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  1. Re:Not Actually $3500 on Tesla's Household Battery: Costs, Prices, and Tradeoffs · · Score: 5, Informative

    This guy copy-pasted his entire review from Gizmodo.

    He's a plaigerist, not a technologist.

    he's listed as the author on Gizmodo...

  2. Re:Would French not have worked? on Paramedics Use Google Translate While Delivering Baby · · Score: 1

    French would have been the more sensible option, but I heard quite a lot of Swahili in markets in RC at least. Maybe she thought it would have a better chance of being understood? From what I understand, giving birth is a little, um, uncomfortable, and you might not think completely straight at the time...

  3. Re:Monitor the Airwaves on Drones Used To Smuggle Drugs Into Prison · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Who needs to communicate with a drone once on its way? GPS waypoints - make sure it gets off the ground and go on your merry way. Let it land next to a school for some kid to experiment with later (or enjoy the show as it get chased down). $750 if you don't want to do DIY: http://3drobotics.com/2013/08/...

  4. Re:It's about time. on Death Hovers Politely For Americans' Swipe-and-Sign Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    Here's a question for the chip and pin people: how do you make online purchases? Do you have to give them your pin? Or is there no difference in online buying? Since a lot of fraud comes from online buying, how does chip and pin solve the fraud problem?

    For me at least, there's no major difference with credit card payments. If I use my EMEA issued chip and pin CC, I just have to go through the Verified by Visa process (which sometimes comes up with my US CC as well). If I pay online with my EMEA debit, it's a major process - equivalent to logging in to my bank account, which requires a full secondary authentication (second smart card via USB dongle, enter separate PIN there, then another password on the site for access). However, the hassle means I usually just use the CC instead. I have to say, that when resident in the US, I never paid online with debit due to the liability differences. And the current US banks with chip based CC have it all wrong - looking forward to real chip and pin.