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Submission + - Robots Replacing Human Workers In Chinese Restaurants (singularityhub.com)

Submitted by kkleiner on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @09:20AM

kkleiner writes: Recently developed noodle-making robots have now been put into operation in over 3,000 restaurants in China. Invented by a noodle restaurant owner, each unibrow-sporting robot currently costs 10,000 yuan ($1,600), which is only three months wages for an equivalent human noodle cook. As the cost of the robot continues to drop, more noodle shops are bound to displace human workers for the tirelessly working cheaper robots.

Submission + - Canadian Court Rules You Have the Right to Google a Lawyer (michaelgeist.ca)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @09:09AM

An anonymous reader writes: Hollywood crime dramas are infamous for the scene when an accused is taken to a local police station and permitted a single phone call to contact a relative or lawyer. While the storyline is myth — there is no limit on the number of phone calls available to an accused or detainee — Michael Geist reports on a recent Canadian case establishing a new, real requirement for law enforcement. After a 19-year old struggled to find a lawyer using the telephone, the court ruled that police must provide an accused with Internet access in order to exercise their right to counsel.

Submission + - Linux 3.8 released

Submitted by diegocg on Monday February 18, 2013 @09:00PM

diegocg writes: Linux kernel 3.8 has been released. This release includes support in Ext4 for embedding very small files in the inode, which greatly improves the performance for these files and saves some disk space. There is also a new Btrfs feature that allows to replace quickly a disk, a new filesystem F2FS optimized for SSDs, support of filesystem mount, UTS, IPC, PID, and network namespaces for unprivileged users, accounting of kernel memory in the memory resource controller, journal checksums in XFS, an improved NUMA policy redesign and, of course, the removal of support for 386 processors. Many small features and new drivers and fixes are also available. Here's the full list of changes.

Submission + - The mathematics of the lifespan of species (npr.org)

Submitted by skade88 on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @03:24PM

skade88 writes: NPR is reporting on a study in which the author claims to have found the formula to predict the average life span of members of a species. It does not apply to specific individuals of that species, only to the average life span of members of the species as a whole.

Submission + - Finland is crowdsourcing its new copyright law (dailydot.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @02:43PM

An anonymous reader writes: Internet activists in Finland, upset with the country's strict copyright laws, are ready to take advantage of the country's promise to vote on any citizen-proposed bill that reaches 50,000 signatures. Digital rights group Common Sense in Copyright has proposed sweeping changes to Finland's Lex Karpela, a 2006 amendment to the Finnish copyright law that more firmly criminalized digital piracy. Under it, "countless youngsters have been found guilty of copyright crimes and sentenced to pay thousands, in some cases hundreds of thousands, of euros in punitive damages to the copyright organizations." The proposal to fix copyright is the best-rated and most-commented petition on the Open Ministry site.

Submission + - Microsoft may invest $1B-$3B in Dell buyout (cnet.com)

Submitted by alexander_686 on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @04:35PM

alexander_686 writes: We have talked about Michele Dell In Buyout Talks With Private-Equity Firms

Now the Talk is that Microsoft may invest 1 to 3 billion. I personally doubt Microsoft is going for majority ownership but it would be a significant stake. Dell is worth around 22b to 25b. Speculation is that investors would put up 5 to 7b in equity, borrowing the rest. You can do the math to determine the ownership percentage. As a point of reference, Michele Dell’s stock is worth 3.6b

We know about Microsoft’s relationship with Nokia – both in terms of ownership, swap of key personal, and the Window’s phone. Is this a repeat?

Comment Re:Sacrifice (Score 1) 37

by Leadhyena on Tuesday October 03, 2006 @11:10AM (#16291977) Attached to: Shiny Entertainment Purchased, Absorbed

You missed out on an excellent game then. Sacrifice is a shogi-like variant to normal RTSs; essentially once your troops die they can be converted to your side by desecrating the corpse at your altar. The system kept every 'piece' in play, making it crucial to protect your troops, or at least their bodies. Also, your choice of deity (from 5) throughout the game influences the spells your avatar possessed. Never played the multiplayer version (not even sure if it had a multiplayer). Even though the storyline was lame, the gameplay was really interesting. I wish they'd make a sequel.

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