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Submission + - Love and Sex with Robots (vandenoever.info)

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oever

on Thursday October 11, 2007 @08:31AM

oever writes: "International chess player Davy Levy, know from his successful 1968 bet that no computer program would beat him during the next decade, will defend his Ph.D. thesis today. The thesis discusses the topic of sex with robots. Levy holds that sex and marriage with robots will be a normal social practice by 2050. The main advantage of a robot is its obedience. The thesis is available in bookstores."

Submission + - Google Desktop Search for Linux (desktoplinux.com)

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oever

on Thursday June 28, 2007 @05:31AM

oever writes: "Google has released Google Desktop Search for Linux today. The closed source software package will compete with the large selection of open source desktop solutions that are currently available. Interest in projects like Beagle and Strigi might decline as a result of this release. Google Desktop Search does not yet adhere to the free desktop search standard Xesam."

Submission + - Nobel Peace prize for Bankers, Stallman next?

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oever

on Friday October 13, 2006 @07:37AM

oever writes: "The economist Yunus and the Grameen bank received the Nobel Peace Prize today for his work on lending money to the poor to enable them to start their own businesses. This leads to the question: shouldn't Richard Stallman and the FSF receive the prize for fairly providing production factors to software developers and users?"

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