No, he couldn't "slashdot" with it.

The current interface on the Slashdot website, even with all the "fruit" turned off, will slow a dual-core Linux box with 2 gigs of ram to a crawl.

I believe it is because the thing loads EVERY GOD DAMNED POST for each story and then expands them a few at a time as you scroll down.

A 100 post story loads fairly quickly, a 600 post story takes 30 seconds to load, and then another 10 seconds every time you scroll down or try to click "Reply to This".

Whoever designed the current interface for Slashdot needs to update their C.V. on the way out the door.

Ass holes.

After the woman in the summary has spent a period of time managing a lot of whiny children, she should be a natural for IT management.

I'm just sayin'.

Or the Holly Bibble...

What magazine are you talking about?

Do you have a link?

MS + .gov + standards = HERP-A-DERP

On both of those company websites, they focus on AUTOMATION.

AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS.

Not fancy RC cars.

Automated industrial robots are truly robots. They are self-willed within the constraints imposed upon them by their programmers, but do not require an actual person to perform their assigned tasks.

Industrial robots are automatons, and thus qualify for the title of "robot".

Are they smart? No.

Are they sentient? Define "sentience".

Are they autonomous? Yes.

TALON and similar "robots" are robot in name only, name being given by companies that make fancy RC cars used for bomb disposal or demolition.

True dat.

AD&D v1 was The One Ring.

Uh... I think that the qualification for "robot" is "autonomy".

Only morons think a strictly remote controlled device is a "robot".

Battlebots were fancy R.C. cars.

The only such toolkit worth using would likely be called Vimmy.