News for nerds? Stuff that matters? Taking a press release off a website that already copied it from another website is now 'news that matters'? It wouldn't be so bad if it weren't so obviously biased either. We're going to ignore the 100 mile all electric Ford Focus coming in late 2011, right? The Fiesta? Hell, how about mention of the Volt in there too, and the upcoming Tesla Sedan? But don't worry. We already know that only the Japanese can build and make cars.

Really? That's interesting. I must have missed the pictures where Americans grow their strawberrys on shelves like that, in climate controlled automatically ferilized and watered greenhouses, etc etc etc. I think, perhaps, we might do well to understand what is driving them to that rather expensive farming method: lack of space. That forces them into a tiered shelving system indoor that is already significantly automated and is ideal for a delicate robot vision / automation system that could move along rails. Then we can compare that to our system of doing it in nice, dirty fields with uneven ground, where the strawberries are not hanging from pretty shelves but must be located under and behind foilage and picked. I applaud your optimism, but this is really not much of an innovation considering we've been using vision systems for the same sort of things in mass production for the last 20 years. We're not to the point of flying cars just yet.

You don't seem to get it.

Broadcasting information in the clear leaves it open to everyone. It's really no different than having a radio station and being surprised people tune in, or having a conversation on a crowded elevator and being upset that someone overheard you.

While a lock on a house is very easy to pick, it serves it's purpose. It keeps honest people honest. Frankly, people who want to get into your house are going to get in quite easily, regardless of your locks. Windows tend to do that.

Broadcasting in the clear is, effectively, leaving the door wide open. In fact, with firesheep, it's tantamount to posting a sign saying "door unlocked, no one home". Your anger would be far better directed at the websites who choose to doing NOTHING with regards to storing information in cookies.

Take that a step further. Frankly, people who allow web browsers to store information (history, cookies, and worse passwords and form information) shouldn't be surprised that people turn up with it. Stop leaving your doors unlocked.

Why would I switch to SSD? I've had 1 drive go bad in my lifetime. They've lasted in some cases 20+ years. Plus they are cheaper. Why would I bother buying SSD's when they have a known failure point at after given number of writes?

This is very much like the blue-ray issue. It's not surprising folks aren't interested in jumping on board because, frankly, there is no real reason to run out and BUY it.

CD's and DVD's had huge adoption because you saw a large improvement on your existing hardware. Bluerays required a new TV to see that improvement - and it was a very expensive TV at the time.

Once people have purchased new TV's (it will probably take another 5-10 years for the older TV's to all fail so that the mom and pops of the world HAVE to go buy a new one) blue-rays will have come way down in price and they'll finally replace the DVD.

Likewise the SSD. I'm sure many other folks are as tired as I am regarding these silly... strike that... STUPID press releases trying to push their sale.

They will be bought when there is a need. There is none at this point, except in very specific applications, like the high-vibration atmosphere at manufacturing plants.

Shame on Slashdot's editors for continuing to run this hokey marketing BS, and shame on the people who continue to send articles like this. It's quite silly, frankly.

How DARE they tell you what to do with a car they own! What right do they have!

Other outrages include:
1. Posting speed limits that you must follow
2. Impounding cars for unpaid tickets
3. Stopping reckless drivers

Hey... once you discover spelling, capitalization and punctuation, why don't you see if you can find some common sense too?

People make a big deal about the community, but I think you need to ask yourself something. What percentage of the sales go that "community"? I'd wager you see a couple thousand sales, or maybe a 10-20 thousand sales in a popular game that actually end up in the hands of someone who actively posts on-line and wants to mod or develop for a game. How many millions are sold to the public? So where would YOU, were you to run a company, put the emphasis? On programming another game to sell to the millions, or on developing additional tools and content for the thousands?

Thanks for rehashing basically the entire debate.

However, there's one hitch. They've already done this out on the salt flats with an actual person in the vehicle, and done it dozens of times in front of hundreds of people. No tricks, a very simple mechanism. It isn't perpetual motion any more than a DN Iceboat that can go insane speeds of 70+ mph in a breeze of 20 - downwind.

In addition, you'll find hundreds of pages of discussion on sailing websites. Specifically here:
http://forums.sailinganarchy.com/index.php?showtopic=82175

The engineers who put that machine together are there. I've talked with them dozens of times and they've explained literally every step of their process. You'll find no end of skeptics - right up until the point where they start posting videos of them actually doing it. There's nothing secret here, they'll explain it right down to the nuts and bolts so you can build your own scale model to prove it to yourself, on a treadmill or in the real world.

This isn't perpetual motion. It's elegant engineering. There have been boats in the water developing this same concept (though they can't go dead down wind yet) for a long long time.

http://www.navagear.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/windowslivewriterwindturbinepoweredsailboat-1270awindmill-boat-thumb51.jpg

http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/attachments/projects-proposals/13565d1180209267-windmill-wind-turbine-powered-boats-how-many-out-there-they-viable-vertical_windmill_catamaran.jpg

Their main issue with going DDW is the losses incurred because of the friction with the water. The ground (or even ice) is far less lossy in transferring the power from the wind-driven motion back to the vehicle.

#1 Every network, and every webpage, from facebook to the smallest server and forum is owned by someone. #2 Because every medium of expression on the internet is owned by someone, there isn't one of them that is truly free. #3 Freedom of expression on the internet is a myth. If it offends someone, and that person can make a stink about it, your 'free speech' can and will be removed. You have no freedom of speech on the internet. Unless you're comment on government forums. Which are also moderated heavily.

Wow.

I sure hope you NEVER complain about the number of lawyers in this country, because you just highlighted exactly why so many of them have jobs.

Hogan and Warner knowingly broke quite a few laws, and you're suggesting they use every avenue to stonewall the police instead of doing the right thing and turning the evidence and themselves in. It was a very smart move on the father's part to let the police in. Why we he want to appear complicit in this idiots crime? I know if the police showed up at my house about my kid, I'd roll out the red carpet for them so they can do their job.

Son? You fucked up. Time to pay the piper. Here's the police.

It looks like at least some parents (and people) still know how to act in this world. I can't say you're one of them.

Frankly, I'd love it if my co-workers weren't allowed to talk.