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Laser Surgery Goes Online

Posted by samzenpus on from the put-your-eye-in-the-disk-tray dept.

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."

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  1. First quadratic polynomial post by polynomial_zeroes · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    0.001 mm
    1 post

    1.0e-3 and 1 are the zeroes of

    x^2 - 1.001x +0.001
  2. Re:Hidden racism by tubacolossus · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I do have a sense of humour; that's my whole point. I'm saying a lot of people disguise their racism (whether they know it or not) with humour. Maybe you aren't racist, but making jokes like that only legitimizes them, when they can be truly offensive.

    As for outsourcing "really screwing up our economy", I'd say this is just further evidence of perceived cultural superiority. Don't you see that opposing outsourcing could really screw up the Indian economy?

    But I'd say, beyond this, that outsourcing isn't a zero-sum game. If India can do IT help desks more efficiently than the US can, then doesn't everybody benefit when India specializes in this area? Those who lose their jobs in the US due to outsourcing can always find new ones, that will be even bigger contributions to the US economy. Free trade (and that includes movement of labour) is mutually beneficial.

  3. Huh? by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So this FUNNY post is INSIGHTFUL exactly how? It's a joke. Or is the joke the current state of Slashdot moderation?

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