Comment I think the whole nature-nurture debate is hogwash (Score 4, Insightful) 84
To quote Matt Ridley:
The discovery of how genes actually influence human behaviour, and how human behaviour influences genes, is about to recast the debate entirely. No longer is it nature versus nurture, but nature via nurture. Genes are designed to take their cues from nurture
Replace human for bee or for organism and I think the quote still stands. It is not that the behaviour of an organism is for the most part determined by it genes, or either that is is determined by it nurture.
Nurture will give direction, Nature will limit the abilities.
How much you'll train a dog, it will never be able to play chess. How much you'll train a toddler, it will never be able to have capabilities to follow a scent trail like a bloodhound.
Comment Re:...Now help standardize on non-proprietary code (Score 1) 272
OT: safari does support some emacs key bindings:
see for example http://www.danrodney.com/mac/
Comment reverse the law? (Score 2, Insightful) 512
It might be easier to reverse this law:
Any photo that has not been manipulated should indicate that 'the photo was not altered in order to modify the appearance of a person.'
Might be a whole lot cheaper.
Comment Re:the most impressive thing (Score 2, Interesting) 249
And what about reproducibility?.
It would be rather hard too say "Oh yeah, I confirmed that experiment in my laboratory". If something would be wrong wired and thereby giving some false positives, how do you test for those? They must have some redundant checking mechanism somewhere...