at 1st

First make sure the right drivers are installed if any came with the drive.
Try a different USB cable.
Turn off the power of the driver briefly and then turn it on again.
if using a USB hub, try plugging the external hard drive in a USB port directly on the system, not using the USB hub.
probably just compatibility problem.. hope that helps

dcttr66

United States555 Posts

May 14 2010 17:28 GMT

#22

As the coon asked his fellow bogan to carry the kwacha bag, he pointed his chopper at the brumby rider - trying to take aim but not a good shot with the extra hand occupied with the bag - he thought about how he missed out on some extra bugalugs and wondered if he would've been up for it had he taken his vegemite before the last night's buck's night.

I made this sentence myself, btw. But yeah, I decided to look up some words...so that probably should disqualify me.

A sentence I should make without looking up the words? I don't know if you specified that, but I would guess you would prefer it... I don't know. I'm too lazy to figure out what you would need to look up.

538

Hungary3932 Posts

May 14 2010 17:37 GMT

#23

On May 15 2010 01:28 BuGzlToOnl wrote:
1- Telling me how to fix the image.
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There you go:

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BaBa CaN

3 Posts

May 14 2010 17:44 GMT

#24

After nearly 12 hours of testimony yesterday by scientists, a hearing on whether lie detection technology based on fMRI scans of brain activity should be admitted in court continues today. Many scientists are skeptical of this technology, but several recent cases suggest that lawyers are increasingly interested in using it to sway juries. Based on yesterday's testimony in a federal court in Tennessee, it's hard to say whether one side or the other is gaining the upper hand, says University of Pennsylvania cognitive neuroscientist Martha Farah, who flew to Memphis earlier this week simply to be a spectator.

"To me, it's very exciting," Farah says. "They're trying to decide if this [technology] should have a role in a criminal trial." She says she was surprised by the first day's events, which she recapped with ScienceInsider last night. Going in to the hearing, she says, she assumed that the fMRI lie-detection method "didn't have much of a chance" to ruled admissible by the judge, Tu Pham. But now she's not so sure. The scientists behind the method have "some impressive sounding evidence, and understanding the problems with it requires fairly involved scientific and statistical reasoning," she wrote.

The first to testify in yesterday's hearing was Steven Laken, a cell biologist and founder and CEO of Cephos, a Massachusetts company that offers fMRI lie detection services.

Late last year, Cephos was retained by the defendant in the Tennessee case, Lorne Semrau, a psychologist who is fighting charges that he defrauded Medicare and other health insurers with wrongful claims. Semrau's attorney hopes to introduce fMRI scans performed by Cephos as evidence that he is telling the truth when he says he had no intent to commit fraud.

According to Farah, Laken "spoke in very strong and confident terms" about research finding that certain regions of the brain become more active when a person lies. Laken also described the procedure undergone by Semrau, which, to make a very long story short, involved having his brain scanned as he answered questions about details of his case, and comparing those scans with others taken as Semrau answered a different set of questions, unrelated to the case, after being instructed to intentionally lie on certain questions and respond truthfully to others. (The methods are similar, but not identical, to those used in two studies published by Laken and other researchers affiliated with Cephos: a 2005 paper in Biological Psychiatry, and a 2009 paper in the Journal of Forensic Sciences.)

On cross-examination, it came out that Cephos had originally planned to scan Semrau twice, with each scan addressing different aspects of his alleged misdoings. The first scan indicated he was telling the truth, but the second indicated he was lying. Laken noted that the method has a high rate of false positives (33% according to the 2009 paper) and argued that the second scan may have been compromised because Semrau appeared to be fatigued. When Cephos repeated that scan 2 weeks later, it indicated that he was telling the truth. Prosecuting attorneys questioned why fatigue would influence the results and argued that this do-over was arbitrary and indicated a lack of standardization in the procedure, one of several guidelines used to establish the admissibility of scientific evidence.

After lunch, the court heard from Marcus Raichle, a neuroimaging expert at WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis. Farah says Raichle raised questions about the strength of evidence that increased activity in the brain regions examined in the Cephos scans are specifically related to deception. The same regions become active during a variety of mental tasks, Raichle said. He also noted that Semrau was in his 60s when the scans were taken, considerably older than the 18- to 50-year-old subjects who participated in the published studies.

Farah sounds like she would have liked to chime in at this point about some things that were going undiscussed. "No one asked me, but the thing we have not a drop of data on is [the situation] where people have their liberty at stake and have been living with a lie for a long time," she says. She notes that the only published studies on fMRI lie detection involve people telling trivial lies with no threat of consequences. No peer-reviewed studies exist on real world situations like the case before the Tennessee court. Moreover, subjects in the published studies typically had their brains scanned within a few days of lying about a fake crime, whereas Semrau's alleged crimes began nearly 10 years before he was scanned.

Next on the stand was Peter Imrey, a biostatistician at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio. Farah says he began with a lengthy exposition on statistics and several examples from epidemiology that didn't seem directly relevant to the Semrau case. "I worry that some of the problems raised by Imrey may seem like academic hair splitting," she said as the court adjourned for a break late in the day. But later in the evening she texted to say that Imrey was landing some more direct hits on Cephos, raising serious questions about their methods.

At the end of the day, it wasn't clear who was winning, Farah said. But she says that Judge Pham seems determined to hear everyone out. "I think that we are getting a fairly complete picture of what's known and not known about the validity of this method."

its more than 1 sentence but i hope you don't understand some words ;d

BuGzlToOnl

United States5918 Posts

May 14 2010 17:49 GMT

#25

On May 15 2010 02:37 538 wrote:

Show nested quote +

There you go:

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Almost. :p

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iamtenninja

United States162 Posts

May 14 2010 17:57 GMT

#26

A branch of willow tree swung like a pendulum into the face of a nearby crochet-knitter who couldn't believe that serendipity would be such a deprecating and derogative contingency to deal with; he also fell into the river and was promptly and swiftly devoured by piranhas.

BuGzlToOnl

United States5918 Posts

May 14 2010 18:06 GMT

#27

On May 15 2010 01:53 caelym wrote:
Within the existential morphology and phonology of the human communication schema, the portmanteau is inly used to describe sordid colloquialisms used by the proletarian, which have now amalgamated with middling language.

^what i wrote is probably false. i just wrote it for this contest

EDIT: what i wrote is OC, not some copy pasta. gimme brownie points please

i. phonology - the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes
ii. portmanteau - blend: a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings
iii. sordid - morally degraded
iv. colloquialism - characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech

... Pm'ed.

BuGzlToOnl

United States5918 Posts

May 14 2010 18:08 GMT

#28

On May 15 2010 02:14 Pika Chu wrote:
How about follow what i wrote on my first post and then instead of deleting the partition try giving it a different letter assignment. That might fix it.

... Pm'ed.

icystorage

Jollibee19350 Posts

May 14 2010 18:36 GMT

#29

contributing it for the 118th poster, i hope someone deserving gets it (i dont have one

)

ggrrg

Bulgaria2717 Posts

May 14 2010 18:43 GMT

#30

you people need some more posts till 118...

Niten

United States598 Posts

May 14 2010 18:45 GMT

#31

I hope someone who wants it gets that 118th beta key!

iamtenninja

United States162 Posts

May 14 2010 18:48 GMT

#32

I wonder who got the sentence contest key

mcgriddle

United States253 Posts

May 14 2010 18:59 GMT

#33

I think 118 is aiming a bit too high. Perhaps, you should include "or the last person to post for 24 hours", that way you get maximum thread length. In fact you could just get rid of the 118 part and see how long you can keep this thread going

(before it is locked).