Comment Baby on board (Score 1) 800
Maybe those annoying 'Baby on board' stickers will finally have a use?!
Comment Green wave (Score 1, Interesting) 364
I'm fairly sure in parts of the UK they implemented staggered green lights along busy stretches of road. If you accelerated modestly to the speed limit, or just below, the lights were timed to turn green as you got to them.
Those with lead feet would be accelerating hard, then waiting at the lights as you cruised by.
Comment Re:Just do it (Score 1) 197
I would kill to be able to carve out an extra five hours a week for aerobic exercise. However, that would mean giving up either my job, giving up sleep, giving up (at least) one of my hobbies, or never watching another minute of TV for the rest of my life.
Everybody is busy. It's a question of priorities. For you, exercise ranks below all of the things you mention there. For me, it ranks above TV, and it counts as a hobby. I have enough fat relatives to have a good idea of what will happen if I don't stay active, and it isn't pretty.
Exactly, as I've read elsewhere, what's more inconvenient with your schedule: working out for one hour a day or being dead 24 hours a day?
Submission + - Iranian TV shows downed US drone (bbc.co.uk)
loic_2003 writes: "Iranian TV has broadcast footage of an advanced US drone aircraft that Tehran says it brought down using electronic methods to override its controls.
The BBC's James Reynolds watched the footage and said the fact that the drone appeared undamaged provided some evidence to support Tehran's version of events.
The film was captioned "RQ170 — advanced US spy plane" and carried on the Vision of the Islamic Republic of Iran Network 1 channel."
The BBC's James Reynolds watched the footage and said the fact that the drone appeared undamaged provided some evidence to support Tehran's version of events.
The film was captioned "RQ170 — advanced US spy plane" and carried on the Vision of the Islamic Republic of Iran Network 1 channel."
Comment Re:I guess that answers my lift question (Score 1) 93
Granted it wasn't a great helmet when I did those speeds - I've upgraded to a Craft RX1 Cobra which is significantly better - staying level and not lifting, but at the end of the day you're still pushing your head through air at 180mph which is quite a lot considering a human in freefall will do ~120mph...
Comment Re:I guess that answers my lift question (Score 1) 93
err yes - let's not forget that he's totally exposed and his neck has to hold his head in place at that speed!
Try going above 130mph on a superbike, then lift your head above the cowl/fairing and see what that feels like. Having done a fair amount of mileage on the German Autobahns and Nurburgring on a superbike, I can tell you that above maybe 110mph is uncomfortable; 170mph (my fastest ever) was deeply unpleasant and only bearable for a few minutes, if that.
US Air Force Buying Another 2,200 PS3s 144
bleedingpegasus sends word that the US Air Force will be grabbing up 2,200 new PlayStation 3 consoles for research into supercomputing. They already have a cluster made from 336 of the old-style (non-Slim) consoles, which they've used for a variety of purposes, including "processing multiple radar images into higher resolution composite images (known as synthetic aperture radar image formation), high-def video processing, and 'neuromorphic computing.'" According to the Justification Review Document (DOC), "Once the hardware configuration is implemented, software code will be developed in-house for cluster implementation utilizing a Linux-based operating software."
Comment Re:Just me? (Score 1) 105
You can do it with a motorbike....
Comment Re:Do they run vista? (Score 1) 785
I'm from Jersey (not new jersey). We have a population of ~90,000 and about 11,000 guns in circulation.
We have *very* little gun crime. I've been resident for >25 years and there's not been one shooting. One guy went a bit nuts and was waving an air rifle about and half of the main town was closed off as armed police sorted him out.
It's got to be said that despite having a relatively large number of guns on the island, gun crime is absolutely minimal.
Guns are all restricted legally to Semi-auto only, but other than that you can own whatever you like - .50cal desert eagles, .50cal Barrette sniper riles, AK's, M16s SPAS12.... whatever really.
There must just be something up with the american psyche for there to be so much gun crime...
We have *very* little gun crime. I've been resident for >25 years and there's not been one shooting. One guy went a bit nuts and was waving an air rifle about and half of the main town was closed off as armed police sorted him out.
It's got to be said that despite having a relatively large number of guns on the island, gun crime is absolutely minimal.
Guns are all restricted legally to Semi-auto only, but other than that you can own whatever you like -
There must just be something up with the american psyche for there to be so much gun crime...
