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Robotics

Submission + - Robot Rest & Relaxation

MattSparkes writes: "A growing number of hardware hackers have been able to get access to old industrial robots, as they are now relatively affordable second-hand. This means that a lot of bizarre creations are showing up online. The article shows videos of homemade fairground rides, DJ machines, tennis playing machines and coffee making machines, all of which would kill everyone in the room if they went wrong."
Privacy

Submission + - The war on terror to last at least 10 more years?

Jyms writes: This article seems to suggest that we will have to sacrifice even more privacy on future flights:

"Tiny cameras the size of a fingernail linked to specialist computers will be used to monitor the behaviour of airline passengers as part of the war on terrorism.

Fitted to seat-backs, the cameras will record every twitch or suspicious movement before sending the data to onboard software that will check it against individual passenger profiles."

An I they seem to suggest that the "war on terror" is not going to be over any time soon:

"Airlines have given the scheme a cautious welcome, indicating it would be too expensive to fit on existing commercial aircraft and it would probably be 10 years before such systems were fitted to new planes."

Wonder if you will be able to get some good stock tips from first/bussiness class travelers?

"A separate microphone will record speech, including whispers; Islamic suicide bombers whisper texts from the Koran in the moments before they explode bombs."
GNOME

Submission + - 50 000 GNOME Linux desktops in Brazil

An anonymous reader writes: BitWay Computadores, EnabledPeople and IMTECH Brazil companies today announced that they made large PC desktops deployments for Computers for All Brazil federal government program. Ready PC solution provided by Bitway includes preinstalled Linux XP Desktop operating system developed by EnabledPeople and supported by IMTECH. Estimated month deployment is about 10000 desktops with 50000 desktops already delivered.

Full press release
Windows

Submission + - CAD software on Vista up to 50 times slover

stasike writes: The upFront.eZine reports that according to the article on Tom's Hardware many popular 3D CAD and modelling programs run 10 to 50 times slower on Vista than on XP. An average modelling program, like 3ds max, runs "only" 10 times slower. UGS NX, on the other hand runs more than 50 times slower. This is a direct result of killing an OpenGL and implementing god-only-knows-what protective features into the Vista for our own good.
The Internet

Submission + - Wikipedia is failing

An anonymous reader writes: A growing number of people are concerned about where Wikipedia is heading. Some have left Wikipedia for Citizendium, while others are trying to change the culture of Wikipedia from within. A recent essay called Wikipedia is failing points out many of the problems which must be solved with Wikipedia for it to succeed in its aim of becoming a reputable, reliable reference work. How would you go about solving these problems?

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