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  1. Re:Can this peer-to-peer like Bittorrent on LTE Upgrade Will Let Phones Connect To Nearby Devices Without Towers · · Score: 2

    Actually what he wrote was fine; he stated there wasn't seamless coverage across the entirety of North America, not just west of the Mississippi. Suggesting that areas east of the river were also problematic despite their general higher population density.

  2. Re:Rent a Tesla for $1 on State of Iowa Tells Tesla To Cancel Its Scheduled Test Drives · · Score: 1

    A lot of places have absurdly high car rental taxes. I had to rent a car at the dallas airport and there was close to 30% tax on it

  3. Re: Oh good on Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running · · Score: 1

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki... Scroll down to see for yourself. Want to actually contribute to the discussion? While in the US it is still more common on fancier cars (land rovers at my work have it) I rented a VW Golf in the UK with it too.

  4. Re: Oh good on Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running · · Score: 3, Informative

    A lot of newer vehicles come with a "feature" that shuts the vehicle off when it comes to a stop such as at a traflic light or heavy freeway traffic.

  5. Re:I'll just let my sig do the talking on US Strikes ISIL Targets In Syria · · Score: 1

    Each Tomahawk missile costs about 1.41 million. The cost of a 16 in artillery shell is about $500. If we are going to waste money can we at least do it a little more efficiently?

  6. Re:Thugs on the DC Metro? on Washington DC To Return To Automatic Metro Trains · · Score: 1
  7. Re:This isn't scaremongering. on Scotland's Independence Vote Could Shake Up Industry · · Score: 1

    Any state can secede, but no state can secede UNILATERALLY which is an important distinction. If a state wants to secede they can't just get the approval of their own citizenry, but that of the rest of the country. The process to do this is through constitutional amendment. If the south had gone this route 150 years ago, the map would probably look a lot different today.

  8. Re:This isn't scaremongering. on Scotland's Independence Vote Could Shake Up Industry · · Score: 1

    They would have to move the capital to either the Pitcairn or Falkland Islands!

  9. Re:Been there, done that. on China Targets 2022 For Space Station Completion · · Score: 1

    No one wants to be ruled over by Llamas. They just go around spitting all over you.

  10. Re:The Nanny State Strikes again! on Text While Driving In Long Island and Have Your Phone Disabled · · Score: 1

    The overall number has increased, but the ratio has not. If anything it has gone down, the number of people who use the phone in any capacity (talking, texting, websurfing, posting on slashdot) went from 0 two decades to everyone aged 17-50.

  11. Re:The Nanny State Strikes again! on Text While Driving In Long Island and Have Your Phone Disabled · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is, nothing happened. Cell phone use (talking and texting) has skyrocketed over the last decade. The accident rates have not risen in correlation with it. People are going to be distracted while driving, regardless of the distraction. If someone is at fault in an accident, the cause of their distraction should not be the issue; they are responsible whether they were texting or eating a hamburger or talking to the person next to them. The penalties should be the same as well without regard to the actual distraction.

  12. Re:Contacting BBC, via VPN on BBC: ISPs Should Assume VPN Users Are Pirates · · Score: 1

    There's also cultural influence to consider. English being known throughout the world is more a result of Hollywood/The Internet coming out of the US than it is old British Imperialism (assuming you don't count the fact that America itself exists as a result of that). I don't think Britain is interested in being a world power again, but if they want to, increasing the influence of their culture over the rest of the world is an important part of it.

  13. Re: fuck your country USA on The Five Nigerian Gangs Behind Most Craigslist Buyer Scams · · Score: 1

    He also said 80%+ of modern/technical things.

  14. Re:fuck your country USA on The Five Nigerian Gangs Behind Most Craigslist Buyer Scams · · Score: 1

    An American or "Person in America" inventing something is not quite the same as "America invented it". If it wasn't financed/produced via the US Gov't America didn't invent it.

  15. Re:just a little bigger... on Restoring Salmon To Their Original Habitat -- With a Cannon · · Score: 1

    Randall Munroe? =p

  16. Re:Bad actors? on Airbnb To Hand Over Data On 124 Hosts To New York Attorney General · · Score: 1

    The whole thread in which I was replying to has clearly stretched from 1% of the hosts, to 1% of competition and now to 1% of market share with your previous post. I am just bringing it back around to remind people that we are talking about 1% of the Air BNB hosts not 1% of all the hotels (legal and less than legal).

  17. Re:Bad actors? on Airbnb To Hand Over Data On 124 Hosts To New York Attorney General · · Score: 2

    124 "Bed n Breakfasts" may make up 1% of the number of hosts, but that is not the same as 1% of the market share.

  18. Re:Not sure if gone on "MythBusters" Drops Kari Byron, Grant Imahara, Tory Belleci · · Score: 0

    Ancient Aliens is History Channel (A&E networks), Mythbusters is Discovery Channel (Discovery Communications)

  19. Re: Good Job NRC on Nuclear Regulator Hacked 3 Times In 3 Years · · Score: 2

    Still, their company email should probably be on an intranet.

  20. Re: Balancing skepticism on Paint Dust Covers the Upper Layer of the World's Oceans · · Score: 2

    Wooden hulls were painted as well.

  21. Re: slowly on Paint Dust Covers the Upper Layer of the World's Oceans · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or it is alarmism. Could threaten zooplankton doesn't mean it will or is likely to. Take every news story with some skepticism.

  22. Re:Strategic coverage on Japan To Launch a Military Space Force In 2019 · · Score: 1

    SDF-1

  23. Re: Pft on The Daily Harassment of Women In the Game Industry · · Score: 1

    In my experience men generally don't like to take criticism constructive or otherwise. Whether or not it comes from a woman.

  24. Re: The U.N. Finds... on UN Report Finds NSA Mass Surveillance Likely Violated Human Rights · · Score: 1

    You would be hard pressed to find a sane man arguing any genocide is good. I spoke only that from an outsider's point of view that the only war we can truly claim moral high ground in is WW2. The revolution could have been easily dealt with peacefully and while during the civil war fighting to free the slaves was noble, conquering the south to do it was not and we robbed their people of self-determination

  25. Re: The U.N. Finds... on UN Report Finds NSA Mass Surveillance Likely Violated Human Rights · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Become? Read your history. The federal govt was a force for good during a four year period 1942-45. Every other point in our history we have been bad guys. And even at our height of valor we nuked two cities.