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  1. 20 years by TopSpin · · Score: 2 · on IBM Makes a Super Memory Breakthrough

    The overwhelming consensus SPI for flying cars is twenty years.

    http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2004/tc20040825_4462_tc119.htm
    http://www.kurzweilai.net/forums/topic/why-flying-cars-are-a-long-way-off
    http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:TuZyTN2xWuwJ:www.slideshare.net/RichStrong/magic-dragon-flying-car-project-presentation+flying+car+20+years+-%22your+flying+car+awaits%22&cd=11&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us http://www.davinciinstitute.com/papers/where-is-my-flying-car/
    http://www.cobizmag.com/articles/flying-cars-just-give-it-20-years-or-so/page-2/
    http://markctu.blogspot.com/2007/08/failed-prediction-flying-car.html

  2. Re:Offsite Co-op? by mtutty · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Online Backup Solutions?

    I'm working on this problem, too. And I'm looking for a few dozen testers for version 0.2. Please go and sign up if you're in the mood.

    I might get flamed for saying this out loud, but from the testing I've done and the thought process that led to my project, I don't see a huge value in dividing up files if they're encrypted. First of all, you need more than one successful retrieval to get the file. Second, you're likely going to lose much of the economy of breaking the file up because you're adding the bloat of encryption to each copy.

    Looking around, I see that there are lots of other solutions to this problem. Consider mine if you want to help me bootstrap this into something really great.

  3. I already planned this 2 years ago.... by PGillingwater · · Score: 1, Interesting · on "Body Talk" Could Control Gadgets

    ... and I contributed it to the Da Vinci institute's Museum of Future Inventions.

    Slashdot regulars will remember the Da Vinci institute from this story.

  4. Press Releases??? by Scytle · · Score: 1 · on World's First Encyclopedia of Future Inventions

    Just out of curiosity, does anyone think /. should have a policy regarding these kind of press releases? Sometimes they may contain useful information to be sure but here you have the Vice President of this very organization really just having the editors post a promo puff piece. Not to impinge on the credibility of an institute represented by the amazing "Father of Invention" as proclaimed by that hard hitting news source the Boulder Daily Camera, but seeing how this issue has come up recently for google it seems relevent to wonder if /. to should be considering it as well.