Comment This is the way (Score 1) 35

by nimr0d on Sunday May 25, 2025 @09:32AM (#65402783) Attached to: Duolingo Faces Massive Social Media Backlash After 'AI-First' Comments

The first one through the [we're going to fire all the humans and just use AI] door always gets bloody.

Comment Paywall (Score 1) 23

by nimr0d on Monday January 29, 2024 @01:48PM (#64197926) Attached to: Blackstone Is Building a $25 Billion Empire of Power-Hungry Data Centers

Sounds like a great article but paywall

Comment Re:It doesn't help... (Score 1) 582

by nimr0d on Wednesday February 06, 2013 @04:47PM (#42813159) Attached to: US Postal Service Discontinuing Saturday Mail Delivery

This is incorrect.

Comment Re:BartPE (Score 1) 701

by nimr0d on Wednesday April 23, 2008 @10:29PM (#23178450) Attached to: Best Way To Avoid Keyloggers On Public Terminals?

next time maybe I'll remember to login first :)

Robot Composed of "Catoms" Can Assume Any Form 168

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday February 01, 2008 @05:46PM from the come-with-me-if-you-want-to-live dept.

philetus writes "An article in New Scientist describes a robotic system composed of swarms of electromagnetic modules capable of assuming almost any form that is being developed by the Claytronics Group at Carnegie Mellon. 'The grand goal is to create swarms of microscopic robots capable of morphing into virtually any form by clinging together. Seth Goldstein, who leads the research project at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, in the US, admits this is still a distant prospect. However, his team is using simulations to develop control strategies for futuristic shape-shifting, or "claytronic", robots, which they are testing on small groups of more primitive, pocket-sized machines.'"

Feed New Scientist: Cheap 'polymer' opal could fight fake currency (pheedo.com)

From feed by nsfeed on Monday July 30, 2007 @06:12AM

Photonic crystals can now be self-assembled, paving the way for banknotes that change colour when stretched

Feed New Scientist: Tibet is warming at twice global average (pheedo.com)

From feed by nsfeed on Tuesday July 24, 2007 @10:12AM

The findings underscore the dramatic temperature increases being seen at high elevations in tropical regions, in addition to those at the poles

RIAA Web Site Moved To Linux 188

Posted by kdawson on Sunday June 17, 2007 @10:28PM from the circle-the-wagons dept.

xseedit writes "The RIAA has moved their main Web site www.riaa.com from IIS on Win2003 to Apache 2.2.3 on Red Hat. It appears that the move did not go smoothly as it resulted in an 8-hour downtime starting yesterday around noon, according to Netcraft. And the RIAA is still showing a 'temporarily under construction' page. They also moved their DNS from the small company that had been hosting them for the past 4 years, Tomorrow's Solutions Today (TST Inc.), to Mindshift Technologies. One can only guess what happened here, but the move seems to have been sudden and unplanned. They still haven't moved the riaa.org, riaa.net, and musicunited.org domains — those are still pointing to the TST nameservers that no longer accept queries for those domains. TST Inc. deserves credit, however. They seem to have managed to host the RIAA quite successfully for the past 4 years. Will Mindshift do a better job hosting one of the most reviled, and therefore most attacked, Web sites in the world? I wonder if anybody at the RIAA or TST would care to comment on the reasons behind this sudden move. Could it be that the RIAA is being sued by its hosting provider? Or perhaps the sue-happy organizaiton is suing its provider?"

Viacom Sues Google Over YouTube for $1 Billion 508

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @10:48AM from the everyone-get-their-doctor-evil-fingers-up dept.

Snowgen writes "Viacom has filed a $1,000,000,000.00 lawsuit for 'massive intentional copyright infringement' against Google over YouTube video clips. '"YouTube's strategy has been to avoid taking proactive steps to curtail the infringement on its site," Viacom said in a statement. "Their business model, which is based on building traffic and selling advertising off of unlicensed content, is clearly illegal and is in obvious conflict with copyright laws.'"