Lanu2000 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Microsoft and what? (Score 1) 133

by Lanu2000 on Monday March 23, 2009 @05:21PM (#27303933) Attached to: Microsoft Launches Free Web Software Eco-System

It's not every day you see "Microsoft" and "Free" in the same headline.

Search for 'Microsoft' in google. One of the top results will be "Microsoft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"

This begs the question... you search for Microsoft every day?

Comment Re:If it's really thinking.. (Score 2, Informative) 630

by Lanu2000 on Wednesday October 08, 2008 @12:33PM (#25301249) Attached to: New Contestants On the Turing Test

You know, that is really a myth. We don't just use the first and last letters, but the shape of the word too. If you take a sentence with multiple words having many ascenders and descenders, then place the ascenders and descenders alternating at the beginning of the word, it is much easier to get confused. Many times people use the other words in a sentence to determine what the more difficult words are.

Hacking Asus EEE 150

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday January 30, 2008 @12:39PM from the hack-on-this dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Torsten Lyngaas has published a set of instructions with photographs on his personal wiki that describe the steps he took to install $450 worth of extra hardware, including a GPS receiver, an FM transmitter, Bluetooth, extra USB ports, 802.11n, and an extra 4GB flash storage drive."

Artificial Bases Added to DNA 362

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday January 30, 2008 @11:55AM from the totally-faked-you-out-man dept.

holy_calamity writes "Researchers have successfully added two 'unnatural' DNA letters to the code of life. They created two artificial base pairs that are treated as normal by an enzyme that replicates and fixes DNA inside cells. This raises the prospect of engineering life forms with genetic code not possible within nature, allowing new kinds of genetic engineering."

Amazon Patents Customized 404 Pages 167

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday January 30, 2008 @09:50AM from the makes-my-heart-hurt dept.

theodp writes "Among the patents awarded to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Tuesday was one for his invention of Error Processing Methods for Providing Responsive Content to a User When a Page Load Error Occurs, which covers displaying alternate web pages in response to HTTP 404 page-not-found errors. So is this the technology that causes Amazon's Home Page to be displayed when Bezos' MIA Patent Reform Page can't be found?"

ICANN Moves To Disable Domain Tasting 137

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday January 30, 2008 @09:09AM from the not-before-time dept.

jehnx writes "Following Google's crackdown on 'domain tasters', ICANN has voted unanimously to eliminate the free period that many domain buyers have been taking advantage of. At the same meeting they also discussed Network Solutions' front running but took no action on it."

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