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Comment Re:Yes, let's tax the poor (Score 1) 619

A few years back, I worked for a company that did a lot of deliveries. All of our vans and two of our smaller box trucks were regular unleaded; only our larger box trucks were diesel. Most small businesses that don't deal in large goods use vans running on gasoline. UPS and FedEx may use all diesel, but they're not the only ones doing deliveries.

Comment Re:Durability? (Score 1) 298

Satellite frequencies range from 1176.45 MHz for the L5 band to 1575.42 MHz for the L1 band, although it looks like only L1 and L2 (1227.60 MHz) are really used for the actual positioning. But then I saw a bunch of math I didn't understand, so I skipped to Wikipedia's Submarine Navigation page and it lists GPS as "Surface and Near-Surface", which is described as no more than periscope depth.

Comment Re:OK, but not sure 123456 is any better than 1234 (Score 3, Interesting) 116

My bank assigned me the random PIN of "1234" for my debit card. One of my student loan websites (Citibank) ignored anything past the 8th character of your password anyway. One of my old credit unions had a six character password limit, alphanumeric only. Financial institutions are a little behind the times.

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