I used it around 2009 and it was great for walking around with an iPod touch. It worked best around downtown and the train stations, but even out a bit more I got good signal. Wasn't the fastest out there, but it was enough for basic browsing and google maps

In related news, it turns out Adobe will give you some sort of software if you give them a credit card number. What a crazy business model!

To be fair, it's only the few hours yesterday that those sites are going to be getting that much traffic.

I saw one proposal that would take out the tax penalty for people who don't get insurance and give a tax cut to those who do. Basically the same thing as now, but a tax cut for everyone that pays enough taxes.

That's much more confusing and hard to advertise for.

For example, this image of a guy jumping into a pool to go along with the article "The Next Big Fiber Showdown: Austin", but we don't get the extra sentence from the summary. http://i.imgur.com/OzS4RdP.png

At first glance I saw the big top thing with all the useless links and "topics" and thought "Wow look at that waste of space". Then I looked at the current slashdot and realized all that stuff is essentially there and takes up the same amount of vertical space. Maybe it's just the relative waste of vertical real estate while they limited the horizontal size, but it seems much more obtrusive.

Not only are there giant white bars down the sides, but all the useless stuff no one reads (and the poll) are always on the side.

It makes the comment section - which is a large part of the slashdot experience - seem like something tacked onto the end of a news article where people post one line responses.

Yes, we probably could. There are international standards for the rules (ICAO) that the US essentially follows now, so there's no reason we'd change from that. There are already variations of the rules per state or airport.

Canada has a privately owned company running the air traffic control (called NAVCANADA) , so it could definitely be done.

Well even if it's carbon neutral, it's still not healthy to breathe. We can get better use and collection of harmful exhaust if it's in a centralized location rather than lots of little ones. It also reduces our flexibility for energy, so we don't get the advantages of power plant improvements.

You can use those too likely. There are plenty of USB controllers in different configurations that can plug into a PC and work with Steam Big Picture at the moment.

They're not great for sitting on a couch and playing games. I've tried both and it's a lot more comfortable to be holding a controller rather than a long keyboard that needs to be placed on something.

You still have the option, it just requires you to check a box first according to TFA.

To be more clear - unsigned applets such as a utility for a game made by a player I know or other cases where the point of visiting the page was to use the applet (where I'd also risk downloading a program). Not cases where I'm browsing the web and there just happens to be a mysterious java applet

Last I saw, the only way was to copy the URL and paste it in the address bar, but it may have changed.