Comment Could they really cross continents? (Score 0) 91
Wasn't Asia detached from Africa 40M years ago?
Writing Style Fingerprint Tool Easily Fooled 96
Urchin writes "Some of the techniques used by literary detectives and courts of law to identify the authorship of text are easily fooled, say US researchers. They found that non-professional writers could hide their identity from 'stylometric' techniques by writing in the style of novelist Cormac McCarthy. Stylometric methods have been used in a number of high-profile legal cases in recent decades, including the 'Unabomber' trial. 'We would strongly suggest that courts examine their methods of stylometry against the possibility of adversarial attacks,' say the researchers."
Comment Re:This would be new if it weren't old (Score 0) 54
to second the above:
Remmon http://www.remmon.com/projects.asp?CategoryID=1&GalleryID=8 are doing this since ten years now.
Squeezing a Wikipedia Snapshot Onto an 8GB iPhone 169
blackbearnh writes with this excerpt from O'Reilly Radar "Think about Wikipedia, what some consider the most complete general survey of human knowledge we have at the moment. Now imagine squeezing it down to fit comfortably on an 8GB iPhone. Sound daunting? Well, that's just what Patrick Collison's Encyclopedia iPhone application does. App Store purchasers of Collison's open source application can browse and search the full text of Wikipedia when stuck in a plane, or trapped in the middle of nowhere (or, as defined by AT&T coverage...)"
Human Language Gene Changes How Mice Squeak 185
archatheist writes "Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany have engineered a mouse whose FOXP2 gene has been swapped out for a different (human) version. This is interesting because the gene is implicated in human language, and this has changed how mice squeak. 'In a region of the brain called the basal ganglia, known in people to be involved in language, the humanized mice grew nerve cells that had a more complex structure. Baby mice utter ultrasonic whistles when removed from their mothers. The humanized baby mice, when isolated, made whistles that had a slightly lower pitch, among other differences, Dr. Enard says. Dr. Enard argues that putting significant human genes into mice is the only feasible way of exploring the essential differences between people and chimps, our closest living relatives.' The academic paper was published in Cell."
Comment Where is the novelty? (Score 0) 165
OpenOffice.org also have point and (couple of) clicks extensions.
Extensions can also be written in Java and Python.
So where are the news here?
Comment look at NEST's license (Score 0) 173
The guys from NEST initiative [http://nest-initiative.org/index.php/Main_Page] had to deal with same issue. They have their own version of GPL, requiring a citation [http://nest-initiative.org/index.php/Software:License].
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