Dolohov - Slashdot User

Submission + - SPAM: A robotic Cyberknife to fight cancer

Submitted by

Roland Piquepaille

on Wednesday December 31, 2008 @01:50PM

Roland Piquepaille writes: "The Cyberknife is not a real knife. This is a robot radiotherapy machine which works with great accuracy during treatment, thanks to its robotic arm which moves around a patient when he breathes. According to BBC News, the first Cyberknife will be operational in February 2009 in London, UK. But other machines have been installed in more than 15 countries, and have permitted to treat 50,000 patients in the first semester of 2008. And the Cyberknife is more efficient than conventional radiotherapy devices. The current systems require twenty or more short sessions with low-dose radiation. On the contrary, and because it's extremely precise, a Cyberknife can deliver powerful radiation in just three sessions. Read more for additional details and references."

Comment Re:reg fee instead? (Score 1) 713

by Dolohov on Tuesday December 30, 2008 @05:09PM (#26271847) Attached to: Oregon Governor Proposes Vehicle Mileage Tax

Despite your sarcasm tags, if I'm not mistaken, they already pay higher registration fees. In most states, the fees scale according to the value of the car, and high-efficiency cars usually cost more.

Comment Re:Great idea - it can replace the Gas Tax! (Score 1) 713

by Dolohov on Tuesday December 30, 2008 @05:05PM (#26271773) Attached to: Oregon Governor Proposes Vehicle Mileage Tax

Seems simpler to block it with a metallic shield on days you're not intending to gas up, then remove the shield on days you do. Long periods of time with no signal? Why, I don't drive much, it must not get a signal in my garage.

Comment Re:I present (Score 1) 249

by Dolohov on Monday December 29, 2008 @11:07AM (#26257815) Attached to: Fairpoint Pledges To Violate Net Neutrality

OK, this makes sense -- but as a FairPoint customer who got their mailing announcing this move, it was far from clear that this is what was meant. Reading it on my own, it seemed to me that they were saying that they were going to be intercepting MSN and Yahoo traffic.

Submission + - Quake Ported to Nintendo Gamecube/Wii

Submitted by YokimaSun on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @05:10PM

YokimaSun writes: PeterM has today released the first beta of his port of the classic game Quake for the Nintendo Gamecube and Nintendo Wii. Awesome release. Quake on Gamecube now runs At 320×264 (PAL), demo 1 runs at comfortably over 70 frames per second. At 640×528, it runs at just under 30. Wii Owners must ensure they do not update to the latest system software which disables support for the SD Media Homebrew Launcher.

Submission + - Pentagon in the gaming business (atheistnation.net)

Submitted by Jeek Elemental on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @04:26PM

Jeek Elemental writes: "Courtesy of the US Pentagon, troops in Iraq can now unwind after a hard day's urban warfare and play a video game in which they command a Christian fundamentalist army waging urban warfare in America ! On the streets of New York City ! How cool is that?"

Submission + - Spirit and Opportunity restart science missions (nasa.gov)

Submitted by ianare on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @04:19PM

ianare writes: Slight clearing of still-dusty Martian skies has improved the energy situation for both Spirit and Opportunity, allowing controllers to increase the rovers' science observations. Energy production from solar arrays increased to 295 watt hours on Spirit's 1,276th sol (Martian day), which ended early Aug. 6, and to 243 watt hours on Opportunity's sol 1,255 which ended midday Aug. 5. Dust storms obscuring the sun have cut daily output as low as 261 watt hours on Spirit and 128 watt hours on Opportunity in recent weeks, compared with levels above 700 watt hours per sol before the current series of Martian dust storms began in June.

Submission + - Faked Recordings Producer Comes Clean

Submitted by

thyrf

on Thursday March 01, 2007 @10:51PM

thyrf writes: "It seems as though those independent comparisons stated by the producer of the recently uncovered Hatto music fraud took an interesting turn, the BBC reports. Since it was first revealed, William Barrington-Coupe, the late Joyce Hatto's producer and husband admitted replacing the original tracks with those of other artists. However, all is not as it seems. Barrington-Coupe claims he first began to replace snippets of certain tracks where his wife, who had cancer, could be heard groaning in pain. "It is very touching and he does go through every detail and how he did it and he makes it very credible," Mr von Bahr of the BIS music label said. As he got better at replacing the material, the sections grew longer until they in some cases ended up being the entire piece itself. Though we don't quite know why he ended up replacing entire tracks, his confession is convincing enough to call off the legal-heavies. "I don't see how either myself or the industry can get any satisfaction for pure revenge, I think the whole thing is deeply tragic story"."

Journal Journal: Hearing Aid technology

Journal by aussiephil on Thursday March 01, 2007 @10:48PM

What is it with hearing aid technology? Having reluctantly discovered I need one, I find that they are stuck in 19th century technology, with anti-competitive practices selling old tech at high prices. I have a nice phone, with a bluetooth headset. My phone plays the radio until a call comes in. Why can't I buy a phone that doubles as a hearing aid, amplifying sounds instead of playing a radio? Come to that, why can't I buy a nice looking bluetooth hearing aid headset? Why do all hearing aids lo

Submission + - The Day I Got Deported from the US

Submitted by

petercasier

on Thursday March 01, 2007 @10:10PM

petercasier writes: "When asked: "Previous countries visited?"
And your answer is: "Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan and Afghanistan."

Then at that moment even a UN diplomatic passport and a Belgian citizenship is not good enough to enter the US.
The story: The Day I Got Deported from the US."

Submission + - Samsung pleads guilty in memory pricing scheme

Submitted by

arhhook

on Thursday December 21, 2006 @04:27PM

arhhook writes: "An executive with South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will plead guilty, serve 10 months in prison and pay a $250,000 fine for conspiring to fix prices of computer memory chips, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday. Young Hwan Park participated in the conspiracy while he was a vice president of sales at Samsung, the world's top memory chip maker, the department said. Park is currently president of Samsung Semiconductor Inc., the company's U.S.-based subsidiary. Park also has agreed to assist the Justice Department in its ongoing investigation, which focuses on dynamic random access memory, or DRAM chips, the kind found in all personal computers."

Submission + - AT&T caught astroturfing

Submitted by Kieran C. on Thursday December 21, 2006 @03:43PM

Kieran C. writes: AT&T looks to be behind a 'grassroots' organization set up to lobby for AT&T's new fiber-to-the-node network. The WHOIS record for the Advanced Technology Alliance currently points to Domains by Proxy, but that hasn't always been the case: 'Earlier this year, the WHOIS record for iltechalliance.org pointed to Jasculca/Terman and Associates of Chicago, a PR firm that specializes in "grassroots outreach and coaliation building."' AT&T is one of their clients and has refused to answer questions about the group and its funding.

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