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Submission + - The predictioneer: Using games to see the future (predictioneersgame.com)

Submitted by parallel_prankster
parallel_prankster writes: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a professor of politics at New York University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in California. In his new book, The Predictioneer (The Predictioneer's Game in the US), he describes a computer model based on game theory which — and others — claim can predict the future with remarkable accuracy. The primary website link also has a game page where he provides an online version of the game and information on how to play.
"Over the past 30 years, Bueno de Mesquita has made thousands of predictions about hundreds of issues from geopolitics to personal problems. Overall, he claims, his hit rate is about 90 per cent. So how does he do it? What more, the CIA seems to be using this model to predict the outcome of political situations around the world!!". The original article from NewScientist (semi-walled, may need to register) is here: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527520.500-the-predictioneer-using-games-to-see-the-future.html?page=1
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Submission + - Microsoft Announces Windows 7 SP1 (computerworld.com)

Submitted by CWmike
CWmike writes: Microsoft has announced service packs for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, but declined to set a release date or a schedule for getting a beta in users' hands. A company spokesman said Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) will primarily contain 'minor updates,' including patches and hotfixes that will have been delivered earlier via the Windows Update service, rather than new features. One of the latter: an updated Remote Desktop client designed to work with RemoteFX, the new remote-access platform set to debut in SP1 for Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2008 R2 will also be upgraded to SP1, Microsoft said, presumably at the same time as Windows 7 since the two operating systems share a single code base. Besides RmoteFX — which Microsoft explained Wednewday in an entry on the Windows virtualization team's blog — Server 2008 R2 will also include a feature dubbed 'Dynamic Memory,' which lets IT staff adjust guest virtual machines' memory on the fly. Microsoft did not spell out a timetable for the service packs, saying only that it would provide more information as release milestones approach.
Earth

Fat People Cause Global Warming, Higher Food Prices 1083

Posted by timothy from the opening-an-extra-size-can-of-worms dept.
Stating the obvious: "Two scientists write that obese people are disproportionately responsible for high food prices and greenhouse gas emissions because they consume 18% more food energy due to their greater body mass -- and require increased quantities of fuel to transport themselves and the food they eat. 'Promotion of a normal distribution of BMI would reduce the global demand for, and thus the price of, food,' write the authors, Phil Edwards and Ian Roberts of the evocatively named London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine."
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Submission + - "new" 7 wonders of the world declared (new7wonders.com)

Submitted by
freakxx
freakxx writes: ""New" 7 wonders of the worlds have been announced today at Lisbon, Portugal. People throughout the world have voted actively to elect the new 7 out of 21 finalists. As a summery, these are: Chichen Itza, Mexico; Christ Redeemer, Brazil; The Great Wall, China; Machu Picchu, Peru; Petra, Jordan; The Roman Colosseum, Italy; and The Taj Mahal, India. "Pyramids of Giza, Egypt" was the only candidate which also used to be among old 7 wonders before. However, it couldn't make into the list of final 7 and hence we have a complete new set of "seven wonders of the world".

Finally, a question: should the wonders be decided by polling or by a group of experts in this field coming from every part of the world?!"

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