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In recent years, lots of efforts have been made to give robots the ability to hear and see. But what about the sense of touch? Unlike us, robots don't have sensitive skin. But this is about to change. By using organic, or plastic, field-effect transistors as pressure sensors deposited on a flexible material, researchers at the University of Tokyo have created an artificial skin which will give robots the sense of touch . The prototype has a density of 16 sensors per square centimeter, far from the 1,500 of our fingertips. When this density increases and when the problem of the reliability of this kind of transistors is solved, the researchers say this artificial skin will also be used for car seats or gym carpets. Expect to see them in four or five years. Read more...

Here are selected excerpts from the Technology Research News article.

Researchers from the University of Tokyo have devised pressure-sensor arrays that promise to give objects like rugs and robots the equivalent of one aspect of skin -- pressure sensitivity.

The researchers' pressure sensor arrays are built from inexpensive organic, or plastic, transistors on a flexible material. This allows for dense arrays that can be used over large areas.

The arrays could be used in pressure-sensitive coverings in hospitals, homes, gyms and cars to monitor people's health and performance, and eventually as skin that would give robots the means to interact more sensitively with their surroundings, said Takao Someya, an associate professor of electrical engineering at the University of Tokyo.

The sensor skin works even when rolled around a cylinder as small as 4 millimeters in diameter, said Someya. The researchers' prototype is an eight-centimeter-square sheet containing a 32-by-32 array of organic sensors -- a density of 16 sensors per square centimeter. In contrast, humans have 1,500 pressure sensors per square centimeter in the fingertips, though far fewer in most other places.

And what are possible applications?

The active-matrix design allows the arrays to be smart enough to enable specific sensors at certain feedback points to, for instance, monitor the heart and breathing rate of a hospital patient who has fallen to the floor, said Someya. The skin could measure whether an elderly patient is just taking a rest, or needs help, he said.

The skin could also be used in car seats to monitor drivers' mental and physical conditions, Someya said. "Our large-area pressure [sensing abilities] would be helpful" in obtaining information through drivers seats, he said.

And, of course, we'll see home robots able to pick an egg in the fridge.

The research work has been published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on July 6, 2004, under the title "A large-area, flexible pressure sensor matrix with organic field-effect transistors for artificial skin applications." Here is a link to the abstract .

In recent years, lots of efforts have been made to give robots the ability to hear and see. But what about the sense of touch? Unlike us, robots don't have sensitive skin. But this is about to change. By using organic, or plastic, field-effect transistors as pressure sensors deposited on a flexible material, researchers at the University of Tokyo have created an artificial skin which will give robots the sense of touch . The prototype has a density of 16 sensors per square centimeter, far from the 1,500 of our fingertips. When this density increases and when the problem of the reliability of this kind of transistors is solved, the researchers say this artificial skin will also be used for car seats or gym carpets. Expect to see them in four or five years. Read more...

Here are selected excerpts from the Technology Research News article.

Researchers from the University of Tokyo have devised pressure-sensor arrays that promise to give objects like rugs and robots the equivalent of one aspect of skin -- pressure sensitivity.

The researchers' pressure sensor arrays are built from inexpensive organic, or plastic, transistors on a flexible material. This allows for dense arrays that can be used over large areas.

The arrays could be used in pressure-sensitive coverings in hospitals, homes, gyms and cars to monitor people's health and performance, and eventually as skin that would give robots the means to interact more sensitively with their surroundings, said Takao Someya, an associate professor of electrical engineering at the University of Tokyo.

The sensor skin works even when rolled around a cylinder as small as 4 millimeters in diameter, said Someya. The researchers' prototype is an eight-centimeter-square sheet containing a 32-by-32 array of organic sensors -- a density of 16 sensors per square centimeter. In contrast, humans have 1,500 pressure sensors per square centimeter in the fingertips, though far fewer in most other places.

And what are possible applications?

The active-matrix design allows the arrays to be smart enough to enable specific sensors at certain feedback points to, for instance, monitor the heart and breathing rate of a hospital patient who has fallen to the floor, said Someya. The skin could measure whether an elderly patient is just taking a rest, or needs help, he said.

The skin could also be used in car seats to monitor drivers' mental and physical conditions, Someya said. "Our large-area pressure [sensing abilities] would be helpful" in obtaining information through drivers seats, he said.

And, of course, we'll see home robots able to pick an egg in the fridge.

The research work has been published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on July 6, 2004, under the title "A large-area, flexible pressure sensor matrix with organic field-effect transistors for artificial skin applications." Here is a link to the abstract .

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A cloud filled with simple molecules of sugar has been found 26,000 light-years away from us, near the middle of our Milky Way Galaxy. The 8-atom sugar molecules exist in a gas cloud named Sagittarius B2 at a temperature of only 8 degrees above absolute zero. Too far and too cold to bake your next cake! However, even if chemistry reactions on Earth and in this frigid sugar cloud are very different, astronomers think this "discovery suggests how the molecular building blocks necessary for the creation of life could first form in interstellar space." I'm not qualified to say if their claims are funded, but don't hesitate to tell me if they're right or wrong.

Please read the original article for more astronomical details or just enjoy the illustrations below describing how prebiotic chemistry -- the formation of the molecular building blocks necessary for the creation of life -- occurs in interstellar clouds.

The above acronyms in the credits for the illustrations refer respectively to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory , the Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) .

Sources: SpaceRef.com, September 20, 2004; and various websites

• michael shows favoritism to Roland Piquepaille
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  michael is constantly posting stories from Roland Piquepaille's blog.
  Compare Google search 'site:slashdot.org "Posted by michael" "Roland Piquepaille writes"' to any of the other mods. michael nearly doubles the number of the next highest Roland spammer, simoniker.
  
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  Why the obvious favoritism to Roland Piquepaille? Either Piquepaille is in cahoots with michael, or he just knows how to press his buttons. In either case, an questionable degree of preferential treatment is being shown.
  
  
  
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  Michael links to a 40MB file on the front page of Slashdot, leading to a massive Slashdotting of a NASA server.
  
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  You have to wonder what michael's intentions were in placing such a link? This kind of crap has been going on for a long time- front page links are made without regard to the server, file type, or file size. This time, it is impacting a taxpayer-funded government agency.
  

uh, they did hello world on curry's website too!

Check out the posting on IPodder.org from September 10th regarding their marketing team's work! Here's a direct link (NOT SAFE FOR WORK!)

If this gets popular enough, its abolutely trivial to, and someone will, write a program that creates a wide variety of dummy "interests", but also include their own music and the music of the people they agreed to promote. Thusly the system will have been corrupted.

Not necessarily. iRate uses a collaborative filtering rating system, which results are computationally personalized for every user. This means that, even if there are people creating dummy profiles, that if you don't like the music promoted by these "interests" then they will not influence the recommendations that you get. (And if you do like the suggestions of these "dummy" profiles, well, then the system is working as expected).

They were able to get into the internal nevigation system via a console port and retrieve a crash screen. This is all they've got so far but seems to indicate a major problem.

I don't about you but I wouldn't want to be that guy standing beside it!

A portable nuclear reactor? Cool! Just sling it over your back and go!

Sarcasm aside, "portable" may be stretching it for something that weight 500 metric tons. "Self-contained" would be a better term. Which would be an impressive feat if they can pull it off. Most of our existing reactors require quite a bit of supervision to ensure that they operate within expected tolerances. The safety systems should kick in if anything goes wrong, but the power going out is enough of a problem in of itself. Of course, most of our reactors are pretty old tech, so a self-contained reactor may be possible now. I think it would be kind of cool if every suburb could have one of these things.

Not sure about the whole third-world idea, though. All I can say is, it's better than letting them build their own reactors. At least with these, we'll 100% KNOW if plutonium is missing.

What reason is there to go to the Uberhacker blog other than to boost the traffic?

There is nothing original or value added to the Slashdot post, and both writeups just link to the International Herald Tribune article.

We already have one Roland Piquepaille spammer, please don't turn yourself into another person who just contributes blog spam, even if the Slashdot "editors" let it slide.

This guy is a troll!

So I think a starting point me be with This guy. Here also. I don't know if they would release any info to you about what items you may find tolerable but it might be worth a shot.

I know its a joke, but it seems to work in IE as well, or at least an example PNG crashes it, i suppose one could be crafted for IE to exploit it.

Still waiting for /. PW in email.
I just blogged:
http://radio.weblogs.com/0123486/2004/08/01.html#a 1397

ATTENTION MICHAEL MOORE! "guerrilla drive-ins" and the RNC dance mobs

ATTENTION MICHAEL MOORE! REPORT FOR DUTY!
Combine this with the Barlow dance mobs. No, not on the street where folks can observe with the naked eye, but away from the action, way away maybe, facilitated by sneaky little cameraphones and/or videocams blogging the dancers to the web. Imagine also Fahrenheit projected onto structures where casual passers-by or people stuck in traffic will see and hear it.

Here in Dallas, I can't search from work, but can search fine from home (VNC). I have tried several different user agents (Thanks user agent switcher in Firefox!), but no difference.

BTW, I am in a midsized office building with over 100 users surfing the web.

If anyone wants to see a screenshot of the error, check this blog entry from 2003. Found via yahoo.

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I wrote about this technology a while ago, in "True or False? Investigating Digital Images." A keypoint is that the Dartmouth College team thinks that their technology, or a similar one, will soon be incorporated in the U.S. legal system to authenticate images. At the above link to my blog, you'll also find an analysis of a forged image and more references, including the full research paper published by the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing journal.

Technology developed for space travel has been adapted for uses on Earth for a long time. But today, three articles report that some current customizations can save lives. For example, SPACE.com writes that space technology is entering hospitals. It says that a system originally intended to keep clean the space station Mir, and later the International Space Station (ISS), is now used in hospitals to build temporary 'clean rooms' -- virtually bacteria-free -- around patients. And a video infrared camera developed by NASA's JPL to study Earth is being modified into a brain scanning device searching for tumors. Elsewhere, National Geographic is saying that satellites are starting to aid earthquake predictions. And of course, these ESA satellites are identifying these 'rogue waves'. You need to read the articles mentioned above to realize how all these bleeding edge technologies can really help us on Earth, but if you have a limited time, please read this summary for selected excerpts and photos.

Excuse me for tooting my own horn, but check out my story in today's Boston Globe about a possible security problem at the Democratic convention next week.

That's OK. at least you:

1. are up front about it, making it clear it's your work, unlike this spam troll
   
2. only self-link once a year as far as I can tell, unlike this spam troll
   
3. have some legitimate concerns despite a FUD-like undercurrent and some factual errors (a honeypot is "A host or network with known vulnerabilities deliberately exposed to a public network" with the express intent to study attackers' behavior, NOT as you wrote "an access point programmed to attract compatible WiFi laptops"), and
   
4. only link to your own site once, unlike this spam troll that has been a plague on Slashdot for far too long.

I for one refuse to buy a Slashdot subscription as long as the "stuff that matters" is just more Roland Piquepaille spam.

Excuse me for tooting my own horn, but check out my story in today's Boston Globe about a possible security problem at the Democratic convention next week.

That's OK. at least you:

1. are up front about it, making it clear it's your work, unlike this spam troll
   
2. only self-link once a year as far as I can tell, unlike this spam troll
   
3. have some legitimate concerns despite a FUD-like undercurrent and some factual errors (a honeypot is "A host or network with known vulnerabilities deliberately exposed to a public network" with the express intent to study attackers' behavior, NOT as you wrote "an access point programmed to attract compatible WiFi laptops"), and
   
4. only link to your own site once, unlike this spam troll that has been a plague on Slashdot for far too long.

I for one refuse to buy a Slashdot subscription as long as the "stuff that matters" is just more Roland Piquepaille spam.

Excuse me for tooting my own horn, but check out my story in today's Boston Globe about a possible security problem at the Democratic convention next week.

That's OK. at least you:

1. are up front about it, making it clear it's your work, unlike this spam troll
   
2. only self-link once a year as far as I can tell, unlike this spam troll
   
3. have some legitimate concerns despite a FUD-like undercurrent and some factual errors (a honeypot is "A host or network with known vulnerabilities deliberately exposed to a public network" with the express intent to study attackers' behavior, NOT as you wrote "an access point programmed to attract compatible WiFi laptops"), and
   
4. only link to your own site once, unlike this spam troll that has been a plague on Slashdot for far too long.

I for one refuse to buy a Slashdot subscription as long as the "stuff that matters" is just more Roland Piquepaille spam.

The truth is finally revealed!

Roland Piquepaille is trying to turn himself into the Rob Enderle of Slashdot. Clueless prognostications by a self-described IT consultant.

The problem is:
Roland Piqupaille spam example 1
Roland Piqupaille spam example 2
Roland Piqupaille spam example 3
just leads to more Roland Piquepaille spam

The consultant description is especially funny and fascinating because it seems that Roland spends more time as a troll blogging and spamming sites to link to his blog than he does consulting with clients, just like Enderle spends his time as a quote-mill.

Do you think that the Jackito people would have even taken his phone call if he hadn't spent the last couple of years trolling and spamming Slashdot? Now he can claim he's a technology leader or the voice of Slashdot or some such nonsense ..... and I'll bet he promised to deliver the Slashdot audience in exchange.

Or is he actually working PR for Jackito and not disclosing it? It seems too many of his submissions are just more rehashed press releases ... like the original "TDA" description he "wrote".

Not to mention that he can now charge more for advertising on his blog.

This is really all about advertising and self-promotion in the most crass sense.

Support it and and you'll get more of the same spam from yet another Rob Enderle-type troll. Oppose it and we can be rid of Roland and the other Rob Enderle-s of the world.

The truth is finally revealed!

Roland Piquepaille is trying to turn himself into the Rob Enderle of Slashdot. Clueless prognostications by a self-described IT consultant.

The problem is:
Roland Piqupaille spam example 1
Roland Piqupaille spam example 2
Roland Piqupaille spam example 3
just leads to more Roland Piquepaille spam

The consultant description is especially funny and fascinating because it seems that Roland spends more time as a troll blogging and spamming sites to link to his blog than he does consulting with clients, just like Enderle spends his time as a quote-mill.

Do you think that the Jackito people would have even taken his phone call if he hadn't spent the last couple of years trolling and spamming Slashdot? Now he can claim he's a technology leader or the voice of Slashdot or some such nonsense ..... and I'll bet he promised to deliver the Slashdot audience in exchange.

Or is he actually working PR for Jackito and not disclosing it? It seems too many of his submissions are just more rehashed press releases ... like the original "TDA" description he "wrote".

Not to mention that he can now charge more for advertising on his blog.

This is really all about advertising and self-promotion in the most crass sense.

Support it and and you'll get more of the same spam from yet another Rob Enderle-type troll. Oppose it and we can be rid of Roland and the other Rob Enderle-s of the world.

The truth is finally revealed!

Roland Piquepaille is trying to turn himself into the Rob Enderle of Slashdot. Clueless prognostications by a self-described IT consultant.

The problem is:
Roland Piqupaille spam example 1
Roland Piqupaille spam example 2
Roland Piqupaille spam example 3
just leads to more Roland Piquepaille spam

The consultant description is especially funny and fascinating because it seems that Roland spends more time as a troll blogging and spamming sites to link to his blog than he does consulting with clients, just like Enderle spends his time as a quote-mill.

Do you think that the Jackito people would have even taken his phone call if he hadn't spent the last couple of years trolling and spamming Slashdot? Now he can claim he's a technology leader or the voice of Slashdot or some such nonsense ..... and I'll bet he promised to deliver the Slashdot audience in exchange.

Or is he actually working PR for Jackito and not disclosing it? It seems too many of his submissions are just more rehashed press releases ... like the original "TDA" description he "wrote".

Not to mention that he can now charge more for advertising on his blog.

This is really all about advertising and self-promotion in the most crass sense.

Support it and and you'll get more of the same spam from yet another Rob Enderle-type troll. Oppose it and we can be rid of Roland and the other Rob Enderle-s of the world.

The truth is finally revealed!

Roland Piquepaille is trying to turn himself into the Rob Enderle of Slashdot. Clueless prognostications by a self-described IT consultant.

The problem is:
Roland Piqupaille spam example 1
Roland Piqupaille spam example 2
Roland Piqupaille spam example 3
just leads to more Roland Piquepaille spam

The consultant description is especially funny and fascinating because it seems that Roland spends more time as a troll blogging and spamming sites to link to his blog than he does consulting with clients, just like Enderle spends his time as a quote-mill.

Do you think that the Jackito people would have even taken his phone call if he hadn't spent the last couple of years trolling and spamming Slashdot? Now he can claim he's a technology leader or the voice of Slashdot or some such nonsense ..... and I'll bet he promised to deliver the Slashdot audience in exchange.

Or is he actually working PR for Jackito and not disclosing it? It seems too many of his submissions are just more rehashed press releases ... like the original "TDA" description he "wrote".

Not to mention that he can now charge more for advertising on his blog.

This is really all about advertising and self-promotion in the most crass sense.

Support it and and you'll get more of the same spam from yet another Rob Enderle-type troll. Oppose it and we can be rid of Roland and the other Rob Enderle-s of the world.

The truth is finally revealed!

Roland Piquepaille is trying to turn himself into the Rob Enderle of Slashdot. Clueless prognostications by a self-described IT consultant.

The problem is:
Roland Piqupaille spam example 1
Roland Piqupaille spam example 2
Roland Piqupaille spam example 3
just leads to more Roland Piquepaille spam

The consultant description is especially funny and fascinating because it seems that Roland spends more time as a troll blogging and spamming sites to link to his blog than he does consulting with clients, just like Enderle spends his time as a quote-mill.

Do you think that the Jackito people would have even taken his phone call if he hadn't spent the last couple of years trolling and spamming Slashdot? Now he can claim he's a technology leader or the voice of Slashdot or some such nonsense ..... and I'll bet he promised to deliver the Slashdot audience in exchange.

Or is he actually working PR for Jackito and not disclosing it? It seems too many of his submissions are just more rehashed press releases ... like the original "TDA" description he "wrote".

Not to mention that he can now charge more for advertising on his blog.

This is really all about advertising and self-promotion in the most crass sense.

Support it and and you'll get more of the same spam from yet another Rob Enderle-type troll. Oppose it and we can be rid of Roland and the other Rob Enderle-s of the world.

The truth is finally revealed!

Roland Piquepaille is trying to turn himself into the Rob Enderle of Slashdot. Clueless prognostications by a self-described IT consultant.

The problem is:
Roland Piqupaille spam example 1
Roland Piqupaille spam example 2
Roland Piqupaille spam example 3
just leads to more Roland Piquepaille spam

The consultant description is especially funny and fascinating because it seems that Roland spends more time as a troll blogging and spamming sites to link to his blog than he does consulting with clients, just like Enderle spends his time as a quote-mill.

Do you think that the Jackito people would have even taken his phone call if he hadn't spent the last couple of years trolling and spamming Slashdot? Now he can claim he's a technology leader or the voice of Slashdot or some such nonsense ..... and I'll bet he promised to deliver the Slashdot audience in exchange.

Or is he actually working PR for Jackito and not disclosing it? It seems too many of his submissions are just more rehashed press releases ... like the original "TDA" description he "wrote".

Not to mention that he can now charge more for advertising on his blog.

This is really all about advertising and self-promotion in the most crass sense.

Support it and and you'll get more of the same spam from yet another Rob Enderle-type troll. Oppose it and we can be rid of Roland and the other Rob Enderle-s of the world.

The truth is finally revealed!

Roland Piquepaille is trying to turn himself into the Rob Enderle of Slashdot. Clueless prognostications by a self-described IT consultant.

The problem is:
Roland Piqupaille spam example 1
Roland Piqupaille spam example 2
Roland Piqupaille spam example 3
just leads to more Roland Piquepaille spam

The consultant description is especially funny and fascinating because it seems that Roland spends more time as a troll blogging and spamming sites to link to his blog than he does consulting with clients, just like Enderle spends his time as a quote-mill.

Do you think that the Jackito people would have even taken his phone call if he hadn't spent the last couple of years trolling and spamming Slashdot? Now he can claim he's a technology leader or the voice of Slashdot or some such nonsense ..... and I'll bet he promised to deliver the Slashdot audience in exchange.

Or is he actually working PR for Jackito and not disclosing it? It seems too many of his submissions are just more rehashed press releases ... like the original "TDA" description he "wrote".

Not to mention that he can now charge more for advertising on his blog.

This is really all about advertising and self-promotion in the most crass sense.

Support it and and you'll get more of the same spam from yet another Rob Enderle-type troll. Oppose it and we can be rid of Roland and the other Rob Enderle-s of the world.

The truth is finally revealed!

Roland Piquepaille is trying to turn himself into the Rob Enderle of Slashdot. Clueless prognostications by a self-described IT consultant.

The problem is:
Roland Piqupaille spam example 1
Roland Piqupaille spam example 2
Roland Piqupaille spam example 3
just leads to more Roland Piquepaille spam

The consultant description is especially funny and fascinating because it seems that Roland spends more time as a troll blogging and spamming sites to link to his blog than he does consulting with clients, just like Enderle spends his time as a quote-mill.

Do you think that the Jackito people would have even taken his phone call if he hadn't spent the last couple of years trolling and spamming Slashdot? Now he can claim he's a technology leader or the voice of Slashdot or some such nonsense ..... and I'll bet he promised to deliver the Slashdot audience in exchange.

Or is he actually working PR for Jackito and not disclosing it? It seems too many of his submissions are just more rehashed press releases ... like the original "TDA" description he "wrote".

Not to mention that he can now charge more for advertising on his blog.

This is really all about advertising and self-promotion in the most crass sense.

Support it and and you'll get more of the same spam from yet another Rob Enderle-type troll. Oppose it and we can be rid of Roland and the other Rob Enderle-s of the world.

A week ago, I decided to blogspam Slashdot. Several Slashdot readers called me out on it, and began to question the length of my penis. I also had serious doubts. But as neither my ego nor my hit-counter have been satisfied, not to mention I'm French, I decided to do it again. And I spent several hours concocting this piece of crap. I also discus my vision of using Slashdot as a personal popularity vehicle. But more importantly, I'm generating hits on my blog. I don't know if I'll be a success, but one thing is sure: Slashbots will buy it, hook, line, and sinker. Read this drivel for more details.

Man, that would make the ultimate Lego/Meccano construction kit. I don't think the entire machine is actually in the picture either.

The best technical description I can come up with, is "crawler mounted excavator with a telescopic arm with a rotating digging element.

Machines like that are used in open cast coal mining. Explosives are used to break up the hard rock in order to get to the minerals/ores below. This excavator would be used to scoop up the rubble (might even crush it as well), before the conveyor belt at the back would unload the rubble onto a monster truck.

Declarative, Interfaces. NOW

"...please read this overview."

TRANSLATION:

...please support and increase Roland Piquepaille spam and advertising clickthrough rates.

If you really want more details and pictures about the Mars Underground Mole then you can

• read this SpaceDaily four-part article on Mars Drillers
• read the Mars Underground Mole PDF with diagrams, photos and tables
• look at a whole range of Mars-related projects from the 2003 Sixth International Conference on Mars
• read a Deutsche Welle interview with German Aerospace Center Chairman Sigmar Wittig - DLR developed the Mars Express mole that inspired the MUM project
• read a National Space Society two-part interview with Dr. Brian Glass, MUM co-investigator
• read about a MUM inspired student project or
• watch a NASA Mars Underground Mole Quicktime movie animation.

It's much better than supporting craven self-interested people who are just after advertising like Roland Piquepaille, blog spammer.

Even if Aura has an important mission, it is only one of the six satellites that will fly close to each other by 2006. Here is the introduction of a post on my blog, which contains pictures and missions of all these satellites.
The "A-Train" satellite formation consists of six satellites flying in close proximity in a near future. The first one, Aqua, was launched in 2002. The second one, Aura, will be launched in June 2004, while CloudSAT, CALIPSO and PARABOL will start their missions in October 2004. The last one, OCO, will join them in 2006. The satellites will cross the equator within a few minutes of one another at around 1:30 p.m. local time. By combining the different sets of observations, scientists will be able to gain a better understanding of important parameters related to climate change.

Check the Oddpost tech logs for proof of Microsoft rebustness...

Why doesn't oddpost work with anything other than Internet Explorer?
I don't get it. I can see how it's annoying if you can't use something you've heard is cool. But it's not evil. I'm all for cross-platformness, but I also don't see the harm if someone wants to take advantage of some kick-ass functionality that exists in IE5W and no where else

What was the cause of that service problem?
IE no longer rapidly leaks memIE no longer rapidly leaks memory when sending message after message after message. Or at least leaks much less.ory when sending message after message after message. Or at least leaks much less.

And that other service problem?
Yesterday we resolved the MyDoom-related problems with account login and outgoing mail

And that other service problem?
After many long hours of toil, we've modified our systems to deal with the surge in email traffic caused by the MyDoom virus.

Say again?
Yikes, looks like we spoke too soon. We're still dealing with an onslaught of mail from the MyDoom virus. We'll continue to post updates here.

How your IIS servers doing?
Oddpost's performance degraded steadily over the month of November. This was primarily due to a memory leak on our IIS? servers

MS loving twats...

...and this Roland Piquepaille guy is really flattering the GROKLAW web site design.

steveha

Ah, I found a link to a technical paper in PDF format posted on this blog page. (I think the paper is being Slashdotted at the moment--arrowed!)

Fine, i'll do Slashdot and Wired's jobs for them:

Screenshots

Charles Walton, the Father of RFID might be of interest.

CC.

This was the subject of a column I published on my blog a week ago. You'll find references to recent articles by Nature, Science News Online and the research paper published by Nano Letters.

Even if new buildings are connected to Internet, they usually don't communicate between themselves. And when it comes to electricity, these buildings are selfish and consume what they want without any coordination.

Am I missing something here? I just reread the articles and I didn't see anything about buildings communicating between themselves. . . I saw an article about buildings configured to respond to energy price information . . . but this information is not shared between buildings. In fact there is a diagram at this link from the original post . . . and it shows XML sent from a central center, not between buildings.

In fact . . . Quoting from the same link: Beyond price, systems could be programmed to respond to changes in air quality, to participate in emissions trading schemes, to tap into sustainable energy sources, to coordinate the responses of groups of buildings, and possibly to minimize local brownout threats and price spikes, according to Connors. "There's still some wiggle room. But, all in all, it's a very cool beginning," he said.

The article says that one could . . . coordinate responses between buildings

The people who did this did not make buildings communicate which each other . . . they said that the could use the same technology to do this. The original post is at best misleading. At worst just plain wrong (according to the articles it cites). Either way it strikes me as an example of exagerated irresponsible journalism.

WinForms will become obsolete with Avalon

Is WinForms dead?

There is a comment that the old URL will be redirected to a new URL. This could be very useful. When a provider stops providing, the change of URL can be a problem even if a new provider is found. Consider released software, etc. that contains a URL hyperlink. Copies of software with the now-invalid URL could continue to persist for a long time. It is not just web logs but also things like Web sites and e-mail addresses where the domain name or URL can be important. A while ago, there was a free webhosting service, Xoom.com but now Xoom.com leads to a money transfer service. Imagine all those with sites hosted at Xoom.com and who distributed the URLs... Keeping a local archived copy of the site could be important in case something unexpected happens. It could also be noted that when something is free it often implies a catch of some sort.

Some years ago, a law (COPPA) was passed that restricted Web sites from collecting information about young people. One unexpected effect was that a number of young people had their e-mail accounts cancelled by a company attempting to comply with the new law.

• "In general, suppose I'm renting storage space?"

• 3. If you want a copy of your weblogs.com-hosted website, post a comment here, include the URL of the site. Sometime after July 1, 2004, I will export all the requested sites, without their membership groups. You can then download them and do with them as you wish. I won't export them before July 1, and this is a one-time offer.

There is also a link on Dave's home page - Doc Searls (one of the bloggers affected) provides a bit more info. If he understands, I am really at loss as to why /. readers who are not directly affected have to flame this guy.

I think this is a really interesting article. I, myself, have a blog where I write about how new technologies are modifying our way of life. That doesn't mean writing about USB as if it was new, ha ha ha. ;)

I think blogs are great because by posting links to my blog to Slashdot and other sites I can make money through the Google ads on my page (targeted text ads! Isn't that fantastic?) It's really a great way to make money and make yourself heard (several people have wrote me to let me know how interesting my blog is, and I really feel it is an important part of the Internet culture of technologically advanced people such as ourselves) without doing so much yourself. In short, blogs such as my blog are great tools.

I think this is a really interesting article. I, myself, have a blog where I write about how new technologies are modifying our way of life. That doesn't mean writing about USB as if it was new, ha ha ha. ;)

I think blogs are great because by posting links to my blog to Slashdot and other sites I can make money through the Google ads on my page (targeted text ads! Isn't that fantastic?) It's really a great way to make money and make yourself heard (several people have wrote me to let me know how interesting my blog is, and I really feel it is an important part of the Internet culture of technologically advanced people such as ourselves) without doing so much yourself. In short, blogs such as my blog are great tools.

I think this is a really interesting article. I, myself, have a blog where I write about how new technologies are modifying our way of life. That doesn't mean writing about USB as if it was new, ha ha ha. ;)

I think blogs are great because by posting links to my blog to Slashdot and other sites I can make money through the Google ads on my page (targeted text ads! Isn't that fantastic?) It's really a great way to make money and make yourself heard (several people have wrote me to let me know how interesting my blog is, and I really feel it is an important part of the Internet culture of technologically advanced people such as ourselves) without doing so much yourself. In short, blogs such as my blog are great tools.

I think this is a really interesting article. I, myself, have a blog where I write about how new technologies are modifying our way of life. That doesn't mean writing about USB as if it was new, ha ha ha. ;)

I think blogs are great because by posting links to my blog to Slashdot and other sites I can make money through the Google ads on my page (targeted text ads! Isn't that fantastic?) It's really a great way to make money and make yourself heard (several people have wrote me to let me know how interesting my blog is, and I really feel it is an important part of the Internet culture of technologically advanced people such as ourselves) without doing so much yourself. In short, blogs such as my blog are great tools.

Roland Piquepaille:

Must you spam and blog whore /. and all the other public blog sites?

Are you being paid to post press releases everywhere and call them technology trends?

Please stop double-posting links to your blog (and failing to identify it as your blog ... NOT 'more details and references in this overview' as you so fondly like to obfuscate and trick people into generating more clickthroughs for your advertising). I won't even address the fact that you rarely (if ever) provide any details or references that aren't in a press release or news article that you've ripped off.

Please stop, Roland Piquepaille , SPAM and BLOG WHORE behavior is highly discourteous and dishonest to readers.

Be up front, and tell them that you are directing them to your blog, so you can earn more money from advertising.

Otherwise it's a form of bait and switch.