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Submission + - Ex-Sun CEO to Ellison: avoid death by open source (theregister.co.uk)

gearystwatcher writes: Former Sun CEO Scott McNealy talks to The Reg on where things went wrong and acquisition by Oracle: "We probably got a little too aggressive near the end and probably open sourced too much and tried too hard to appease the community and tried too hard to share," McNealy said. "You gotta take care of your shareholders or you end up very vulnerable like we got. We were a wonderful acquisition — we got stolen for a song at the bottom of the Dow."

Submission + - RobotsThink We Taste Like Bacon. (wired.com)

MicroRoller writes: "Researchers at NEC System technologies and Mie University developed a robot that can taste.
"Upon being given a sample, he will speak up in a childlike voice and identify what he has just been fed. The idea is that wineries can tell if a wine is authentic without even opening the bottle, amongst other more obscure uses" When a reporter placed his hand up for taste the robot identified it as bacon. Let's hope robots don't develop a taste for that crinkly, crispy, salty yummy... we're doomed!"

Comment Re:News Corp/Fox is out of control (Score 2, Informative) 316

Ironically, videos delivered over the Internet should be rescuing us from this sort of behaviorOf course, we are, once again, relying on large corporations (Youtube, Hulu) whose conduct we have no say over to provide us with our videos...

What's ironic is that the Fox shows that cablevision dropped and are available via hulu are passing through people's bodies for free right now. A $40 antenna should pick up Fox in most markets. The HD picture is actually seems better over the air compared to cable. The only time I use my set top box now is for the DVR and for some channels that are only available through the STB. I'm planning on building a mythtv box to fix that. Unfortunately there's one channel I can only get through a cable/sat/fios provider that I need.

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