Shar-Kali-Sharri - Slashdot User

Comment Edge Tycoon, Play as Tim Langdell the patent troll (Score 4, Funny) 63

by Shar-Kali-Sharri on Saturday August 08, 2009 @01:26PM (#28996771) Attached to: The Perseverance of a Trademark Troll

Someone went and made a game out of this man's career, Edge Tycoon: http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=6619.msg211236#msg211236 You play Tim Langdell trying to patent game names before the games are made, and then sue the developers. I found it rather funny.

Comment Re:When it becomes carved (Score 1) 200

by Shar-Kali-Sharri on Monday February 02, 2009 @06:56AM (#26692353) Attached to: Stone Tool 1.83M Years Old Discovered In Malaysia

The material is not flint. I am not certain what it is, but it's not a flint.

On what do you base you assertion that it isn't flint? To me it looks like flint. Remember flint can have all sorts of colours, and the structure of the stone, also looks like flint...

Comment Re:Not actually our ancestors (Score 1) 220

by Shar-Kali-Sharri on Thursday April 17, 2008 @09:20AM (#23103178) Attached to: Computers Emulate Neanderthal Speech

You are right, they aren't our ancestors and they DID live together with modern humans, or at least in the same general area: In the Middle East for about 40.000 years, from 90.000 to 40.000 B.C.

Submission + - Sperm could power nanobots (msn.com)

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Lucas123

on Wednesday January 02, 2008 @11:33AM

Lucas123 writes: "According to MSNBC, scientists are experimenting with using a sperm's flagellum or tail to overcome the problem of supplying energy to nanobots that could be implanted in the body as smart probes that would release disease-fighting drugs, monitor enzymes and perform other medical roles within a patient's body. Powered by a compound called adenosine triphosphate or ATP (produced by mitochondria), a sperm's flagellum can propel it at about 7 inches an hour. Energy from ATP could also power the pumps charged with dispensing the medication at a certain rate from the nanobots."

Submission + - Dreams Are Virtual Reality Threat Simulation

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Time Slows Down

on Wednesday January 02, 2008 @11:24AM

Time Slows Down writes: "Psychology Today has an interesting story on a new theory of why we dream. Finnish psychologist Antti Revonsuo believes that dreams are a sort of nighttime theater in which our brains screen realistic scenarios simulating emergency situations and providing an arena for safe training. "The primary function of negative dreams is rehearsal for similar real events, so that threat recognition and avoidance happens faster and more automatically in comparable real situations," he says. We have 300 to 1,000 threat dreams per year — one to four per night and just under half are aggressive encounters: physical aggression such as fistfights, and nonphysical aggression such as verbal arguments. Faced with actual life-or-death situations — traffic accidents, terrorist attacks, street assaults — people report entering a mode of calm, rapid response, reacting automatically, almost without thinking. Afterward, they often say the episode felt unreal, as if it were all a dream. "Dreaming is a sensitive system that tries to pay much attention to the threatening cues in our environment," Revonsuo says. "Their function is to protect and prepare us.""

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