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Scientists Achieve Mental Body-Swapping 297

Posted by kdawson on Friday December 05, 2008 @02:29PM from the put-yourself-in-my-place dept.

SpaceAdmiral notes the news that scientists have succeeded in convincing experiment subjects that a mannequin's body is their own, and even feeling at home in the body of someone of the opposite sex. The effect could prove useful in virtual reality applications and in robot technology. Here's the paper on PLoS ONE.

Comment torrents (Score 5, Insightful) 444

by TI-8477 on Saturday February 23, 2008 @04:18PM (#22528864) Attached to: Apple Sends Cease-and-Desist To the Hymn Project

I assume that anyone who has the original installer could upload it to the pirate bay as a torrent, right?

Journal Journal: Data breach, voter records stolen

Journal by Presto Vivace on Tuesday January 01, 2008 @04:41PM

Computer heist puts voter IDs in danger

The names, addresses and complete Social Security numbers of more than 337,000 Davidson County voters may be in the hands of thieves, Metro election officials said Friday. The information could be used by identity thieves. County election officials are warning the public to monitor their credit accounts for any suspicious activity.

Invisible Rope 1

Posted by samzenpus on Friday December 21, 2007 @01:40PM from the nothing-to-see-here dept.

samzenpus writes "I find most 'prank' type videos boring. This one however has just right amount of clever in it and nobody falls off something or gets punched in the face."

Submission + - Portable Nuclear Reactor to Power Homes (sfreporter.com) 1

Submitted by

Xight

on Saturday November 24, 2007 @09:14PM

Xight writes: "Santa Fe Reporter article about a portable nuclear reactor is the size of a hot tub, but is big enough to power 25,000 homes claims the company Hyperion Power Generation. Thing is they don't want to call it a reactor, but a really big battery since it is self-contained with no moving parts. If all goes according to plan, Hyperion could have a factory in New Mexico by late 2012, and begin producing 4,000 of these reactors."

Submission + - Samsung Announces The Fastest 64GB SSD (xuecast.com)

Submitted by

XueCast

on Monday November 05, 2007 @05:36PM

XueCast writes: "his new Solid State Drive ( SSD ) from Samsung can write data at 100 MB/s and read data at 120 MB/s which can easily out perform most current SDDs in the market that can only write at 45 MB/s and read at 65 MB/s. This new SSD will come in two form factors which are : 2.5 and 3.5, and will be running on SATA II standard, and also it will only consume 50% less power than most current SSDs in the market. There is no information yet about how much this new SSD will cost to buy."

Submission + - Massive Data Loss Bug in Leopard (tomkarpik.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 05, 2007 @04:16PM

An anonymous reader writes: Leopard's Finder has a glaring bug in its directory-moving code, leading to horrendous data loss if a destination volume disappears while a move operation is in action. This author first came across it when Samba crashed while he was moving a directory from his desktop over to a Samba mount on his FreeBSD server.

Submission + - Napster: Music Subsciptions are over-rated.

Submitted by kevinbr on Friday November 02, 2007 @07:50AM

kevinbr writes: Napster has concluded that PC-based music subscriptions aren't a growth business.....because it's retreating from its core business: Selling all-you-can-eat music subscriptions. Maybe the RIAA can sue someone to save this model.

Seagate Offers Refunds on 6.2 Million Hard Drives 780

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday November 02, 2007 @12:55AM from the making-things-right dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Seagate has agreed to settle a lawsuit that alleges that the company mislead customers by selling them hard disk drives with less capacity than the company advertised. The suit states that Seagate's use of the decimal definition of the storage capacity term "gigabyte" was misleading and inaccurate: whereby 1GB = 1 billion bytes. In actuality, 1GB = 1,073,741,824 bytes — a difference of approximately 7% from Seagate's figures. Seagate is saying it will offer a cash refund or free backup and recovery software."

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