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It can also remember the side effects of medication. Reportedly, Mitsubishi claim that the robot 'will become a future house-sitter, caretaker, nurse and friend for the family'. Unfortunately the robot can also be programmed to ask 'You're home late. What have you been up to?' Don't we already have people for that?" The Japanese newspaper [2]Mainichi Shimbun has a story with pictures. Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/04/1044318609797.html 2. http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20030204p2a00m0fp033000c.html Listen To Your Game Boy Advance http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/05/028251 [0]filmsmith writes "It looks like Nintendo may be interested in using the GBA to enter the PDA market and even considering itself competition for the [1] Apple iPod. It smells of DMCA pandering, though. 'It looks like protection will be in place to ensure that even content recorded by users (through the use of a special adapter) will not be able to be shared with other users.' [2]Planet Gamecube has the article here." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.apple.com/ 2. http://www.planetgamecube.com/news.cfm?action=item&id=3916 Where Should Space Exploration Go From Here? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/05/0333200 [0]Lovejoy asks: "I have done extensive reading since the [1]Columbia tragedy about what's next for human space exploration. Most of the punditry agrees that extending the shuttle program for many more years is a [2]bad idea. So what are the practical alternatives? I've seen ideas for [3]new spacecraft, a carbon nanotube [4]space elevator, among other things. What are the best ideas you've seen? Will the best idea win, or the one with the most pork barrel contracts? Does space travel/exploration have to be THIS expensive? What are the best short term/long term solutions?" Links 0. http://www.oc.edu/staff/dan.lovejoy 1. http://www.nasa.gov/columbia/ 2. http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-bennett020403.asp 3. http://www.orbital.com/LaunchVehicle/SpacePlane/ 4. http://www.howstuffworks.com/space-elevator.htm CPU Convective Water Cooling http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/04/2137214 [0]biso writes "The possibility of cooling a CPU with gravitational convective flow of water is [1] here analyzed and experimented with positive results. Many liquid cooling systems have been experimented by overclockers to better dissipate the heat from CPUs. The major part of these coolers is characterized by a relatively complex system requiring pumps or other active devices. Sometimes even liquid nitrogen is used. I built a simpler cooler, able to dissipate the same heat flux of a normal heatsink." Links 0. http://digilander.libero.it/mbiso/index.html 1. http://digilander.libero.it/mbiso/sirpal/sirpal.html Opera 7.0 Security Holes ... Fixed http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/05/013249 An anonymous reader writes "[0]GreyMagic has issued five new security advisories for the recently-released [1]Opera 7.0. They affect [2]the security model, [3]the javascript console, [4]images, [5]the history and [6]the error log (allowing access to the history). A new version will be released within 24 hours to fix the holes, according to an [7]article at [8]The Register." Update: 02/05 02:01 GMT by [9]T: An anonymous reader writes "[1]Opera Software have just released Opera 7.01 for Windows. This version fixes [10]the recently discovered security holes less than 24 hours after they were discovered - a very impressive turnaround! The release is currently only available on [11]Opera's FTP site. It can be downloaded [12]with Java (12.9Mb) or [13]without (3.3Mb)." Links 0. http://www.greymagic.com/ 1. http://www.opera.com/ 2. http://www.greymagic.com/adv/gm002-op/ 3. http://www.greymagic.com/adv/gm003-op/ 4. http://www.greymagic.com/adv/gm004-op/ 5. http://www.greymagic.com/adv/gm005-op/ 6. http://www.greymagic.com/adv/gm006-op/ 7. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/29177.html 8. http://www.theregister.co.uk/ 9. http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/ 10. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/05/013249&tid=172 11. ftp://ftp.opera.com/ 12. ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/win/701/en/java/ow32enen701j.exe 13. ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/win/701/en/std/ow32enen701.exe Gnome 2.0 Officially Available For Solaris http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/04/2314208 MoonRider writes "Today, Sun Microsystems announced the availability of the GNOME 2.0 Desktop for the Solaris Operating Environment. You could already download beta versions of the [0]Gnome 2.0 desktop but this is the "official" release that will replace CDE as the default desktop for the Solaris operating system. You can get it on the [1]Sun website." Links 0. http://gnome.org 1. http://wwws.sun.com/software/star/gnome/ Red Hat Certification Program For Education http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/04/1959232 [0]Frank Caviggia writes "The Inquirer has a story up about Red Hat providing educational institutions with the ability to certify students as Red Hat Certified Technicians (RHCT) and Red Hat Certified Engineers (RCHE) how this will relate to Microsoft's MSCE program. You can find the story [1]here. Red Hat has more information on the program [2]here." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7600 2. http://www.redhat.com/training/academy/ Digital Celebrities http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/04/1925249 partridge writes "[0]Carson Daly's simulacrum is the new [1]Max Headroom. I guess this makes [2]Clear Channel Communications the current embodiment of Network 23? Now we just have to wait for the [3]blipverts to start making consumer's heads explode." Links 0. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/03/technology/03DALY.html?pagewanted=1 1. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max+Headroom 2. http://www.clearchannel.com/ 3. http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Set/9078/max.htm 5th Anniversary of Open Source http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/04/1918243 [0]Augustus De Morgan writes "Five years ago today a [1]brainstorming session in Palo Alto led to the adoption and promotion of the "[2]open source" label. (You can find references to the label [3]much earlier, however.) For some, it was a [4]dark divergence from the free software movement; for others, the beginning of the adoption of key software principles into mainstream. Here's a [5]growing set of resources and stories about the history of free and open source software, and a [6]lament about the decline of altruism in the open source community." Links 0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://opensource.org/docs/history.php 2. http://www.opensource.org/ 3. http://groups.google.com/groups?q=+%22open+source%22&start=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d&as_drrb=b&as_mind=12&as_minm=2&as_miny=1990&as_maxd=3&as_maxm=2&as_maxy=1995&selm=gilC7rFAD.80w%40netcom.com&rnum=152 4. http://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html 5. http://echo.gmu.edu/freeandopen/ 6. http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_12/lancashire/index.html Review of BeOS Developer Edition 1.1 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/04/1748234 TweetZilla writes "Good review if you are a fan of BeOS. Not ready for regular users but tinkerers will probably love it to death. [0]OSNews is carrying the story." Links 0. http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=2729 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe - If you do not wish to subscribe to Slashdot, go to: http://www.osdn.com/newsletters/unsubscribe.shtml ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright (c)1999-2002 Open Source Development Network. All rights reserved.
