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Laser Surgery Goes Online
Ignat writes "Scientists in Australia successfully performed a laser surgery in a Southern California laboratory via the Internet. RoboLase, the new technology used showed that realtime surgeries can be performed from distant locations. Scientists from UC Irvine, UC San Diego and the University of Queensland used RoboLase to produce surgical holes in a distinct pattern of less than one micron in diameter (1/1000th of a millimeter) in single cells."
Kinda gives new meaning to the phrase blue screen of death, doesn't it? Ba dum bum! Thank you very much, I'll be here all week! Remember to tip your bartender!
You are in error. No-one is screaming. Thank you for your cooperation.
i can't wait for my doctor to be outsourced to India.
I don't want nobody to DDOS my eyeball thank you very much.
So we can expect to see RoboLase terminals on golf courses real soon.
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
OMG MY EYE!
Will this work with my Linksys router?
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Now we're going to need tin foil sunglasses to protect us from "free trials" of LASIK from spam?
The first eye's free!
Clones are people two.
...stop humping the "laser". Maybe you and the "laser" should go get a freakin room.
Circumcision is child abuse.
I'm sorry, Mr Smith. The receptionist clogged up our bandwidth with illegal P2P downloading while we were making the incision. So, uh, it's just a tad off. Sorry.
Luke
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What happens if hackers sniff the packets, save the procedure to a file, create a torrent, and distribute the surgery all over the internet?
The artist...er..doctors won't get paid for their work.
"Ze goggles! Dey do NOTHING!"
Slashdot is proof that Sturgeon's Law applies to mankind.
And now I make my first incision .
<nurse> Nice work there Doctor.
<doctor>.
<doctor>.
<doctor> DIE DIE DIE!!!!
* stab stab stab *
<nurse> What the hell are you doing!!!!???!!
<nurse> You've made a freakin' mess. There's bloody all over the theatre!
<nurse> Somebody help!!!!!!!!
<doctor>
<doctor> Sorry was AFK and my little brother was messing with my pc
Though this achievement doubtless strikes fear into the hearts of fugitive sperm everywhere... it's hard to see it as a breakthrough. In other words... it's unlikely that there was ever much doubt about the success of this "demonstration", since any glitch would likely have been met by a mere retry. And, in still other words... do you feel even microscopically better about the prospect of, say, your next airline flight's pilot relaxing at a cable-modem in his condo?
Seeing bad movies only encourages them. Watch responsibly
Do not look directly into laser with remaining eye.
Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler. -- Albert Einstein
Not you... you must have had bad lag to the server! BWAHAHAHAHA!!!
Yes. Two eyes.
So the doctor begins adjusting the power of the beam and turns on the laser just as a lag spike hits. The computer continually increaes the laser power... then the delayed UDP message to "fire" the laser arrives...
The doctor stares bewildered at his monitor as the word HEADSHOT! is returned...
(Then a remote nurse claims he has an aimbot...)
Try to hack my 31337 firewall!