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Comment Re:LOL, what? (Score 1) 44

by it_prole on Sunday March 10, 2019 @11:29PM (#58250366) Attached to: Silicon Valley Library Tests Book-Returning Robot Created By Google

You have failed to return your library resources. You have 15 seconds to comply!! ......

Comment Digital Smallpox ??? (Score 2) 167

by it_prole on Monday July 31, 2017 @01:42AM (#54911875) Attached to: Petition Asks Adobe To Open-Source Flash To Preserve Internet History

Reminds me of the debate about whether we should keep or destroy the last remaining sample of Smallpox.

Texas Makes Zombie Fire Ants 398

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @10:20PM from the what-could-go-wrong dept.

eldavojohn writes "What do you do when a foreign species has been introduced to your land from another continent? Bring over the natural predator from the other continent. Scientists in Texas have introduced four kinds of phorid flies from South America to fight fire ants. These USDA approved flies dive bomb ants and lay an egg inside the ant. The maggot hatches and eats away juicy tender delicious ant brain until the ant is nothing more than a zombie that wanders around for two weeks before the head falls off and the ant dies. A couple of these flies will cause the ants to modify their behavior and this will be a very slow acting solution to curb the $1 billion in damage these ants do to Texas cattle ranches and — oddly enough — electrical equipment like circuit breakers. You may remember zombifying parasites hitting insects like cockroaches."

Comment I take it that IC is more PC than Geek!!! (Score 1) 394

by it_prole on Thursday April 20, 2006 @12:03AM (#15162447) Attached to: Closet Slashdotters: The 'Intellectually Curious'

See Subject!!

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