all electric motorcylces have already beaten the 7 second mark at over 200mph http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_drag_racing

If you are so keen on uptime to reboot only twice a year then you should be particularly interested in boot time, shortening the boot time could push you from 3 nines to 4!

im all for giving a placebo to people where appropriate, they have been shown to be a powerful cure-all. However using antibiotics to treat a viral infection is only going to hasten antibiotic immunity, sure a doctor should know better than that.

Also, does this mean that pharmacists keep a stock of placebos?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ipv6+spoofing

http://xkcd.com/927/

maybe im missing something, but unless this update is going to make it sprout wings, why does it need flight software when it's already landed

I've wondered what F1 would be like without all the restrictions. Modifying humans to this extreme is probably going to have unforeseen consequences in the long term. However with F1, if you were to take out the human element and have AI or remote control, you needn't worry about human safety and could lift all sorts of restrictions, allowing R+D budgets to be spent on whole new automotive areas.

sounds in principle like a fairly simple solution. Put together a separate histogram of the scores by each reviewer. From this you can estimate what an average score really is and how many standard deviations an individual score is above or below. The meta-score then becomes the average number of sigma's the game is above or below the various averages. If necessary this score can be sanitised to something easier to read for those less familiar with Gaussian statistics

scrap that, wrong thread, ignore me

that was I, just noticed I wasn't logged in.

The lubrication in skiing comes from a thin layer of the snow beneath the ski melting, it's the water lubricating you. Im going to assume that thise CO2 is still subliming on mars since liquid CO2 requires atleast 5atm of pressure. Therefore no lubrication even if liquid CO2 acts as a lubricant (does it?). At very low temperatures snow actually becomes incredibly hard to ski on because that thin layer no longer melts

You mean it can run linux?

with eggs and bacon

as said in the OP, details in TFA suggests resolution is hundreds of nanometers. If NASA/ESA came up with a picture of the moons surface with half kilometer resolution, you wouldn't call it meter scale