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Remote-Controlled Robot Could Browse The Stacks

An anonymous reader writes "A Japanese team of researchers has developed a robot that could help browse for books in a library by receiving instructions via the Internet, a team member said Friday. The robot, a wheeled vehicle measuring 50 by 45 centimeters with a digital camera, mechanical hand and arm, follows orders received through the Internet." This reminds me somewhat of Sonoma State University's (quite different) system profiled a few years ago in Wired.

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  1. WARNING Slashdot accosts AC posters BAD. Warning by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    WARNING, SLASHDOT NOW TIES AC COMMENTS WITH USER
    (Use a disposable account from a disposable IP before moderating this up. Editors generally watch and see who moderates controversial things like this up.)

    When you are logged in, /. ties your user account to any Anonymous Coward postings you make... Thus they know who posted it. To demonstrate this:
    1. Get mod points.
    2. Post an AC comment while logged in
    3. Change your dynamic ip, clear all cookies
    4. Log back in and try to moderate your AC comment... you can't!!!

    Please *log out* AND use another browser before making your AC comments.
    Your UID is being tracked, it's not Anonymous. Lots of people post lots of things to Slashdot as AC only because they believe it is really anonymous - it isn't. They hunt "trolls" (non-karma whores and non-group thinking bots) down.

    This is true. I used to be a bit more freestyle and witty AC and be a nice guy logged in [basically a karma whore]. After a short while, I could no longer moderate. Slashdot does brand AC posts with IP and then map them back to users. They lie about AC, AC doesn't exist if you re-use ip addresses.

    Big brother is watching. So while I might be a "troll" a lot of the AC things I said were to protect myself from Slash-bot groupthink. They punished me for voicing my opinion freestyle.

    They also revoke moderation FOREVER - $rtbl it is called, for any moderations of any post that have been secretly flagged annoying [Slashcode has hidden flags viewable by editors]. If you *EVER* mod up something an editor secretly marked annoying you NEVER moderate again, ever - ever even if your karma is capped.

    Also, Slashdot uses the friends system to track "trolls." Mark a troll you find funny as a friend *bang* $rtbl never to moderate ever again. My real account had many many good friends who had good karma, and a few funny trolls later, no more moderation for that account. Again, Slashdot is spying on its users to make the people who find certain things funny uneligible to moderate. You will never moderate again if you are a friend of a "foe or freak" of an editor.

    FACT: This is in Slashcode CVS

    Revision 1.7.2.5 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs] , Thu Feb 8 13:12:32 2001 UTC (2 years, 9 months ago) by pudge
    Branch: bender
    CVS Tags: v1_1_3_0
    Changes since 1.7.2.4: +18 -7 lines
    Diff to previous 1.7.2.4 to branchpoint 1.7

    log more AC info


    So AC is a scam here. Hitler-Malda screws AC posts in the caboose. So now all you can do is go 100% AC, or , as they expect you to, KARMA WHORE. And it is so lame and unfair and probably illegal as they lie about anonymity.

    Also, sometimes when certain information becomes an active thread, they bitchslap the thread much later so that people think its "safe" to participate and the whole thing gets slapped.

    There is a presumption anonymous means something. They lie like rugs to the posting public by using the word anonymous. It is not. They brazenly lie though and the un-assuming poster is having everything he says correlated with him and stored in a computer just waiting to be subpoenaed by the people that Slashdot claims to hate but works for. They work for the fascist forces and components of the US government. I like the US and other Western governments but they have good and bad components - there are things you need to do to protect yourself from the bad components. Basically "covering your ass" so to speak. At Slashdot, in lying about AC, un-protects its posting public (seeding a de-anonymizing privacy stripping pandemic in their own "little" way). This makes Slashdot a very dangerous target for you the posters to have your "anonymous" information subpoenaed and you to be chased down and persecuted for speaking your mind. I think that it is a joke Slashdot editors post about SCO, MSFT, RIAA, MPAA, TIA, FBI, etc. They do the same fascist big-brotherly things that those companies do the public at large as they do to the Slashdot posting public.

    Protect yourself. Try and use proxies or a super good second browser with proxies that you never log into such as Opera (which makes it very easy to delete all private data). Thank you.
  2. Re:Robot Labor warning AC posts shanghaied by /. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    WARNING, SLASHDOT NOW TIES AC COMMENTS WITH USER
    (Use a disposable account from a disposable IP before moderating this up. Editors generally watch and see who moderates controversial things like this up.)

    When you are logged in, /. ties your user account to any Anonymous Coward postings you make... Thus they know who posted it. To demonstrate this:
    1. Get mod points.
    2. Post an AC comment while logged in
    3. Change your dynamic ip, clear all cookies
    4. Log back in and try to moderate your AC comment... you can't!!!

    Please *log out* AND use another browser before making your AC comments.
    Your UID is being tracked, it's not Anonymous. Lots of people post lots of things to Slashdot as AC only because they believe it is really anonymous - it isn't. They hunt "trolls" (non-karma whores and non-group thinking bots) down.

    This is true. I used to be a bit more freestyle and witty AC and be a nice guy logged in [basically a karma whore]. After a short while, I could no longer moderate. Slashdot does brand AC posts with IP and then map them back to users. They lie about AC, AC doesn't exist if you re-use ip addresses.

    Big brother is watching. So while I might be a "troll" a lot of the AC things I said were to protect myself from Slash-bot groupthink. They punished me for voicing my opinion freestyle.

    They also revoke moderation FOREVER - $rtbl it is called, for any moderations of any post that have been secretly flagged annoying [Slashcode has hidden flags viewable by editors]. If you *EVER* mod up something an editor secretly marked annoying you NEVER moderate again, ever - ever even if your karma is capped.

    Also, Slashdot uses the friends system to track "trolls." Mark a troll you find funny as a friend *bang* $rtbl never to moderate ever again. My real account had many many good friends who had good karma, and a few funny trolls later, no more moderation for that account. Again, Slashdot is spying on its users to make the people who find certain things funny uneligible to moderate. You will never moderate again if you are a friend of a "foe or freak" of an editor.

    FACT: This is in Slashcode CVS

    Revision 1.7.2.5 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs] , Thu Feb 8 13:12:32 2001 UTC (2 years, 9 months ago) by pudge
    Branch: bender
    CVS Tags: v1_1_3_0
    Changes since 1.7.2.4: +18 -7 lines
    Diff to previous 1.7.2.4 to branchpoint 1.7

    log more AC info


    So AC is a scam here. Hitler-Malda screws AC posts in the caboose. So now all you can do is go 100% AC, or , as they expect you to, KARMA WHORE. And it is so lame and unfair and probably illegal as they lie about anonymity.

    Also, sometimes when certain information becomes an active thread, they bitchslap the thread much later so that people think its "safe" to participate and the whole thing gets slapped.

    There is a presumption anonymous means something. They lie like rugs to the posting public by using the word anonymous. It is not. They brazenly lie though and the un-assuming poster is having everything he says correlated with him and stored in a computer just waiting to be subpoenaed by the people that Slashdot claims to hate but works for. They work for the fascist forces and components of the US government. I like the US and other Western governments but they have good and bad components - there are things you need to do to protect yourself from the bad components. Basically "covering your ass" so to speak. At Slashdot, in lying about AC, un-protects its posting public (seeding a de-anonymizing privacy stripping pandemic in their own "little" way). This makes Slashdot a very dangerous target for you the posters to have your "anonymous" information subpoenaed and you to be chased down and persecuted for speaking your mind. I think that it is a joke Slashdot editors post about SCO, MSFT, RIAA, MPAA, TIA, FBI, etc. They do the same fascist big-brotherly things that those companies do the public at large as they do to the Slashdot posting public.

    Protect yourself. Try and use proxies or a super good second browser with proxies that you never log into such as Opera (which makes it very easy to delete all private data). Thank you. please dear god watch yourself.
  3. Let me just say... by CoboyNeal · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Google eat your heart out. I know you can't browse the stacks for me, even if you can do everything else! :)

    --
  4. Re:WARNING Slashdot accosts AC posters BAD. Warnin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    This is just another example of spineless crap moderation here on /.

    Mao Tse Tung, Hitler, Stalin, Castro, Pinochet, Mussolini, Marshall Joseph Tito, Slobodan Milosevic, Idi Amin, Ho Chi Minh, Saddam Hussein, Muammar Qaddafi, Juan Peron, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ferdinand Marcos, General Suharto, Pol Pot, Fransisco Franco, and certainly the worst of the bunch, SLASHDOT's editing/moderating [read: censoring] "community"(*) ALL AGREE on ONE THING:

    CENSORSHIP WORKS!

    (*)Note, the word community used often on Slashdot, this is referring to a proto communist commune.

    So, you busy little plebian proletariats, get busy, you have some censoring to do! FUN! Do the bidding of your fat, undisciplined masters who never subject themselves to peer review!

    Good job you little neo-commies. Don't want to hear the other side, shoot the fucker in the head as an ENEMY OF THE STATE [In this case anyone who seeks to improve the sad state of/.].

    A few haikus to commemorate the sucktitude:
    Crack Pipe Moderators
    Crack smoke wafts though air
    Dumb shit moderator!
    Try to suck less, please

    The Humorless Moderator
    Crack smoke wafts through air
    Humorless moderator!
    Why do you hate me?

    The Proletariat
    Slashdotting Commie
    Moderator fears new idea!
    Censor him quickly

    The reason China blocked Slashdot is that when Jiang Xemin saw at how good "The Editors" at Slashdot are at suppressing the community, he knew that if more of his party members saw this degree of suppressive efficacy, he would be deposed, for the good of the people, of course, in favor of Rob Malda as the all new supreme dictator and premier of China.

    It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. - Sir Winston Churchill (Especially when your democratic peers twist democracy into a reason commit censorship, to squash dissenting or unpopular opinions, and refer to them as trolls, flaimbait overrated or offtopic when they aren't any of the said)

    Reading Slashdot at anything above -1 is like trying to put a shit filter on your ass.

    Get busy moderating this down, you little pack of obedient prefects of the corrupt state! You are the vanguards of purity, and dissent is not allowed!

    HAIKUS
    MODERATORS Crack smoke wafts though air - Dumb shit moderator - Try to suck less, please
    KAZAA Fuck R I A A - Network sold behind their backs - Stupid fucking cunts
    Haiku: to the Slashfags. Fuck slash editors - The cumlicking fags they are - I shit upon them
    TACO pondering GOATSE: I stare at the goat - His huge gaping ass so wide - And I want to eat
    Haiku: The ancient haiku: - Flame Taco and CowboyNeal - With lame poetry.
    CowboyNeal A mountain of fat, - butt cheeks jiggling like Jello. - What an odd poll choice!
    CmdrTaco Watching Pokemon - With cum stuck on his goatee. - Newbie loser scum.
    Stinky Kathleen Fent Cockeater Taco, - Proposing to Fent online, - I fingered her too.
    Rob Malda and Kathleen FentChubby breasts, fat ass - Distract us from Rob's boylust. - But they both suck cock!
    Taco Tuesday: Too much mexican. - Angry poo, firey hot. - Where's my antacid?
    CHOAD licking Taco: Malda in the dark - Swallowing choad for profit - He rips his anus
    Fuck KATZ Katz is a Jew - michael is a Mormon - Or is it Timothy?
    Martini Fuck off That is fucking good. - I nearly spilt martini - On my nice trousers.
    Slap my Ham, rub it off, fuck Spank fast wank it hard - Jerk that dick to Pokemon - Party at Taco's
    GOAT I just came again - looking at the goat-see man - more kleenex required
    Cock BIRD The Dead Penis Bird - Nailed to the member always - Never falling off
    BSD

  5. California by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  6. Re:WARNING Slashdot accosts AC posters BAD. Warnin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    As thy stoned coder muttered to god "Show me the code, oh holey one!" ..please?

  7. So... what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    There's nothing about the name 'anonymous coward' that suggests the board admins can't track them. Anybody with even trivial knowledge of how the internet works will not be suprised by this. AC's are anonymous in the sense of not being identifiable by the public. That's as far as it goes.

    And it's useful to check against people who moderate stupid stuff up. Frankly, I wish they'd flag all those stupid +5 Funny posts so I wouldn't have to read all the retard humor.

    AC, Slashdot is not so important. Calling Malda Hitler is a bit nutty. Please get a grip.

  8. Re:WARNING Slashdot accosts AC posters BAD. Warnin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Slashdot Freedom Theme:

    "Yo /. Joe!"

    We'll fight for freedom where ever there's trouble. /. Joe is there.

    It's /. Joe against MALDA the enemy! Fighting to save the day. He never gives up. He's always there, Fighting for freedom over internet, sea, land and air!

    /. Joe- A real Freedom Fighting hero!

    /. Joe is there

    /. Joe is the codename for American's daring, highly trained special mission force. It's purpose, to defend human freedom against MALDA - a ruthless, terrorist organization determined to rule the world.

    He never gives up. He'll stay 'til the fight's won. /. Joe will dare.

    /. Joe- A real American hero! /. Joe

  9. WHY?!!!11 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Did she chose teh fagot pretty boy who lives with his parents? She so should have chosen the stock broker.

  10. I AM by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    so totally nude and touching myself!

  11. Why don't you read the article by News+for+nerds · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Still in the experimental stage, it was developed as a way to help people who cannot go to a library, said Akihisa Oya, an assistant professor at the University of Tsukuba."

  12. Why don't you read the article by News+for+nerds · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Still in the experimental stage, it was developed as a way to help people who cannot go to a library, said Akihisa Oya, an assistant professor at the University of Tsukuba."