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Comments: 3   Boeing 767 Simulator In a Bedroom on Monday December 21, @11:53AM Comments: 3

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 21, @11:53AM
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192939495969798999 writes "Here's a brief story about a man who has built a 767 simulator in his home. This simulator differs from others that I've seen by having a pretty clean, professional console and layout, and what appear to be authentic displays. According to the article it cost more than £10,000 to install."

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Comments: 4 +- Screenshot-sm   The definitive evisceration of The Phantom Menace.-> on Sunday December 20, @04:07PM cowmix

Submitted by cowmix on Sunday December 20, @04:07PM
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cowmix writes "When TPM came out ten years ago, its utter crappiness shocked me to the core and wounded a entire generation of geeks. My inner child had been abused and betrayed. I moped around, talking to no one, for almost two weeks. I couldn't bring myself to see #2 or #3, whatever they were called. Now, a decade later, comes "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Review" the ultimate seven part, seventy minute analysis of this mother of all train wrecks. Not only does it nail how the film blows, but tells us why. Time, apparently, does not heal all wounds."
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Comments: 1 +-   Boeing 767 simulator in a bedroom-> on Sunday December 20, @10:00AM 192939495969798999

Submitted by 192939495969798999 on Sunday December 20, @10:00AM
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192939495969798999 writes "A brief story about a man who has built a 767 simulator in his home. This simulator differs from others that I've seen by having a pretty clean, professional console and layout, and what appear to be authentic displays."
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Comments: 5 +-   Man Marries Video Game Character-> on Friday December 18, @02:08PM BigSes

Submitted by BigSes on Friday December 18, @02:08PM
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BigSes writes "The groom, calling himself SAL9000, married a character from the Nintendo DS game Love Plus. The bride was read her vows as she was displayed to him on the screen of his Nintendo DS. The event itself was broadcase live from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and the reception included a disco.

Soon afterwards, the new bride and groom headed off to their honeymoon in Guam. Although the groom feels as though he has reached a "major milestone" in his life, he has yet to inform his parents of the wedding."
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+-   Court pulls insurance award in sex accident claim-> on Friday December 18, @01:40PM JamJam

Submitted by JamJam on Friday December 18, @01:40PM
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JamJam writes "The Supreme Court of Canada has taken away a $200,000 insurance award made to a Vancouver man who became paralyzed after a series of medical calamities arising from him having unprotected sex. The man was "accidentally" infected with genital herpes which lead to him being totally paralyzed from his mid-abdomen down. The Supreme Court deemed this a non-accident since the man was was aware that having unprotected sex could result in him contracting a sexually transmitted disease, although he did not actually know that any of the women had genital herpes."
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+-   Music by natural selection-> on Friday December 18, @04:17AM maccallr

Submitted by maccallr on Friday December 18, @04:17AM
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maccallr writes "The DarwinTunes experiment needs you! Using an evolutionary algorithm and the ears of you the general public, we've been evolving a four bar loop that started out as pretty dismal primordial auditory soup and now after >27k ratings and 200 generations is sounding pretty good. Given that the only ingredients are sine waves, we're impressed. We got some coverage in the New Scientist CultureLab blog but now things have gone quiet and we'd really appreciate some Slashdotter idle time. We recently upped the maximum "genome size" and we think that the music is already benefiting from the change."
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+-   PhD Speaks out on Physics of Space Battles-> on Thursday December 17, @06:19AM darthvader100

Submitted by darthvader100 on Thursday December 17, @06:19AM
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darthvader100 writes "Gizmodo has run an article with some predictions on what future space battles will be like.
The author brings up several theories on propulsion(and orbits), weapons(explosives, kinetic and laser), and design.
Sounds like the ideal shape for spaceships will be spherical, like the one in the recent Hitchhiker's Guide move."
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+-   Driver stuck on cruise control for 30 minutes-> on Tuesday December 15, @06:22PM Benaiah

Submitted by Benaiah on Tuesday December 15, @06:22PM
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Benaiah writes "In something seemingly out of a Keanu Reeves movie, an Australian driver was unable to make his freeway exit when his car failed to slow down as he applied the brake. For those of you too lazy to RTFA he tried everything to stop the car including turning off the ignition but to no avail, the computer was in control. Police at one point escorted him down the wrong side of the road at 80km/h(50mp/h) until he eventually was able to stop it by bringing by repeatedly stepping on the brake pedal. Ford Australia spokeswoman Sinead McAlary said there has been a recall on that make of car but for a different reason."
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