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Amputee Has Prosthetic Hand Wired To Nerves
New submitter kalman5 writes "Dennis Aabo Sørensen is the first amputee in the world to feel sensory rich information — in real-time — with a prosthetic hand wired to nerves in his upper arm. Sørensen could grasp objects intuitively and identify what he was touching while blindfolded. The surgical team 'attached electrodes from a robotic hand to a 36-year-old volunteer's median and ulnar nerves. Those nerves carry sensations that correspond with the volunteer's index finger and thumb, and with his pinky finger and the edge of his hand, respectively. The volunteer controlled the prosthetic with small muscle movements detected by sEMG, a method that dates to the 1970s and measures electrical signals through the skin—unlike the electrodes attached to his nerves, sEMG is not invasive.' The results? 'The volunteer was able to complete the requested tasks with his prosthetic thumb and index finger 67 percent of the time the first day and 93 percent of the time by the seventh day of the experiment, Micera and colleagues report. He found the pinky finger harder to control: he was only able to accomplish the requested grip 83 percent of the time by the end of the experiment.'"
As I offer to give my left foot to keep Slashdot Beta away.
You can download sensory information to be replayed to your sensory nervous system. I for one will welcome that, and the inevitable uses the porn industry come up with.
Day 1: It wouldn't stop, the redirecting. At first I thought it was malware. Had my first drink in a long time.
Day 2: Barely had the strength to carry on as the BETA REDIRECTIONS continue.. trying not to talk to hallucinations at the bar and in the bathroom which laugh at me about these redirections.
Day 3: Discovered the BETA redirections were random, and while at first they looked somewhat usable, when I looked at me and my monitor screen in the mirror, a horrible woman with flesh hanging off of her body looked back, trying to lead me into a dance as the word BETA appeared across her rancid breasts.
Day 4: These BETA corridors go on FOREVER! On the plus side, I've taken up disassembling vehicles to corner this BETA beast and sacrifice myself rather than lead others to discovering it. I ate some red snow.
Day 5: Finding it harder to concentrate. I've ate some more of the red snow. The taste is starting to grow on me.
Day 6: This typewriter is the only entertainment I have, apart from throwing things at the walls, trying to get some response from the BETA which is now taking over my mind.
Day 7: Hahahahahha! Would you believe it? I'M STILL BEING REDIRECTED TO SLASHDOT BETA PAGES! AHAHhahahaah! Type, type, ding, ding! Wooo!
Day 8: The hallucinations are actually real! Would you believe it? They have offered to help me if I agree to work for them. I'm thinking about patenting this delicious red snow, the taste is unreal!
Day 9: Having black out sessions where I cannot remember large passings of time. Found some makeup, thought I'd paint a joker smile on my face to amuse the people only I can see!
Day 10: Productive today, part of what I wrote for my new screenplay:
I cannot opt out of Slashdot BETA!
I cannot opt out of Slashdot BETA!
I cannot opt out of Slashdot BETA!
I cannot opt out of Slashdot BETA!
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I cannot opt out of Slas
(drops of blood on paper)
If they follow through on their threats that might be it.
Who knows, maybe a mass exodus to Kuro5hin will revive that old refuge just as Slashdot dies.
The English word fart is one of the oldest words in the English vocabulary.
I propose that we boycott stories and only discuss the abomination that is Slashdot Beta.
Moderators - only spend mod points on comments that discuss Beta
Commentors - only discuss Beta
Keep this up for a few days and we may finally get the PHBs attention.
As someone who has gone through physical therapy on my arm, the thought of very good immediate fine motor control and reliable control within a week of training is incredible. I remember spending weeks trying to reliably touch the tips of my thumb and pinky together. Even now, I have difficulty with my ring and middle fingers doing what they are supposed to unless I have them in the corner of my eye.
Thirty four characters live here.
I've been wasting time here for a little more than a decade now. Won't have to anymore.
They give this eye the gift of feeling in a long-gone arm, only to take it away a week later. Thanks for helping us, but get the hell out of here now!
says the developer of beta
A Good Troll is better than a Bad Human.
Why is the feedback for the new beta by email? Previously when the last attempt was made to force everyone onto the new beta they at least provided a simple form for feedback. Now it is a plain email for feedback. Obviously nobody is going to read such emails and digest the feedback. They certainly wouldn't be able to easily collate the results and deduce that most people hate the beta, so I suppose that is why the feedback is effectively /dev/null. Perhaps they want to harvest the email addresses of site visitors who rarely bother to login?
...two wangers
Table-ized A.I.
Really, this beta thing... dice you ruined the mobile site, and now you are going to go through with ruining the main site? Fuck beta.
Yeah. Shows how out of touch the people in charge of the site have become. They don't understand what keeps people here. I imagine they don't care. I imagine it's about getting new people in and traffic numbers up. There's some project manager who is under pressure to get these numbers. Beta is their baby. I feel bad that they have to keep an optimistic face, and pretend they like the monster that they created. .. all while knowing they've cock punched their oldest fan base. More of us old-fogeys with 1,000,000 user ids need to speak up.
Doctors found that male patients, if left alone in their bathrooms, achieved 100% efficiency in under an hour.
http://slashdot.org/recent
A Good Troll is better than a Bad Human.
I've been on Slashdot since 2002 but keep making new accounts so that no-one can properly build a profile based on my comment history - not due to privacy concerns but rather to avoid any bias toward seeing my username and modding based on the name rather than the content of my posts.
Account abandoned. I can't fucking spell for shit and Slashdot doesn't even allow time-limited edits of posts. Plus you'
You know what? I'll take the new beta site when they stop
double spacing
all the lines
of text
in a little column
on the left
to make room for a giant column that has one ad at the top and is otherwise empty all the way down the entire comment section. I mean fuck, if they want to be all web 9.2 or whatever the version we're supposed to be on, they should have their "promoted" comments on top in their little colored boxes with their ads and shit on the side (just like the old fogey screen) then give us a working nested comment section that doesn't max out at 2 comments on the screen. Case in point: I went to http://science-beta.slashdot.o... and control-f'd your name and found this very comment. On the old fogey screen, your comment (including the quote) takes 11 lines (including the paragraph break after "now..." On the beta with the same screen size, your post takes 29 lines, not counting the fact that line spacing is set to about 1.5 or so. The first line of your post is
That's all that fits. For the lulz, I hit reply over there and the reply box has a huge amount of padding on the inside. The first line of this comment before it wraps is
This doesn't look like the new web, it looks like a 150 year old newspaper from back when editors said "fuck everything we're doing SEVEN columns of newsprint!" and a tiny font and that was progress.
Also, give us back abbreviated view, so nesting works right even if there's a -1 comment in the chain without mycleanpc taking up 50 goddamn screens each. I also feel sorry for the people who aren't in the first 20 or so posters because nobody's going to sit there mashing "more" over and over.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
Ahh crap... so your telling me i've been doing this wrong?
I'v been in that situation. It was a PC hardware enthusiasts site sold at the peak of .com bubble to an investment fund. Within one month new management started changing the message board, message board that was the heard of the side and brought traffic. After one month they deleted old forum and moved everything into phpBB. Two months after the buyout forum was empty. 2-3 months later original creator of the site launched new portal :D with slightly changed name, and SAME forum software :D. One month later that new site picked up all the old users. Site that was sold closed shop a year later, new one is still running strong. Creator bought a new flat/house with money to spare = everybody wins.
Who logs in to gdm? Not I, said the duck.
I think they're using some external javascript libraries that my work blocks, and it looks pretty bad. The page layout improves if I completely disable page styles. Of course, all of the behavior of the page is broken anyhow, so it's not much of a benefit.
My phone seems to display everything OK, but even in landscape, the comment tree quickly becomes about 30 characters wide with a big grey strip off to the right when you get a couple of replies in. The spacing feels too wide overall (both height and width).
When it works, I wouldn't call the beta "horrible", but I'd say that it still needs some serious tweaking. If I can't view the site on my work machine though, that's basically going to automatically kick it out of the daily rotation for me.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
fuckbeta
Remember, these clowns also own Sourceforge, and look at people abandoning that adware-spewing cesspool like rats leaving a sinking ship.
It's almost as if... someone else is in control of Dice. Someone who perhaps knows how much Slashdot and Sourceforge meant to certain intelligent people...
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
You must be seeing a different site than me. I'd say the comments take maybe 70% of my screen width. There's a pretty wide margin on each side which could certainly be reduced a little, and then a column on the right with the search box, poll, and a bunch more panels. There's certainly some wasted space, but nothing like you imply. And nothing is double line spaced.
FYI, Chrome/Win.
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Case in point: I went to http://science-beta.slashdot.o... and control-f'd your name and found this very comment.
I tried that too. And all I got was an empty comment section that read:
Sigh.
I remember the last time the layout was changed, and there was the usual round of "oh I hate this." Other than hoping they decide to show member numbers (those of us in the first 999,999 want our cred), I like the new layout, and think it will grow on people over time, just like the current one did.
:)
Still, great comment
For conscience is the wound, and there's naught to staunch it
I don't really care about the layout, what keeps me here after more than a decade is what I read about, and the discussions held here. Look is important if I can't use the site, but this is usable. Some will like it, some will hate it, some will say "meh" to it. As long as I can find stories and conversations that interest me though, I'm good. Just my personal .02
For conscience is the wound, and there's naught to staunch it
I'm definitely not seeing the same screen as you. I am running Firefox 27 and I'm definitely not getting double spaced lines. My comment takes 8 lines, not 11.
It's better for reading, viewing, and replying to on mobile devices.
More of us old-fogeys with 1,000,000 user ids need to speak up.
Or boycott for a week.
-- Common Joe
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Have a picture of your post: http://imgur.com/YaOtcUk
And another of this post: http://imgur.com/YvQjTIf
Note khellendros's post at the bottom of the second pic. Maybe double-spaced is an exaggeration, but your text is (for some inexplicitly bizarre reason) sans-serif and line-and-a-half or so spaced compared to his (for some inexplicably bizaarre reason) serif font, normally spaced.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
I pushed post and naturally my post disappeared from the screen. I waited a bit to see if it would come back (even on "classic" D2 it sometimes took a couple of seconds) but it never did. I had to come back to classic D2 to see that the post did, in fact, submit (so at least the posting part worked, even if there's absolutely no feedback to that effect). While I was here I scrolled through the rest of the comments on Classic to see if there's any particular reason why some of the comments fonts are different than before, and I'm not able to find one. In classic, khellendros's post is exactly the same font as yours.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.