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Libraries and smut:
NY Times: “Computer printouts of sexually explicit pictures littered the library, Adamson said. She said she saw some men at computer terminals engage in what appeared to her to be masturbation and that computer users would verbally abuse her when she tried to enforce time limits.” [via Scripting News]
Robotic Moths May Fly Around Mars. New Scientist has an article
about small robotic fliers. The Entomopter is being developed by Robert
Michelson (and his design team at Georgia Tech) and is an aero-moth-bot that uses a
reciprocating chemical muscle to flap it’s wings up to 30 times a
second. It looks like they received part of their funding under DARPA so their web page isn’t updated
anymore, but it’s still worth checking out. Makes you wonder how far
the design has progressed since then. Wouldn’t it be cool if they’d
sell these things as toys. :-)
[robots.net]
Hot Grits for your Robot. FreeIO.org has released complete
design information for Grits, a
PC104-format, programmable I/O board under the GNU GPL
license. The board is based on the Lattice
ispLSI2096E-100LQ128 CPLD IC. Expect to see low-cost versions of the
board available in the future from manufacturers. Anyone interested in
using the design may download complete specs,
schematics, CAD files, and CPDL files from the FreeIO web site. Work is
now underway on a Linux device driver for the board. [robots.net]
Hoax has victims trashing harmless file. CNET May 30 2001 1:18PM ET [Tech latest]
CRACK: The new VPN authenticator. [via Moreover Computer security news]
CIO Demands Security Update: Are You Ready?. IDG May 29 2001 2:37PM ET [Computer security news]
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