Robot cannon goes nuts: kills 9, wounds 14

This isn't the first such incident, and yet the this is a good idea? They really need semi-autonomous systems where it still has to have a human on the trigger.

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/10/robot-cannon-ki.html

RIAA fights to avoid paying attorney's fees for file sharing suit that it dropped

It could easily amount to more than the $220,000 that they were recently awarded. It might also finance a class-action suit against the RIAA for people who have been accused but had the suits against them dropped for lack of evidence or whatever reason.

http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2007/10/riaa_fees

Eight month old baby swallows Ecstacy pill!

And survives. Apparently babies can burn the drugs out of their system faster than adults can.

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/10/medical-case-re.html

Soon to have cell phones on planes in Europe?

*sigh*

How long before the FCC/FAA relent on this? I am SOOO looking forward to being stuck in a plane for 3+ hours with some asswipes loudly yacking on their phones for the entire trip.

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/18/2230257

Law firm claims copyright on VIEWING the html of their web site

This deserves a *WHAAA?!!!*

So feel free to break their copyright by going to their web site and hitting Control-U on your keyboard. Go ahead, it'll make you feel good!

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/18/2123233

Viacom puts the entire Jon Stewart run of The Daily Show online!

They plan on having the Craig Kilborn series online soon. They're saying that the Colbert Report will probably get the same treatment. Apparently the new Sarah Silverman Show is also online, I haven't really seen it yet.

http://www.fierceiptv.com/story/viacom-opens-daily-show-archive/2007-10-18

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/18/1951251/ki/

Get ready for a new kind of email stock spam -- MP3's!

Watch your inbox size grow! *sigh*

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/18/1843239