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The Rat Race Evolves?
Blog The way in which it encapsulates the drudgery of office life by actually making the worker look just that little bit more like a rat in a cage? Here's a good contender for the stupidest thing I've seen in, ooh, days.
[May 16, 2007, 12:29]
Organic Robot Mixes Rat Brain With Silicon
News But one of the chips sits on top of a small metal cylinder, a patented sealed incubator system that contains the control circuits of the device: live rat brain cells. The incubator contains a few thousand living neurons cultured from rat cortex and...
[June 13, 2003, 16:19]
BSA Offers £20k Bounty To Rat On Your Boss
Talkback "We are doubling the reward to make software licensing a priority for managers. It might seem harsh, but at the end of the day, there are 27 per cent of businesses who think they can get away with it.
[April 28, 2006, 16:16]
BSA Offers £20k Bounty To Rat On Your Boss
Talkback "£20,000 reward to anyone who informs on their employer using illegal or unlicensed software" - I would be happy to use "illegal or unlicensed software" to inform on my masters. But there's no doubt a missing "for" in the above quotation.
[April 28, 2006, 19:24]
The Rat Race Evolves?
Blog Comment No no, the worst thing is. The desks cost £1,000 each. Paying a grand for that?
[May 16, 2007, 13:12]
The Rat Race Evolves?
Blog Comment Actually there's a fairly amusing account of what happened when a BBC hack tried using the blessed thing here.
[May 16, 2007, 15:27]
The Rat Race Evolves?
Blog Comment A treadmill at your workstation eh? Why not go the whole hog and stick a grindstone in there too?
[May 16, 2007, 15:21]
BSA Offers £20k Bounty To Rat On Your Boss
Talkback For some reason or another decision makers believe everthing Microsoft says except when it comes down to the details of Microsoft's licensing agreements. Thus they deploy the whole bundle of joy without good record keeping in various license...
[May 10, 2006, 23:02]
Australian Rat-robot Hybrid Paints Pictures
News It has collaborated with the Laboratory for Neuroengineering at Georgia Tech in the US, which recently hooked a few thousand rat neurons to a multi-electrode array to create a 'Hybrot' -- so named because it is a hybrid of living and electronic...
[July 10, 2003, 9:50]
BSA Offers £20k Bounty To Rat On Your Boss
News Anti-software piracy group the Business Software Alliance (BSA) is offering a £20,000 reward to anyone who informs on their employer using illegal or unlicensed software. The BSA already has an online hotline for people to report the use of illegal...
[April 28, 2006, 10:40]
RATs: Remote Access Trojans And How To Help Avoid Them
White Papers A RAT can let a criminal view and change the computer's files and functions, monitor and record the activities, and use the computer to attack other computers. If one click the attachments to open them, a RAT might be secretly downloaded as well.
[June 9, 2006, 0:00]
Role-Based Planning For Systems Engineering And Project Management
White Papers Role Activity Theory (RAT), one strand of research originating in the software engineering community, involves the formal modeling of roles and their interactions. This paper reviews industrial experience in using the RAT approach in an aerospace...
[December 19, 2005, 23:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog First, researchers at the University of Minnesota managed to get a jar full of 25,000 rat brain cells to control a flight simulator: then, a team from the University of Pittsburgh wired a robot arm into the motor cortex of a passing simian.
[October 29, 2004, 18:29]
BILL GATES CREATED 'MICROSCHITT', MAKE HIM FIX IT!
Talkback IF YOU CORNER A 'RAT'? LINUX' MIGHT BE THE UNDERDOG, IM JUST HOPING THEY ARE NOT CAUGHT OFF BALANCE BY THE RAT. HE CONDONES, SPAMING, HACKING, INVADING OUR PRIVACY, CONNING US INTO HIS SOFTWARE AND THEN WANTS US TO "PAY-TO-FIX-IT" ?
[June 6, 2007, 7:47]
Mobile Innovation Has Built A Better Mousetrap
News Companies on the list include Wyeless, which has developed among other things a wireless-enabled rat trap and The Cloud, the largest public Wi-Fi hot-spot operator in Europe. Take Wyeless, which developed the rat trap with Rentokil.
[November 7, 2005, 13:40]
Tech's Future - Smart Dust And Ratbots
News A ratbot setup consists of an electronic "backpack", worn by a rat, and sensors implanted in the rat's brain. Signals are sent to the backpack and then instructions are sent to the rat's brain via the sensors, Gantz said.
[January 16, 2003, 8:21]
First Anti-Spam Day Launched
News Email users are also being encouraged to 'rat on a rat' by reporting the most prolific spammers to dumpthejunkaward@yahoo.co.uk . Today is the first Global Anti-Spam Day -- dubbed 'Dump the Junk Day' -- which is being run by Yahoo in the hope of...
[May 22, 2003, 8:42]
News Schmooze: The Week It Rained Executives
News What would the week be without a good robo-rat story? On the other hand, the last thing the Schmoozer would want to see crawling towards his face as he's trapped under tons of fallen rock would be a hideous rat covered with sparking electrodes.
[May 3, 2002, 16:01]
