They do. The Airbus A380 has exterior view cameras. Not everywhere (it's not practical to do that) but in places where there's something to gain.

You do exactly like you do with your exterior mirrors right now - wipe the dirt off.

The US certainly did annex Texas, though.

The Falklands never belonged to Argentina. The first landing and claim on the Falklands was British. The Spanish name for the Falklands (Las Malvinas) isn't even Spanish in origin - it's French (derived from the city St Malo). By Sean Penn's argument, the Falklands are very much definitely British since they laid the first claim (and subsequent claim was by the French, who gave it to Spain. Later on, Argentina tried to take it and failed, then the British came and re-asserted their rule. It's from this that the Argentinians erroneously think that the Falklands are theirs).

In any case not a single Argentinian lives in the Falklands, they are all British, speak English and drive on the left. They have the right to self determination, and wish to remain British. Even the Argentinians can see that so they deny the population's right to self determination so as to continue their claim.

Websites should be seen AND NOT HEARD.

I've got no problem with there being an audio version of the story. However, I do have a problem with it being an AUTOPLAYING audio version of the story. Due to autoplaying audio and video (one an ad a while back on Slashdot which would periodically make the sound of a slamming door!), the audio is permanently muted on my work workstation.

I hope the autoplaying sound was just an April fool's joke. If not it's incredibly badly thought out, given the number of people who read Slashdot where they don't want suddenly a bunch of sound coming out their computer.

No, I don't think so (Bitcoin has already been in the mainstream media for months). Take a look at this chart, I'm pretty sure we're actually in the bull trap right now, and Bitcoin still has a long way to fall:

http://www.portfolioprobe.com/...

No. Now is NOT the time to get in, we're currently in the bull trap after the peak on this chart:

http://www.portfolioprobe.com/...

Bitcoin has gone through all the classic stages of a bubble so far. I would not be in the least bit surprised if it ends up falling back to around $5.

The problem is Bitcoin is so volatile its price can change enough that selling for a nice price can turn into selling for a loss in the time it took for the transaction to be confirmed.

Nope. All those long pieces of copper will have huge voltage spikes induced in them, and POTS will fare no better at all.

That was the 1990s when there were still plenty of non-digital phone exchange equipment around. By now most exchanges are digital (or even IP based, where I live the local telephone exchange is now IP based) and so long as the trunks have sufficient bandwidth, every telephone can be off the hook and talking to someone without an issue.

1. I can see a cell tower from the roof of my house, but doe to our houses being end-on to it, I get very sporadic signal.
2. Internet service. If everyone's watching Netflix via 3G/4G there just isn't enough bandwidth to go around even with plenty of cell towers. At best, 3G/4G service has very variable latency. Streaming video over mobile is fine if there's just one or two people doing it. But get rid of POTS (and the ADSL it carries over the back of it) and everyone's trying to stream over 3G/4G in your area then this just won't work due to laws-of-physics constraints. Latency problems with 3G/4G internet service make it impractical for gaming. It's bad enough sometimes using ssh over a 3G connection with round trip times measured in tens of seconds.

Wireless isn't the answer. Perhaps fibre to the home would be a suitable replacement for POTS but the telcos won't like that alternative much.

Being someone who has lived in the UK and USA (and currently lives in neither, but still lives in a British territory) I can say quite honestly that's wrong. Only Scotland and perhaps Northern Ireland comes anywhere near the level of autonomy that a state in the United States has (but both Scotland and NI fall far short of the level of autonomy that, say, Texas has from the Federal government). England and Wales have generally far less autonomy from the UK government than a US state has from the US federal government.

British crown territories (such as the Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Falklands etc) have more autonomy than a US state even to the extent that they issue their own passports, but the crown dependencies are *NOT* a part of the United Kingdom.

> Viola!

I fail to understand what a stringed instrument, slightly larger than a violin, has to do with it...

The European version of the Civic (made in the UK) is actually a very fun car to drive, even the low end models have excellent handling and are fun to thrash on a curvy road. I have to imagine the Type R is pretty good fun to drive, and while they might not have the bling factor of a Ferrarri, they have Honda reliability not the cantankerous and impractical nature of an Italian supercar. There are many worse choices he could have made.

Well, the article said it was a Civic. The Honda Civic is made in Swindon (southern UK) and presumably he wanted the version of the Civic that's not manufactured in Japan (the European Civic is vastly different to the US one for instance - might be the same case with the Japanese version).