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  1. Re:frequency band? on UK Finally Gets 4G Networking · · Score: 1

    Is this post wrong, then?

    http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3109345&cid=41299395

    The 1800 MHz Band is one of the three bands that Europe is standardizing on: 800, 1800 and 2600MHz. Deutsche Telekom/T-Mobile is for example currently roling out a 1800 MHz network in 100 cities in Germany. Basically all LTE smartphones now headed for the European market support 800/1800/2600 MHz.

  2. Re:10x the population on Election Tech: In Canada, They Actually Count the Votes · · Score: 1

    That is how it is in Texas, currently (minus the signature.) You can (for free) sign up for an voter registration card while getting a licence, online, or at several other offices.

  3. Re:official CDC/National Park Service/WHO links on Yosemite Expands Scope of Hantavirus Warning: More than 20,000 At Risk · · Score: 1

    Fox News did not give that number, either.

    The warning was expanded to roughly 12,000 additional visitors to the park's more remote High Sierra Camps, after an eighth case of the illness was confirmed in a man who had stayed in tent cabins at three of those camp

    http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/09/07/yosemite-extends-hantavirus-warning-death-toll-rises/

  4. Re:Go to California for vacation? on Yosemite Expands Scope of Hantavirus Warning: More than 20,000 At Risk · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Yellowstone is beutiful. I went there a few yeard sgo when my brother moved from San Antonio to Bozeman. Last year, we drove through it to the Grand Tetons.

    When I retire, I would love to live out my summers there.

  5. Re:10x the population on Election Tech: In Canada, They Actually Count the Votes · · Score: 1

    Did you have as much drame setting up a voter ID system as we do in the states or was it always that way?

  6. Re:So? on For Android Users, 2012 Is Still the Year of Gingerbread · · Score: 2

    Another big problem is closed drivers. That is what is preventing my evo 4g and nook color from upgrading

    I can upgreade to icecream and jellybean for the evo 4g but then I loose 4g and video acceleration (netflix.) Same video problem with the nook. This is not the devolpers fault - in fact it is amazing how well they are doing porting new versions.

  7. Re:Whoop-dee-doo on PSVita Hacked, Native Homebrew Loader Coming Soon · · Score: 2

    A lot of features are still being ported

    http://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/

    The latest release was July 25th, 2012

  8. Re:Here be no surprises on Obama and Romney Respond To ScienceDebate.org Questionnaire · · Score: 1

    He was able to afford to go to Kenya and Indonesia before he was 22. I don;t know many people that could even afford that plane trip

  9. Re:Here be no surprises on Obama and Romney Respond To ScienceDebate.org Questionnaire · · Score: 1

    Anyone that has more than 1M of net worth has no connection to normal human beings. So both candidates are out if that is the metric you are using.

  10. Re:No on Do We Need a Longer School Year? · · Score: 1

    The class sizes are still smaller than they were when I was in school. The education level has not improved with those smaller classes (I know because I help my daughter with her homework and see what they teach in school.)

  11. Re:Wireless has congestion on The Danger In Exempting Wireless From Net Neutrality · · Score: 2

    So if they made less of a profit, it would be ok? I am trying to follow your logic here.

    At what point is the profit to much? I am assuming that you know that the profit is just sitting still somewhere and not being used in R&D, wages, infrastructure, rainy day fund, etc

  12. Re:Hey! on Ale To the Chief: White House Releases Beer Recipe · · Score: 1

    This would be a great time for the two candidates to sit down over a beer and talk... oh. Wait. He's a Morman. Oh well. I guess he can drink weak tea. Wait. Sorry. Can't have that either. Caffeine. I guess there's always caffeine free diet Pepsi.

    It's funny talking about other people's cultural and religious differences. I actually hope these Mormon attacks continue so we can bring attention back to Reverend Wright.

  13. Re:Wow on Ask Slashdot: Best *nix Distro For a Dynamic File Server? · · Score: 1

    Same here. My questions were usually either answered or ignored. Very rarely did I receive rude responses. And when I look at my old posts, I probably deserved a lot more rudeness than I ever got.

  14. Re:Look at ninety percent of the effort towards go on Republican Platform To Include Internet Freedom Plank · · Score: -1, Troll

    while including language that puts the police state in your bedroom isn't exactly what I would call a fair trade.

    The republicans are not the ones trying to mandate whether contraceptives have to be covered. That was the democrats. The republicans are not the ones trying to get the government involved in all marriages. The republicans are not the ones trying to destroy religious freedom.

  15. Re:Science?!? on A Call For Science Policy Debate Among Presidential Candidates · · Score: 2

    Really? And just how many scientists do that? I'm sure you can come up with the standard examples (Hubble, Penrose) but since you have tarred the majority of scientists with that brush, time to back it up, I want to know the percentage of scientists whoa assume they are experts in fields not related to their area of expertise.

    Kind of like how you tarred engineers with one brush?
    http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3064031&cid=41080885

  16. Re:We no longer regulate ads and mail order produc on Should Medical Apps Be Regulated? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We are on our way to regulating everything, anyways.

    I can't even be astonished by new cries for regulation. It is a very sorry world we are creating. We push aside religion for being too invasive and controlling and then ask the government to be even more invasive and controlling than the religion could ever hope to be.

  17. Re:Kevorkian Panels. on Near-universal Mexican Healthcare Coverage Results From Science-informed Changes · · Score: 2

    The Mexican drug cartel wipes out the poorer villages. Does that count?

  18. Re:Stepford Babies on Genetically Engineering Babies a Moral Obligation, Says Ethicist · · Score: 1

    didn't the Nazis try this a few years back ??

    mainly to justify a war which was waged to bring the US economy out of recession and suppress the two most potent economic competitors.

    I just want to be clear on this, you are saying that the US waged World War II to two most potent economic competitors?

    If so, do you realize the timeline of that war?

    Also, I don't believe eugenics was a major propaganda piece during the war for the allies. In fact, it seems that it was the germans that used it during the war
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_propaganda

  19. Re:Don't be so naive on Genetically Engineering Babies a Moral Obligation, Says Ethicist · · Score: 1

    You just made my point without realizing it. The posts here aren't anti-Jim Carrey. They are Anti-Abuse-of-Power. That being said, Jim Carrey has a great deal of power, because he is rich. The fact that he doesn't abuse it further proves my point. Thanks for playing, though.

    This whole discussion could have been avoided if the original poster would have wrote "Who enforces that line for the powerful."

    He didn't so BeanThere comment was appropriate.

  20. Re:Let's be honest, we do this already on Genetically Engineering Babies a Moral Obligation, Says Ethicist · · Score: 1

    I find that insulting.

    I did not pick my wife based on the type of babies she would produce. I picked her based on her personality. Looks are certainly important, but not lasting and certainly not the reason I would pick a wife.

    Based on what you wrote, I would have rejected her as a "mate" - I hate that word even if it is technically accurate - since she has MS and comes from a family of diabetes and heart problems (my family has these same traits.)

    My wife is due in March of next year for our 3rd child and hopefully we will have even more after that.

  21. Renege on a deal with the State of Illinois? on Google Seeks US Ban On iPhones, iPads, Macs · · Score: 1

    I read the linked article. I don't see anywhere in it where it talks about a deal being reneged on. I only saw they they were going to loose some of their tax breaks.

  22. Re:Well... on Google Seeks US Ban On iPhones, iPads, Macs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's possible that the goal of this is to force patent reform.

    Now we will see how well MAD works when someone stops bluffing

  23. Re:Oh, the delicious irony! on Ecuador Grants Asylum To Julian Assange · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Oh, the delicious irony! on Ecuador Grants Asylum To Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    everyone is entitled to their opinion, but failing to disclose being an operative for one of the parties will certainly impact others' opinion of your trustworthiness when that connection comes to light. It's fairly common for people involved to comment around here, but it is customary to throw a little Disclaimer at the end or beginning of the post so it won't look like you were trying to hide something when someone makes the connection.

    The other posters found out where he works and what his job is because he links to it in his user info that is on the top of his post. He is not exactly hiding it.

  25. Re:Revenue Stream on Verizon Bases $5 Fee To Not Publish Your Phone Number On 'Systems and IT' Costs · · Score: 1

    You're right. I missed that.