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Submission + - Footage Released of Canadian Police Taser Death

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locster

on Thursday November 15, 2007 @01:17PM

locster writes: "The BBC reports that footage has been released of the tasering and subsequent death of Polish man Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver airport on Octover 18th. It appears that Robert was distressed and in need of help rather than a swift tasering. This looks like a clear case of taser first and ask questions later. Mr Dziekanski's mother has seen portions of the video and has approved its release."

Submission + - Rubiks cube solvable in no more than 26 moves

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locster

on Thursday August 16, 2007 @07:34AM

locster writes: "The BBC are reporting research by Daniel Kunkle and Gene Cooperman at Northeastern University in Boston that proves any Rubiks cube configuration can be solved in 26 moves or less. Research was centered around exaustive searching of some cube configurations, but not all — "cranking through the 43 billion billion possible Rubik's cube positions would take too long even for a supercomputer. Instead, the scientists used a two-step technique in their calculations." Basically they used a number of predetermined configurations as baselines instead of trying to solve every combination right through to solution."

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