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Comment Re:Overpriced trains are madness (Score 2) 314

You don't seem to understand that if you don't pay for it yourself, they subsidies will cost you 50% more at least, as you not only have to pay the taxes to run the train, but for the bureaucrats who distribute the subsidy and prevent fraud. Not to mention the fraud itself.

Multiply that times tens of thousands of subsidies, and you wonder why western economies are all floundering?

You do realise the trucking industry in the U.S. is subsidised by a mostly free interstate highway system?

Just to keep things in perspective... The transportation industry paid $37.4 billion in federal and state highway-user taxes. Commercial trucks make up 12.5 percent of all registered vehicles, but paid 36.5 percent of total highway-user taxes in 2006.

Source: American Trucking Association

Granted, they travel more miles than private passenger vehicles, but they are also designed to impact the infrastructure less.

Comment Re:Comeon guys (Score 1) 380

So their lack of support for this in their home routers is astonishing.

Not so much, considering that the only influence that Cisco has had on the Linksys line was the addition of a logo on the boxes and device bezels. It's the same consumer-grade rubbish it's always been.

Comment Re:Data plan limits are a scam (Score 1) 202

How about South Africa, where ALL ISP's had capped plans unless you went for "Business ADSL" that was throttled at 1mb/s and only in the last year have uncapped accounts become mainstream.

imagines line of people reaching to Strait of Gibralter passing usb flash drives hand to hand

I guess you have to draw the line on bandwidth usage somewhere... ;-)

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Some Hotmail Accounts Wiped 298

tomhudson writes "PC Magazine reports that many Hotmail accounts have lost all their emails. Users' entire email histories have apparently been lost. 'Users can still log in sans issue. However, they arrive at empty inboxes: No custom folders, no messages in "Sent" or "Deleted," nothing. As one might expect, the abruptness (and unexpectedness) of the purge has left some of Hotmail's long-time users a bit in the dark.'"

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