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Submission + - Tevatron has found Higgs Boson? (telegraph.co.uk)

Submitted by blattin on Tuesday July 13, 2010 @10:34AM

blattin writes: "If one form of the rumour is to be believed — and Prof Dorigo is extremely circumspect about it — then it is a "three-sigma" signature, meaning that there is a statistical likelihood of 99.7 per cent that it is correct. But, of course, that is only if the rumour is to be believed."

Submission + - South Korea deploys killer robot in DMZ (telegraph.co.uk)

Submitted by shikaisi on Tuesday July 13, 2010 @08:08AM

shikaisi writes: Not content with just killing people in computer games, South Korea has gone one better and is deploying remotely controlled sentry robots on the border with the north. According to the article "If the command centre operator cannot identify possible intruders through the robot's audio or video communications system, the operator can order it to fire its gun or 40mm automatic grenade launcher." I hope that word "cannot" instead of "can" is a journalistic error and not a shoot-to-kill policy.

Comment Not quite a killer app, but not too far off. (Score 1) 148

by blattin on Thursday February 25, 2010 @07:44PM (#31279608) Attached to: Is Mozilla Ubiquity Dead?

I remember being rather excited when I first saw the demo for it. Now I generally only use it for translation and mapping. Anyone else think Ubiquity is screaming for speech recognition?

Comment Re:And next they'll want them to get off the lawn (Score 4, Insightful) 373

by blattin on Sunday September 06, 2009 @01:18PM (#29332479) Attached to: Has Texting Replaced Talking For Teens?

There's no indication that any of this is making anyone substantially stupider.

hang around anyone between the age of 12 and 16 and tell me they're not dumb as bricks speaking in chat acronyms rather than expending the exact same number of syllables on the actual words or actually expressing emotions.

i hate individuals who refuse to use capitalization appropriately in sentences as well. how uncivilized.

Comment The cost of continued exploration. (Score 1) 160

by blattin on Wednesday July 30, 2008 @04:13AM (#24398247) Attached to: NASA Turns 50

For the 1/3 of Americans who support cutting or eliminating NASA's budget, how about you vote for a someone who can properly manage the economy instead.

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