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POPSWireless Electricity Tech by Intel This is the next tech that has a great impact on us all. Tech is there and implementation has to wait a while. But is exciting none the less. Talk about it at clipmarks and post your impressions.
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POPSWhy the Brain Follows the Rules
Not surprisingly, the threat of punishment made people act more fairly. In the “punishment threat condition” people split the money close to equally. However, when Person B had no recourse, the people given the money acted very differently and gave away, on average, less than 10 percent of the money. When the researchers looked at the brain activity of people playing this simple game, they found a consistent pattern. One region in the frontal lobes, the orbitofrontal cortex, seemed to be responsible for evaluating the potential for punishment. In other words, it figured out whether or not violating the social norm would get us in trouble. A second brain region, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, was responsible for inhibiting the natural tendency to keep most of the money (this would be the greedy thing to do) if this action might lead to future punishment. Interestingly, these brain areas only were activated when the threat of punishment came from a real person, and not a compute
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POPS"No right to educate your own child?" If I had it to do over again, I would definitely homeschool. However, the resources were not so readily available as they are now. Homeschool my grandchildren??....absolutely! They are being indoctrinated, not educated. When save the planet, global warming, recycling, etc...is what I hear when they walk home with me...well, forget it! They are so smart and eager to learn. Reading, writing and arithmetic...add a little musical training, science, compute introduction, etc... But they can't keep it to the basic. The NEA has their agenda, but it is not that of many American parents.
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POPSPrice Determines Our Perception *LOL* This reminds me of something similar. I'm house-hunting and here where I live, the price of real estate suddenly was lowered 7% last week. Yay, right? Folks rushed to get a good deal, but what people failed to realise, was that the prices where raised the day before by 8%!! *LOL* Sometimes it pays to just pay attention. I bet the newest homeowners here just love their new pricy houses, though. :lol: I don't like red wine all that much. :)
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POPSMac Trojan - It's Finally Happened Unlike many Windows-based attacks, the Trojan doesn't exploit a hole in Apple's software, and it can't install itself. Instead, it relies on social engineering, tricking users into downloading the codec, and requiring that they type in the administrator password to install it.
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POPSWeb Operating System: eyeOS I believe the future is the web, even to the extent that we'll be putting all of our data, including the OS, up in the cloud and compute from there. eyeOS is one example of a possible implementation of this concept. A more in-depth look-see will most probably follow on my blog.
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