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Comment Re:Death of Slashdot? (Score 1) 522

In some parts of the Deep South, it is still the tradition to pay off a house with CASH money.
You go to the bank, negotiate your loan, and you pick up your cash money in a brief case.
Usually the bank will supply you with an armed security guard, who will accompany you to the seller, you exchange money for deed, and signatures all around, and the Security Guard accompanies the seller to his bank (if he wishes).

Its not unusual to carry around huge sums in this country.

But with a trunk full of weed and a bag full of wads, you are going to have a tough time convincing even your mom that the two have nothing to do with each other.

Comment Re:good luck enforcing this (Score 1) 522

Well, maybe 80 would be too much.

Maybe 40, sounds better?

One credit hour usually means one hour a week for an academic semester, and a semester is usually around 12 to 15 weeks,
so that means 15 hours expended to earn one credit hour. Two days.
So a 40 credit hour course could be completed in 80 days.
Still too much?
How bout 20 credit hours?

The point is, we've already proven what can happen when we elect idiots, maybe we should error firmly on the other side.

Comment Re:good luck enforcing this (Score 1) 522

Maybe one day we should propose the following amendment to the Illinois Constitution:

SECTION 2. LEGISLATIVE COMPOSITION ...
        (c) To be eligible to serve as a member of the General
Assembly, a person must be a United States citizen, at least
21 years old, and for the two years preceding his election or
appointment a resident of the district which he is to
represent....

Addition:
No person may be elected or appointed to the Assembly unless that
person submits proof of attendance at and successfully completing no less
than 80 Credit hours (or equivalent) in a course of study covering
Constitutional Rights of citizens, the protections of freedoms of citizens
under the Constitution of Illinois and the Constitution of the United States.
Such course must be offered at all Illinois Colleges and Universities.

Comment Re:Death of Slashdot? (Score 4, Insightful) 522

Hardly. Unless your servers are located in Illinois the bill is meaningless.

EVEN if the servers are located in Illinois this law would be unconstitutional. Its unconstitutional even under the State Constitution.
It goes nowhere, and if it succeeds in getting passed, it gets bitchslapped by the courts.

Comment Re:2nd story about how cell copmanies suck today. (Score 1) 317

Standard practice is to buy the phones under a multi-year contract, heavily discounted. Still, in most countries, the buyer can unlock the phone when he wants for a fee that (at least in some of those countries) decays as the phone ages.

Your definition of the word "Discounted" seems a little confused.

Comment Re:simple (Score 1) 884

Gfi won't interfere with EOP, but going through a transformer will. Typically entire buildings are on the same transformer.

If you are on the other 120 leg of 240 entrance in the US, the Garage may not have continuity to the house. No clue how it might work Belgium which I presume is higher voltage.

Comment Re:Yeah, and? (Score 1) 40

His comment was that 2.4 doesn't travel very far, and 5ghz doesn't go as far as 2.4. I challenged that by posting over a 150+ mile link. What did you miss here? .

I didn't miss anything. Its an established fact that 5Ghz has less range than 2.4Ghs. Range of 5Ghs is usually less than half the range of 2.4.

So what he said was true.

And what you said didn't matter, because if that extreme example were repeated with 2.4Ghz devices it would be even more successful than the 5Ghz devices. So it was a complete non sequitur. (The test was also run in an environment where nothing else existed on 5Ghz. Those days are long gone.

Comment Re:It helps, but... (Score 1) 40

This presumes you can actually get those chipsets to make use of these additional frequencies with firmware. In the best of cases, firmware fixes for routers may be possible, (unless the chip designers built filters in silicone so that software would be powerless to do anything).

And it also presumes you can get firmware for all the chips in your devices, laptops, phones, tablets, etc. That seems less likely.
You essentially have to wait 5 years for for the product development cycle, all the way from software radio chipsets, up through smartphones before there will be a market for these bandwidths. Look how long it took 802.11N to catch on.

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