I-80 in Pennsylvania is posted at 65 mph, yet trucks routinely travel at 80+ mph on it. It makes one think that the drivers are confusing the route markers for speed limit signs. Even during heavy snow storms they're still going plaid.

What independence? Hulu is owned by NBCUniversal, which is majority owned by Comcast. So they're not buckling per se, nor is there any independence to be tainted, just one more example of Comcast's unending greed.

Step 23: Swim across the Marianas Trench.

Step 33: Swim across the Atlantic Ocean -- 3,462 miles.

I dread to think what Grace Hopper looked like.

Clams may have beards too, y'know.

Seven modifier keys. Seven.

I've always wondered what kind of moderation would result if one pressed Hyper-Super-Meta-ThumbsUp while clicking the Moderate button here on Slashdot.

FTA:

James M. Taylor is senior fellow for environment policy at The Heartland Institute and managing editor of Environment & Climate News.

Re. Heartland:

About us:
Heartland's mission is to discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems. Such solutions include parental choice in education, choice and personal responsibility in health care, market-based approaches to environmental protection, privatization of public services, and deregulation in areas where property rights and markets do a better job than government bureaucracies.

In other words, Heartland is a mouthpiece for the Tea Party.

I'd rather they bundled GORILLA.BAS, perfectly appropriate for a company that's chucking itself into oblivion.

But think of the tasty space maguro sashimi!

It's a neat article, as usual with Neal, and the ending is odd, also usual with Neal.

Fixed that for you.

Even more strange, one of the pictures in the article clearly shows the SanDisk 16GB SSD drive. Perhaps the meaning of "unknown" is being redefined.

Dell has been including DisplayPort in some (all?) of their newer models, both desktop and laptops. My Dell Precision M4400 has a DisplayPort on the back, but I end up using the VGA port on the side instead to watch Hulu on my TV. Their OptiPlex desktops and Latitude laptops are now also equipped with it.

There are VGA-to-DVI cables and adapters out there. It's what the video conference system at my work uses to connect VGA devices to its DVI secondary input. They have to be available by design, since DVI supports both analog (VGA) and digital signals on the same connector.

Hang gliders have already solved the landing problem, and it's exactly as you described. Their advantage there, though, is that their wings are large, and their speeds are low, specially at stall. Rossi's wing is small, so he needs to fly fast just to keep from stalling. He'd need to develop something to provide extra lift at low speeds, like, say, trailing-edge flaps.

At least RIM (notice I'm not mentioning Apple here) added applications... to a cellphone!

Actually, RIM added a cellphone to their Mobitex-based two-way pager. Many of the Blackberry's features (and apps) were already present at that time, however I can't recall if the old pagers allowed users to install custom apps.

They could set up an infrared camera...

Damn engineers and their overcomplicated solutions. Why can't people just look for where the smoke and smell of charred human flesh is coming from?