I would like to think that some intelligent last holdout of the dinosaur built giant structures out of rock, escavated huge tracts of land, and even painted pictures of tiny humans attacking it on cave walls.

When the evidence of it's existance was finally discovered, people just assumed it was early hominids.

Good point. But how did the researcher manage to find so many rats with similar birth defects to choose for his study?

I think you need to learn how routing protocols work. I will give you a hint, unless they are using 20+ year old protocols like RIP v1, it isn't shortest path that defines your route. Their network should route around congestion automatically (the VPN proves there is a less congested route), and the fact that it does not means that they are overriding the default behavior to send Netflix/Youtube/Whatever traffic to specific choke points.

So you're not just wrong, you are incredibly wrong. Every place I have ever worked, and every person I have met who travels internationally for work uses their work cell phone.

They don't buy a separate phone, they don't look for compatible SIMs to swap in or out, they MAY go so far as to notify their secretary or travel clerk that they expect to use their business phone while in XY country.

Sprint MVNOs offer some of the best deals in the US. I currently pay $10/mo for 400 Minutes, 400 Texts, and 300MB of data using RingPlus.

If they continue with the MVNO model and add T-Mobile towers to the network, that sounds pretty great to me.

It's not like your car has an actual INS. The speed is about the only actual useful information (for navigation) that the car can supply that a current model phone cannot obtain for itself.

Start shipping bluetooth capable ODB systems (yes, I am aware of the dongles) and now a phone really does have everything it needs.

You may be confused. They aren't referring to the white silicone paste or the sticky pad that is normally use to attach the heat spreader (top of the CPU you normally see) to the OEM heatsink/fan.

They are talking about the material used to attach the heat spreader to the actual CPU core. Unless you are prying the metal cap off the top of the CPU you aren't replacing this existing TIM with your $4 arctic silver compound.

The antennas are still directional. They use phased arrays to perform beam steering. No "moving" parts and a low profile are the plus, but they are relatively low gain for the surface area and power used.

Also of note, O3b is seeing 500Mbit forward link data rates on a 1.3 meter dish and getting 150ms round trip delay on their MEO satellites (vs. 500+MS) on GEO.

The caveat is that you need either an expensive tracking antenna or two regular antenna to keep from breaking signal as you negotiate satellites moving into and out of your window.

I haven't ever heard it put in exactly those terms, but it makes more sense to me now. We are all going to get old, and while we may or may not be as effective as a younger (and cheaper) employee, that doesn't mean we are valueless or unable to do the work. By and large the young can pickup and move more easily (god knows I did my fair share of that to advance my career), and they can take more chances. When you are old and just need to hang on 5 more years to retire, that Union starts to look a lot more beneficial.

It's funny you should mention basterdisation of the English language as according to Oxford University many subsets of American English are much closer to the original Anglo-Germanic root English language than those dialects of Brittish English that exist today.

Go visit the fishermen in Tangiers Island, or the 7th district in Maryland if you want to hear what "English" actually sounds like.

I think you may have placed the emphasis on the wrong word on your response. It is likely less about being Asian and more about being an immegrant. Being willing to go to such lengths in order to improve your situation in life may contribute a lot more to how much effort your children put forth in school than the color of your skin or your "culture" (believe it or not, not all Asian cultures are similar or place the same values on things such as formal schooling).

I'm pretty tired of hearing this temporarily embarrased millionares trope. The middle-class, poor, or what have you that vote in droves for policies that clearly benefit the wealthy do not do it because they believe they will be wealthy themselves one day; they do it because the TV, Internet, and print media they choose to view tells them it's the fair or moral thing to do. We Americans do like to feel that we are the good guys, even if we may be misguided or misled.

And while the middle class may be disappearing on paper, people who "believe" themselves to be middle class, or upper middle class, likely do so because they are living a comfortable lifestyle and as such have no reason to think that they are poor. Just because the wealthy have greater wealth now than they did in the past (shifting the mean income) doesn't mean two cars, a tv, and the means to feed your children is no longer middle class.

I wonder if the Natalie Portman thing will still be mentioned when she is 40. Of course presuming /. will still be around.

Just reminds me of the late '90s / early 00's when Amazon was losing so much money each quarter for years on end. I thought there was no way they would ever dig themselves out of debt.