Comment Re:Still waiting... (Score 1) 195
I'm waiting for the MacBook Wheel.
Comment yakuake (Score 1) 258
Does yakuake count?
Comment Re:Ancient proverb (Score 1) 655
You've got more exp on /. than hexed.
Comment Re:Excellent! (Score 1) 199
Maybe we can even run it on GNU/Hurd.
IBM Takes a (Feline) Step Toward Thinking Machines 428
bth writes "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. The computer has 147,456 processors (most modern PCs have just one or two processors) and 144 terabytes of main memory — 100,000 times as much as your computer has."
Comment Re:StatCounter etc (Score 1) 350
Fortunately, my mother sees Firefox as "The Internet".
Submission + - Placebo effect caught in the act in spinal nerves (sciencemag.org)
SerpensV writes: German scientists found direct evidence that spinal cord is involved in the placebo effect. According to "New Scientist":
"The researchers who made the discovery scanned the spinal cords of volunteers while applying painful heat to one arm. Then they rubbed a cream onto the arm and told the volunteers that it contained a painkiller but in fact it had no active ingredient. Even so, the cream made spinal-cord neural activity linked to pain vanish.
"This type of mechanism has been envisioned for over 40 years for placebo analgesia," says Donald Price, a neuroscientist at the University of Florida in Gainesville, who was not involved in the new study. "This study provides the most direct test of this mechanism to date.""
"The researchers who made the discovery scanned the spinal cords of volunteers while applying painful heat to one arm. Then they rubbed a cream onto the arm and told the volunteers that it contained a painkiller but in fact it had no active ingredient. Even so, the cream made spinal-cord neural activity linked to pain vanish.
"This type of mechanism has been envisioned for over 40 years for placebo analgesia," says Donald Price, a neuroscientist at the University of Florida in Gainesville, who was not involved in the new study. "This study provides the most direct test of this mechanism to date.""
