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Creative Loafing Atlanta | COVER | THE BRAIN OF THE FUTURE |
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8:37 am EST, Mar 16, 2003 |
Ray's mastery of the computer improved over the next six months. On May 24, 1999, Kennedy visited Ray at his home in the V.A. Medical Center in Decatur. Kennedy asked what he felt as he moved the cursor. Ray spelled NOTHING. He had learned to move the cursor simply by thinking of moving the cursor. He no longer had to think about moving his hand. The part of his brain that was supposed to dictate movement evolved; it abandoned hope for the appendage. The brain opted instead to communicate directly with the computer. "That led us to say he has now devoted that part of his brain to driving the cursor," Kennedy says. "See, the brain is very crafty. It's very adaptable. It can learn. And that's really the key thing." Me: Good article on "jacking in." Creative Loafing Atlanta | COVER | THE BRAIN OF THE FUTURE |
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Evidence that US regulatory environment is slowing broadband adoption |
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| Topic: Business |
8:34 am EST, Mar 16, 2003 |
] Canada's high-speed Internet service providers have been
] far more successful than their U.S. counterparts in
] signing up residential customers, a study to be released
] Monday says. I want my gigabit networking! Just be happy you don't have to pay by the megabyte, like we do in Moscow. Evidence that US regulatory environment is slowing broadband adoption |
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U.S. Missteps Led to Failed Diplomacy (washingtonpost.com) |
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| Topic: Current Events |
8:32 am EST, Mar 16, 2003 |
] Six months after President Bush first appeared before the
] United Nations and urged a confrontation with Iraq, the
] United States appears to have lost diplomatic ground, not
] gained it, leaving it in a precarious international
] position as it prepares to launch a war. U.S. Missteps Led to Failed Diplomacy (washingtonpost.com) |
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Ars Chimera: Living, Genetically Engineered Art |
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6:27 pm EST, Mar 15, 2003 |
"Dmitry Bulatov is one of a small, but growing, number of artists around the world who are using genetic engineering to create a new form of art known as Ars Chimera, or transgenic art, named for a creature from Greek mythology that had a lion's head, a goat's body and a dragon's tail.
Bulatov, the curator of the Kaliningrad branch of the National Center for Contemporary Art, heads the Consciousness on the Alert (Soznaniye Nastorozhe) project, in conjunction with Moscow's Ivanovsky Virology Institute. One of the goals of the project -- which Bulatov said is currently on hold due to lack of funding -- is the creation of a naturally fluorescent cactus, which scientists would create by introducing genetic material from bioluminescent, or naturally glowing, organisms (in this case, a jellyfish and a sea anemone) into a Lophophora Cactus." Jello: Bad ASS. I want to play... anyone ever actually use the old Nuts n Volts gene splicing kit? Ars Chimera: Living, Genetically Engineered Art |
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Email as Spectroscopy [PDF] |
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| Topic: Society |
6:15 pm EST, Mar 15, 2003 |
We describe a methodology for the automatic identification of communities of practice from email logs within an organization. We use a betweeness centrality algorithm that can rapidly find communities within a graph representing information flows. We apply this algorithm to an email corpus of nearly one million messages collected over a two-month span, and show that the method is effective at identifying true communities, both formal and informal, within these scale-free graphs. This approach also enables the identification of leadership roles within the communities. Email as Spectroscopy [PDF] |
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| Topic: Local Information |
3:34 pm EST, Mar 15, 2003 |
"After the collapse of communism, the KGB was broken up into five separate agencies, but it was not fully disbanded nor was the successor organizations' mode of operation seriously reformed. Now President Vladimir Putin, a former KGB operative, is reassembling the dreaded Soviet secret police. The president announced that two former KGB agencies, the Federal Border Service and Federal Agency for Government Communications and Information, will be reintegrated with the main KGB successor agency, the FSB." ----------------------------------------------------------------- Now the FSB regulates elections as well... I think Putin will be president of the RF for life (or close to it), whether he gets an amendment passed to grant him a third term, or not. I actually know some monarchists that prey this happens. KGB: Big, Bad and Back? |
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Sony's Idei - Part 3 :: AO |
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8:45 pm EST, Mar 14, 2003 |
Part 3 of the interview with Sony's Chairman and CEO. Most amazing bit quoted below:
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The second platform will tie together the PlayStation, the home server, and the TV. We have announced jointly with Panasonic and Philips that we have agreed on the basic Linux kernel for this platform. Based on this Linux kernel, we are developing the middleware and the application interfaces so that our PlayStation, future TVs, and future home video cameras will all work on a single platform.
Sony's Idei - Part 3 :: AO |
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| Topic: Games |
8:26 pm EST, Mar 14, 2003 |
With respect to the second choice and the thought of buying a game engine from one of the specialized companies, suppose we overcame its expensive cost that values up to hundreds of thousands of dollars, yet the engine will possess limited capabilities, and we would always find refuge at the company for an update. This way we would be like consumers, the same as it is the case to us Arabs in many of the other fields. In addition, most companies that design games' engines are either Zionist or companies that observe the interests of the enemies, and conditions for the acquisition the avoidance of using its engines for anti-Zionism projects. ::Oh my, I had no idea! specialforce |
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