Where I live in the U.S., I have two choices: Comcast or Verizon.

Both charge $75/month for 15/5 which is the package available.

You will this situation in many parts of the country where competition is defined as two companies charging the same high price for the same slow speeds.

Personally I was trying to find pictures taken from the drone. From what I can tell the pictures were taken on the ground of the drone and a bit of the countryside.

This article presumes people give a rat's ass about saving fuel or driving safely. As those of us who drive on a regular basis can attest, more and more people seem to be of the mindset that no matter what, they will accelerate as hard as possible just so they can slam on the brakes as hard as possible at every opportunity.

This morning I had a guy literally on my rear bumper (less than 1 meter) and when it looked like there might be an opportunity for him to jump into the lane next to get around around me, he tried to take it. Unfortunately for him he misjudged the line of cars in that lane and had to swerve back behind me.

He wasn't going to get anywhere faster as there was a red light for us (a left turn), and he would have only gotten one car ahead, but by golly he was going to use every drop of fuel he possibly could just to try and do it.

I, and others, can relate story after story about people like this, and the only thing this proposal will do is add costs to vehicles (and those driving them when the system breaks down), cause more people to try and beat the red light which means more accidents, as well as people slamming on their brakes when they misjudge the timing, also causing more accidents.

Once again, we are trying to find a technical solution to a human problem rather than fixing the human problem.

Wouldn't want these folks making a pinky swear when a petri dish of genetically modified super-virus goes missing after they crossed Ebola with the common cold.

All because people are too lazy or too fat to turn around in their seat and look behind them or check their side mirrors.

I can't count the number of people I see every week who, when backing up, only look in their rear view mirror to see what's behind them. It is a rare sight indeed to see someone do what they're supposed to and turn around both ways to look behind them.

This is the result. Another piece of useless cruft shoehorned into a car just waiting to implode and cost the owner hundreds of dollars in repairs.

The reason I mentioned vaccines is because of people, including some on here, who continue to trot out this disproved notion.

As the article relates, whatever is happening to cause autism happens long before the kid is born and given a vaccine.

To me it seems just another genetic defect like Down's Syndrome or ALS so what we do as far as vaccines would have no effect since the person is already afflicted.

Last week the BBC had this article on autism which says whatever is causing autism happens long before birth.

From the article:

Patchy changes in the developing brain long before birth may cause symptoms of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), research suggests.

In other words, vaccines have NO relation to who does or does not develop autism.

when people who claim to be conservatives are front and center in efforts to invade people's privacy or their lives in general.

Whether this situation, the banning of books at libraries, abortion or anything other matter involving one's personal freedoms, conservatives seem to go out of their way to be hypocrites when talking about freedom.

I guess it's easier to talk the talk than it is to walk the walk.

Sort of like when businesses decry government regulation or intrusion into their practices then turn around and come to the taxpayer asking for money.

Get paid for their work? What are you, a capitalist? People don't get paid for their work. Witness all the people who laugh about how they're not paying a dime for someone else's work when they can steal it from TPB.

Why should these people get paid for work they do when it's on their own time? Isn't that the whole point of open source, free work, no money?

Or are you saying that people need to get paid for the work they do because that's how things work?

We don't need idiots lying to our faces, telling us how wonderful their piece of bug-riddled software is and how it will revolutionize our time to entry for our core business into the cloud.

We need good, solid software that doesn't require administrative rights to use, isn't part of a package that we have to purchase to get the one item we need and won't die when the moron behind the keyboard drops their cookie crumbs into their keyboard.

Ahh fantasy, you be a heartless bitch who offers so much but gives so little.

by those who were using this quack remedy?

I can almost hear the screams of terror when the news was announced:

"WHAT?! There's REAL medicine in this? Holy shit, that stuff will kill me!"

when streaming is more convenient for almost all users?

I guess it never occurred to the writer there are those of us who don't want to watch a movie which stutters, stops or pauses because of network issues. We want a nice, smooth viewing experience.

Contrary to popular opinion, the latest and greatest is not the be all and end all. If anything, that mindset has contributed to decline in usability of nearly everything tech related and only serves to perpetuate the stereotype that those in IT are completely detached from reality and what the average person wants/needs.

Apparently KISS has been abandoned in favor of, "Ohh, shiny!"

Then prove it. Show one piece of holistic/homeopathic medicine which does the equivalent of real medicine.

So far, not one has been shown to do anything because it's all the placebo effect which has been demonstrated in numerous studies.

As is always said in these situations, find at least one scientifically rigorous study showing any alternative medicine works. Not what some charlatan like Kevin Trudeau says, not Montel Williams in an informercial, a true scientific study using standardized methods to show any effectiveness of alternative medicine.

You, on the other hand, will burn in the Pit.

At least I'll be warm compared to the frozen wasteland your God has created on Earth.

The slashdot community is hilarious sometimes.

Here's the way it works around here:

If I produce software, I want to get paid for it. If someone else produces software, I'll steal it.

When I make a product, no one else can make anything like it. When someone else makes a product like someone else, they're free to rip off the design because you can't copyright or trademark that shit.