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Comment Re: One should be careful on the logic here (Score 1) 155

just to be that guy ...

It kind of is when the companies are known not to plug the holes properly once they're done with an area. It's a problem in my province, which has caused some uproar, justifiably.

So fracking is not bad, if the companies doing it aren't bad, but because the companies in whichever 3rd world country you live in are not subject to regulations and/or control, fracking is bad ...

Comment Re:Federal Funding is not contingent on speed limi (Score 4, Informative) 525

After moving to Belgium, I took drivers-lessons, just to be sure I caught the main differences (legal etc) between back home and Belgium.
By the 2nd session, I was getting nervous because of the comments made by the instructors (there were 2, alternating) about how I was doing things in traffic, that they completely had forgotten, like checking blind spots before turning...

Yeah, even their instructors are incompetent, no wonder the drivers are dangerous.

Comment Re:Yes, it's click-bate, but... (Score 1) 165

There is a slight issue here: Not everything is completely lacking in security, in the IoT world.

Yes, there is likely a HUGE PILE of stuff out there, where security is flawed beyond repair, on devices doing critical things, but there are also companies that at least try to make safe equipment and have their gear reviewed.

So, before we reject all things IoT, how about we start by accepting those shown to be decent?

*Cue observations about nothing corporate is decent*

Comment Re:What? 64-bit? (Score 1) 56

Seems you're correct, and I remembered wrong - 811 megs physical reported by free :)

Still, my argument stands: The device works OK, outside of Android apps, and 2.0 gig is the lowest they could get away with ...
Turns out, 2.0 gig is also the highest the CPU on the tablet can handle.

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