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Date: Tue, 6. March 2012 02:38:08

Last week the Raspberry Pi Foundation launched an ultra-cheap Linux-based computer ? the Raspberry Pi ? aimed primarily at schools around the world looking for cost effective ways to bring computer programming into the classroom.

Date: Thu, 15. April 2010 15:05:09

Hugh Pickens writes "Geoffrey Miller has an interesting hypothesis in Seed Magazine that explains Fermi's Paradox mdash; why 40 years of intensive searching for extraterrestrial intelligence have yielded nothing: no radio signals, no credible spacecraft sightings, no close encounters of any kind. All the aliens are busy playing computer games. The aliens 'forget to send radio signals or colonize space because they're too busy with runaway consumerism and virtual-reality narcissism,' writes Miller. He says the fundamental problem is that an evolved mind must pay attention to indirect cues of biological fitness, rather than tracking fitness itself, and that although evolution favors brains that tend to maximize fitness (as measured by numbers of great-grandkids), no brain has capacity enough to do so under every possible circumstance. 'The result is that we don't seek reproductive success directly; we seek tasty foods that have tended to promote survival, and luscious mates who have tended to produce bright, healthy babies. The modern result? Fast food and pornography,' writes Miller. 'Once they turn inwards to chase their shiny pennies of pleasure, they lose the cosmic plot.' Miller adds that most bright alien species probably go extinct gradually, allocating more time and resources to their pleasures, and less to their children, until they eventually die out." Who here doesn't think a TNG-style Holodeck would lead to the downfall of our civilization?pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F04%2F15%2F051213%2FMaybe-the-Aliens-Are-Addicted-To-Computer-Games" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Maybe+the+Aliens+Are+Addicted+To+Computer+Games%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fd7IapF" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/04/15/051213/Maybe-the-Aliens-Are-Addicted-To-Computer-Games?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1619184amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframe pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jxj5QhMulu4HBrj-m55ytXoxSFo/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jxj5QhMulu4HBrj-m55ytXoxSFo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jxj5QhMulu4HBrj-m55ytXoxSFo/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jxj5QhMulu4HBrj-m55ytXoxSFo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/3cxp6VTCVzY" height="1" width="1"/

Date: Thu, 9. June 2011 12:19:00

Have you ever wondered how a computer restarts? When your computer is seemingly powered down for a second or two, how does it roar back to life

Date: Fri, 28. May 2010 13:20:00

Thanks to Skype and its many imitators, there is no money to be made in computer-to-computer communications between homes.

Date: Mon, 22. November 2010 09:32:14

Sitting at a computer somewhere overseas in January 2009, computer hackers went phishing.

Date: Mon, 22. November 2010 16:25:12

Sitting at a computer somewhere overseas in January 2009, computer hackers went phishing.

Date: Mon, 22. November 2010 09:16:41

Sitting at a computer somewhere overseas in January 2009, computer hackers went phishing.

Date: Thu, 20. May 2010 10:00:00

Thanks to Skype and its many imitators, there is no money to be made in computer-to-computer communications between homes.

Date: Thu, 12. August 2010 22:18:43

Christopher Null - You know, you wonrsquo;t always have Null to kick around and fix your computer problems for you, so I thought Irsquo;d take the time to put together this little guide to computer troubleshooting. Bookmark this post for posterity (or print it out mdash; you never know with this Internet business!) and give it a scan next time your PC is acting funny. Itrsquo;s basic, but comprehensive. I hope it helps!Q: My computer is acting weird.

Date: Mon, 7. July 2008 15:04:38

Leif_Bloomquist writes "The world's first Commodore 64 LAN party was held at the Cincinnati Commodore Computer Club 2008 Expo last weekend, where the new multiplayer C64 game NetRacer was unveiled. The setup consists of up to eight Commodore 64s with Ethernet cartridges and a central server written in Java running on a PC. The game is also playable over the Internet."Read more of this story at Slashdot.