i bet you're a lawyer aren't you.

don't have a cow man

The moral of the story is that we can eliminate all spam and phishing by signing Robert Mueller up on every spam list we can find.

in addition to just showing a scanned word, the captcha image is contorted and corrupted. This makes captchas much much harder to solve compared to standard OCR problems. Improving and perfecting OCR is unlikely to have as much of an adverse impact on captchas as spammers hiring poor folks to solve them.

It sounds like this might be a bad thing. I'm no mining engineer, but you might be able to flush a mine with water and then use this bacteria to efficiently extract uranium from the resulting water-uranium slurry.

We as a people are getting to the point where we have a unsustainable population on this planet. FTL especially if its mass produced and inexpensive is the solution to this problem. If mankind is able to travel to distant habital worlds then there is a chance, we wont wipe ourselves out with overpopulation. I truly wish more funding was spent on space, if that was the case then we might just be lucky enough to get the smart people off the planet before it can no longer sustain us.

with Marvin the paranoid android

I'm not trying to knock the guy for getting research money. I'm a researcher myself. I just think that getting funding for research isn't news. Discovering something as a result of your research is.

this is just another article about someone getting research money.

I can't wait for OSX Lolcat!!

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We would need a sample set much larger then 2 to draw any meaningful conclusions. We'll probably have to wait fro the mouse studies to answer your questions.

I'll finally be able to realize my dream of directing a live action movie adaptation of super mario galaxy starring ron jeremy!

I'm sorry but the idea of letting students collaborate using their cell phones is really naive. The first thing most students would do is use them to chat about the latest episode of Lost or something equally disruptive. Don't get me wrong, i'm not trying to say kids these days are any lazier or distracted then i was (after all I am reading slashdot from work). I'm just saying that it would be advantageous to the learning process if we could remove the temptation. Letting students chat about whatever they want in class would be like giving away free bacon at the gym.

These days many people only have laptops, which aren't viable as a web server because you're constantly picking them up and taking them with you. If they bought one of these it could serve as a cheap permanent home computer, but it could be a link from their laptop to their home network.