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Submission + - New revenue model for low budget films: Lawsuits. (oregonlive.com)

Submitted by conspirator23 on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @02:25PM

conspirator23 writes: A 64 year old retired English teacher is being sued by a copyright troll for illegal Bittorrent downloading of a motion picture. Maybe not all that shocking in the current era except to learn that rather than Game of Thrones, Emily Orlando of Estacada, Oregon is being accused of downloading Maximum Conviction, a direct-to-video action flick released earlier this year starring Steven Segal and ex-WWE wrestler Steve Austin. The plaintiff Voltage Pictures is demanding $7500 from Emily and 370 other defendants. If all the defendants were to pay the demands, Voltage would gross over 2.75 million dollars minus legal fees. Who needs Kickstarter?

Submission + - This is your brain on magnets. Or maybe not.

Submitted by conspirator23 on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @08:34PM

conspirator23 writes: Jon Hamilton of National Public Radio brings us this story about "voodoo correlations" in fMRI studies that seek to learn more about emotional states, personality, and social cognition in the human brain. Many of us outside the scientific community have been treated to fascinating images of brain activity and corresponding explanations about how the images reveal which portions of the brain are engaged in certain kinds of thinking. But these images are not actual snapshots, they are visualizations of data generated by repeated scans during experiments. Flaws in the statistical methods used by researchers can result in false images with a variety of inaccuracies. Yet the images produced are so vivid and engaging that even other neuroscientists can be misled by them.

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