I don't know about other stuff or what's current, but back in the 1980s Southern California had basically two telcos: Pacific Bell (good service and reasonable rates), and GTE (horrible service and much higher rates). GTE, being the poor little put-upon underdog company, was given protected monopoly areas where PacBell was not *allowed* to offer telco service.

Fast-forward to the massive restructuring that eventually turned GTE into Verizon, and now Verizon enjoys the legacy of GTE's protected monopoly areas.... which they remained even tho Verizon was now the 800 pound gorilla.

Okay, since the effect is apparently speed-related -- your thought about channels underneath made me wonder if an air intake feeding a channel system could be designed to regulate that airflow according to forward speed, and therefore regulate dimpling, without the tedium and moving parts of yet another pump.

So you do it on the sides (which naturally drain), but not on the roof (which doesn't), and possibly on the undersurface (if practical). The sides are about 2/3rds of the surface area of a big truck box anyway. But per this interesting comment from an AC:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
the benefit is speed-related, and "always drives at the same speed" is an absurd assumption for a car, let alone for a big truck.

Occurs to me to wonder, tho, what happens with drag if you reverse the dimples (as one would to prevent water accumulating). Someone who actually knows, pipe up!

I'm wondering if it's more efficient only in limited speed ranges, and at other ranges actually increases drag.

But nominally-identical vehicles often get different MPG (my truck gets almost double what other supposedly identical trucks get!), and that MPG can change over time as well, so given how small the differences reported are, in this case it may be individual vehicle variance.

It should also be noted that this same military, which integrated early, is also one of the most conservative elements of society. Which should inform some folks, but probably won't.

This is what happens when no one reads the bills, let alone proofreads 'em.

Examine the pool of Slashdot users, then assume the opposite.

Democracy bombs should have been outlawed in Geneva. What a horrible thing to do to another country! It's like giving others venereal warts on purpose.
There needs to be a vaccine for democrazy.

Yes, safer would be more accurate to reach an intended target. Perhaps" farther" would be a consideration as well. Greater damage upon impact would be a nice goal of efficiency, as well.

I wonder if there are some designs for printing bullets to reload in MY guns, based on this concept. That would be awesome.
Perhaps dimpling them like a golf ball, or adding an explosive payload inside....

"The addition of fluoride to drinking water in the USA is well below the rates required for fluorosis."

            Well someone says so anyway, gosh doctors are always right aren't they. Especially the ones paid to say so. They also seem to prescribe more medicine than is necessary, that also cause more symptoms than they cure, but that facillitates prescribing more medicines. Uhm, yeah major public advancements, you can keep them to yourself, thanks. I prefer not to be a gullible dumbass.

Yeah, the war powers act has been in constant effect since Korea, since we never actually have NOT been at war with them since the 50s. No treaty has ever been signed. The government uses THIS to justify any and all things unconstitutional, like homeland security, spying on the people, or anything else that has made you say; "how can they do that?", since then. Now you know.

A right would be pointless if there were never an occasion to use it. So far the existence of the right has made an environment where its exercise has not yet been necessary.It serves the people well.

The 3rd is reflective of the times during the Revolutionary War in which the Kings troops were billeted in houses of common people who were forced to feed and shelter their oppressors. This of course will also apply to domestic troops, police, NSA, or anyone in government. It was a concern once, who is to say it couldn't be in the future as well. Like I say, the right creates an environment.

I personally like living in a place where I can say what I choose, right or wrong, to anyone, anytime without fear of repercussions based on their office, class, religion, ethnicity and if there is; I can sue the pants off them in court and make a public spectacle of them. I notice this right gets plenty of exercise.

Open carry of weapons has always been around, but seldom used. Rural places have farmers that will carry a pistol on their hip, now and then,(like an old uncle or two of mine, and my grandfather as well) to ward off rattlesnakes, skunks, badgers or the neighbors illegal Mexican farmhands burgling outbuildings, neighbors dog raiding the chickenhouse,( all of which actually occurred) etc. I can recall seeing one walk into the bank to do business, without raising anyones eyebrows, with a revolver on his hip. Today, with concealed carry and the training that accompanies it, I hear many MORE tales of those defending their selves, family and property, successfully. Occasionally I will hear of misadventures, but then, if you license a nation to drive, you will occasionally have collisions, so what?

If you actually use logic on the situation, the nuts are those who would deny people the right to defend themselves and their families. There is NO defense for this stance that doesn't arise from selfish fear placed in their heads by the ignorant. The state is incapable of providing police protection around the clock to everyone. Notice the police show up AFTER a crime has been commited, not before. Guns are an important part of a life in pursuit of happiness like a set of wrenches is an important part of doing maintenance on your car. Further, the intention of the right exists, should the people ever need to take back control of their Constitutional government, no matter what government licensed lawyers my lie about. THAT, is the reason the issue gets ANY attention at all in D.C.

A lot of the shelters are downright evil, though, especially the religious ones. A lot of them really push religion hard, and some of them won't help you if you don't spend an hour in church or whatever. Get 'em while they're vulnerable, then do just enough to make sure they receive your message.

The FBI isn't yet aware of the NSAs little brown submarine drones that listen in on FBI scuttlebutt in the loo.
Periscope UP! Only assholes in here captain.

HINT: When faced with the facts, a couple of years ago, that his own arguments did not hold water, and that nobody had successfully refuted Latour, his reply to me was "they will". Which, if you understand English, is an admission of defeat.

It is 2 years or so later now, and they still haven't. Dr. Roy Spencer (himself a self-proclaimed climate skeptic) and Anthony Watts (also a climate skeptic) both tried to disprove him experimentally, and both failed. And nobody has pointed out any genuine errors in Latour's math or logic.