Comment This post reads like it was written by Intel (Score 1) 195
marketing. WTF?
Comment NCSoft? (Score 3, Insightful) 212
Aka the developer that releases like 2 new and utterly generic MMOs every single year? Forgive me for not getting too excited.
Comment So basically (Score 1) 144
it's a $2000 netbook?
Doctor Performs Amputation By Text Message 242
Peace Corps Online writes "Vascular surgeon David Nott performed a life-saving amputation on a boy in DR Congo following instructions sent by text message from a colleague in London. The boy's left arm had been ripped off and was badly infected and gangrenous; there were just 6in (15cm) of the boy's arm remaining, much of the surrounding muscle had died and there was little skin to fold over the wound. 'He had about two or three days to live when I saw him,' Nott said. Nott, volunteering with the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres, knew he needed to perform a forequarter amputation requiring removal of the collar bone and shoulder blade and contacted Professor Meirion Thomas at London's Royal Marsden Hospital, who had performed the operation before. 'I texted him and he texted back step by step instructions on how to do it,' Nott said."
Microsoft Joins the OpenID Foundation 142
wertigon writes "Windows Live ID just became yet another OpenID-provider. While the cynical me wonders how long it'll be before Microsoft transforms OpenID to something proprietary, they have undoubtedly put even more weight behind the OpenID initiative. So, how long before I can use my OpenID to post on Slashdot?" Patches are always welcome, wertigon ;)
Space Coffee 2
Two Costa Rican engineering students have solved the biggest problem facing astronauts today. How do you brew a good cup of coffee in space?
I'm A Paladin 3
You can't summon your warhorse in the dorms.
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