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New robots can build other bots, fix themselves

New robots can build other bots, fix themselves"Robotic Nation"Robots already in use everywhere...Marshall Brain (yes, that's his name) founder of HowStuffWorks.com has written a couple of interesting essays about robotics in the future, well worth reading. He feels that it is quite plausible that over the next 40 years robots...

Tags: Robots, robot, Marshall Brain, bot

Discussion threads 2005-05-12

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Why Facebook can't open up like Twitter: Life doesn't operate in 140 characters

No matter what Facebook does it never seems to make everyone happy. The latest hubbub: Facebook opens up its activity streams to third party developers, but doesn't go far enough. Why? Damn privacy.  ReadWriteWeb's Marshall Kirkpatrick makes a great argument that Facebook remains fundamentally close due to its...

Tags: Facebook, Twitter, ReadWriteWeb, Kirkpatrick, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-28

Airport security part 5: Snakes on planes? Check. Marshalls on planes? Nope.

Airport security part 5: Snakes on planes? Check. Marshalls on planes? Nope.And used "roll" instead of "role" in the post"TSA actually discusses FAMs increasing roll post 9/11..."From this statement, I would guess that the TSA is somehow increasing their spin? ;)You misspelled 'Knew'on your poll ;-) ...

Tags: Transportation, Airliners, Snake, airport security, Nate, Transportation Security Administration, Nope, Federal Reserve Board

Discussion threads 2008-07-14

If you call someone a 'nerd' are you a moron? (Part 2)

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk continues his examination of what it means to be a nerd in part 2 of his review of David Anderegg’s new book, “Nerds.” Last week, I wrote about the concept of being a nerd. And about a book called “Nerds: Who They...

Tags: Dr., Real World, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2008-02-08

UK Cell phone cancer researchers: The jury is still out. Especially for kids.

UK Cell phone cancer researchers: The jury is still out. Especially for kids.It's like climate change...... there is loads of funding for projects to avoid climate change but no funding for projects to *disprove* climate change.Scientists and politicians then tell us that no projects exist that disprove climate change. Obviously...

Tags: climate change, cell phone, phone

Discussion threads 2007-09-12

Web 2.0 smackdown: intellectuals vs. amateurs in Citizendium

Larry Sanger, Wikipedia co-founder, is embarking on an ambitious and undoubtedly Web 2.0 politically-incorrect mission to shepherd the brain power of what he estimates is 3% of the Internet population: intellectuals or “educated, thinking people who read about science or ideas regularly.”Sanger is hoping to spearhead a high-brow spin-off of...

Tags: Wikipedia

Blog posts 2006-09-17

Torvalds says DRM isn't necessarily bad

Torvalds says DRM isn't necessarily badYes in every possible way!Linus is spot on in his thinking.I think the problems with GPL3 are way overblown.You will still be able to do about any kind of imoral or illegal activity you want with a GPL3 kernel. Well, you can't have sex directly...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, GPL 3, Linus, digital-rights management, Torvalds, Free Software Foundation

Discussion threads 2006-02-03