Brain Surgery Robot Running Linux 361
hherb writes "Singapore has developed a robotic brain surgeon. The interesting bit: based on a Linux platform. Well, what else? Who in his right mind would like to have his brain fondled by a MS product?"
WooHoo (Score:3, Funny)
When you just can't afford.. (Score:0, Funny)
Yeah, but if it doesn't go well... (Score:5, Funny)
"Using Linux causes death!"
I just want to know (Score:1, Funny)
Money (Score:5, Funny)
Slightly off-topic (Score:5, Funny)
I left immediately.
rm -rf / ? (Score:5, Funny)
sweet.. (Score:2, Funny)
"You're anurism operation was a complete success and while that was going on your surgeon discovered the RC5-72 key [distributed.net]!"
Right Mind (Score:5, Funny)
People generally have brain surgery because their mind is malfunctioning.
Just had a great idea... (Score:0, Funny)
"Let's see... Coke, Diet Coke, Mountain Dew, or a Frontal Lobotomy. Hmmm... I got 50 for the coke, but I need another 10,000 quarters for the lobotomy."
Er... (Score:2, Funny)
My PHB. It happened a long time ago...
Re:Gives a whole new meaning... (Score:3, Funny)
Szo
Human trials (Score:5, Funny)
The team hopes to begin human trials by the middle of next year, following the completion of animal tests. Trials have been successfully conducted on cadavers.
"So far, no animals have volunteered, but since we're using Linux we expect lots of penguins to sign up." said Dr Yeo Tseng Tsai. In a subsequent interview RMS pointed out that if they had used the correct term GNU/Linux, they might have had more volunteers from the Gnu community. "I told you so. That's what happens when you leave out the GNU part.", explained RMS.
I can hear RMS already (Score:1, Funny)
I see you are trying to perform brain surgery (Score:5, Funny)
* Saw the skull open?
* Find the front lobes?
* Adjust the frontal lobes so that Microsoft products seem to be a good idea?
Re:neither ms nor linux (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Aghr! (Score:2, Funny)
Daniel
Apple's attempt at a brain surgery (Score:2, Funny)
GPF (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Human trials (Score:4, Funny)
Volunteers? (Score:1, Funny)
Funny! I saw this just yesterday while booting a ThinkPad a21m (reported by Donald Becker's 3com driver):
I love these cookies! Maybe the PCMCIA committee should volunteer? :-)
z/dev/brain (Score:1, Funny)
So what's the distro called... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:or how about Adventure...(corrected version) (Score:2, Funny)
-> Fix Brain
I don't know how to Fix Brain.
->Doh!
Good grief... (Score:3, Funny)
Right Mind? (Score:3, Funny)
Well, if you're in your right mind, you probably don't need brain surgery!
Re:Unm (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, right! If it was done by NASA [slashdot.org], the operator would tell it to drill 2 millimeters and it would go 2 inches instead!
OOOPPPS! He wasn't using that side of his brain anyways... He won't notice.
Blue Screen of Brain Death (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What else? ... (Score:3, Funny)