> I'm not, but Slashdot gave me a little checkbox to hide the ads anyway :)

Don'tcha love that?

Current US DOT regulations limit the weight of tractor-trailers. They, typically, haul loads in the neighborhood of 25 tons. Just an FYI. I'm sure the volume would be different (approximately 90 cubic meters) but the weight is the one statistic that they are sticklers about.

In most third world countries the primary cause of death is infectious disease and in most developed countries it is heart disease. In China it is cancer.

I'm not sure if you know this, but China has so many people they don't know what to do with them. They won't even let you have babies! Given China's record on treating people nicely, I'm sure plenty of them will get the "Take two aspirin. Don't call in the morning," treatment.

Cancer is a good thing, as far as China's leadership is concerned.

Imagine Street View rendered in the direction you are holding your phone, from your position. With all the goodies that that 3D map that someone was building a while back (and sure could be ongoing) plus a live application of the algorithm from Canoma and similar applications, you could have a pretty interesting "virtual" world. Another benefit would be that while using the application, you could be aiding the mapping backend with live GPS to refine the map and the 3D model on top of it.

24 hours? I want it now!!

Read The Illuminatis Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson (0-440-53981-1).

Management goes all the way to to top, and the top is way the hell up there, out of our perception.

Hail Eris!

I find it interesting that there are two encodings for STOP, as well.