You hope they are professionals.

I'm pretty sure this article proves that they are not.

10 megabytes/s. One order of magnitude not two, over two different frequencies (non-ideal).

I've done some tests with my home setup, 2 stories, upstairs 2.4ghz 3 antenna AC -> downstairs router 3 antenna AC -> upstairs 3 antenna 5ghz AC. I get about 10mbps via SSH easily, and I suspect it would get significantly better 5ghz -> 5ghz. No channel bonding, full compatibility with N/G.

Its certainly not gigabit, but its way faster than anything you'd need on devices in arbitrary locations.
If I had gigabit then I'd have a NAS or spare computer right next to the router to suck stuff down at max speed, and AC for everything else.

Its plenty reliable. Not sure why you'd think it is unreliable.

You need slightly more than just the chip to send a signal.
Antenna, filtering, power amplification, etc... is all done outside the chip.

That is why the article says 'module' not 'chip'. The module has everything it needs to actually work.

One thing I've found with my 16gig Sony Z2 is 1080p slow motion videos funnily enough use a lot of space.
Probably should have thought about that.......

At least I can add a micro SD card to it.

If I was going for a car loan and i could shave a % off the interest rate in exchange for one of these devices I'd go for it.

I'd also be always on time with my payments of course.

I'm only against this if the person was not informed about the device. If they knew about the device before signing the contact then its really their own problem if they decide to fail to make a payment and then require the car.

My DB servers have a 0.07% failure rate. I imagine the parent is seeing a far higher percentage than that.

I never even considered bending with my Sony Z2 which isn't exactly a small phone. After several months of being in my jeans pockets a lot it is still dead flat. No warping when placed on a flat surface.

Technically from an objective point of view, men getting paid more around certain age brackets is good business sense.

Women go on maternity leave for long periods of time, men don't.
Thats fine for certain jobs (teaching, nursing, insert more stereotypes here) but if you have an employee you've invested a lot of time in to training working on a 12 month project and then she has a kid, the project is screwed. With a man in the exact same role it is a minor disruption.

I'm all for equality, but there is a reason behind some of it, its not just misogyny (although there is a bit of that too)

Most of these people have nothing to do with Obama. They'd still be there if the republicans won.

Incompetence is incompetence, its not limited to a single political side.

Yes there is a distinct advantage.

A) They are cookieless domains, which has a pile of benefits for static content
B) They are usually CDN's which have obvious benefits.

The only issue here is people saying they control IP's that they don't own.

If everyone trusts these organisations to give out IP's then tying BGP filtering to that is a logical extension.

Yes plenty of laser glasses out there.

When people's eyeballs are at stake you kinda don't want dirt cheap eBay glasses though.

Erm where the hell do you think the IP's come from? Yep the central internet registries. APNIC, RIPE, AfriNIC, LACNIC and ARIN.

There is your trusted central authorities. If you don't trust them then hand your IP's over.

If they didn't photoshop it, then they certainly manually tweaked it until the bump is gone.

One way or another, they are obscuring the bump deliberately.