The Obvious eReader Market Opportunity (1)
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Jane's got a point. I'm talking about this recent post on the Dear Author blog. She raises two critical points about the existing ereader market: single- vs. multi-function devices and price.I have no problem that my Kindle is basically a single-function device. Sure, you can listen to MP3's on it (with the extremely limited functionality player) and surf the web (if you have the patience of a saint), but it's really a content reader, almost ...
NSA enjoys eavesdropping on US soldiers' phone sex calls (12)
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ABC News reports that, "despite pledges by President George W. Bush and American intelligence officials to the contrary," the NSA listens in on ordinary phone calls of US citizens overseas, and military intercept operators who work at the National Security Agency (NSA) enjoy sharing and saving recordings of US officers' pillow-talk and phone sex calls with their spouses back home. [Intercept operator, former Navy Arab linguist, David Murfee Faulk] says he and others in his ...
Paris Hilton asks Martin Sheen for fake-President advice - VIDEO (1)
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Filed under: Video, Web, Celebrities, Reality-FreeDid you know that Paris Hilton is running for President? I know, I know, you haven't seen any commercials on TV and she hasn't participated in any of the debates and who knows if she even knows what the word incumbent means, but she wants to be the next leader of the free world. And she's asked the best fake President we've ever had for some advice.That's right, Paris has ...
Yoko Ono/EMI Suit Exposes Fair Use Flaw (3)
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Ian Lamont writes "Yoko Ono and EMI Records have backed down from their suit against the makers of a documentary film who used a 15-second fragment of a John Lennon song — but only after a Stanford Law School group got involved. Even though the use of the clip was clearly Fair Use, the case exposed a huge problem with the doctrine: It's becoming too expensive for people to actually take advantage of what is ...
Calling Greenspan to Account (2)
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Somehow Alan Greenspan has been able to escape blame for the mess we find our selves in today. But as Peter Goodman points out this morning, the fingerprints of Greenspan’s radical Ayn Rand libertarianism are all over the Credit Crisis. Time and again, Mr. Greenspan — a revered figure affectionately nicknamed the Oracle — proclaimed that risks could be handled by the markets themselves. “Proposals to bring even minimalist regulation were basically rebuffed by Greenspan ...
mfg shared as favorite Court bans sales of RealDVD indefinitely (4)
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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets It look like Hollywood's won the first round in court against RealNetworks' RealDVD DVD-ripping software -- Judge Maralyn Hall Patel (of Napster fame, remember her?) ruled yesterday that a temporary restraining order blocking sales of the software will stay in place indefinitely until she decides whether it violates the DMCA. The central issue is whether or not making a bit-for-bit copy of a DVD constitutes circumventing copy protection: the studios claim ...
Brainwave Controlled Game From Square Enix (4)
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zombies-alive writes "Square Enix and Neurosky, maker of wearable sensory equipment, are coming out with a new 'Brainwave-Controlled' RPG. The game will be demonstrated at the Tokyo Game Show for the (Windows) PC, which features the NeuroSky MindSet headset. At this moment, the headset only detects the gamer's level of concentration and relaxation by means of a single electrode placed on the forehead."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Ladies and gentlemen we're floating in space (3)
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I just came across these two beautiful images in a paper by neuroscientist Marek Kubicki and colleagues on diffusion tensor imaging studies in schizophrenia. DTI is a technique that using MRI scans to track how water moves throughout the brain. As water tends to move in one particular direction when its trapped inside nerve fibres, a technique called MRI tractography can be used to map out all the white matter 'cabling', separate from the rest ...
Dealing with Disaster: A Brief Guide to Emergency Preparedness ∞ Get Rich Slowly (4)
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This is a guest post from JLP of All Financial Matters. JLP, who is a financial planner, was instrumental in helping me get started with Get Rich Slowly, and his blog remains one of my favorites. As a resident living fairly close to the Gulf Coast, I’m familiar with evacuating for a hurricane. There’s no way around it — evacuating for a natural disaster is a pain. But, there are things you do to make ...
What You Didn't Hear During the Presidential Debate [Personal Finance] (14)
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Personal finance blogger Ramit Sethi theorizes that there were a whole lot of things the Presidential candidates didn't (and couldn't) say about your money during the debate last night. For example: Not all homeowners deserve to stay in their houses. Renting is a perfectly reasonable alternative, but the idea of Americans “losing their houses” is politically untenable. Why? Because America perpetuates a mistaken culture of homeownership. Owning your own home is the kind of BS ...
Repliee R-1 child robot makes rare appearance, scares adults (1)
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Developed a few years ago by the roboticists at Osaka University, the Repliee R-1 robot made a rare public appearance at last week's CEATEC conference in Tokyo. Sporting a silicon skin and utilizing 50 sensors, the tiny robot was designed to mimic the appearance and movements of a 5 year-old child. While the effect of the child-bot is decidedly more hauntingly creepy than cute (see video here), the sister of the previous Repliee Q-1 reminds ...
Data-mining sucks: official report (14)
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A multi-year National Research Council review of data-mining as a means of discovering terrorists has concluded that this just doesn't work very well, and that it ends up harming and harassing -- and terrorizing -- innocents whose only crime is to have a profile that some database-designer thinks is hinky. The report was written by a committee whose members include William Perry, a professor at Stanford University; Charles Vest, the former president of MIT; W. ...
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or more broadly can we go back to a reality based government not based on fantasy (or tv shows) but on real evidence driven scientificly grounded research and a strong respect for our constitution and human rights?
NeuroSky and Square Enix Set to Demo Mind-Controlled Gaming (9)
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Filed under: Gaming The last time we saw NeuroSky's MindSet brainwave-controlled gaming headset, the company was partnering with Sega -- now the peripheral-maker has teamed with Square Enix to produce what we hope will be a "mind-blowing" (groan) demo at this year's Tokyo Game Show. If you'll recall, NeuroSky has been pushing its unique brand of mind-controlled gaming since way back in 2005, but it appears the technology has become increasingly attractive to notable game-makers ...
A Practical Wedding (5)
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Speaking of weddings, Kate F. wrote the other day to share a tip: I am just starting the wedding planning process and have been really disheartened by the wedding industry and the realization that what to me is a lot to spend ($5000) is literally laughable by most involved in the industry. I finally came across a blog that I feel fits with my vision of a simple, debt-free wedding: A Practical Wedding. I’ve never ...
good news from Japan (2)
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Ikeda-san reports two bits of very good news from Japan: On Sep. 18, the Council of Culture gave up the extension of copyright from 50 years after the death of the author to 70 years. Two years ago, the Council proposed the extension to follow the "global standard", but many people on the Web objected against the legislation. Last week the Council of Information and Communication decided to scrap the B-CAS, the notorious conditional access ...
World of Goo devs on DRM: we trust you, don't steal from us (1)
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It has surprised me that this, the tremor before this recent financial disaster, the Keating Five scandal, has not been at the center of this campaign before. But now, apparently in response to Palin's suggestion that the fact Obama knows Ayers is relevant to whether he should be president, the Obama campaign has released this very strong 15 minute documentary about the Keating scandal. For those not old enough to remember, here's the outline: 5 ...
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Netflix subscribers who have Blu-ray movies in their queues will soon be paying a buck per month for the privilege. Read More...Shared by arkiver (20) Jason (110) lewis (19) Matthew (42) Mike Mol (20) Muhammad Saleem (264) PJ (20) Terrance D. Kennedy (100)Contribute commentDilbert.com Blog (141) permalink
According to a new study, women are attracted to intelligent men for both long term relationships and for hook-ups. http://abcnews.go... The only time women are not attracted to intelligent men is when they have the option of a good looking guy who is dumber than pants on fish. Still, it's comforting to know that given the choice of two ugly guys, women usually prefer the one who is not a moron. And obviously many women ...Shared by anand (26) arkiver (20) Daniel (16) Eric (19) gyakusetsu (20) Lerch (25) Ooble (33) pigpogm (24) tatopuig (12)
