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  1. Re: Other explanations on Expensive Hotels Really Do Have Faster Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    OK, that makes sense, though during busy times, I have over 500ms ping, and under 20kbps downstream, there is no youtube to be had most of the time, I'm not convinced they had much more than a T-1 over the 150 rooms or so.

  2. Re: Other explanations on Expensive Hotels Really Do Have Faster Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    I've found that MANY hotels (as of two years ago anyway) seem to only have a t-1 line (symmetrical 1.x mbps at 4am being my best speed tests).

  3. Re: How much is due to Congestion on Expensive Hotels Really Do Have Faster Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    I've found this matches my experience flying too.

    Southwest charges very little, and it's not even worth it. But us air charges 2-3x as much and is a decent value ($4/hour about on a cross country flight).

  4. Re: For comparison on Skype Blocks Customers Using OS-X 10.5.x and Earlier · · Score: 1

    Many applications do it on osx though, it's the way things tend to be.

    Cs6 for example. On the flip side, osx upgrades are quicker and cheaper.

  5. Re: Trust the Computer. The Computer is your frien on Microsoft Tip Leads To Child Porn Arrest In Pennsylvania · · Score: 1

    No, that's a different term.

    And your assumption that civilization comes from allowing basest nature to happen is I think pretty much the opposite of what civilization means.

  6. Re:Correction: T-Mobile Android Smartphones on T-Mobile Smartphones Outlast Competitors' Identical Models · · Score: 1

    Especially since the bloatware question could be answered with iPhones...

  7. Re: Good, I say on Why Morgan Stanley Is Betting That Tesla Will Kill Your Power Company · · Score: 1

    If it is, you should know, because that can be dangerous when attached to normal wiring stuff (it oxidizes with standard equipment), and just in general (it oxidizes in general too).

    I can't bend my copper wiring, but I can definitely work with it if I leave it be. Also, maybe some wires were strands like a lamp wire, I don't know, the copper anywhere I've lived has been a single thick wire, but I could see how if it was like lamp wire it could crumble with age.

  8. Re: Good, I say on Why Morgan Stanley Is Betting That Tesla Will Kill Your Power Company · · Score: 1

    Are you sure it wasn't aluminum wiring? That stuff is horrible, and happened around then briefly.

    My 100 year old knob and tube copper is completely workable.

  9. Re: Rather than Google Fiber, let's have municipal on Comcast Gives 6 Months Free Internet To Poor and Unpaid Bill Amnesty · · Score: 1

    Part of the issue is that Comcast buys laws, and many areas have a one party system at the local level, this leads to corruption and ignoring the constituents no matter which party it is.

    Sometimes there's a decent primary in those areas, other times, the party has that pretty much on lock-down too.

  10. Re: Who didn't see this coming? on How Google Handles 'Right To Be Forgotten' Requests · · Score: 1

    I actually think the court specifically decided it was not the companies job, and that they can indeed leave articles up. Because press freedom.

  11. Re: sega channel on PlayStation Now, Sony's 'Netflix For Games' -- Pros and Cons · · Score: 1

    Also closer to netflix...

  12. Re:Hands and feet? on Fooling a Mercedes Into Autonomous Driving With a Soda Can · · Score: 1

    I said a ticket risk, not an accident one.

    I'm assuming that because this system constantly requires human monitoring, the rules of a human driver apply.

    The ticket risk is a cop giving you a following too close, because it was entirely too close.

    Or was this ad with something not the same as what the production cars get?

  13. Re:Hands and feet? on Fooling a Mercedes Into Autonomous Driving With a Soda Can · · Score: 1

    I'm quite surprised the automated driving will keep that close of a following distance (less than 1 second)

    This looks like a ticket risk to me.

  14. Re:Soda can... on Fooling a Mercedes Into Autonomous Driving With a Soda Can · · Score: 1

    I'm quite surprised the automated driving will keep that close of a following distance (less than 1 second), looks like a ticket risk to me.

  15. Re:Hands and feet? on Fooling a Mercedes Into Autonomous Driving With a Soda Can · · Score: 1

    That video claims to have nearly the same sensors, but doesn't seem be at all like the system mentioned.

  16. Re:Nvidia's support of Tegra has been abysmal on $299 Android Gaming Tablet Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Does it have Play on it though?

    With Google moving the upgrades to android into services through Play, this is relevant to me.

    I'd buy this to replace my broken Nexus 7 if it had the standard software.

  17. Re: uno on London Police Placing Anti-Piracy Warning Ads On Illegal Sites · · Score: 1

    I've only seen meet local girl style fake dating site.

    If I saw Youporn, etc. I wouldn't of said what I said.

    Oh, also dick pills, and Usenet, Usenet being good, but not something that will give legitimacy to the common man.

  18. Re: Radicalization on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 1

    Then why is right of return a sticking point in negotiating the establishment of a Palestinian state?

  19. Re:NO, all candy bar on Lots Of People Really Want Slideout-Keyboard Phones: Where Are They? · · Score: 1

    Grow up and get a bag, make sure it's nice.

    Loved by ladies and men alike, and makes having random things handy so much easier (powerbanks, all of the keys, random things I want to read later, condoms, no need to limit which cards/IDs I keep with me to keep the wallet slim). Definitely worth getting rather than claiming it is somehow not for men. Note, it's brown that goes with everything, not black, when it comes to bags.

    Especially when I used to smoke it was useful.

    I actually find a jacket works well enough in the fall through winter, but purse for the summer for sure.

  20. Re:MyTouch 4G Slidw on Lots Of People Really Want Slideout-Keyboard Phones: Where Are They? · · Score: 1

    The G1 had an amazing keyboard.

    It's the only keyboard I really liked on a full screen smartphone that I've used.

    I liked the Nokia 6810 keyboard too.

  21. Re: uno on London Police Placing Anti-Piracy Warning Ads On Illegal Sites · · Score: 2

    Of course it's ads almost certainly aren't.

    What real brands are they claiming are advertised on pirate sites?

  22. Re: Radicalization on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 0

    By their own citizens?

    Trials and jailtime.

  23. Some are especially annoying on Why My LG Optimus Cellphone Is Worse Than It's Supposed To Be · · Score: 1

    For example sucky custom keyboards with slight misbehavior really upset me.

    Also, the fact taht all keyboard phones seem to be low end is frustrating too.

    Splitting internal and external storage is annoying, since a phone data dump is easy enough, and if the DRM is cracked, it'll still rpevent casual copying.

  24. Re:We've observed and created antiparticles on Cosmologists Show Negative Mass Could Exist In Our Universe · · Score: 2
  25. Re:We've observed and created antiparticles on Cosmologists Show Negative Mass Could Exist In Our Universe · · Score: 1

    And we use anti-electrons in medical imaging.