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Comment Re:SMS to land line (Score 1) 136

Do people who use non-mac PCs and Android tablets not have cell phones too? This line of questioning seems a little extreme. He also said other than calling, so for a land line he would use the universal method of calling. I have comcast for my landline and they'll send the text message to my app if you send me one.

Comment Re:timeline (Score 1) 236

The time line is a bit off, in 1983 aircraft, boats and hikers got gps, so soldier in the gulf war were also able to use it. It wasn't as precise, but being on a boat or plane or hiking 100 yards or whatever it used to be off by wasn't a super huge issue. During the gulf war public use was actually turned off so the military could have better access. So I don't know how well those commercial ones you speak of worked. Then in 1993 it was back on. More GPS units were sent into orbit in 1995 and then bam, 2000 Clinton allowed car gps to work. http://www.maps-gps-info.com/g...

Comment Personally a snippet makes me click it (Score 2) 95

When I search for news sights I use the little snippet under the link to see if that's the article I want to read, I don't just want to first paragraph nowadays, especially since most "news" sites wrtie like magazines instead of newspapers. Gone are the days of reading one paragraph that summarizes the whole story, they're full of fluff and links to "relevant" articles that I don't click on (mostly cause it's harder and harder to tell what's spam or malware type sites vs legitimate ones.

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