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Slashback: Bots, Time Travel, Turing
That eerie, eerie theme music will get in your head all day. sideshow-voxx writes: "The BBC has announced that there will be more installments of the Audio Adventure Dr Who - Death Comes to Time available on the web in the New Year."
This is cool news (the accompanying art is a nice touch with this Dr. Who presentation), but it would be nice if they would put the episodes into more audio formats as well.
Things always seem to get more complicated. Eric Molitor, ("Linux hacker and Builder of Violator - Linux powered BattleBot that competed in May") wrote about the BattleBots vs. Battlebots story of the other day, saying:
"As a BattleBot competitor I was horrified when I noticed your article but here are some corrections... BattleBots INC != BattleBots the show.BattleBots INC is suing and not the TV show. (Comedy Central tapes the tournaments and airs portions of the finals on a TV show. But thats just like showing NFL games mostly. The TV company just pays a licensing fee to broadcast the event.)
Do a little research and the guy registered his domain at least a year after the first BattleBots competition in Long Beach. (Early 1998) In fact the battlebots.org domain was registered after BattleBots.com, and after BattleBots applied for their TM.
So this kid (running a script kiddie hosting service no less) registers a domain after somebody applies for the TM and then asks for $5K to give it up. Sounds like cyber-squatting to me. Also take a look at the dates on the website for the replies, etc. Things don't look right ....
Still BattleBots is dumb not to have registered the .org domain.
For a little history on BattleBots and the law suits, etc. that RobotWars got into that nearly destroyed this sport take a look at http://www.robotcombat.com/history.html.
Greg and Tray gave up a lot and everybody got together to dodge RobotWars/Profile records lawsuits to prevent the sport from happening. I'd hate to see them unfairly get a bad name."
Thanks, Eric.
Something to see in England. slathering wrote with news that the Alan Turing memorial written about in this Slashdot story has finally materialized. He writes: "I read about this in this months IEEE Annals of the History of Computing (who doesn't have a website). But I found the website for the memorial itself. Apparently funding was found for the Alan Turing Memorial since it was unveiled June 23, 2001 in Manchester, England. It was funded without any donations from the computing industry."
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"Nothing for you to see here. Please move along."
what is the meaning of this???
Now unless you are logged into an account you cannot see the or post to the comments on a story until at least 5 comments are posted.
This is a load of fucking bullshit.
Your lame schemes to generate more and more accounts so you can get more advertising money are pathetic.
Slashdot is a fucking peice of dogshit.
Alan must be turing over in his grave over that one.
anus.
Didn't you know he was gay?
I can't believe I agree with you. Does that make me a troll by association?
Dude you have stumbled across the most effective karma whoreing technique yet. Very Impressive.
I must say, not only are the trolls becoming more skilled and efficient, so are the karma whores.
I dig your karma whoring skills. Twice in the same article and both pulled in a +3 or more. Very nice technique. Almost makes me want to make an account. I hope you used this increased karma income to aid the troll movement.
Thanks. Game's over though, I got to 50 in like four days (although I'm sure this post will cause a drop, I'll just have to keep trying).
Thanks, pal. There's more - I'll write up a story about the top secret technique for geekizoid when it comes back up, since anything gets posted there.
That's probably the extent of it.
What does it say when 1)someone who reads Slashdot doesn't know who Alan Turing is, and then 2) people who have heard of him associate him more with the Turing Test than with the Turing Machine!!! For the love of sweet sandwich, the world is on its head! Have people been reading too much science fiction and not enough science? Has someone slipped too much flouride into the drinking water???
clever, though.
Yeah, worse for fuckhead cowards like you.
Do us all a favor, and go the fuck away. Go over to K5 with all the other exiled cocksuckers. You don't like Slashdot? Then don't come here!
Like I said, go to K5 and have anal sex with the bastards over there you piece of shit cocksucking faggot!
I'll write up a story about the top secret technique for geekizoid
Too bad. Why not post it on site someone actually reads?
It was 1998, 3 years ago. Still a bit before the explosion.
I thought the majority here were all for the non-dilution of the name space?
Bah, the kid can go screw.
It doesn't mean much now, it's built for the future.
we wouldn't want everyone doing what I'd do, then Slashdot would turn into one steaming pile of dog shit. --oh :(
Anyway, at least the die-hard trolls read geekizoid.
then why does AIDS have such high infection rates among gay men? smart and sane people don't have a death wish.
not anymore.
Yes it is just a glorified RC car correct? Nope nothing could be further from the truth. If it was just a RC car my bot would not have 4000 lines of custom code running in it. Try controlling hundreds of amps of current with a pic micro. It is a sport but definately not for idiots. It takes one hell of a lot of skill to build one, electronics, programming, machining and mechanical design. So if it is just RC cars bashing one another lets see you just whip one up.
Accidentally modded this down, meant to mod this up. Please mod it back up. ;)
Is it unreasonable to be glad that the British didn't starve? Though they would never have surrendered. The British and the Commonwealth fought the Nazis before the Soviets or the Americans joined the war, and they would have fought on to the limits of their strength until the Nazis were defeated.
Is homophobia also genetic?
[I'm referring to attitude of acceptance, nmot attitude or persecution, though they could both be genetic for all I know]
I want to know.
Sam