From the news@nature.com Web site: News Published online: 13 October 2004; | oi:10.1038/news041011-9Paralysed man sends e-mail by thoughtRoxanne Khamsi Brain chip reads mind by tapping straight into neurons. An pill-sized brain chip has allowed a quadriplegic man to check e-mail and play computer games using his thoughts. The device can tap into a hundred neurons …
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I finally have a new job, and one that pay’s what I used to be making, is actually in Burlington, and which I think I’ll enjoy a lot better than any of the employement options I’ve had (including unemployment) for the past 3 years! I got a call about a week after I “blindly” applied …
As a follow-up to my last entry, I bit the bullet and bought a new printer. Ironically, this was purchased at Staples. Originally, Michelle and I were at Future Shop (we’d been in the area for something else and I dragged her in on an impulse) and spoken to an HP reprentative in the store …
I’ve now had some experiences with XP SP2 – Microsoft’s latest security fix. So far, I’ve noticed some good things and also some bad things. All in all, I think it’s better to have it than not to have it. One bad thing that happened is that I installed in on our friend Andrea’s Dell …
My layout changes are continuing on now to the other sections of this site. Everything is formatting properly with Mozilla / Firefox. However, IE is still getting all sorts of things wrong in some places – so, if you’re looking at this in IE (Why?) don’t expect everything to work properly yet…
This sounds far too much like science fiction to me, but apparently it’s something that’s actually happened. A patient, who’d lost his jaw due to cancer, managed to get a replacement “grown” from a muscle in his back – and then had it transplanted into the appropriate place so that he can eat again. I …
Okay, so last weekend my cable modem only intermittently had Internet access – then it finally gave up the ghost altogether. It wouldn’t even connect to my ISP (Cogeco) at all. Talking to a technician resulted in the always popular “Have you turned it off and back on again? Did you reset it? What OS …
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I hate cell phones. Now that I’m commuting on a daily basis and exposed to them in public far more frequently than I was when I spent most of my time at home, I hate them more than ever. I’m always disgusted every time I hear a phone ringing as I’m sitting on the bus …
According to a recent study conducted by the SANS Internet Storm Center, this is now the average amount of time that an unprotected PC, connected to the Internet, will be virus or malware free. After that, you’ll probably be hit by something bad. Apparently, this time used to be 40 minutes a year ago – …