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• Commented on An evening of confusion with Dell customer service
  I'll 2nd the decent Dell tech support. Not sure if the brains drain away when you get to the sales division,vut I had a great experience with Dell support. My mini 9 had a stuck shift key. I did all...
• Commented on PS22 kids chorus sings The Cure
  I know what these kids will be humming after their first breakup. A bit early to indoctrinate them into the cure but I approve nonetheless!...
• Commented on Six-year-old sent to reform school for bringing a "weapon" (Cub Scout camping cutlery) to school
  This is ridiculous. I remember my school offering a cheap hunting knife as one of it's three top prizes on our school olympics day. I didn't win it, and I forget if the winner was immediately cuffed and expelled upon...
• Commented on Patrick Swayze, 1952-2009
  I just read through the posts hoping someone got to the bottom of the Swayze/Douglas Adams mashup. So there really is no link between thanks for all the fish and swayze? wtf #9!!! Laters Patrick, beam me up/allonz-y/i'll be back....
• Commented on The Brain that Changes Itself: hopeful book on the science of neuroplasticity
  Admittedly I haven't read the book, but it seems a bit heavy on the wishful thinking. Complete with a heavy dose of "you too can have superpowers, you just have to think yourself super". If you lose primary visual cortex...
• Commented on Daydreaming brains are afire
  #2. You're right. Cognitive neuroscience was solved ages ago. We can all go home and stop the research. I'm not saying this study is great, but current methods have a specificity and sophisitication that "oh look visual areas activate when...
• Commented on Using light to "read minds"
  #7 That's 80% average classification accuracy based on single trial data. That means that for any given trial, their classifier has an 80% chance of accurately predicting your preference. It's not only statistically significant, it's pretty damn impressive! Many machine...
• Commented on Research on snap judgments based on people's faces
  The thing to remember with this is that it's all data driven using (I think) principal component analysis to extract the features people seem to be using in rating trustworthiness (and they have a lot of people doing a lot...
• Commented on Cylons explain DRM
  Hate to be hating but I have to agree with #5. Cylon voice is preset number 1 on every single software vocoder out there....