Dissecting the Roomba

WannaGeek writes "Jake Luck and John Ioannidis have dissected a Roomba for your educational pleasure. Just the basics, but important information on how to kill a Roomba if you get trapped in a sci-fi horror flick with one threatening to suck up your breakfast."

Comments

Frost psot!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

See above.

WOW

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdotted already....

fp

[Anonymous Coward]

fp

dissect this..

[Anonymous Coward]

deez nutsaq

and my fristing pissed :-P

H1-B: Stop Import of People & save American la

[Anonymous Coward]

This is unfair - An average American IT worker competiting against some of the smartest guys

CBS News 60 Minutes - Imported from India (January 12, 2003)
Copyright CBS Worldwide Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
(Excerpts from program transcript - Complete transcript available from CBS News)

... the smartest, most successful, most influential Indians who've migrated to the US seem to share a common credential: They're graduates of the Indian Institute of Technology , better known as IIT. Made up of seven campuses throughout India, IIT may be the most important university you've never heard of ... This is IIT Bombay. Put Harvard, MIT and Princeton together, and you begin to get an idea of the status of this school in India ...

With a population of over a billion people in India, competition to get into the IIT is ferocious. Last year, 178,000 high school seniors took the entrance exam called the JEE. Just over 3,500 were accepted or less than 2 percent. Compare that with Harvard, say, which accepts about 10 percent of its applicants ... impact of IIT graduates has been on the American technology revolution ... "I can't imagine a major area where Indian IIT engineers haven't played a leading role "...

It isn't just high tech ... Fortune 500 headhunters are always on the lookout for that IIT degree ... And the American companies love the kids from IIT ... Nehru, India's first prime minister, created IIT 50 years ago just after independence to train the scientists and engineers he knew the nation would need to move from medieval to modern. He never imagined India would be supplying brainpower to the whole world ...

Infosys Technologies Ltd.(NASDAQ: INFY) CHAIRMAN MURTHY: ... my son ... wanted to do computer science at IIT. To do computer science at IIT, you have to be in the top 200 and he couldn't do that, so he went to Cornell instead.
STAHL: Think about that for a minute. A kid from India using an Ivy League university as a safety school. That's how smart these guys are ...
MURTHY: ... Nehru wanted all these young men and women to contribute to the success of India, and they are contributing to the success of India ... Some of these people who have reached the higher echelons in the corporate world in the US, you know, they have persuaded their corporations to start operations in India, whether it's Texas Instruments, whether it's General Electric, whether it's Citibank.
KHOSLA: I have no question that India now is benefiting significantly from the cycling of knowledge, the back and forth, no question about it ... How many jobs have entrepreneurs -- Indian entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley created over the last 15, 20 years? Hundreds of thousands, I would guess ... For this society, here in America.

Says Lesley Stahl (CBS News) - "... I remember telling you in November that I had just returned from Bombay, India. So this story has taken two months. It's about a university that may be the hardest school in the world to get into . It's called IIT- Indian Institute of Technology. A stunning percentage of CEOs and innovators in the American high tech industry were graduated from IIT. The government of India highly subsidizes the school and the students who go there - it costs a kid just $700 a year. But - and here's the rub - a full two-thirds of the students leave India for jobs (many of the best come here) and never return. I think you'll find the story fascinating..."

Good news - IITs only churn out about 3000-4000 grads a year so only a few of H1-B are those BUT many other universities are good too... I saw these on ./ -
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=50907&cid=5100 004 and
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=50907&cid=5100 088

Getting Saved By Jesus

[Anonymous Coward]

Asking Jesus into your heart is as easy ABC!

You can ask Jesus into your heart right now.

It's the single most important decision you will ever make,
and it's as easy as ABC.

According to Romans 10:9, if you confess
with your mouth that Jesus is Lord,
and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead,
then you will be saved.

A = Accept what Jesus did on the cross for you.
He died for your sins. Accept Jesus into your heart.

B = Believe in your heart that God raised Jesus up from the grave,
and He came back to life to give you eternal life with Him.

C = Confess with your mouth that Jesus is your Lord and Savior.

Pray the following prayer:
"Jesus, I know I'm a sinner and that I need You.
I accept what You did for me on the cross,
and I believe that God raised You from the grave
to give me victory over death and everlasting life with You.
Come into my heart now and forgive me of all my sins.
I confess you, Jesus, as my Lord and Savior.
I love you Jesus!
I thank You for saving me.
I thank you God for your Son, Jesus.
In His name I pray, Amen."

Welcome to the family of God! Tell someone about Jesus today!
If you prayed this prayer and asked Jesus into your heart,
e-mail us at reachout@loveinactionministries.com and let us know.
We would like to send you some information to help you
in your new life with Jesus Christ.

Re:In case you were wondering...

[Anonymous Coward]

The Roomba is awesome. I have one of those little buggers vaccuuming up my living room carpet right now. My 2 cats don't really like it, they bat at it if it gets too close. It moves slowly enough around the room, though, that it doesn't actually ever run over the cats (which is good I guess :)).

Also, I had a bad diarrhea one day and i was in school so i didn't want to take a crap coz all the stalls in school were dirty. Anyway, because i was afraid to catch any disease from the toilets in school, I decided to take capsules of Immodium. If you do not know what Immodium is, it is a drug that you take to make wet shit hard again. After I drank the capsules, I felt better again not knowing that I just got OD'd on the drug. What happened was that I wasn't able to take a crap for 1 and a half weeks because the capsules turned my shit into stone. Because this was getting too painful for my asshole, I decided to go to the doctor to get advice. I didn't just get advice, I also had the doctor slicing my butthole open with a scalpel to let the damn rock hard piece of shit out of my ass. Oucccch!!!!!!!

So when I got home, I had really loose bowels, and it was hard to hold it. I lost control a few times before I made it to the bathroom, and I had some stains on the floor. But you know what? The Roomba cleaned it up like a champ! Two thumbs up from me!

I must say

[Anonymous Coward]

Kobe Bryant is gay and Shaq is retarded

Thank you.

fawk

[Anonymous Coward]

*_g_o_a_t_s_e_x_*_g_o_a_t_s_e_x_*_g_o_a_t_s_e_x_*_
g_______________________________________________g_ _
o_/_____\_____________\____________/____\_______o_ _
a|_______|_____________\__________|______|______a_ _
t|_______`._____________|_________|_______:_____t_ _
s`________|_____________|________\|_______|_____s_ _
e_\_______|_/_______/__\\\___--___\\_______:____e_ _
x__\______\/____--~~__________~--__|_\_____|____x_ _
*___\______\_-~____________________~-_\____|____*_ _
g____\______\_________.--------.______\|___|____g_ _
o______\_____\______//_________(_(__>__\___|____o_ _
a_______\___.__C____)_________(_(____>__|__/____a_ _
t_______/\_|___C_____)/______\_(_____>__|_/_____t_ _
s______/_/\|___C_____)_______|__(___>___/__\____s_ _
e_____|___(____C_____)\______/__//__/_/_____\___e_ _
x_____|____\__|_____\\_________//_(__/_______|__x_ _
*____|_\____\____)___`----___--'_____________|__*_ _
g____|__\______________\_______/____________/_|_g_ _
o___|______________/____|_____|__\____________|_o_ _
a___|_____________|____/_______\__\___________|_a_ _
t___|__________/_/____|_________|__\___________|t_ _
s___|_________/_/______\__/\___/____|__________|s_ _
e__|_________/_/________|____|_______|_________|e_ _
x__|__________|_________|____|_______|_________|x_ _
*_g_o_a_t_s_e_x_*_g_o_a_t_s_e_x_*_g_o_a_t_e_x_*_
fjkfhjasfhj;asdfjkhasdfhjkasdfkhjbjgbjgarho;ashuoa huoahj;;hjkhj;ahjk;adfghj;gadfhkl;gdfdfgkhjkgahjkk hjjkhadfghjk;asdghjk;ashjkl;agshjl;gahjkl;ahjklafg lsdfjklfsjklfsdjklasdfjkl;sdfhjknjkfggafoaohji;adf ghihiogerioergohirgeuoyu8rtergehuibjklhuogerhuioar ghuiophioadfhuiohuiogadfljkgarhjohuoerghu99y78werg 9hihubbuievihuiugbilhuhulgarhqrghjgerhjrgehugerhjl bhjklbadfjkvbjaghuigarhuaerghuioarghuiargaerghjgar huoadrghuioadrghuoahuohuoadfghuohuogaerhuoadfadfgh uoadfghuoargjiohuaghuohuioadfghuioadfghuodfhisucka ssgjklfhjkasdfhjkhjksdfhjkfhjkhjkhjkafghjkasfgjkha sfghj;asghj;afgjkhrgahjagfhjadfghjadfggafhjgafbhjk kbnjwgkjerhiguh3tghweerghierhgbgiehrguiaerhkgjehbj knilbjrgbigrigrihugrhuiarghuiarghuiarghuigarhuiarg huiarghuiargilhuaerghuiaeghuilhuilaerghuhuahjdghug rahuiperghuoperghuogerhuigerhuierghog