Aussie Kids Change Facebook Status Message Instead Of Calling Emergency When Lost In Stormdrain
I was browsing the internet looking for something for I am bored. I found this really funny and a bit of a wake up call.
Aussie Kids Change Facebook Status Message Instead Of Calling Emergency When Lost In Stormdrain:
Dependence on the internet and the call of social networking sites are currently at a peak. This dependence may reach unhealthy level and this has been proved yet again by the case of a couple kids who chose Facebook as a means to call out for help when in danger. Two girls of 10 and 12 years who found themselves lost in a stormwater drain in Adelaide, Australia, called out for help by using their cell phones to update their Facebook status message instead of calling the emergency hotline. Authorities are shocked that the girls didn’t think of calling emergency and there is no word on how the children’s parents reacted.
This is just insane. I really hope that one day, if my kid is in trouble, he will call someone rather than posting on Facebook, twitter or whatever else, when he is in trouble. Can you imagine posting on Facebook that your house is getting robbed? the phone will still be quicker.
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Will Skype Ever Become a Mainstream Business Tool?
I found this article very interesting:
Skype Ltd. has been trying to sell itself as a serious business tool since early 2006. It’s an ambitious strategy, and it represents a big jump from the company’s roots as a pioneer of free Internet calling for individuals.
It has also proven to be a much harder sell than expected.
At the beginning of its campaign, Skype targeted small and midsized businesses (SMBs). Its first step was to provide corporate billing and administration capabilities, so that companies wouldn’t have to reimburse employees individually for their use of Skype for cut-rate outbound calling. The next big step was interoperability with Asterisk and other open-source IP PBX platforms, another emerging SMB money-saver.
read more: Skype as Business tool
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Brain Differences Found Between Believers in God and non-believers
This is a really interesting study, here is a quick excerpt:
In two studies led by Assistant Psychology Professor Michael Inzlicht, participants performed a Stroop task – a well-known test of cognitive control – while hooked up to electrodes that measured their brain activity.
Compared to non-believers, the religious participants showed significantly less activity in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), a portion of the brain that helps modify behavior by signaling when attention and control are needed, usually as a result of some anxiety-producing event like making a mistake. The stronger their religious zeal and the more they believed in God, the less their ACC fired in response to their own errors, and the fewer errors they made.
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top 25 Censored stories for 2007
OK, I know its a few years back. But I am so bored, I thought I’d just share it with you:
- 1. Future of Internet Debate Ignored by Media
- 2. Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran
- 3. Oceans of the World in Extreme Danger
- 4. Hunger and Homelessness Increasing in the US
- 5. High-Tech Genocide in Congo
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A news website
this is a great news website, that gives you the chance to know more and read less. This is for all those lazy readers out there.
I think its very well done and a good idea.
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Brainwaves controll robot arm
Ever thought what would happen to you if you were to lose your arm?
Don’t worry any more. There is still hope:
Scientists have had a string of remarkable successes lately, taking signals from the brains of monkeys and men, and using them to move mechanical arms.
Darpa, the Pentagon’s blue-sky research division, now wants to ratchet that work up about ten notches, by developing a “neurally controlled artificial limb that will restore full motor and sensory capability to upper extremity amputee patients. This revolutionary prosthesis will be controlled, feel, look and perform like the native limb.”
So, basically, what Luke Skywalker gets in Empire Strikes Back, after Darth chops off his hand. Except, researchers won’t have a long, long time to get this limb ready. Darpa wants the robo-arm stat — in four years or less.
Read the whole article here: Human Robotic arm
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like Art? Art Movements
Bored? Have A look at the different art movements there has been over the years.
Really interesting.
http://www.bridgemanartondemand.com/page/movements
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