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Submission + - Things You May Not Have Known 3D Printers Can Make (computerworld.com)

Submitted by Lucas123
Lucas123 writes: Here are 10 intriguing items in development or currently being made with 3D printers, including printed circuits boards from an Australian company whose machine lays down conductive inks (made of silver nano particles) onto wearable items, such as fabrics, as well as acrylic boards, plastics, MDF, FR4 and other fiberglass substrates. At Intellectual Ventures Laboratory in Bellevue, Wash., researchers are creating ink cartridges filled with freeze dried, pulverized food that could someday be used in third world nations where, by adding water, it could be printed and cooked by a laser at the extruder's nozzle. And, then there's the "Chemputer", a 3D printer that can produce pharmaceuticals, meaning ultimately, you may someday be able to print your own medicine.

Submission + - If we Buck Feta and leave, where should we go? 17

Submitted by Covalent
Covalent writes: I am a long-time slashdot reader (don't let the UID fool you), and I agree with most of you that the Beta is a disaster. Dice has promised a fix, but what if this garbage is the new reality? Is there a suitable alternative to slashdot that members would find equally (or more) fulfilling? Is someone going to fork slashdot and start it anew (Taco can you hear me?) Or is this just the end of an era?

Submission + - Slashdot Beta Sucks Elephant Penis 2

Submitted by ShaunC
ShaunC writes: Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes:

Have you even seen an elephant penis? Because I have, and the colors align to Slashdot. The beta is so bad, Roland Piquepaille is surrendering his account (as the French do). The GNAA has reorganized to post fake job offerings on Dice.com with an emphasis on affirmative action. Profane Motherfucker has come out of retirement simply to say: "fuck this shit."

Submission + - An open letter to the management of Slashdot. 14

Submitted by onyxruby
onyxruby writes: I have been watch for some time now as Slashdot has started beta testing a new version of the website. As you are well aware the new site would constitute a complete change to the look, interface and functionality of Slashdot.org.

Change happens, and for those of us who work with technology for a living it is the only constant. Change is a process and in and of itself is not a bad thing when it offers improvement. Unfortunately the change that has been offered negatively impacts the look, interface and most importantly the functionality of Slashdot.
Many people have had trouble reverting back to the classic interface. The new interface simply does not offer the functionality of the old. Things like statistics, comments and layout are very difficult to find. You have a community that lives and breathes data and want to know their data. How is my comment ranked, how many people responded – it’s really all about the dialogue. Can I get the information that I want in a readily digestible format?

As you’re well aware the new site does not offer the very thing that people come here for. This in and of itself is not why your community has organized a boycott of Beta. The boycott was originated because the new version will be implemented whether the community wants it or not.

I want to explain why this change has gone down people’s throats about as well as Windows 8’s Metro interface. The reason has absolutely nothing to do with the interface and everything to do with the perception that the editors and management of Slashdot appear to have.

The message that has been consistently handed down is that we are “your audience”. We are not your “your audience” we are your product. People do not come to Slashdot for the news stories, there are untold other sites that provide those as well as professional and original writing about them. People come here for the community of insiders from across the industry.

Please respect the community and stop what you’re doing. You have commented that you don’t want to maintain two code bases. Your community works in the industry and understands this, which leads many to suggest you abandon the new code base entirely so that you are only maintaining once code base. Tell us what your trying to accomplish and I would imagine that a wide range of experts would be more than willing to help you meet your goals.

Submission + - A Modest Proposal, re: Beta vs. Classic 19

Submitted by unitron
unitron writes: Dice wants to make money off of what they paid for--the Slashdot name--, or rather they want to make more money off of it than they are making now, and they think the best way to do that is to turn it into SlashingtonPost.

They should take this site and give it a new name. Or get Malda to let them use "Chips & Dips".

Leave everything else intact, archives, user ID database, everything except the name.

Then use the Beta code and start a new site and give it the slashdot.org name, and they can have what they want without the embarrassment of having the current userbase escape from the basement or the attic and offend the sensibilities of the yuppies or hipsters or metrosexuals or whoever it is that they really want for an "audience".

Submission + - /. Beta comments don't work, users upset. (slashdot.org) 4

Submitted by magic maverick
magic maverick writes: Since the new /. Beta came to light, many /. users and commentators have tried it out. However, they are almost universally condemning the new commenting system. It simply isn't as good as the so called Classic system. Some users, however, haven't a bad thing to say. Mainly because they haven't had a chance to even use the new system. It simply doesn't load. One user, Magic Maverick , who lives in a third-world country with crappy Internet, had this to say:

I come to /. for the comments, but with the new Beta, I can't even see anything! It just says:

''Shazbot! We ran into some trouble getting the comments. Try again... na-nu, na-nu!

It seems like the "developers" need to take some advice from people who actually know what they are doing. I'm happy to help explain what graceful degradation means if they like...

Submission + - Dice Holdings, Inc, deleting unflattering stories from Slashdot firehose 4

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Stories submitted to the Slashdot firehose that take a negative view on the site's redesign are being deleted. 4 hours ago, it was full of anti-beta posts. Now they are gone. That's right. A forum that usually leaves V14GRA spam in place for posterity is deleting user content.

Comment Re:The simplest explanation (Score 1) 95

by your_neighbor (#40601099) Attached to: Weak Solar Convection 100 Times Slower Than Predicted

If you get results that fly in the face of decades of peer-reviewed research, your first instinct should not be to believe you've upended physics as we know it. Your first instinct should be, "Oh shit, what did I fuck up?"

My money is on the "results" being wrong.

Increase the "Oh shit, what did I fuck up?" if your "results" are multiple of 2 or 10:

"What they found significantly departed from existing theory–specifically, the speed of the Sun’s plasma motions were approximately 100 times slower than scientists had previously projected."

Comment Re:Brain drain (Score 1) 137

by your_neighbor (#38996283) Attached to: Google's First Employee Departs

If you consider MBTI, which IMHO is a good tool for team building, most inventive types (consider ENTP for example) are very good at startup phase but lack the tools to keep everything running under schedule, and then someone hires beancouting types. The problem arise when desires surpasses means, and working place becomes politicized. Coincidentally, the inventive types which hate politics loose power and then mediocrity takes place, and to invent you must be part of a special group or have MBA and etc.
Medicine

Submission + - A wireless router for your brain (extremetech.com)

Submitted by
MrSeb
MrSeb writes: "Ready for the Bleeding Edge Science Word of the Day? Optogenetics. It’s even weirder than it sounds, too: optogenetics is the manipulation of a cell’s functions with light (usually lasers). Today, American startup Kendall Research has announced that it has made a wireless optogenetics device that the company’s founder calls “a wireless router for the brain.” In essence, optogenetics uses a virus to make cells sensitive to light (this is fairly standard practice for gene therapy), and then controls these cells using light. Previous optogenetics devices have been bulky, but Kendall has managed to produce a prototype device that weighs just a few grams and can wirelessly controlled by a computer. Kendall now has lab animals scampering around with optogenetics devices attached to their heads — scientists can manipulate their brain function with a tap on a keyboard, or even set up scheduled, autonomous tests. As far as human applications go, optogenetics is probably the key to Matrix-like "I want to learn Kung Fu!" hacks, or the microsofts from Gibson's Sprawl trilogy."

Submission + - Anonymous Creating Megavideo and Megaupload Altern (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Anonymous, the group who retaliated against the United States Government for bringing down file-sharing websites Megaupload and Megavideo by hacking the websites of the MPAA, RIAA and the Department of Justice, is once again taking matters into their own hands and creating a Megaupload and Megavideo alternative of their own.

The website, www.AnonyUpload.com, was registered on Monday to a P.O. box in Sunnydale, Calif. to an "Adrian Jesson," though Anonymous says that the domain registration will change to a Russian host. "For your safety, our infrastructure will be out of the U.S. jurisdiction

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