgeable, about the presence of the snake. The research suggests that chimpanzees keep track of the information available to other chimpanzees and make selective decisions about the messages they convey based on that understanding. "Chimpanzees really seem to take another’s knowledge state into account," said Catherine Crockford of the University of St Andrews, UK, the first author of the study. The study conducted in the Budongo Forest, Uganda was published in a recent issue of the journal Current Biology.
The Internet

Submission + - Is Twitter aiding and abetting terrorism? (cnn.com)

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: The director of an Israeli legal outfit says yes, and is threatening to sue the micro-blogging site if it doesn't change its policies.

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, director of the Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center, sent a letter to Twitter on Thursday asserting that the company is violating U.S. law by allowing groups such as Hezbollah and al Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab to use its popular online network.

"It has come to our attention that Twitter Inc. provides social media and associated services to such foreign terrorist organizations," Darshan-Leitner wrote. In her letter, Darshan-Leitner noted that Hezbollah and al-Shabaab are officially designated as terrorist organizations under U.S. law. She also cited a 2010 Supreme Court case — Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project — which upheld a key provision of the Patriot Act prohibiting material support to groups designated as terrorist outfits.
Google

Submission + - MAME Running in Chrome (maxconsole.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It not the fact that an 'emulator' is running in Chrome. — It is the fact on 'whom' did the port, it was done by GOOGLE themselves. — A employee on COMPANY TIME, releasing it on their GOOGLE DEVELOPMENT website!
Open Source

Linus' Other Gift to the World 177

Posted by CmdrTaco from the i'm-sure-his-kids-are-great-too dept.
Glyn Moody writes "Linus is widely recognised for initiating two major developments: Linux and Git (it's an interesting discussion which of the two in the long term will be regarded as more important). But there's a third, which people tend to overlook: he also pioneered the key ideas behind what later came to be called open innovation. As more and more companies open up to embrace customer-generated ideas, and the idea spreads to other areas like open government, perhaps it's time to add open innovation to the list of Linus' achievements."

Comment Once you admit your an idiot... (Score 3, Interesting) 607

by goodgod43 (#35437738) Attached to: US House Subcommittee Votes To Kill Net Neutrality
FTA: "The FCC lacks legal authority to pass the rules, and government intervention would hurt the Internet, said Representative Greg Walden, the subcommittee's chairman and an Oregon Republican. "The Internet works pretty well -- it's the government that doesn't," he said." He's against government involvement. That I understand. But he's admitting that he, as a member of the government, doesn't really understand the problem. He's admitted to being the problem, so why should he have his way?

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