Well, I did that once with a bottle of liquid nitrogen from Airco and a superconductor I bought from Edmund Scientific. This was before there was a Slashdot. So, no, not impressive.

Before someone makes a working hoverboard, we will first hear about the principle that makes it possible. Because one that's practical is almost guaranteed to get someone a Nobel Prize. And certainly Lexus would go for that if they could.

No new principles lately. There is an existing principle of magnetic repulsion that would work only in an extreme condition. One requiring really special stuff buried in the street, and probably including liquid nitrogen to keep it working for even a short time and a few feet.

So, it's a gimmick.

"I have to give this book one star because I ordered it and it never arrived on time even though Amazon said it left the facility six days before it was supposed to get here!"

"This book is typical LIBTARD crap and if you buy it you're a stupid egghead."

"I haven't read a book in five years so when this book came out I decided to buy it. This isn't the book I thought I was ordering, this is crap written by a different guy with a similar name! Buyer beware!"

Is it really that hard to get a computer to pick these out?

I'd add Vista and 8/8.1 to that. 7 is not that bad, but XP was faster on same hardware. ME? only thing it had for it it rebooted really fast after bluescreening :p

Are you a subscriber to either Verizon Wireless or AT&T? They're about the only ones wanting to go that path - and remain on it.

On the other hand, Sprint and T-Mobile will at least offer non/very-lightly metered data plans. With them, sanity prevails.

If you want anything close to unlimited (without a legacy plan), Sprint and T-Mobile are your only options.

After letting the Chinese walk out with everything from Nortel, Huawei now exists a PRC government-backed entity.

When you cut corners with the very people responsible for your IT infrastructure, things like this will happen. Treat them well, even hire them directly, things like this tend not to happen.

Unfortunately, the UK is rife with this kind of corner-cutting.

How about recognizing that if a product isn't perfect, that criticism is valid? That handwave doesn't work.

But the food industry has a vested interest in feeding you crap:

The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food

If everyone ate fruits, veggies, and lean meat, then how can they sell you overpriced sugary crap?

Hey, I hang out with a lot of creative people. Not Elon Musk, but Steve Jobs for more than a decade, and lots of people at least as smart that you don't know. They can be really brilliant, and successful, and they can still make really stupid mistakes and sell them to the rest of us pretty well because they believe in themselves completely and they have a track record. I've done that too.

That's the hyperloop. Something Elon never meant to stand behind (and still really isn't), just put out there to torpedo a worthy project that he didn't believe in.

Anyone who looks at the hyperloop design can see it's not a no-brainer. It has safety issues up the wazoo :-) It's going to take a long time to get right.

Meanwhile, little Switzerland can have incredible trains everywhere and the United States can't get it together, and unlike with rockets and cars Elon's not helping this time. And I am not sure that the "lease" part of his solar business is a great thing for the world either.

Although the hyperloop is possible and might even be practical someday, let's please be honest about the reason it was created. Elon Musk just wanted to kill the California high-speed rail.

That might have been OK if there was a hope that we could actually replace it practically with a hyperloop. But given the history of bleeding-edge rail - ride any maglevs lately? We haven't even had much success with monorails outside of theme parks and Las Vegas - we don't really have any working system to replace high-speed rail. Hyperloop should really be called "Pipes that carry People" and we need decades of work on it before considering intercity lines.