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Comment April Fool? (Score 5, Interesting) 206

This interview was the day after March 31.

"On March 31 the author of the Rybka program, Vasik Rajlich, and his family moved from Warsaw, Poland to a new appartment in Budapest, Hungary. The next day, in spite of the bustle of moving boxes and setting up phone and Internet connections Vas, kindly agreed to the following interview, which had been planned some months ago."

Biotech

Submission + - Center for PostNatural History

qeorqe writes: The Center for PostNatural History is a museum and research library about organisms that have been created either by genetic engineering or selective breeding. Included in the collection are Sea Monkeys and GloFish. Nature has an interview (pdf) with the curator Richard Pell.

The museum is located in Pittsburgh, PA. Admission is free.

Comment Is that all? (Score 1) 289

Isn't that an average of less than a dollar a day per metal detector gate. If only $1 was lost per day at each metal detector gate and there were only 200 airports with an average of only 6 metal detector gates each that would be $1*200*6*365 = $438000. Does the reported amount seem like a very low number?

Are all the detectors operated by TSA or are many operated by others?

Comment Why? (Score 1) 277

If Comcast's acquisition of NBC/Universal is monopolistic, anticompetitive, or inappropriate for some other reason, why should they be able to "buy" an exemption with this agreement? If there is nothing wrong with the acquisition why should the government extort an agreement from them?

Is this profitable or beneficial to Comcast? If so why are they permitted artificially to discriminate against others?

If it is not profitable is the cost paid by the shareholders or their other customers?

Robotics

Submission + - Robot Block Party 1

qeorqe writes: The Robot Block Party will feature an assortment of robots July 19-20, 2008 at the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh. This is being held in conjunction with Robot 250, of which other events have been discussed elsewhere on Slashdot. A story by Anamika Singh can be found at Robotics.TMCnet.com. Another article may be found at Webwire.

Some of the featured robots include:
  • Al — from Alcoa
  • Battling Bots — student built battling robots
  • Boss — autonomous car from CMU and winner of the DARPA Urban Challenge
  • Hazmat Robots — from Nuvision Engineering
  • Quasi — from Interbots featured at ESPN's Super Bowl XLI festivities
  • Red Rover — from Astrobotic Technology being developed for the Google Lunar X Prize
  • RHex — from Bossa Nova Concepts and CMU
  • Scarab — part of a lunar rover initiative from CMU
  • Zoë — designed to look for life on other planets from CMU

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