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Journal: The Slashdot Firehose

Journal by Tokimasa

Well, I guess it's my turn to weigh in on the "new" Slashdot firehose.

I like it.

There's not that much to say, really. It provides what I consider a nice, clean interface to lots of potentially interesting stories and data from a wide variety of sources. However, there's also garbage to wade through (real men browse at Black).

Robotics

First Armed Robots on Patrol in Iraq 661

Posted by CowboyNeal
from the number-johnny-five dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Robots have been roaming Iraq, since shortly after the war began. Now, for the first time — the first time in any war zone — the 'bots are carrying guns. The SWORDS robots, armed with M249 machine guns, "haven't fired their weapons yet," an Army official says. "But that'll be happening soon." The machines have actually been ready for a while, but safety concerns kept them off the battlefield. Now, the robots have kill switches, so "now we can kill the unit if it goes crazy," according to the Army. I feel safer already."

Comment: Re:Horrible idea (Score 1) 865

by Nutt (#16021634) Attached to: Vista Startup Sound to be Mandatory?
When my laptop's volume buttons died I always carried around a 1/8 to 1/4 headphone adaptor plug. When I wanted to make sure that no sound would come from the laptop's speakers I just plugged the adaptor into the headphone socket. It prevented the laptop's speakers from making sound, was easy enough to carry around in the bag, and was small enough that nobody really noticed or cared. I don't know if it'd work on every laptop but it worked on mine.

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