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Comment: Next: Teaching Social Skills to Slashdot Reader (Score 5, Funny) 171

by Cr0w T. Trollbot (#19804651) Attached to: Robots Teach Autistic Kids Social Skills
Slashdoter: "No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!"

Robot: "Women are not impressed by your vast array of Monty Python Quotes."

Slashdoter: "I'll bite your kneecaps off!"

Robot: "Women are not impressed by your vast array of Monty Python Quotes."

Slashdotter: "It's merely resting, pining for the fjords."

Robot: "Women are not impressed by your vast array of Monty Python Quotes."

Next week: Watch the Robot attempt to disuade the Slashdotter from using an "In Soviet Russia" joke.

Slashdoter: "In Soviet Russia, robot programs you!"

Robot: "I'm just not getting through to you, am I?"

Crow T. Trollbot

Security

Test says OneCare no longer total crap, just crap->

Submitted by
jenwren1010
jenwren1010 writes "http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1486.html Earlier in the year independent testing proved OneCare to be the biggest pile of crap on the antivirus product planet. The good news for Microsoft is those same tests have now elevated it to just being crap, ahead of some surprising competition including AVG and Kaspersky."
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United States

No Climate Change Consensus Among Top Scientists->

Submitted by
Lawrence Person
Lawrence Person writes "When Financial Post reporter Lawrence Solomon started interviewing top scientists who dissented from the global warming orthodoxy, he "accepted the prevailing view that scientists overwhelmingly believe that climate change threatens the planet. I doubted only claims that the dissenters were either kooks on the margins of science or sell-outs in the pockets of the oil companies...Now, after profiling more than 20 deniers, I do not know when I will stop — the list of distinguished scientists who question the IPCC grows daily, as does the number of emails I receive, many from scientists who express gratitude for my series. Somewhere along the way, I stopped believing that a scientific consensus exists on climate change. Certainly there is no consensus at the very top echelons of scientists — the ranks from which I have been drawing my subjects — and certainly there is no consensus among astrophysicists and other solar scientists, several of whom I have profiled. If anything, the majority view among these subsets of the scientific community may run in the opposite direction. Not only do most of my interviewees either discount or disparage the conventional wisdom as represented by the IPCC, many say their peers generally consider it to have little or no credibility. In one case, a top scientist told me that, to his knowledge, no respected scientist in his field accepts the IPCC position.""
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Democrats

Obama's Massive MySpace Martyr

Submitted by DoTheRightThingBarack
DoTheRightThingBarack writes "This is unbelievable. Obama's campaign staff has been successful is killing-off the biggest political fansite on MySpace. The fansite is going to be deleted this morning! 160,000 friends, gone! The crazy thing is, the fansite had been in support of Obama. How smart is that?! For a political candidate to kill-off their biggest fansite?!?! Have any other political campaigns been dumb enough to shoot themselves in the foot like this? (mirror link) More info is available on techPresident, Technorati, and Joe Anthony's site."
IBM

IBM to announce faster/efficient chips....

Submitted by
mattatwork
mattatwork writes "According to the NY Times, IBM is set to announce a major advance in how it makes it chips. Using an unnamed substance, IBM expects faster and more energy efficient semiconductors. They also are using a newer technique of self-assembly, which has previously been used on the biological, Molecular (nano- and micro-scale) and Supramolecular. Instead of drilling holes (like in traditional chips), heat is used to create holes for substance X to be put through. Very cool process...though it does give me a headache thinking about it...."
Hardware Hacking

Cheapest way to setup 150 computers temporarily?

Submitted by justanotheritguy
justanotheritguy writes "We need to provide a web-browser, keyboard, and mouse to 150 people at a convention every so often. Currently we rent laptops and set each one up on a wireless network and they all run IE and access a webserver running on the internal network. Renting all the laptops is expensive and not very reliable.

With all the new technology out there, I'm guessing there are new options for doing something like this we're unaware of. What alternatives are there to getting a webbrowser in front of several hundred people for just a few days before everything's torn down? I'm figuring some smart slashdot reader will have a really clever idea we haven't considered."
Sci-Fi

Brains!

Submitted by Crow T. Trollbot
Crow T. Trollbot writes "
  • Brains!
  • Brains!
  • Braaaaaiiinnnssss!
  • BRAAAAAINNNNNNSSSSSS!
  • Send more CowboyNeals
"
Sci-Fi

Neil Gaiman One Step Closer to Sainthood

Submitted by
Lawrence Person
Lawrence Person writes "Locus Online is reporting that bestselling fantasy writer, comics god, and all-around cool guy Neil Gaiman had officially been beautified, bringing him one step closer to Sainthood. "Vatican spokesman Cardinal Bertoli insisted that Gaiman had met the church's stringent requirement of three miracles necessary for sainthood, saying 'Truly the Holy Ghost works though the Venerable Gaiman's hands.'""
Biotech

Anti-Matter's Potential in Treating Cancer

Submitted by
eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes "The BBC is taking a look at how atomic physicists are developing cancer treatments. A step past radiotherapy, the CERN institute is publishing interesting results: "Cancer cells were successfully targeted with anti-matter subatomic particles, causing intense biological damage leading to cell death." The press release from last year is finally sparking interest in the medical community."

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