JPZ - Slashdot User

i-Snake, a New Robotic Surgeon 58

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday December 30, 2007 @01:21PM from the probably-picks-up-chicks-in-bars-all-weekend-too dept.

Roland Piquepaille noted coverage of the iSnake Robotic Surgeon which is basically a super flexible robot that can travel through blood vessels and repair the heart. Of course the article isn't exactly clear on what happens if they gain control of the city's sewage system and take over.

Submission + - Chuck Norris sues, says his tears no cancer cure (reuters.com) 2

Submitted by Google85 on Saturday December 22, 2007 @02:29PM

Google85 writes: Chuck Norris sued publisher Penguin on Friday over a book he claims unfairly exploits his famous name, based on a satirical Internet list of "mythical facts" about him.
The book capitalizes on "mythical facts" that have been circulating on the Internet since 2005 that poke fun at Norris' tough-guy image and super-human abilities, the suit said.

ISECOM's Top 10 Real Computer Crimes 155

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 18, 2006 @09:27PM from the internet-stds dept.

thelordx writes "ISECOM, the Institute for Security and Open Methodologies, has just posted their Top 10 Real Computer Crimes for 2007 and Beyond. This list runs the gambit from poorly designed patches to chlamydia! It's entertaining, but also scary, as many of us could fall victim to some or all of them."

Comment Re:favorite quote: discovery of debugging (Score 4, Funny) 290

by JPZ on Tuesday February 24, 2004 @07:42PM (#8379761) Attached to: Debugging

As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.

-- Maurice Wilkes, 1949

55 years later, programmers are still spending a large part of their lives finding bugs and fixing them...

Even worse, they're probably still spending time finding and fixing bugs this Wilkes guy introduced...

Slashdot Top Deals