We hit the technological singularity about a decade ago. There is no more tech news. How many truly nerd stories come out? Six months of weekly stories on the latest comic book movie? "New" technology that is repackaged stuff that's been around since the 90's? A find of a new exoplanet, black hole or dinosaur bone? What else is there? Most posts here now are either political or security hence politically related.

-- James Burke (Science Historian)

Wow, the quality of slashdot comments has really declined over the years. Reposting the same canned responses as I can find on any other newsite.

Poo-tee-weet

getting my EE in college. Thanks Steve!

Logged in to make this comment. People have been doing this for a long while. Over at http://www.cnczone.com/ you can find dozens of people who've built their own machines as well as links any and all material that you might need to buy. And they build all types of machines from 8-axis titanium milling to 2-axis wood routers. It's a fairly big hobbyist industry.

but I need two earths now.

Bandwidth is not the same as latency. If I push though 1Mb in 1ms and the other 999ms nothing, it can be quite different than 1kb every 1ms. Both users see data throughput of 1Mb/s, the former would experience unacceptable details for gaming.

that I attended for DigitalTV, the claim was made that studies indicated in the US viewers were more concerned with sound and audio whereas in Japan these preferences were reversed.

Best security system available. At least according to an insurance adjuster relative who told me that security systems don't work. Plus you can have a wonderful companion and maybe even save a life,

Is that even possible? Fuel:battery energy density ratios with efficiency added in are in the neighborhood of 50-100:1.

I think it was Feynman who said something like