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Our brain acts as a social network: According to a U.S. professor of psychology, some regions of our brains work like digital computers. Still, our whole brains operate as social networks. Randall OReilly, from the University of Colorado at Boulder, says that neurons in the prefrontal cortex PFC are binary. They have "on" and "off" states, and...; Tags: digitaL, Randall OReilly; Blog posts 2006-10-08

Comparing code bases: Comparing code basesThe trouble isyour proposed comparison would do exactly what the legal standard rejects: compare functionality. Two implementations of the same specification would come up as similar.My favorite example is sort. I can write dozens of different implementations of gnu [b]sort[/b] with identical external behavior, yet they're...; Tags: Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Insurance, PC industry, AT&T Corp., Ritchie, patent; Discussion threads 2005-07-22

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