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Submission + - Why Your Friends Have More Friends Than You Have (psychologytoday.com) 1

Submitted by RabbitWho
RabbitWho writes: Are you the least popular person you know? Do you blame your awkwardness, love of garlic and countless hours of introspection? Well, as usual, charts, graphs and field tests are here with to save you!

Satoshi Kanazawa writes: "The title of Feld’s paper says it all, and here’s a little demonstration you can do to confirm his conclusion. List all of your friends. Then ask each of your friends how many friends they have. No matter who you are, whether you are a man or a woman, where you live, how many (or few) friends you have, and who your friends are, you will very likely discover that your friends on average have more friends than you do. [...]
If you think about it for a moment, you’ll figure out the source of this seeming paradox (although this simple insight did not occur to anyone before Feld published his paper in 1991).

Submission + - TorrentReactor buys and renames a Russian town. (torrentfreak.com)

Submitted by baronvoncarson
baronvoncarson writes: Just saw this over at Torrent Freak. They are reporting that TorrentReactor has purchased a small Russian town. Costing $148,000, TorrentReactor have renamed the town after themself and plan on building infrastructure within the town.

Torrent Freak writes;
"With the financial injection from TorrentReactor the people of Gar (now the people of TorrentReactor) will be able to get connected to the Internet. Right now, there are only three computers available in the entire town, and just one is connected to the Internet via a dial-up connection.

“Most of it will be split among villagers and the rest will be used to re-equip the local school, repair roads, purchase agricultural equipment and machinery. Also torrentreactor.net company decided to pay for broadband Internet connection in the settlement which will result in about 900,000 rubles ($30,000) because there are no networks nearby,” TorrentReactor says."
Education

Submission + - Valedictorian Speaks Out Against Schooling (sott.net)

Submitted by
GNUALMAFUERTE
GNUALMAFUERTE writes: "This brave young lady did the absolutely unusual, and in a move that would have made Paulo Freire so proud of her, gave a controversial speak about the flaws of the system.
She is also very self critical, since it is through her experience that she has realized the truths in her speech.

She is not a great speaker, but she has a lot to say. You can hear her speech or read the transcript."
Games

Submission + - Top Five Most Influential Video Game Characters (rundlc.com)

Submitted by Buffalo55
Buffalo55 writes: There are literally thousands of video game characters, but most exist because of a trail blazing plumber, tomb raider or furry that appeared years before. These five characters are by far the most influential in video game history, and are responsible for numerous copycats littering store shelves.

Comment Come On! (Score 1) 329

by krzysz00 (#33148990) Attached to: Why Recordings From World War I Aren't Public Domain
Does copyright seriously have to last that long. Death of author + 70 is way long enough. I think making copyright expire with the death of the author is a good idea on things on books, recordings, etc. because if the author's dead, he can't make any money off the work, right.

Submission + - How the wisdom of crowds solved protein structure (discovermagazine.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It’s not every day that people can get published in one of the world’s leading scientific journals by playing computer games, but Foldit is no ordinary game. The brainchild of Seth Cooper from the University of Washington, Foldit taps into the collective efforts of tens of thousands computer gamers to solve scientific problems. The goal of the game is to work out the complicated three-dimensional structures of different proteins. Proteins are feats of biological origami; they consist of long chains of amino acids that fold into very specific and complicated shapes.

Submission + - Why Music From World War I Isn't The Public Domain (techdirt.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: While Disney and others have done a great job pushing the end date for works entering the public domain ever further forward, most people have assumed that anything from before 1923 is in the public domain. However, it turns out that this is not true for sound recordings, in part due to an accidental quirk in copyright law history — in that Congress, way back in 1909, believed that sound recordings could not be covered by copyright (they believed the Constitution did not allow recordings to be covered), and thus, some state laws stepped up to create special copyrights for sound recordings. A court ruling then said that these state rules were not overruled by federal copyright law. End result? ANY recorded work from before 1972 (no matter how early it was recorded) won't go into the public domain until 2049 at the earliest.

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