Comment Terminator? Hunter/Killer? (Score 1) 472
More like Hunter/Killer than terminator, IIRC
Brain Surgery Linked To Sensation of Spirituality 380
the3stars writes "'Removing part of the brain can induce inner peace, according to researchers from Italy. Their study provides the strongest evidence to date that spiritual thinking arises in, or is limited by, specific brain areas. This raises a number of interesting issues about spirituality, among them whether or not people can be born with a strong propensity towards spirituality and also whether it can be acquired through head trauma."
One critic's quoted response: "It's important to recognize that the whole study is based on changes in one self-report measure, which is a coarse measure that includes some strange items."
The Best Robots of 2009 51
kkleiner writes "Singularity Hub has just unveiled its second annual roundup of the best robots of the year. In 2009 robots continued their advance towards world domination with several impressive breakouts in areas such as walking, automation, and agility, while still lacking in adaptability and reasoning ability. It will be several years until robots can gain the artificial intelligence that will truly make them remarkable, but in the meantime they are still pretty awesome."
Submission + - George Takei now an Asteroid (msn.com)
ineedbettername writes: "In recent news, the International Astronomic Union has decided to rename the asteroid "1994 GT9" to 7307 Takei in honor of George Takei, the actor who played Sulu in Star Trek. He now joins the ranks of other famous sci-fi figures in space, such as 4659 Roddenberry, 68410 Nichols, Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov."
Feed The Register: Google nabs aerial camera company (theregister.com)
'We will photograph everything'
If you were getting worried that a full two weeks had passed without Google acquiring yet another company, you can now rest easy. Today, the lord of the acquisitions bagged ImageAmerica - a company that takes aerial photographs with its own airplanes and high-res cameras - as it looks to beef up imagery on its Google Earth and Google Maps services.
Comment but what about the children? (Score 1) 1330
so the richest 2% of adults... but what about all the billionaires still in grade school? this study is clearly flawed, i declare shenanigans!
Comment Re:Going that route would be insane (Score 1) 922
I somehow doubt the price would be around 700. If this machine is really going to be marketed at a completely different set of customers than the eMac is(799) then there would need to be more than a $99 difference in price.
Comment Re:I find it to be MS's fault (Score 1) 706
In this particular case at least - and any similar - I would think that MS is (at least partially) to blame.
Making an OS that has a port for a certain protocol (namely NetBIOS) available over another *by default* that exposes it to millions of other machines (namely TCP/IP via the 'net) is definitely NOT the way to release an OS that you are claiming is supposed to be so secure.
Who is "the admin" for all of those people who are just regular home users/gamers/students (with no real interest in computers, or anyone for that matter for whom the computer is just another tool?
The answer? Microsoft. Thus, this is their screwup - again.
When you get your license and you buy your first car, does the manufacturer/dealer hold you responsible for knowing how to fix the engine or rebuild it? No - you just have to know how to use the vehicle - ie: drive, add gas, check oil and tires. Just like how every casual (ie: non "admin-type" computer user) expects that with a computer, they need to plug it in, turn it on, maybe defrag it or run a virus scan every now and then, and use their favorite program/game on it... NOT be a network admin for it.
With the Internet "slowly" making it's way into everyone's house - and via faster and faster connections - and the large majority of those Internet users being computer users, default Windows setup should account for that.
Oddly though, each new release of Windows opens MORE ports instead of less - and also even MORE "accidental" back doors.
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