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60488 submission

Submission + - Florida congressional loser wants access to code

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 19, 2006 @01:55PM

An anonymous reader writes: Florida congressional loser Christine Jennings (D) wants access to the source code of touch screen voters.

"... Her lawsuit says she must be allowed access to the secret inner workings of the touch-screen machines in order to find out if something did go wrong.

The manufacturer, Elections Systems and Software, does not want to disclose its trade-secret security systems, which are protected by Florida law. "

http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?A ID=/20061219/CAPITOLNEWS06/61219007/1001/RSS

42812 submission

Submission + - Robot models itself and learns to walk

Submitted by

user24

on Tuesday November 21, 2006 @08:32PM

user24 writes: "Josh Bongard, Victor Zykov, and Hod Lipson of Cornell have created a self-modelling robot.
From TFA: "We have demonstrated how a physical robot can create an "internal model" of itself, and then use that model to generate successful motor patterns for locomotion, before and after damage. Most current robotic systems plan their behavior using a built-in mathematical model whose from is provided externally by engineers. Some robots can adapt without a model, but require many physical trials. Our result shows that a machine can adapt without being given a model and without extensive trials, by gradually developing an internal model of itself."
Watch the video here."

42770 submission

Submission + - Who are the world's geekiest girls?

Submitted by ouijapod on Tuesday November 21, 2006 @07:09PM

ouijapod writes: CNET have made a list of history's most geeky girls. Most of us will be in agreement with the inclusion of Ada Byron, who wrote the first computer program, and Grace Hopper, who invented the first compiler (COBAL). But what about Paris Hilton, who comes in at number 10 on the list for "clutching her PSP" and "having her Blackberry hacked"? And Lisa Simpson at number 7 — it's funny, but weren't there enough real-life girl geeks to fill the list? Who are in Slashdot's list of top girl geeks?

1484353 story

iPod Faces Patent Probe 203

Posted by Zonk on Thursday June 15, 2006 @03:08PM from the confusion-in-white-plastic dept.

twofish writes "The long running patent spat between Apple and the struggling Creative Technology took another turn today. Creative is claiming that the US International Trade Commission (ITC) has now launched a probe into the possibility that the iPod infringes on Creative's patents. Creative has asked the ITC to issue an order stopping Apple from marketing, selling or importing iPods into the US."

1571513 journal

Journal Journal: Empty

Journal by shystershep on Wednesday November 19, 2003 @05:18PM

Didn't really have anything to say at this point; just thought that the page looked a bit too empty without any journal entries. So now that's taken care of . . .

I suppose I ought to get back to work now.

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