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Submission + - Beryl/Compiz naming poll (wordpress.com)

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ketilwaa

on Tuesday June 05, 2007 @05:11PM

ketilwaa writes: "Beryl/Compiz agreed on a merge some time ago. There is still a lot of tension on this subject, as one can see from the mailing list. [http://www.ubaight.com/pipermail/compcomm/] There is currently a poll going on, deciding the name for the new project: [http://www.opencompositing.org/viewtopic.php?f=46 &t=559] Browsing the forums reveal that some users (including the person who submit to /.) are not really happy with the state of affairs. Is the lack of official response hurting the merge? Is it hurting OSS altogether? How did other projects handle such problems?"

Submission + - DARPA Is Growing Remote Controlled Spy Moths (timesonline.co.uk)

Submitted by

robotsrule

on Tuesday June 05, 2007 @05:04PM

robotsrule writes: "In a page taken right out of the science fiction books DARPA, which stands for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is working on growing moths that have computer chips implanted in them at the Pupa stage. As the article from the Technology section of Times Online says, this is the most futuristic project to date undertaken by the research and development arm of the US Department of Defense. The goal is to grow moths that can fly unnoticed into the camps of enemy insurgents and spy on them in order to obtain useful military intelligence. Rodney Brooks, who is the head of iRobot, a company that has major contracts with the military for bomb disposal and other types of robots, is involved with the research and confirms the viability and reality of the project. These winged Microelectromechanical Machines, or MEMS, can be developed relatively cheaply compared to expensive military technologies like nuclear weapons and smart missiles. Although they have not been put into service by the military yet, their appearance on the battlefield is almost assured at some point in the near future. IRobot is also the company that produces the popular Roomba vacuum cleaner robot."

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