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  1. Re:Phone interface on Renault Opens Up the 'Car As a Platform' · · Score: 1

    Mercedes already has this.

  2. Old News on Renault Opens Up the 'Car As a Platform' · · Score: 1

    Mercedes has been doing this for years. First they did it with the iPod integration where the iPod was fully integrated into the COMAND unit and controlled by steering wheel buttons/paddles with the display routed to the cockpit display. Next was the iPhone integrated into the smartcar and now the smartphone integration with full app support.

  3. Interesting Personal Note on Are You Better At Math Than a 4th (or 10th) Grader? · · Score: 1

    I took the SAT in 8th grade as part of a university study and scored 1200. I took it again for real upon graduating high school and scored 1080. However, I created a successful IT career for myself ending in managing the networks for a multinational company prior to a medical retirement.
    Very timely that I just finished watching "Gattaca" again...

  4. Parent is goatse link on IBM Watson To Battle Patent Trolls · · Score: 0

    you have been warned.

  5. Re:Actually, this is good news. on Bill Gates To Help China Build Traveling Wave Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    China is King in the former, not in the latter.

    Don't you mean Emperor ?

  6. Re:Cost benefit ratio on Tower To Be Built By Flying Robots · · Score: 4, Funny

    or tombs, after Skynet becomes self-aware.

  7. Re:The TSA will ruin this. on California Going Ahead With Bullet Train · · Score: 1

    indeed. poor choice of words on my part. jurisdiction was the proper term.

  8. Re:Why are businesses leaving? on California Going Ahead With Bullet Train · · Score: 1

    you obviously have seen the SJ light rail but just as obviously never use it. I was a regular user from inception until about two years ago. It's cheap and quite popular.

  9. Re:The TSA will ruin this. on California Going Ahead With Bullet Train · · Score: 1

    (damned eyegaze system...) and so are interstate freeways, with trucking being interstate commerce so subject to Federal jurisdiction.

  10. Re:The TSA will ruin this. on California Going Ahead With Bullet Train · · Score: 1

    airports are Federal property. That's why.

  11. Re:The TSA will ruin this. on California Going Ahead With Bullet Train · · Score: 1

    TSA is Federal. This would be a State service over which TSA has no authority.

  12. Re:Why are businesses leaving? on California Going Ahead With Bullet Train · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Amen.

    before I was forced to retire due to ALS I had need to go down to a remote office in LA multiple times per month from the SF Bay area. Airplanes are quick once you leave the ground but the absolute living hell that is air travel made me dread the trip. Having a fast train is something I dreamed about since the month I spent in Europe on business. Totally stress-free "commute". Tie the fast line into municipal light rail like the widely used BART and San Jose light rail and you have a very successful merger of two huge metropolitan economies.

  13. Re:I see... on A New Class of Inflatable Robots By OtherLab · · Score: 1

    I was thinking more Emergency Pants.

  14. I see... on A New Class of Inflatable Robots By OtherLab · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... Dr. Schlock is at it again.

  15. Re:Well then... on Are Small Rocky Worlds Naked Gas Giants? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I once sat next to a gas giant on an airplane. Thank God it was just a short commuter flight.

  16. Re:Bad response (what else is new) on North Korea Forced US Reconnaissance Plane To Land · · Score: 1

    actually, during war, it's "Anybody who turns on a radio that isn't ours gets HAARM'd".

  17. Re:Cruise ship on Airship Company Gets First Civilian Customer · · Score: 1

    FAA rules require pilot on supplemental oxygen above 10k ft. I have skied/boarded 12k mountains, and I believe airliners are pressurized to the equivalent of 8k, so I would guess somewhere between 8 and 10.

  18. Re:Interesting results on Evaluating Patent Troll Myths · · Score: 2

    I live in Santa Cruz. By the time SCO was patent trolling, it had been sold a few times, was renamed SCO (with the letters no longer being an acronym), and was living in Utah.

  19. Obligatory Floyd on Massive Diamond Found Orbiting Pulsar · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Ted Stevens on Russia Approves Siberia-Alaska Railway · · Score: 1

    now that's funny right there

  21. Re:File this under "grandiose uselessness" on Russia Approves Siberia-Alaska Railway · · Score: 1

    boats have been easy for centuries...

  22. Trains on China Catches Up With Google's Driverless Car · · Score: 2

    Apparently they already have driverless high-speed trains.

  23. Re:Reliablity? on Harnessing Interference For Faster Wireless Data · · Score: 1

    In the 90s, Arraycomm had developed a technology that relied on multipath and was capable of putting a spherical signal in less than a half-meter of space. This technology, called "Intellicell", was used first to nearly quadruple the capacity of Japan's PHS system (tiny phones meant to be low-mobility additions to wired phones, serviced my microcell stations located on metropolitan buildings). This was later expanded to a metropolitan data service using more typical cell stations promising over a megabit/sec to each user (in 1999). Single test stations around 2 linear miles from the 2-story tower in an urban environment were able to pull over that rate. US carriers were not interested in rolling out this data service so it was sold to a company in Australia.

  24. Re:aka Differential GPS on Ground-Based GPS Mimic Is Inch Perfect · · Score: 1

    smaller and cheaper allowing rapid temporary deployment for project sites?

  25. Re:Similar to previous systems of yesteryear on Ground-Based GPS Mimic Is Inch Perfect · · Score: 4, Informative

    you mean LORAN. Yes, it seems like a hybrid LORAN/GPS.