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The Best Robots of 2009 51

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @09:59PM from the best-of-show dept.

kkleiner writes "Singularity Hub has just unveiled its second annual roundup of the best robots of the year. In 2009 robots continued their advance towards world domination with several impressive breakouts in areas such as walking, automation, and agility, while still lacking in adaptability and reasoning ability. It will be several years until robots can gain the artificial intelligence that will truly make them remarkable, but in the meantime they are still pretty awesome."

The State of Ruby VMs — Ruby Renaissance 89

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday November 22, 2009 @11:59AM from the take-your-pick dept.

igrigorik writes "In the short span of just a couple of years, the Ruby VM space has evolved to more than just a handful of choices: MRI, JRuby, IronRuby, MacRuby, Rubinius, MagLev, REE and BlueRuby. Four of these VMs will hit 1.0 status in the upcoming year and will open up entirely new possibilities for the language — Mac apps via MacRuby, Ruby in the browser via Silverlight, object persistence via Smalltalk VM, and so forth. This article takes a detailed look at the past year, the progress of each project, and where the community is heading. It's an exciting time to be a Rubyist."

Comment Re:I think I see the problem. (Score 1) 553

by Mgns on Friday August 21, 2009 @12:33PM (#29147741) Attached to: Initial Tests Fail To Find Gravitational Waves

"Have they tried turning it off & back on again?" This is funny and about the most interesting thing we could hope for on such a subject from Neo-Slashdot. I read to the bottom and if you do to, you'll find it does not get better.

Comment Re:Battle.net Fixes and Improvements? (Score 1) 520

by Mgns on Friday August 21, 2009 @12:17PM (#29147475) Attached to: Ask Blizzard About Starcraft2, Diablo III, WoW, or Battle.net

I can't belive you people still ask this question.

You will have to log on to battlenet to show your game is not pirated.

After that the gameplay will be resolved directly between the computers currently playing.

Was that clear enough? Give it a rest already

HIV/AIDS Vaccine To Begin Phase I Human Trials 329

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 02, 2009 @03:21PM from the soon-enough-mandatory-like-gardasil dept.

An anonymous reader writes "An HIV/AIDS vaccine developed in Ontario has applied for Phase 1 human trials. Safety and immunogenicity studies of the vaccine, dubbed SAV001-H, have already been completed on animals. Phase 1 human trials will check the safety of the vaccine on HIV positive volunteers. Phase 2 will then test immunogenicity."

Comment Re:Do what I do (Score 1) 229

by Mgns on Sunday January 25, 2009 @10:21AM (#26597867) Attached to: Fraudsters Abusing Canada's Do-Not-Call List

Just tell them the owner of the phone is dead, then burst into a crying fit. Took two years before they went at it again

Nevada Businesses Must Start Encrypting E-Mail By Oct. 1st 178

Posted by Soulskill on Monday September 22, 2008 @03:53PM from the wouldn't-bet-on-it dept.

dtothes writes "Baseline is reporting the state of Nevada has a statute about to go in effect on October 1, 2008 that will force businesses to encrypt all personally identifiable information transmitted over the Internet. They speak with a Nevada legal expert who says the problem is that the statute is written so broadly that the law could potentially open up a ton of unintentional liability and allow for the interpretation of things like password-protected documents to be considered sufficiently encrypted. Quoting: 'Beyond the infrastructure impact, the statute itself looks like Swiss cheese. Bryce K. Earl, a Las Vegas-based attorney, ... has been following the issue closely and believes there are some problems with the statute as it is on the books right now, namely the broad definition of encryption, the lack of coordination with industry standards and the unclear nature of penalties both criminal and civil.'"

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