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Comment Re:Time Article (Score 1) 371

by lancejjj on Wednesday December 17, 2008 @07:05PM (#26152387) Attached to: Jobs Not Giving This Year's Macworld Keynote

Is there any other company with it's perception of viability so closely linked to a single living individual?

YES! Many think that Rick Wagoner is closely linked with the the perception of GM's viability. Or lack there-of.

Submission + - Will you one day marry a robot?

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Roland Piquepaille

on Saturday October 13, 2007 @02:47AM

Roland Piquepaille writes: "David Levy, a British artificial intelligence researcher and international chess master, defended on Thursday his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands. The name of his thesis is "Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners" and the University announced it in a very short news release under the name "Love and Sex with Robots." Levy says that trends in robotics and artificial intelligence will, 'within a few decades, result in robots that are so humanlike in their appearance and functionality, in their personality, and in their expression of emotions, that many people will be falling in love with them, having sex with them, and even marrying them.' Will it really happen? Are you ready for this? Read more for additional details and a picture of the cover of Levy's book to come, also named 'Love and Sex with Robots.'"

Submission + - Microsoft retracts Patent

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Anonymous Coward

on Sunday January 28, 2007 @10:26PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Here is something you don't see very often, if ever, and it was done by Microsoft, nonetheless: they have retracted a patent application. The story was first brought to light by Slashdot on Saturday. Today, Jane Prey of Microsoft announced on the SIGCSE (Special Interest in Computer Science Education) mailing list: "Many thanks to the members of the community that brought this to my attention — and here's the latest. The patent application was a mistake and one that should not have happened. To fix this, Microsoft will be removing the patent application. Our sincere apologies to Michael Kölling and the BlueJ community. Jane Prey.""

Submission + - Microsoft study finds EV SSL Certs are ineffective

Submitted by on Wednesday January 24, 2007 @05:52PM

An anonymous reader writes: Stanford University and Microsoft Research published a study [PDF] that concludes that Extended Validation Certificates do not help users to detect phishing attacks. Without training, most users in the study did not notice the new EV indicators in IE7. Training only increased their vulnerability- reading the IE7 help file made users more likeley to classify phishing sites as legitimate. This study arrives just as the first EV certificates are being rolled out. The authors will present their results at Usable Security 2007 in February.

Interview with Developer of BackupHDDVD 223

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday January 24, 2007 @05:37PM

An anonymous reader writes "HD DVD and Blu-Ray were supposedly protected by an impenetrable fortress. However a programmer named "muslix64" discovered that this was not the case, and released BackupHDDVD. Now, Slyck.com has an interview with the individual responsible, who provides some interesting insight to his success."

Submission + - Say farewell to Dash and Dot

Submitted by livnah on Wednesday January 24, 2007 @04:57PM

livnah writes: At WRC-03 in 2003 the International Telecommunications Union made the decision to "delegates agreed to authorize each country to determine whether or not to require that applicants demonstrate Morse code proficiency in order to qualify for an Amateur Radio license with privileges on frequencies below 30 MHz", effectively putting an end to the Morse Code Requirement worldwide. It took until today for the FCC (United States Federal Communications Commission, which oversees radio licensing in the US and it's territories) to formally announce that "23 February 2007 [will be] when the current 5 WPM Morse code requirement will officially disappear from the Amateur Radio Service Part 97 rules". The article from the ARRL goes on to say: "After midnight on that date, applicants for a General or Amateur Extra class Amateur Radio license no longer will have to demonstrate proficiency in Morse code. They'll just have to pass the applicable written examination. The appearance in today's Federal Register of the FCC's Report and Order (R&O) in the "Morse code proceeding," WT Docket 05-235, starts a 30-day countdown for the new rules to become effective. Deletion of the Morse requirement — still a matter of controversy within the amateur community — is a landmark in Amateur Radio history."

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