He died on the Jewish passover day, a known date. He lived to 33-1/2 years old. That would put his date of birth about the first week in October.

So it's a convertible? I didn't know that. Give that man a cigar!

My 1992 Holden Commodore has a Cd of 0.31 so what's all this 0.36 stuff? Bob Pease would be turning in his grave.

Australian Holden cars from 1971-1978 had a low tech solution to the blind spot problem at the front - the A pillar, though deep, was made narrower than the distance between the average pair of pupils. That way you only ever had at most one eye blocked. Very crashworthy cars for their day too. http://www.australiastoughestc... https://www.google.com.au/sear...

That computer really was an earthshaking milestone, as the video clearly shows.

When my time comes I hope they provide a (then) retro version of Slashdot.

Like a cow on a milking machine.

The article summary says "I believe that the CSS code we write today will be readable by computers 500 years from now." Yet at the bottom of the Slashdot main page it says "All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin"

I'm with you. Nowadays I run XP SP2 as it comes off the CD with zero updates and no network or internet access in VirtualBox on Mint 17 for the occasions I must. (COM port behaviour with Wine can be iffy.) SSD and 16 Gigs of ram and it boogies. SP2 to SP3 made the wheels fall off.

Insurance policy for the human race? If the human race is so destructive of its environment and self and pretty much everything else it comes in contact with, 1/ why is that not simply going to happen again on Mars? 2/ If history is any indicator, does the human race warrant being preserved? An alien civilisation would view us as a cancerous blot on the universe.

I can only drink spherical litres, you insensitive clod.

Good example of that is when Japan lost WW2 and the people came to realise that the emperor was NOT the invincible descendant of the Shinto sun god. For many it was a great dissapointment and they kinda fell into a hole for a while. Many replaced this devotion to a religious emporer figure with devotion to a secular job. Japan then rose and rose.

Sorry, make that 2,000,000 km. But you get the idea.

I wonder how they reconcile their Eco-green mentality with organising an event that encourages 100,000 people to drive their cars maybe 20,000,000 kilometres to attend.

So when are we going to see driverless F1 cars?