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  1. cars equipped with short-range radio on DoT Grants $15M To Test Car-To-Car Communication · · Score: 1

    Didn't they have that in the 70's

    It was called CB

    I think it was stopped because truckers used it to avoid speeding tickets

    Big Ben this ears a rubber duck and I'm about to put the hammer down

  2. Re:Invisible airplanes on Study Suggests Magnets Can Force You to Tell the Truth · · Score: 1

    It wasn't totally invisible, more like transparent. You could see Lynda Carter inside it.

    I'd say it might have been made of transparent aluminum except that wasn't invented until 1984.

  3. Obvious answer on Icelandic Rocks Suggest Meteorites Brought Gold To Earth · · Score: 1

    Vikings carried it there.

    Or it could have been a swallow

    (Erik the Viking was written by the same people that wrote Monty Python)

  4. Whats the point on Nike to Unveil Self Lacing Shoes? · · Score: 1

    Didn't velcro make laced shoes already obsolete?

    And trying to feed 1.21GW through the rear wheels of a Delorean would almost ce4rtainly leave two burning lines of rubber, but no time travel.

  5. Re:How are they handling the heat? on Single-Chip DIMM To Replace Big Sticks of RAM · · Score: 0

    Just keep the ambient temperature below absolute zero and you'll have no problems.

  6. Boring on Court Orders Gov't To Disclose GPS Tracking Data · · Score: 1

    I imagine the GPS traking data to be a very boring file comprised of the following
    (device id), ((ime), (GPS coords)

    Unless you know who (device id) belongs to, its not going to be of much interest.

  7. blow up the patent office with a few RPGs on Bill Gates Patents 'Virtual Entertainment' · · Score: 1

    Yeah, storm the place with a whole lot of Role Playing Gamers with swords and wearing armor (and a handful of clerics and magic users.)

  8. Marx ? on Marx May Have Had a Point · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Groucho, Harpo, Chico, or Zeppo

  9. Ghost Town on Tech Company To Build Science Ghost Town In New Mexico · · Score: 1

    Is it something to do with the SyFy (or is that PsyPhy) channel?

  10. But on Window Shopping With Gesture Recognition · · Score: 1

    I don't want to go Window shopping, I am quite happy with Windows XP SP3 and don't see any need to upgrade to a slower bloated operating system.

  11. If I could turn back time on What Is the Most Influential Programming Book? · · Score: 1

    If I could go back in time that far, I wouldn't be worried about telling myself to read some book, I would tell myself to buy MSFT stock in 1981, and Apple stock in 1983, and sell short in October '87 etc

  12. 2 way? on Toshiba Adds Two-Way Wi-Fi To SD Card · · Score: 1

    Wow! 2 way WiFi you mean it sends as well as receives?

  13. The end of progress on Android Tricorder Killed By CBS · · Score: 1

    I guess those scientists working on quantum teleportation better quit before they get sued then. And theres no legal chance of anybody inventing a real warp drive because of the legal issues, we are going to be stuck in this solar system until we go extinct.
    Extinction may be sooner than we thought too, if there is an asteroid heading towards earth we can't go and blow it up without being sued by Atari

    How come google are gatting awat with calling their user interface Android ?

  14. Re:Shortage of engineering jobs, on Mr. President, There Is No (US) Engineer Shortage · · Score: 1

    Unemlpoyed people can't afford $500 iPads, or even to pay their mortgages, food, gas...electric etc bills.

  15. 20 years ago on Windows 8 Desktop 'Just Another App'? · · Score: 1

    Windows 3.x was just another MSDOS executable.

    and 5 years before that, Amiga Workbench was a multitasking GUI that ran on AmigaDOS

  16. Who's going to stop them? on Chinese Want To Capture an Asteroid · · Score: 0

    Yes, I am sure he can.

    Although I think David Tennant was the best of the modern Doctors, Matt Smith seems to be doing OK.

  17. Internet pipes fatter? on Large Improvement in Graphene Photosensitivity Realized · · Score: 2

    Since graphene is so strong you could build a pipe 20 metres across. Not only would it be able to carry data, but also semi trucks. You could order stuff from Amazon with instant shipping, and get physical purchases as fast as digital downloads.

  18. Re:Containment on Alloy Could Produce Hydrogen Fuel Using Sunlight · · Score: 1

    2 of them would probably combine to make Ethane. But a 3 carbon string with 8 h's is a more energy dense fuel and can be liquified. Gives almost as much power as gasoline.

  19. Non standard screen on One Final Manufacturing Run of Touchpads · · Score: 1

    Nobody else has a 9.7 in screen, so they can't sell the surplus screens to some other tablet manufacturer, They probably thought of dumping them, but they are probably chemically hazardous so that would cost them money. (These days you can't get away with dumping PCB's (printed circuit boards) into a landfill...

  20. Re:The Black Death isn't coming back on Scientists Sequence Black Death Bacteria · · Score: 1

    "But don't worry because a vegan diet and Chiropractic can stop these synthetic microorganisms, where big pharmo will fail."

    But what happens when the diease spreads to Vega?

  21. Whats this got to do with the Europans? on US Gov't Lobbied EU To Approve Oracle-Sun Merger · · Score: 0

    Mars orbits the Sun too. Do the Martians get a say?

  22. Prior Art? on The Copyright Nightmare of 'I Have a Dream' · · Score: 1

    Phrases like "I have a Dream" and "I have seen the promised land" were said by other people long before 1963

  23. Re:Supersymmetry not dead... on LHC Data Continues To Disagree With Supersymmetry · · Score: 2

    Its not dead, just resting...

    (and pining for the fiords )

  24. Global? on Coordinated, Global ATM Heist Nets $13 Million · · Score: 1

    "several major cities across Europe, Russia and Ukraine."

    I thought that G;onal would be bigger than Europe (Russia was once considered part of Eastern Europe)

  25. Cost? on Theoretical Shoe Inserts Could Power Your Gadgets · · Score: 1

    How much will these cost?

    Can they cope with getting wet? Of course ahoes get damp and sweaty anyway, but in the case of a rainstorm and deeper than you think puddles they can get soaked.
    For me, walking is not just a means of exercise , it is a means of transport - I don't own a car you insensitive clod.