Amputee Has Prosthetic Hand Wired To Nerves 72
New submitter kalman5 writes "Dennis Aabo Sørensen is the first amputee in the world to feel sensory rich information — in real-time — with a prosthetic hand wired to nerves in his upper arm. Sørensen could grasp objects intuitively and identify what he was touching while blindfolded. The surgical team 'attached electrodes from a robotic hand to a 36-year-old volunteer's median and ulnar nerves. Those nerves carry sensations that correspond with the volunteer's index finger and thumb, and with his pinky finger and the edge of his hand, respectively. The volunteer controlled the prosthetic with small muscle movements detected by sEMG, a method that dates to the 1970s and measures electrical signals through the skin—unlike the electrodes attached to his nerves, sEMG is not invasive.' The results? 'The volunteer was able to complete the requested tasks with his prosthetic thumb and index finger 67 percent of the time the first day and 93 percent of the time by the seventh day of the experiment, Micera and colleagues report. He found the pinky finger harder to control: he was only able to accomplish the requested grip 83 percent of the time by the end of the experiment.'"
This may prove useful for me (Score:5, Funny)
As I offer to give my left foot to keep Slashdot Beta away.
Have you noticed the motto change? (Score:1)
Re:Have you noticed the motto change? (Score:4, Informative)
http://slashdot.org/recent [slashdot.org]
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Just submitted a story to the Firehose: Once Slashdot beta has been foisted on me, what site should I use?
https://news.ycombinator.com/n... [ycombinator.com]
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A crafty ploy, removing the long-flying nerd banner from the /. Classic site, only to herald the much maligned Beta site with our former Standard.
Beta, for the REAL nerds.
The only logical explanation is the Beta dev is sleeping with management.
P.S.: The Vader-like robotic hand is sweet!
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The Beta motto is ``News for Nerds''.
I guess the definition of "nerd" changed, you can't use any HTML in that gawdoffal clusterfuck. They HAVE to have some underhanded reason to want to kill slashdot, because once they remove classic this place will be empty and the cleanmypc guy and the goatse guy and APK and ethanol-fueled will be all that's left.
So, if nerds don't code or do science or engineering or repurposing stuff, what are we called now? And is it a pejorative, like "nerd" was when I was in high sch
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I'll miss slashdot.
Yup, me too. It kinda felt like it was about to jump the shark even before Dice took over, but after that point the writing was on the wall in great big letters and it was clearly only a matter of time. Fonzie is lining up for the jump right now, and as soon as Classic is no longer available I'm so outta here.
I tried posting this comment on Beta, and I couldn't even preview it, much less post it, so I'm back on Classic; this interface is SO much better. But even before I found out that Beta SIMPLY DOESN'T
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Some folks are working on a new slashdot [altslashdot.org]. It looks like they're using wikipedia code right now, the page says they're converting to slashcode. No content there yet. I opened an account this morning.
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Re:Eh... (Score:4, Insightful)
Yeah. Shows how out of touch the people in charge of the site have become. They don't understand what keeps people here. I imagine they don't care. I imagine it's about getting new people in and traffic numbers up. There's some project manager who is under pressure to get these numbers. Beta is their baby. I feel bad that they have to keep an optimistic face, and pretend they like the monster that they created. .. all while knowing they've cock punched their oldest fan base. More of us old-fogeys with 1,000,000 user ids need to speak up.
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I've been on Slashdot since 2002 but keep making new accounts so that no-one can properly build a profile based on my comment history - not due to privacy concerns but rather to avoid any bias toward seeing my username and modding based on the name rather than the content of my posts.
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You know what? I'll take the new beta site when they stop
double spacing
all the lines
of text
in a little column
on the left
to make room for a giant column that has one ad at the top and is otherwise empty all the way down the entire comment section. I mean fuck, if they want to be all web 9.2 or whatever the version we're supposed to be on, they should have their "promoted" comments on top in their little colored boxes with their ads and shit on the side (just like the old fogey screen) then give us a workin
huh? (Score:3)
You must be seeing a different site than me. I'd say the comments take maybe 70% of my screen width. There's a pretty wide margin on each side which could certainly be reduced a little, and then a column on the right with the search box, poll, and a bunch more panels. There's certainly some wasted space, but nothing like you imply. And nothing is double line spaced.
FYI, Chrome/Win.
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Have a pic [imgur.com].
Also chrome on windows.
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Case in point: I went to http://science-beta.slashdot.o... [slashdot.org] and control-f'd your name and found this very comment.
I tried that too. And all I got was an empty comment section that read:
Sigh.
Weird... (Score:2)
I'm definitely not seeing the same screen as you. I am running Firefox 27 and I'm definitely not getting double spaced lines. My comment takes 8 lines, not 11.
2000 words (Score:2)
Have a picture of your post: http://imgur.com/YaOtcUk [imgur.com]
And another of this post: http://imgur.com/YvQjTIf [imgur.com]
Note khellendros's post at the bottom of the second pic. Maybe double-spaced is an exaggeration, but your text is (for some inexplicitly bizarre reason) sans-serif and line-and-a-half or so spaced compared to his (for some inexplicably bizaarre reason) serif font, normally spaced.
Bonus points! (Score:2)
I pushed post and naturally my post disappeared from the screen. I waited a bit to see if it would come back (even on "classic" D2 it sometimes took a couple of seconds) but it never did. I had to come back to classic D2 to see that the post did, in fact, submit (so at least the posting part worked, even if there's absolutely no feedback to that effect). While I was here I scrolled through the rest of the comments on Classic to see if there's any particular reason why some of the comments fonts are differ
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My phone seems to display everything OK, but even in landscape, the comment tree quickly becomes about 30 characters wide with a big grey strip off to the right when you get a couple of replies in. The spacing feels too wide overall (both height and width
Mobile.. (Score:2)
It's better for reading, viewing, and replying to on mobile devices.
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I'v been in that situation. It was a PC hardware enthusiasts site sold at the peak of .com bubble to an investment fund. Within one month new management started changing the message board, message board that was the heard of the side and brought traffic. After one month they deleted old forum and moved everything into phpBB. Two months after the buyout forum was empty. 2-3 months later original creator of the site launched new portal :D with slightly changed name, and SAME forum software :D. One month late
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Remember, these clowns also own Sourceforge, and look at people abandoning that adware-spewing cesspool like rats leaving a sinking ship.
It's almost as if... someone else is in control of Dice. Someone who perhaps knows how much Slashdot and Sourceforge meant to certain intelligent people...
I've always thought it was about the content. (Score:2)
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More of us old-fogeys with 1,000,000 user ids need to speak up.
Or boycott for a week.
-- Common Joe
Slashdot Valentines Day Massacre: Boycott Slashdot because "Fuck Beta!": February 10 - 17
And Support Okian Warrior's Alternate Slashdot [slashdot.org] Idea!
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Now that's sarcasm!
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Not so bad (Score:2)
Still, great comment
Only a matter of time before.... (Score:5, Interesting)
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Fuck Beta. Fuck Beta a replayed time.
Confessions Of an Ex-SLASHDOT BETA user (Score:3, Funny)
Day 1: It wouldn't stop, the redirecting. At first I thought it was malware. Had my first drink in a long time.
Day 2: Barely had the strength to carry on as the BETA REDIRECTIONS continue.. trying not to talk to hallucinations at the bar and in the bathroom which laugh at me about these redirections.
Day 3: Discovered the BETA redirections were random, and while at first they looked somewhat usable, when I looked at me and my monitor screen in the mirror, a horrible woman with flesh hanging off of her body looked back, trying to lead me into a dance as the word BETA appeared across her rancid breasts.
Day 4: These BETA corridors go on FOREVER! On the plus side, I've taken up disassembling vehicles to corner this BETA beast and sacrifice myself rather than lead others to discovering it. I ate some red snow.
Day 5: Finding it harder to concentrate. I've ate some more of the red snow. The taste is starting to grow on me.
Day 6: This typewriter is the only entertainment I have, apart from throwing things at the walls, trying to get some response from the BETA which is now taking over my mind.
Day 7: Hahahahahha! Would you believe it? I'M STILL BEING REDIRECTED TO SLASHDOT BETA PAGES! AHAHhahahaah! Type, type, ding, ding! Wooo!
Day 8: The hallucinations are actually real! Would you believe it? They have offered to help me if I agree to work for them. I'm thinking about patenting this delicious red snow, the taste is unreal!
Day 9: Having black out sessions where I cannot remember large passings of time. Found some makeup, thought I'd paint a joker smile on my face to amuse the people only I can see!
Day 10: Productive today, part of what I wrote for my new screenplay:
I cannot opt out of Slashdot BETA!
I cannot opt out of Slashdot BETA!
I cannot opt out of Slashdot BETA!
I cannot opt out of Slashdot BETA!
I cannot opt out of Slashdot BETA!
I cannot opt out of Slashdot BETA!
I cannot opt out of Slashdot BETA!
I cannot opt out of Slashdot BETA!
I cannot opt out of Slas
(drops of blood on paper)
I do not want Slashdot Beta (Score:5, Insightful)
If they follow through on their threats that might be it.
Who knows, maybe a mass exodus to Kuro5hin will revive that old refuge just as Slashdot dies.
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Wish I had some mod points... +1 Deeply Appropriately Funny and spoken on a site that is soon to die in battle.
Boycott (Score:3, Insightful)
I propose that we boycott stories and only discuss the abomination that is Slashdot Beta.
Moderators - only spend mod points on comments that discuss Beta
Commentors - only discuss Beta
Keep this up for a few days and we may finally get the PHBs attention.
Immediate fine motor control? (Score:5, Interesting)
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Ignore the AC that posted to you. What an ass.
Anyway, I just simply came to say what a shame it is that the beta site conversations have completely taken over Slashdot. Although I fully support the beta site conversation take over, it has ruined a potentially interesting good conversation about this story. I have a very good friend who was paralyzed less than two years ago and I've worked with people with disabilities. Although I have no physical disabilities of my own, I am very much aware of how diffi
Thanks Beta (Score:4, Insightful)
I've been wasting time here for a little more than a decade now. Won't have to anymore.
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What a dick move (Score:2)
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Yeah, they should have just designed and implanted the permanent gizmo straight away without any of this silly experimentation, and testing, and caution.
That sarcastically said, I'd hope this guy's at the top of the list for the final product.
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Hate the new beta (Score:3, Insightful)
Why is the feedback for the new beta by email? Previously when the last attempt was made to force everyone onto the new beta they at least provided a simple form for feedback. Now it is a plain email for feedback. Obviously nobody is going to read such emails and digest the feedback. They certainly wouldn't be able to easily collate the results and deduce that most people hate the beta, so I suppose that is why the feedback is effectively /dev/null. Perhaps they want to harvest the email addresses of site visitors who rarely bother to login?
The future... (Score:1)
...two wangers
Beta Blows (Score:5, Insightful)
The hand that blinds us. (Score:5, Funny)
fuckbeta (Score:2, Informative)
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Mod parent +1 fuckbeta