Recent content by jalt

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    Restaurant Replaces Paper-Based Menus with iPads

    Wow, 40k and all he has to show for it are 4 iPads and 11 on the way (not sure if those 11 are paid for yet.) What a waste. I love the idea, sounds cool, but that's way too much to pay. Could have waited a year or two and let someone else pave the way. Now the guy that developed the App will...
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    YEE Dual-Mode Car Navigates Roads and the Air

    Looks like somebody stumbled upon a Rendering test, rather than a concept flying car. There's so much wrong with this, beginning with the fact the 3 designers are all industrial engineers with automotive training. I like concepts as much as the next guy, but how about screening these things for...
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    The USB Drive for Lazy People

    SilmarunyaNot very useful... And how many people store porn on a flash drive? ...guys that don't want evidence on their hard drive, guys that picked up a thumb drive off their bosses' desk with his fingerprints on it, ....
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    Man Pleads Guilty Selling Fake Chips to Navy

    chainsaw667 Why does the Navy not buy direct from the manufacturer, what is the fascination we have with middle-men? Probably because the manufacturer didn't bid. They almost never do. They like to sell mass quantities on their standard terms. There is just too much red tape and too many...
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    Large Hadron Collider Hit By French Bread Bomb

    maigoScientists are stupid, really really stupidSure they build 'dump caverns' in case something goes wrong, but building a shack or something around sensitive equipment... they didn't even THINK of that. I bet there's only one working bathroom in the place. Yep, it's on the surface, with the...
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    Delta Accused of Hacking Passenger's PC

    Money, gang, money. We are kept in the plane because Airlines are charged for the time a plane spends at the gate. Once they push the plane away, the cash register is closed. It costs money to pull the plane back in. It'll take regs to fix that.