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In the end, IMO, for cities Musk et.al. will find that it is easier to tunnel through the air than the ground. The pedestrian/cyclist pods in particular are *much* lighter, and much of the infrastructure to support see-through 'air tunnels' is already in place in cities ... with few pipes and...

Makers have traditionally been slow to 'see' hardware problems. In my (last) experience with Apple (mid-2000s), they had a forum where (at least) hundreds of iMac users reported displays developing colored vertical bars in them a few months after the warranty ran out. Apple's response was to...

Newly published Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r50Un4LPTM4 I think, based on viewing the YT video, that the image shown in the article is actually a photo of the storm over India. The reds and blues in the video look quite different.

This collection of (historical) audio-format articles by Strongman is golden. Thanks for publishing them!

"They take their old passwords, they change it in some small way, and they come up with a new password." So, then, it's NOT frequent password changes that are the problem. It's the lack of training of personnel that is the problem, along with the software they're using that lets them get away...

The mission site explains that it will try to land it at half the speed of the lander. http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space ... _September

$2500 for an ultrabook? Why even bother reviewing it? Clearly a case of 'stick it to 'em' made for someone with too much money for their own good.

The way I understand it, each library is installed *once per app*. If 15 apps use it, 15 app.snaps contain the library.

Except, of course, for the TENS OF MILLIONS of us who "enjoy" bandwidth of less than 5Mbits. (At most 0.5MB per second.) You guys who live in the ivory towers and the steel&glass cocoons need to remember that. Guess how long it takes to "grab" a 1.5GB distro. Have mercy.

These machines will continue to have value for people who are running (offline) large and/or expensive collections of (possibly older) software in areas like music, video, graphics, editing, etc. Since Macs tend to hold value over time anyway, owners can expect a market for these machines.

"Ears don't lie." And the slow, mysterious-sounding plucked arpeggiation of that progression is remarkably alike in both works. On the basis of "My Sweet Lord", Zeppelin would be smart to make a deal out of court.

<i>how do we know that science knows what it knows if science is simply a construct subject to the human condition</i> Of course science is a construct. The 'world' we experience comes into our brain via our senses, and the brain constructs a model of the world based on that information...

The artists have to be convinced to make feature-length movies so that they can be chopped up into one 12- and thirteen 6-minute chunks. Cable TV needs to fit 6 or 8 commercials in between those chunks. The tasteless fucks completely ruin the narrative flow, the timing, any emotional resonances...

This is not Farnsworth versus RCA. This is two FAT FAT companies in a stupid grudge match. The CEOs of both are obnoxious fatcats. What do I care about the outcome? A pox on both their houses. ArsTechseems to think this is the Scopes Trial, and that we should all get terribly excited about it...

Because it's important to figure out how a robocar will respond to a criminal standing in front of it while another criminal points a pistol through the window. Uber drivers have nothing to worry about for a decade or two. But it's a great business tax-writeoff for Uber ... looks legit on the...

Little if any water, a very thin atmosphere with no oxygen, no fuel sources, a lot of radiation, no plants, nothing alive, temperatures that make Antarctica look balmy ... Yeah, that sounds like a great place for a $500B vacation. And no doubt the science would at least equal the value of ISS...

"Titov wasn't first because the second flight would be much longer" The space firsts were done mainly as PR moves for the Soviets. Who flew first was most certainly because of the perceived PR value of Gagarin. References to these guys - flying in the age of Elvis - as "rock stars" are entirely...

Oh wow. That's just like, universally *stupid*, man!

In the state of Washington, in a little town in Grant County called Ephrata, the residents enjoy the highest average data rates in the country. It was brought to them by county government. http://www.dailydot.com/technology/ephr ... ternet-us/ The county Utility District, unable by law to sell...

Hang 'em. Hang 'em high!