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Xerox Demos Self-Erasing, Eco-Friendly Paper 204

Lucas123 writes "The same Xerox lab that brought us Ethernet, the GUI and the mouse has demonstrated paper that can be reused after printed text automatically deletes itself from its surface in a day. Instead of trashing or recycling after one use, a single piece of paper can be reused up to 100 times. 'The paper contains specially coded molecules that create a print after being exposed to ultraviolet light emitted from a thin bar in a printer. The ultraviolet bar itself is very small, so it can be used in mobile printers. The technology could also be useful for network printing.'"
Slashdot.org

Unexpected Slashdot Downtime 219

Netcraft confirmed it ... Slashdot was dying for several hours (along with SourceForge, which shares a corporate overlord and router). Some planned downtime from our provider apparently didn't come back up quite as planned. Sorry for the inconvenience. On the upside, we're moving to a new network and hardware soon, so the site should be much faster and more stable rsn.
The Internet

Submission + - Intelligent Software Agents: Are We Ready?

Anti-Luddite writes: The birth of the next Web is partially dependent on Intelligent Software Agents (ISAs), or software agents that use Artificial Intelligence to find, analyze, and organize information on behalf of clients. In this article, analyst Tom Nolle discusses the potential for some ISAs to emerge in the next wave of the Web, and he points to others, such as "search assistant ISAs," which will inevitably flop before their potential is realized. He speaks favorably of the "mobile ISA" which he says, "involves dispatching mobile agents from one computer and delivering them to a remote computer for execution." While hailing the potential of this new generation of agent technology, Nolle seems skeptical about our ability to prepare for and handle its emergence, particularly because of flaws in the agent research community.

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