2008 Mar 06
Date : 2008 03 06 Technology 
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bednarz brings us a NetworkWorld story about the development of a robot through an open source project. The objective of the proje read more »
Slashdotbednarz brings us a NetworkWorld story about the development of a robot through an open source project. The objective of the proje read more »
Date : 2008 03 06 Technology Slashdot
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Rep. Berman (D-CA) has removed the controversial section 104 from his PRO-IP Act. Th read more »
SlashdotI Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Rep. Berman (D-CA) has removed the controversial section 104 from his PRO-IP Act. Th read more »
Date : 2008 03 06 Technology Slashdot
Riding with Robots writes "It turns out that one of the Ringed Planet's moons has rings of its own. The robotic spacecraft Cassini read more »
SlashdotRiding with Robots writes "It turns out that one of the Ringed Planet's moons has rings of its own. The robotic spacecraft Cassini read more »
Date : 2008 03 06 Technology Slashdot
kwietman writes "The FBI admitted that in 2006, for the fourth straight year, they improperly accessed phone and internet records read more »
Slashdotkwietman writes "The FBI admitted that in 2006, for the fourth straight year, they improperly accessed phone and internet records read more »
Date : 2008 03 06 Technology Slashdot
Techdirt's Mike Masnick is writing a series of short articles on topics around intellectual property. His latest focuses on the te read more »
SlashdotTechdirt's Mike Masnick is writing a series of short articles on topics around intellectual property. His latest focuses on the te read more »
Date : 2008 03 06 Technology Slashdot
Stony Stevenson writes "Pirated microchips based on stolen blueprints could soon be a thing of the past thanks to computer enginee read more »
SlashdotStony Stevenson writes "Pirated microchips based on stolen blueprints could soon be a thing of the past thanks to computer enginee read more »
Date : 2008 03 06 Technology Slashdot
Is It Obvious writes "Bank Julius Baer has moved to withdraw suit against Wikileaks. We've discussed this story a few times, most read more »
SlashdotIs It Obvious writes "Bank Julius Baer has moved to withdraw suit against Wikileaks. We've discussed this story a few times, most read more »
Date : 2008 03 06 Technology Slashdot
longacre writes "Yesterday we discussed Carnegie Mellon's maglev haptics controller which, when it goes on sale, will be aimed mos read more »
Slashdotlongacre writes "Yesterday we discussed Carnegie Mellon's maglev haptics controller which, when it goes on sale, will be aimed mos read more »
Date : 2008 03 06 Technology Slashdot
Steve Jobs demonstrated a new "App Store" that will be pushed out to all iPhones in June. It's available now in beta. This will be read more »
SlashdotSteve Jobs demonstrated a new "App Store" that will be pushed out to all iPhones in June. It's available now in beta. This will be read more »
Date : 2008 03 06 Technology Slashdot
circletimessquare writes "The NyTimes has an aticle describing how students and others in Cuba have taken to passing around media read more »
Slashdotcircletimessquare writes "The NyTimes has an aticle describing how students and others in Cuba have taken to passing around media read more »
Date : 2008 03 06 Technology Slashdot
odoketa writes "My organization recently had to replace our Web developer. It took us an extremely long time to find someone with read more »
Slashdotodoketa writes "My organization recently had to replace our Web developer. It took us an extremely long time to find someone with read more »
Date : 2008 03 06 Technology Slashdot
fmenard123 writes "The Canadian telecommunications regulator, the CRTC, has affirmed in a decision released on March 3rd 2008 that read more »
Slashdotfmenard123 writes "The Canadian telecommunications regulator, the CRTC, has affirmed in a decision released on March 3rd 2008 that read more »
Date : 2008 03 06 Technology Slashdot
simoniker writes "Obviously whimsical but slightly mind-blowing — an Eastern European coder has published video and the Exce read more »
Slashdotsimoniker writes "Obviously whimsical but slightly mind-blowing — an Eastern European coder has published video and the Exce read more »
Date : 2008 03 06 Technology Slashdot
Glyn Moody writes "Until now, the received wisdom has been that GNU/Linux will never take off with general users because it's too read more »
SlashdotGlyn Moody writes "Until now, the received wisdom has been that GNU/Linux will never take off with general users because it's too read more »
Date : 2008 03 06 Technology Slashdot
morphovar writes "The German Ruhr University of Bochum is conducting experiments with a large-scale model for an automated subterr read more »
Slashdotmorphovar writes "The German Ruhr University of Bochum is conducting experiments with a large-scale model for an automated subterr read more »
Date : 2008 03 06 Technology Slashdot
hey sends us to a blog at NYTimes outlining the upcoming appeal of the case known as "re Bilski," which could spell the end of pat read more »
Slashdothey sends us to a blog at NYTimes outlining the upcoming appeal of the case known as "re Bilski," which could spell the end of pat read more »
Date : 2008 03 06 Technology Slashdot
goatherder23 writes in with news that the New South Wales cabinet has proposed new powers for police to search computers anywhere read more »
Slashdotgoatherder23 writes in with news that the New South Wales cabinet has proposed new powers for police to search computers anywhere read more »
Date : 2008 03 06 Technology Slashdot
StCredZero writes "Researchers at CMU are working on a Modular Snake Robot. A video from this site is up on YouTube. In addition t read more »
SlashdotStCredZero writes "Researchers at CMU are working on a Modular Snake Robot. A video from this site is up on YouTube. In addition t read more »
Date : 2008 03 06 Technology Slashdot
cecom writes "After major improvements in SMP support in FreeBSD 7.0, benchmarks show it performing 15% better than the latest Lin read more »
Slashdotcecom writes "After major improvements in SMP support in FreeBSD 7.0, benchmarks show it performing 15% better than the latest Lin read more »
Date : 2008 03 06 Technology Slashdot
palegray.net writes "Wired News brings us an article about brain scanning systems that can accurately tell what you're looking at read more »
Slashdotpalegray.net writes "Wired News brings us an article about brain scanning systems that can accurately tell what you're looking at read more »
Date : 2008 03 06 Technology Slashdot
Lev13than writes "Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs said the iPhone won't be using Adobe Systems' Inc.'s popular Flash media player any ti read more »
SlashdotLev13than writes "Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs said the iPhone won't be using Adobe Systems' Inc.'s popular Flash media player any ti read more »
Date : 2008 03 06 Search Engines Yahoo! Search Blog
We’ve been working hard all winter long, and today, we’ve rolled out an update to Yahoo! Maps that delivers a number o read more »
We’ve been working hard all winter long, and today, we’ve rolled out an update to Yahoo! Maps that delivers a number o read more »
Date : 2008 03 06 Technology Slashdot
coondoggie writes "NASA this will show off the first mock up of its Orion space capsule ahead of the capsule's first emergency ast read more »
Slashdotcoondoggie writes "NASA this will show off the first mock up of its Orion space capsule ahead of the capsule's first emergency ast read more »