Comment Tracking meteorites makes no sense... (Score 3, Informative) 35
since they have already impacted the Earth and done their damage. You want to track meteoroids which are still in space and may be susceptible to intervention.
Submission + - The Human Brain Project recieves up to $1.34 billion. (humanbrainproject.eu)
TheRedWheelbarrow writes: The singularity looms as the Human Brain Project gets up to $1.34 billion in funding.
"The challenge in AI is to design algorithms that can produce intelligent behaviour and to use them to build intelligent machines. It doesn’t matter whether the algorithms are biologically realistic – what matters is that they work – the behaviour they produce. In the HBP, we’re doing something completely different...we will base the technology on what we actually know about the brain and its circuitry."
"The challenge in AI is to design algorithms that can produce intelligent behaviour and to use them to build intelligent machines. It doesn’t matter whether the algorithms are biologically realistic – what matters is that they work – the behaviour they produce. In the HBP, we’re doing something completely different...we will base the technology on what we actually know about the brain and its circuitry."
Comment Re:No (Score 1) 467
"the presence of random files on the system could be incriminating"
That's why I like Truecrypt's ( http://www.truecrypt.org/ ) approach:
"... there is practically no plausible explanation for the existence of a file containing solely random data. However, plausible deniability can still be achieved with a file-hosted TrueCrypt volume (container) by creating a hidden volume within it."
Basically, you create a hidden volume inside your encrypted data. If you are compelled to reveal the contents of the encrypted data, you so so. What is revealed are some possibly sensitive files but not the data that you are most concerned with. The really sensitive data is in a hidden volume which you can plausibly deny exists. After all, you gave up the password to the encrypted file - any residual random data in the file is just an artifact of the encryption process (you can plausibly assert) when, in fact, it actually contains another hidden volume with the real goods.
Comment The acceleration is good ... (Score 1) 76
but 60mph is not the top speed for a bicycle. Currently the speed record for an HPV (Human Powered Vehicle - i.e. no rockets) is 81.00mph or 130.36kph.
http://www.recumbents.com/wisil/records/fastest_ev er.htm
http://www.recumbents.com/wisil/records/fastest_e
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