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Submission + - Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, reveals terminal cancer diagnosis (foxnews.com)

Submitted by professorfalcon on Sunday May 25, 2025 @09:38PM

professorfalcon writes: Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip, revealed that he has prostate cancer. He said that it has spread to his bones, like the diagnosis for former President Joe Biden. President Trump reached out to him; of course it went to voicemail. Adams said that he has "no good days", already, and that he doesn't expect to survive past this Summer.

Nano-motors For Microbots 77

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 22, 2009 @02:54AM from the big-things-in-micro-packages dept.

Smivs writes "The BBC are reporting on the development of tiny motors the size of a grain of salt which could power surgical Microbots. Some surgical procedures are hindered by the size or inflexibility of current instruments. For example, the labyrinthine network of blood vessels in the brain prevents the use of catheters threaded through larger blood vessels. Researchers have long envisioned that trends of miniaturisation would lead to tiny robots that could get around easily in the body. The problem until now has been powering them. Conventional electric motors do not perform as well as they are scaled down in size. As they approach millimetre dimensions, they barely have the power to overcome the resistance in their bearings. Now, research reported in the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering has demonstrated a motor about 1/4mm wide, about the width of two human hairs."

Comment Re:This is silly (Score 1) 417

by professorfalcon on Monday December 15, 2008 @03:04AM (#26117179) Attached to: Why Climbers Die On Mount Everest

Yetis are probably Whopper virgins.

Comment bitsadmin (Score 1) 291

by professorfalcon on Monday December 15, 2008 @03:00AM (#26117163) Attached to: BitTorrent For Enterprise File Distribution?

bitsadmin, to create jobs for the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) in Windows.

Comment Wrong headline (Score 1) 366

by professorfalcon on Wednesday November 19, 2008 @02:12AM (#25813839) Attached to: AIX On the Desktop Is Getting the Boot

This is Slashdot. Should talk about how IBM is withdrawing Linux on POWER from the desktop.

Comment Re:Unfortunate name (Score 1) 264

by professorfalcon on Friday November 14, 2008 @01:57AM (#25757735) Attached to: AMD Launches First 45nm Shanghai CPUs

I still find it funny that Intel Core 2 Extreme processors have 4 cores.

Google Reader Begins Sharing Private Data 313

Posted by kdawson on Monday December 24, 2007 @09:59PM from the thought-it-was-your-data-eh dept.

Felipe Hoffa writes "One week ago Google Reader's team decided to begin showing your private data to all your GMail contacts. No need to opt-in, no way to opt-out. Complaints haven't been answered. Some users share their problems, including one family who says they won't be able to enjoy this Christmas because of this 'feature.' Will Google start doing this with all their products? You can check a summary of complaints in my journal here or browse the whole thread in Google Groups."

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