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Comment As a start (Score 1) 186

As a start, Toyota should first start with developing a technology to allow the tires to rise above the surface of the pavement just a few millimeters when the road is wet. This would give many of the same performance characteristics that you'd get with a hover car, but it'd be much easier to achieve.

Submission + - VA Supreme Court Issues Ruling in Global Warming FOIA Case

RoccamOccam writes: Unpublished data and records collected by university scientists is exempt from the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled, rejecting a request for former U-Va. professor Michael Mann's (of Hockey Stick fame) unpublished data.

Lawyers for U-Va. turned over about 1,000 documents , but withheld another 12,000 papers and e-mails, saying that work 'of a propriety nature' was exempt under the state’s FOIA law.

About the ruling, David Schnare, attorney for the plaintiff, said '[the Court] accepted U-Va.’s unsubstantiated fears that release of the e-mails would significantly chill intellectual debate and on that basis allowed U-Va. to continue to operate under a veil of secrecy that the citizens may not penetrate.'

Comment Re:Wake me up when any flavor of OO has outline mo (Score 1) 285

Sure. You can collapse sections and then move them (and all of the contained text and subsections) to anywhere in the document. In addition, you can easily promote and demote sections and the indentation and numbering get adjusted automatically. Paragraph styles are used (e.g., heading 1, heading 2) and those are updated to reflect the changes.

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