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Comment Re:Capitalism at work... (Score 1) 220

by rwarfield on Tuesday February 09, 2010 @09:53AM (#31071326) Attached to: Oracle Drops Sun's Commitment To Accessibility

MySQL Was forked when Sun bought it. That open source fork still exists

Political Affiliation Can Be Differentiated By Appearance 262

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @02:06PM from the if-it-looks-like-a-liberal-and-quacks-like-a-liberal dept.

quaith writes "It's not the way they dress, but the appearance of their face. A study published in PLoS One by Nicholas O. Rule and Nalini Ambady of Tufts University used closely cropped greyscale photos of people's faces, standardized for size. Undergrads were asked to categorize each person as either a Democrat or Republican. In the first study, students were able to differentiate Republican from Democrat senate candidates. In the second, students were able to differentiate the political affiliation of other college students. Accuracy in both studies was about 60% — not perfect, but way better than chance."

Comment Forgive me if I'm wrong but (Score 1) 212

by rwarfield on Thursday October 22, 2009 @03:51PM (#29839295) Attached to: Brian Aker Responds To RMS On Dual Licensing

Isn't there already an open source fork of MySQL? Is anybody actually paying for Sun's?

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