Actually, the TSA girls in San Juan, Puerto Rico were quite decent looking.

Austin, TX - That's the only airport where I've been given a hard time for declining a virtual strip search. I just barely dodged Atlanta's TSA scanners yesterday and I was glad. I had a bit of gasoline on my hand from filling up my rental car. I didn't want the pat down swabs to test positive for "explosives."

It's under the Audio menu - Audio Device sub-menu. Select the encoded audio device.

You really need to read Drexler's Engines of Creation or Feynman's speech There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom.

The types of charges involved here have been of concern to me since the start. I normally don't go in for conspiracies, but in this case it would be ridiculously easy to pin these sorts of charges of Assange. It would just take one person with a knowledge of Swedish laws to follow Assange and see who he goes home with. Then the next step would be for that anonymous person to offer a suitcase full of untraceable cash to the woman in question -- et voila! Cry rape and Assange goes to jail.

Well, if you want humans to care for you, Japan, you just might have to accept people who don't speak or look Japanese. Get over your completely homogeneous society already!

I was a computer tech. at McMurdo from Aug. 2009 to Feb. 2010. It was a once in a lifetime experience for me. It was somewhat rough living, but it was a great time.

We're also missing flawless voice interfaces for computers and instantaneous language translation. But it's getting better!

The first time I'd heard of a zero point drive was in Arthur Clarke's 3001. While it's not his best book, he's not exactly a sci-fi slouch.

This is exactly the idea behind the spacecraft featured in Mary Doria Russell's novel, The Sparrow. It's a pretty good read. One of the better SF novels I've ever read.

I just left the US for 6 months and I'd always wanted an e-ink reader. My trip was the perfect excuse to buy one and I purchased the Hanlin V3 through astak.com. I've loaded it up with a lot of content from Project Gutenberg as well as a few pirated titles. I've only been out of the country for 6 weeks and already I've read five books...WAY more than I would have back home. Granted, some of this is due to the extra time on my hands, but I find my reader easy on the eyes for long format reading (unlike my iPhone for example) and enjoyable to use. Even if the reader crashes, it remembers where I left off. I can bookmark pages easily. The battery lasts for a month on a single charge. I can carry hundreds of books on a 1 GB SD card. So, yes pirating of books is going to be rampant, I can assure you. This will only become more widespread as tools like Inept become more widely know. If you're not sure what I'm referring to just google the term adeptkey.der.

I don't have any wisdom teeth, you insensitive clod!