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Comment Not really a slashdot story, but... (Score 1) 544

This seems like an odd forum for this story, but leaving aside the sensationalist aspect of Zuckerberg, this is actually a really good thing. I have often thought that those who eat meat should have a hand in its procurement, if not doing the actual killing, at least assisting in the butchering. It is ill-advised disassociation when people eating animals have no idea where they came from and give no thought to the animal's life or treatment. I have hunted deer and elk and subsequently cleaned and butchered them myself. I have also eaten my share of plastic-wrapped grocery store meat. I feel that only the former prepared me to ethically appreciate the latter.

If people were forced to have a more active hand in their meat procurement, I imagine meat consumption would drop a fair bit. That would be good for both the carbon footprint inherent to raising meat and for the obesity issues in countries where meat consumption is the highest.

PlayStation (Games)

USAF Unveils Supercomputer Made of 1,760 PS3s 163

digitaldc writes with this excerpt from Gamasutra: "The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has connected 1,760 PlayStation 3 systems together to create what the organization is calling the fastest interactive computer in the entire Defense Department. The Condor Cluster, as the group of systems is known, also includes 168 separate graphical processing units and 84 coordinating servers in a parallel array capable of performing 500 trillion floating point operations per second (500 TFLOPS), according to AFRL Director of High Power Computing Mark Barnell."

Comment Email him! Communicate with your government! (Score 1) 315

I emailed him my thanks. I encourage other Oregonians to do the same. I also think it's important to make the distinction that being against this and other poorly written similar bills that restrict freedoms is *not* the same as being pro-piracy. This is a distinction many people (not here, per se, but in other media) seem to be failing to make. Let him know you understand that distinction and you appreciate his paying attention to it. His link is: http://wyden.senate.gov/
Hardware Hacking

Building a Telegraph Using Only Stone Age Materials 238

MMBK writes "It's the ultimate salvagepunk experiment, building a telegraph out of things found in the woods. From the article: 'During the summer of 2009, artist Jamie O’Shea of the organization Substitute Materials set out to test whether or not electronic communication could have been built at any time in history with the proper knowledge, and with only tools and materials found in the wilderness of New Jersey.'"
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Australian Visitors Must Declare Illegal Porn To Customs Officers 361

Australian Justice Minister Brendan O'Connor has advised visitors to take a better safe than sorry policy when it comes to their porn stashes, and declare all porn that they think might be illegal with customs officers. From the article: "The government said it changed the wording on passenger arrival cards after becoming aware of confusion among travellers about what pornography to declare. 'People have a right to privacy and while some pornography is legal and does not need to be disclosed, all travellers should be aware that certain types of pornography are illegal and must be declared to customs,' Mr O'Connor said."
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Doctors Save Premature Baby Using Sandwich Bag 246

Born 14 weeks early, Lexi Lacey owes her life to some MacGyver inspired doctors and a sandwich bag. Lexi was so small at birth that even the tiniest insulating jacket was too big, but she fit into a plastic sandwich bag nicely. ''The doctors told us they had never known a baby born as prematurely as Lexi survive. She was so tiny the only thing they had to keep her body temperature warm was a sandwich bag from the hospital canteen — it's incredible to think that saved her life," says her mom.

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