Alcohol - even in low quantities - increases your reaction time, leading to longer braking distances and impaired obstacle avoidance capability. You become an increased danger to others (and exceed the legal threshold) long before you start driving erratically.

That was not what he meant. The technology is tried and testes. Maybe half of the cars around me use it. It works, it's reliable, and it undeniably saves gas/emissions. The problem here is that it doesn't save so much gas on the EPA test track. As such, it's not worth it - no matter the environmental benefits in the real world.

Wikileaks wasn't born with Cablegate or the Iraq/Afghanistan war logs. And it's not an anti-US site; their first published leak was of an assassination order in Somalia. It's just that the US is fertile in material...

Plus, if you bother read the cables you'll see the obvious pressure, as pointed out by other posters.

I'm as trusting of politicians as the next Slashdotter but, given how the Brazilian president recently (and very publicly) voiced his strong support for Assange and Wikileaks (when there weren't that many world leaders doing the same), I'm not sure their intention is the one stated in the article. They may just want to reduce US control of the internet, which is clearly a good idea given both past and current events.

Thank you for sparing my the trouble of writing that.

I'll just add that the incredibly secret leaked documents are available at the project website.

It's a research project, they always "want" to implement a demo. Judging from my experience with FP7 projects, either they won't, or they'll do it in one of the participating labs.

That myth has been disproved so many times on /. that it's not even funny.

You, as many slashdot users, seem to be a bit confused on the meaning of the word democracy. The concept you seem to be referring to is that of direct democracy. Most democracies today are representative democracies, in which the "rule of the people" is carried out by their elected representatives. It is not at odds with the concept of republic: most western countries are republics (of varied kinds), and they're all (all that I can think of) democratic.

Which studies?

Because Sweden's health system is ranked much higher, life expectancy is much higher, and preventable deaths are much fewer.

The iPhone, Blackberry's Storm and Bold lines, and many Symbian and Android handsets

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And many/most Windows Mobile smartphones had it too, before half of these even existed. And it's not like they're at a disadvantage for "GPS games", e.g. Geocaching Live is only available for Java/WinMo. I know this is Slashdot, but come on...

Not really so, not in all of Europe at least. Here you don't really have to present your criminal record unless you're applying for some security-related post. And aid programs would never ask for such information. So yeah, there are some thing you can't do, but you're not sentenced to an entire life of misery.

Not really, there's a little something called diplomatic immunity on the way.

You'll have met some new people by 2018, don't worry.

And games, you can just hear the publishers: "But games nowadays need so much content that we'll have to increase prices to 120â".

You are mostly right, but PB does have its flaws, and the "unlucky few" are sometimes more than a few. For an example, just go to the Battlefield Heroes forum.