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  1. Wheres Oscar....Not Tempest withth the Spinner!! on TxK, Tempest 2000 Remake for PS Vita Demoed · · Score: 1

    Its not Tempest without the Oscar Vortex Spinner!!

  2. Hiller flying plaform from 50 years ago on The First 'Practical' Jetpack May Be On Sale In Two Years · · Score: 1

    This thing seems not better and much larger than the Hiller flying segway from 50 years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiller_VZ-1_Pawnee

  3. Re:Who votes in those bozo politicicans? on N. Carolina May Ban Tesla Sales To Prevent "Unfair Competition" · · Score: 1

    The problem is that the Triange is only one small area represented by a few state legislators...The vast majority of NC is still very rural and mired in the old south's Good Old Boy way of thinking. There are two very different North Carolina's...urban and rural. Just look at the split on the voting on the gay marriage issue. The Charlotte and Triangle regions heavily against the gay marriage ban, but most other counties were heavily for it.

  4. Lenovo on Ask Slashdot: Buying a Laptop That Doesn't Have Windows 8 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Order it an you can choose 7 instead of 8

  5. How can a unit of mass gain weight? on Standard Kilogram Gains Weight · · Score: 1

    One thing I learn in school, you HAVE to get the units right. BTW, honk if you love slugs.

  6. Re:Extreme racing on FIA Adds Rome To Formula E 2014 Inaugural Season · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If this were true, F1 cars would be alot faster and more powerful (remember the turbo era of the 1980s?). F1 is about using the most advanced engineering and technology to meet the limitations of the "Formula". the "1" is just that its the formula that allows for the fastest cars, but its still limiting by its nature. The details of that formula is not important, so F1 could go electric. Having said that, the long history of F1, its connection with the evolution of IC engines and people not liking their sports screwed with, I suspect Formula E will separate.

  7. Alien Base!! on Spectacular New Views of Saturn's Polar Vortex · · Score: 2

    A hexagon!? Clearly that has to be the work of intelligent beings. There must be some sort of alien presence on Saturn. The clouds probably hide the base they have used to observe for centuries. I hope the History channel's Ancient Aliens puts some of their first class investigative journalists and deductive scientists on this right away.

  8. Re:Win+X on Even Windows 8 Users Prefer Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Hitting the Windows key alone will toggle Metro and Desktop views.

  9. Service Pack 3 on Windows 8 Has Scaling Issues On High-PPI Displays · · Score: 1

    Some things never seem to work right until Service Pack 3.

  10. Re:You are the alarmist. on NASA Satellite Measurements Show Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Melt · · Score: 2

    Its funny...I've seen this paraphrased quote several times, but seldom see the real quote: "One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision"

  11. Irony on Oldest DNA Recovered From 7,000-Year-Old Skeletons In Spain · · Score: 2

    Anyone else find irony in the fact that a journal named Current Biology publishes an article about 7000 year old DNA?

  12. Need bile ducts! on Rudimentary Liver Grown In a Dish · · Score: 5, Informative

    Unfortunately, the bile ducts are an important part of what the liver does, i.e. produce bile, which we need to digest fats. Furthermore, bile is used to remove bilirubin, a was product of the liver tearing down red blood cells. An excess of bilirubin is what makes people with liver problems turn yellow. This does seem like a great step forward in growing organs however. The liver is one of the most complex organs in the body.

  13. New? What about Carnivore on FBI Quietly Forms Secretive Net-Surveillance Unit · · Score: 1

    It isn't like the FBI is doing anything new here....just that they have an official department for it. Carnivore was scanning email since the 90s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_(software)

  14. Re:Older cars vs. Hybrids on Another Stab At Sorting Hybrid Hype From Reality · · Score: 1

    Simple...new cars are fat pigs. A 2012 stripped civic weighs over 2600 pounds....600 pounds more than you CRX. Blame added safety requirements and luxury features.

  15. Re:I can counter his example with my own on Another Stab At Sorting Hybrid Hype From Reality · · Score: 1

    Diesel....2002 Golf TDI, 46 mpg mixed use without driving like a granny....will last 300+K with little maintenance.

  16. SIGI!! on Comet Lovejoy Plunges Into the Sun and Survives · · Score: 1

    I love Seeing It Go In and come back out again.

  17. Obama veto on Congress's Techno-Ignorance No Longer Funny · · Score: 1

    Any chance the midly tech savvy Obama will veto this horrid bill?

  18. Wait...are they threatening me now? on LulzSec Teams With Anonymous, In Operation AntiSec · · Score: 1

    Wait...are they threatening me now?

  19. Really Time Warner feeling threatened on NC Governor Allows Anti-Community-Broadband Law · · Score: 1

    This is really about the small town of Wilson, NC and its community project Greenlight. http://www.greenlightnc.com/ It provides broadband, tv and phone to customers in Wilson for less than Time Warner. Immediately time warner and Embarq began lobbying to shut it down. Time Warner was forced to keep prices lower in nearby areas. It has been an ongoing story for years: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/TWC-Embarq-Wilson-Greenlight,7610.html

  20. Not so crazy...tested at White Sands on British Rail's Flying Saucer · · Score: 1

    Well...something which sounds very similar has been under development for some time: http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology /laser_propulsion_000705.html

  21. Re:Its the Industry, stupid on What Do You Want in a Job Website? · · Score: 1

    A solution? If the solution was a list of bullets, I think we would be there already. I do have my personal ideas, however. I would like to see a way to catalog a job seekers general skills as specific technologies. By general skills, I mean experience/expertise in those processes that are common to entire classes of technologies. I think someone who had all the required general skills would be a better long term fit than one who had checked the appropriate technology boxes.

  22. Its the Industry, stupid on What Do You Want in a Job Website? · · Score: 1

    I don't think the problem rests solely on the shoulders of the Jobsites, although they have accelerated it. The problem is that the IT/Software industry has evolved keyword driven hiring. People are screened, interviewed and hired based on their expertise/experience with a certain technology (e.g. .NET, java, SQL, etc) At one time people were hired based on their aptitude for the job as a whole, but todays rapidly changing software industry with its ultra short cycles and overwhelming number of technologies has pushed employers to hire for a specific need they have today as opposed as looking for a candidate that has the potential to be a long term contributor to the company.

  23. How long until an AC-747? on Factory Testing of Airborne Laser Cannon Completed · · Score: 1

    I wonder if they could us the old ground based "lasing" to direct this thing to ground targets? Maybe thats what happened to the Spinal Tap drummers.