Didn't see "Alex Stamos - Facebook CSO" on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Flash_enemies Perhaps the article needs updating?

that makes me a little sceptical.

Unfortunately the way this is presented, and the alleged hardware used makes this sound a little trite and like a silly project. I would like to say that that's probably the result of the reporting. Having flicked through the paper, IMHO this looks like a pretty interesting finding and a worthwhile bit of research.

Paper is here. https://dl.dropboxusercontent....
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Lets mention a few things:
-Dr Lawrence has made here data available. That's something not enough people in this field have done, much to everyone's detriment.
-"Running Matlab". probably refers to the use of Psychtoolbox(psychtoolbox.org/), rather than some clunky game coded in matlab
-I could find no reference the the pentium 3 or 17" screen anywhere, The paper notes the participants performed the task at home (and the researchers laptop was involved for training). I suspect these specs were copied in error from another notable (but older) research paper. That said, some researches, working with emotion and images, may conduct work with x" screen that seems odd. This is done to be able to compare results with previous works (size of image and distance to image effect some experiments). Don't know if this was the case here.
-The results of this type of simple training are quite interesting, I would point out that participants were also filling out food diary's etc, This in itself could enhance the effect of the training software,

All said, I do have a concern though.
The control group were given a task rating household objects rather than foods. This would have made the control group keenly aware that they were in the control group. I am curious how much of the effect was the result of "increased food consciousness" caused by reading the diaries. I would have preferred to see the control group told to 'reject foods that were imported' or something that still had them filling out food diaries for a legitimate reason.

These things have a serious "novelties over, now what" effect. Go to your local hacker-space and use one there, very soon you will know if its worthwhile getting one of your own. You will also learn the type of features you need.

So pretty much all the news companies are banned?