Good news... For anyone who lives in a city with coverage and never travels.

There is a further step worth taking. by adding a resistor (depends on device), the cable can signal it is a dumb charger, allowing a greater current draw if available.

Then the hacker simply swaps the hardware for updatable hardware.

Statists are uncivilized barbarians who feel their ideas are so good, they must be applied by force.

Just like it would make no sense to run cable when TV is already provided by satellite or phone lines where there is already mobile coverage.

Oh wait, that stuff happens. Maybe the main reason there aren't multiple last-mile solutions is government interference (as usual)

Yup. I would prefer if companies returned dividends rather than grow into huge behemoths but I understand why they don't (government) and to investors, it usually makes little difference (Though I think if government interference were removed, dividends would provide better value).

One could be reading for a test or pleasure or some imminent need. It probably is in how the question is asked.

They look impressive on the e-bookshelf.

Amazon is unionized? That's why the auto makers got the bailouts.

Unfortunately, when cyber Monday does come around, between them and the other retailers using their services, they often seem to have insufficient capacity. We frequently were unable to spin up new instances around that period. When you have people sitting around waiting to do work, that quickly starts to eat into any savings.

It can depend. There are reasons that bridges or underpasses cannot be put in some locations but the most likely explanation is that the bridge makers and politicians in Virginia share several of the same relatives.

How much lower? I get pretty close (around 22mpg)

You woefully underestimate the efforts that vested interests will go to to ensure that money goes into their pockets, I mean hard-working (cough) Americans can keep their jobs.

TSA is on right on that...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08...

He has the heart of a teacher.

He keeps it in a box under his bed with the other trophies.