From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 15 15:36:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA20728 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 15:36:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from babylon.wsc.monash.edu.au (babylon.wsc.monash.edu.au [130.194.166.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA20701 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 15:35:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from graeme@babylon.wsc.monash.edu.au) Received: from localhost (graeme@localhost) by babylon.wsc.monash.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA15356; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 08:35:32 +1000 Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 08:35:32 +1000 (EST) From: Graeme Cross Reply-To: Graeme.Cross@sci.monash.edu.au To: Chuck Robey cc: FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on TV - followup In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-Attribution: gjc X-PGP-Key-ID: 702DB549 X-URL: http://www.wsc.monash.edu.au/~graeme/ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Graeme Cross wrote: > On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > Did anyone notice that FreeBSD was on national TV this morning? > > > > I was watching the news while eating breakfast, and switching between > > Fox and CNN. On both were stories about the implantation of sensors > > inside a disabled person's skull, to possibly allow a computer to > > communicate with that person. > > > > I was kinda rushed, so I didn't get too much of the story, but both > > shows had a closeup of the computer screen in the same room with > > doctors, bunches of equipment, and putative patient. There was Chuckie > > the daemon looking back at me, on both, 5 minutes apart. > > For those interested, there is an on-line article about the system in the UK Telegraph at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ You have to enter a username etc to read the article - cypherpunks/cypherpunks works, as per usual. There is no mention of the OS used or the BSD daemon in the article though, just information on the brain interfacing. Cheers Graeme -- Graeme Cross -- Water Studies Centre, Monash University Random thought #132 (Collect all 235) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. (Clarke) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message