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  1. Re:Hoverboards... on Flying Cars Ready To Take Off · · Score: 1
    Weird stuff! This company also sells a Hyperdimensional Resonator near the bottom of the page, which can be "used for personal time travel.

    Following the link on that page shows a diagram of how it's used -- seems like it runs off 110VAC and involves completing a circuit from your temples to your navel (!!!)

    I bet you could accomplish the same effect without shelling out the $590.00 by skipping the middleman and just connecting the outlet directly :)

  2. List of problems on 29th ACM Intl. Programming Contest Results · · Score: 4, Informative

    The complete list of problems can be found here, along with some sample inputs/outputs (usual format for these types of contest).

  3. Re:bout damn time on Non-Invasive Computer Control Through Brainwaves · · Score: 1
    Now it will even mean that shooter games will be won by the smartest - not the most physically capable (hand to eye coordination).
    Or, like it is now (all things being equal), they'll still be won by the person with the lowest ping time.
  4. Artists who want to share wouldn't be affected? on Professor and Student Thwart P2P File Sharing · · Score: 1
    From the article:
    Artists who want to share their music on P2P networks wouldn't be affected, he said. The content owners could designate only particular files for spoofing.
    Even if one could be convinced that using such deceptive (and bandwidth wasteful) techniques to protect one's content was acceptable -- there is absolutely no guarantee that a tool like this would be used in a "responsible manner" (i.e. only by the content owner).

    Contrary to the claim made in the article, it would seem that someone with an ulterior motive could easily disturb the distribution of a competitor's content.

  5. Silly naming conventions on 100GB, 9.5mm thick HD from Toshiba · · Score: 4, Insightful
    From the article:
    The key to achieving this was replacing the Pico Sliders attached to the drive's heads, and which maintain the appropriate distance from the disk during read and write operations, with Femto Sliders that are 35% smaller and much lighter.
    To echo the sentiments seen in some posts on other topics -- aren't these naming conventions getting a little ridiculous? I know it's been a while since "milli" was cool for referring to small things (and was replaced by "micro"), but it hasn't been that long since "nano" became ubiquitous.

    Looks like atto/zepto/yocto aren't far behind. Maybe we should go back to the naming convention where the metric prefix actually referred to the scale of the item in question; i.e. nanobots on the nanometer scale.

  6. Another "real issue" scenario on Automobile Black Box Sends Driver to Jail · · Score: 1
    What happens when you're stuck in a snowy/icy patch and someone hits you while you're spinning your wheels?

    Your speedometer might think you're going 100 km/h in a 40 zone, but you're actually not moving at all.

    A more reliable measure of velocity / position is required -- possibly a motivation for including GPS in this kind of black box system?

  7. Re:Women's Windows on Y Window System Project Started · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think you mean for men only -- (normal) men have XY sexual chromosomes, women are XX.