Comment Fine, but... (Score 1) 917

by WetSpot on Monday October 17, 2016 @07:45PM (#53095981) Attached to: Slashdot Asks: Do We Need To Plan For a Future Without Jobs And Should We Resort To Universal Basic Income?

Who is going to make the robots?

Comment Re:Neal Stephenson (Score 3, Informative) 647

by WetSpot on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @12:12AM (#38444328) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Do You Like To Read?

Agree -- If you've ALOT of reading time I'd suggest his Baroque Cycle. If not, as a slashdotter I'm confident you'd enjoy Anathem, too. You can't go wrong with a Stephenson

Publisher Whining Prompts Italian Investigation of Google 91

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday August 28, 2009 @03:33PM from the sounds-like-pure-unadulterated-greed-to-me dept.

Complaints about "lack of transparency" from publishers have prompted Italian competition authorities to begin an investigation of Google's search and news services. I'm sure their motives are completely altruistic. "Because Google does not disclose the criteria for ranking news articles or search results, he said, newspapers are unable to hone their content to try to earn more revenue from online advertising. Ad revenue on the Web is directly proportional to the size of the audience, which is heavily influenced by search or Google News rankings."

Soviet Video Games from the 70s 66

Posted by Zonk on Thursday June 07, 2007 @03:21PM from the really-really-old-skool dept.

vigmeister writes "A group of Russian kids have uncovered and rebuilt some arcade games from the Soviet era. These games apparently offered free play when someone played well, but no list of hi-scores. Roughly 32 of them have been found and although they are based on other arcade games, I hope these games were unique enough to offer playability for the present day arcade game lovers. 'Based largely (and crudely) on early Japanese designs, the games were distributed -- in the words of one military manual -- for the purposes of "entertainment and active leisure, as well as the development of visual-estimation abilities." Production of the games ceased with the collapse of communism, and as Nintendo consoles and PCs flooded the former Soviet states, the old arcade games were either destroyed or disappeared into warehouses and basements. It was mostly out of nostalgia that four friends at Moscow State Technical University began scouring the country to rescue these old games. '"

Comment Re:Looking forward to reading it... (Score 3, Funny) 53

by WetSpot on Monday April 30, 2007 @04:13PM (#18932425) Attached to: Linux Appliance Design

So I guess she answers the question, "Got Root?" with "Yes, yes I do"

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