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  1. Excellent, one step closer to flying cars on Nissan Plans To Sell Self-Driving Cars By 2020 · · Score: 1

    As we all know from Back to the Future, 2015 is the era of flying cars. However it seems there is an alternate timeline in which people are too much of a risk to guide flying cars with the skill of Doc Brown. So we have to first develop autonomous cars and then transfer over to autonomous flying cars. Which pushes our timeline 2020.

  2. Re:I don't believe in Richard Dawkins. on Dr. Richard Dawkins On Education, 'Innocence of Muslims,' and Rep. Paul Broun · · Score: 1

    When God shows up, the world will know.

  3. Re:Energy and..... defence? on Fusion Power Breakthrough Near At Sandia Labs? · · Score: 1

    Well once the population is reduced to 1/1000 of its current number your standard of living will be way higher*.


    *Standard of living increases are measured numerically and are not based on percentages. Individual results may vary.

  4. Re:How to tell whether you are infected on Flashback Trojan Hits 600,000 Macs and Counting · · Score: 1

    Not to mention MAC tools.

  5. Re:Scammers gonna scam. on DNA Test To Determine Kids' Sports Futures · · Score: 1

    Depends on the sport. No amount of dedication will get Shaq into the Kentucky derby unless he is the one with the jockey on his back.

  6. Re:Hard Balls? on Toronto School Bans Hard Balls · · Score: 1

    Just how much force do you think a 5th grader can apply to a soccer ball or an American football?

  7. Re:What's the point? on Pranksters Post Giant Windows Logo On Hamburg Apple Store · · Score: 1

    You don't get it? This may help: Definition of JOKE 1 a: something said or done to provoke laughter

  8. Re:WiFi hotspot for 30 dollars a month on Sprint's $199 HTC EVO 4G Gets Release Date of June 4 · · Score: 1

    You can already root the hero and load 2.1 on it.

  9. Re:No... on Sprint's $199 HTC EVO 4G Gets Release Date of June 4 · · Score: 1

    My in-laws live in a location where they cannot get DSL/Cable/Wifi from any internet provider. It will be interesting to see what happens when they start using this and they run up the bandwidth past the typical 5 gig limit which supposedly won't exist. Realistically for most households why would you need internet unless you are playing online games if you can just spend an extra 10-30 dollars on your cell phone bill.

  10. Re:I call... on Obama Makes a Push To Add Time To the School Year · · Score: 1

    I lived in Japan as well. There is an hour in the morning for music or something and an hour or two for after school sports. The actual in class time wasn't that bad. Plus a lot of time spent socializing and hanging out. Some kids would be out till 8-9 before they came home. They weren't in class all day.

    They do better because they have a culture that encourages it.

  11. Traffic Jams vs Traffic Flow on Rude Drivers Reduce Traffic Jams · · Score: 1

    Normally I don't do this but I was curious. I RTFA and it seems that the studies were all about preventing pooling/jamming. It may be true that by creating disruptions one can reduce jamming but how does that affect the overall traffic flow. I would suspect in a perfect system each car abiding by the rules would have the greatest flow. What is hard to determine is that in the real world what would be the best.

    Actually I don't think it really matters. Even if the study shows that driving 65 and leaving 5 second gaps can prevent 50% of traffic jams the social change necessary probably wouldn't happen.

  12. Re:The people who don't trust MS on Microsoft's Code Contribution Due To GPL Violation · · Score: 1

    I trust Microsoft to make money. Knowing that makes it easy to know where they are going. Google makes money too but only on adwords so the rest of their offerings are a bit harder to decipher.

  13. Re:What is a Nuclear Weapon for? on Hacking Nuclear Command and Control · · Score: 1

    How do you propose we arrive at 3rd and 4th generation reactors? Personally I am not a big fan of hybrid cars because I like cheap used cars like my 94 honda but someone has to pay for the R&D that will help make my next used car that much better. You don't learn to run by sitting down. You learn to run by standing up, falling down, getting back up, walking, falling down, and getting back up again. I don't see the whole world uniting behind this and making some otherworldy nuclear expirement.

  14. Re:Who gives a hoot on The Best Game Engines · · Score: 1

    I think you are underestimating the need for a game engine. The better the game engine the easier it is to develop for and the more time they have to work on content. It is hard to have good content when your engine fails to enable you to express it.

    Part of the reason for your reasoning though is that today it is more marketable to have nice screenshots that look cool on boxes/tv/websites/tech demos/etc and thus a disproportionate ammount of resources is directed this way.

    Even SCUMM as dated as it is holds as a good engine because it lets the developer express his content effectively.

  15. Re:Do not hate me. on Microsoft Discloses Windows 7 Pricing · · Score: 1

    There must be a bug with some machines. My Asus eee pc 1000h installed from a USB drive in about 17 minutes to full ready to use W7. Two other newer desktops with new intel CPU's took almost an hour. Both Asus mobos ironically enough. The VM install on Fusion took 1+ hour as well. There is a write up on HardOCP and their install was quick.

    Not sure what the deal is but hopefully some larger data sets can turn up something.

  16. Re:Overcompensate much? on ASUS Designs Monster Dual-GTX285 4GB Graphics Card · · Score: 1

    No, my friend you are way off. This is much bigger than a VHS tape.

  17. Re:Cool story bro on Cola Consumption Can Lead To Muscle Problems · · Score: 1

    I agree, when I was a kind I could eat all kinds of candy and feel fine. Now that I eat candy about once a quarter I can barely finish a pack of skittles. As a matter of fact I can't I have to give the rest to my two year old, who I know can eat a pack on his own. Thanks Grandma.

    Granted this is just me but I say try it. Once you get used to no salt or sugar or butter etc it actually becomes hard to eat those things.

  18. Re:Because of this im ashamed to be an Oklahoman. on Oklahoma, Vatican Take Opposite Tacks On Evolution · · Score: 1

    Really should say NOBODY from Oklahoma.

  19. Re:Because of this im ashamed to be an Oklahoman. on Oklahoma, Vatican Take Opposite Tacks On Evolution · · Score: 1

    Stop trying to pretend to be an Okie. Anyone from Oklahoma doesn't call themselves and Oklahoman.

  20. Re:I just bought a new car on GM Cornered Into Defending the Volt · · Score: 1

    In addition you need to cover the FV of your extra 8k down at purchase over 10 years. Minus the tax break 5k over 10 years with even a simple investment of 5% is worth over 8k. (net is 3k)

  21. Move to nix security cameras? on Cambridge, Mass. Moves To Nix Security Cameras · · Score: 1

    Thought they were moving from windows security cameras to *nix security cameras. Looks like just plain nixing cameras altogether is the best move. Further proof that nix is better than Windows.

  22. Re:Wrong again on Bay Area To Install Electric Vehicle Grid · · Score: 1

    You have been to Japan? What train system did you ride? I don't know how you forgot all the fun of being compacted into a train car. Good times I tell you. Wouldn't want it in America though.

  23. Re:This has been on my mind for a few years ... on Should We Clone a Neanderthal? · · Score: 1

    It seems that everyone assumes cloning includes memories. It doesn't. Whatever species is cloned and then nurtured in our current environment will be just like us. The opinion he gives will either be what he thinks we think he should think or just his opinion significantly influenced by the social interaction he has had.

    In short it will not be as if some primitive society is reborn and brought to this brave new world to provide an eye opening commentary on the state of our society.

  24. Re:Problem on 11,000-Year-Old Temple Found In Turkey · · Score: 1

    Not really. Here is what the Bible actually says and you can decide for yourself how nebulous of a definition there is for day.

    Genesis 1:13 "There was evening and there was morning a third day."
    Genesis 1:19 "There was evening and there was morning a fourth day."
    Genesis 1:23 "There was evening and there was morning a fifth day."

    In context it is mentioned that there is a greater light to govern the day and a lesser to govern the night...

  25. Re:Importance of warm-up on Stretching Before Exercising Weakens Muscles · · Score: 3, Informative

    In weight lifting you do not want to stretch your muscles out. In anything more aerobic you want to do light stretching and at the end of both you want to completely stretch your muscles.

    Your muscles are able to put forth the most when they are not all stretched out similar to an elastic band. If you stretch it out several times it starts to lose its ability to snap back as quickly. For aerobic exercise though you don't want your muscles to cramp up which they have an increased chance of doing because of the nature of the exercise and the fact you are using it consistently over a long period of time.

    No muscle works well though when it is damaged so if you try to rapidly stretch it by running or jumping hard while cold you just earned yourself a pulled hammy. Weightlifting though is different and once you get into it and start lifting heavy there are not many who stretch much at all before lifting. Maybe a quick set of low weight to get warm and make sure the muscles are ready for the range of motion and demand you are about to put on them.

    Lame jokes aside go to the gym and you will see this was already well known before this study.